Doing the program

[windcliff]

I think I'm beginning to understand what Rip means by (not) doing the program.

SS says that doing sets across with dead lifts is a bad idea. My stalled squat tells me I shouldn't do a 5x3 dead once a week with a relatively heavy weight (365). For a person who weighs around 200 at 6'1" it's embarassing to grind through a squat workout at 260, and have a dead lift that's far ahead.

The book says dips may be a useful assistance exercise. I think I've been doing assistance exercises such as dips and *sigh* rows and the dips are killing my press and the rows just add to my recovery (or lack thereof).

I think if people experiment a little, they'll realize, as I'm beginning to that the program is written just so, because it does actually work. I just wish in this case I'd really believed what I read.

I'm currently running at 201 @ 6'1". Used to be 184. I'll remedy the stalled squat by cutting down on the deads, and the stalled press by cutting out the dips. I'll shove some more food down my throat, and report back how it all works out.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Good job. Understanding is often more difficult that heavy training.