TM Section in PPFST2

[PRCalDude]

Please greatly expand it in the third edition. The 70sBig boys are charging 50 cents a page on how to get unstuck at an intermediate level. I know you shared some ideas in the TM section in your book, but I tried them and they didn't work, even when paired with the sections on over-reaching and over-training.

We need stuff on starting weight differentials b/w Monday and Friday, when to take a week off, how the DL affects squat recovery, how to program the DL when progression stalls on it, when to switch to haltings/rack pulls, what to do when everything starts stalling, etc.

It may be obvious to you, but intermediates get confused MUCH more easily.

TIA.

[Mark Rippetoe]

It's not at all obvious to me. You may not realize this, but PPST2 is just a template, my observations of the general progression of the changing ability to adapt to training -- in this case, strength training. The book was never meant to detail the particulars, but it is the first book in print to present a coherent view of the progression from novice to advanced and beyond. It was designed to provide a framework on which to build your own training plan. No 3rd edition is planned. You may have noticed my reluctance to post about complicated advanced programming; this is because I have no recent experience with it, and I'm not going to just pull things out of my asshole for you. Fifty-cents a page seems steep, especially from people with less than 5 years experience, but if they have the details you need, and you're unwilling or incapable of puzzling these things out for yourself, pay the boys. Or better yet, get with Andy Baker at Kingswood S&C, who posts as KSC on this board. Andy knows his shit.