Length: 6 Weeks
Style: Progressive overload / Percentage based progressive overload
Core Focus: Front Squat
Special Exercise Focus: Back positions, leg strength & mobility, front rack mobility, core strength
Core lifts:
Monday - Back Squat (negative, pause, regular) 5x6, 5x5, 5x4, 5x3, 5x2, 5x1
Tuesday - Floor Press 5x6, 5x5, 5x4, 5x3, 5x2, 5x1
Wednesday - Deadlifts 5x6, 5x5, 5x4, 5x3, 5x2, Hing volume to prep for F.S.
Thursday - Bench Press 5x6, 5x5, 5x4, 5x3, 5x2, 5x1
Friday - Front Squats 10RM, 8RM...….1RM
Special Exercises:
Monday - Upper body bodybuilding w/ pushing focus (ring push ups / Strict pull ups)
Tuesday - Lower body bodybuilding (B.S.S., Cossack squats)/ light weightlifting
Wednesday - Abdominals w/ a static focus
Thursday - Upper body bodybuilding w/ pulling focus
Friday - Hinging assistance exercises (RDLs, good mornings, SLDL)
Why?
So here's my train of thought...It's been a while since I've seen a ton of progress with front squats, so I decided to try and piece together a cycle with a core focus on them. For that reason we're going to chill a bit on the back squats and do some high volume exercises to save the intensity for Friday each week (front squat day). Also, we didn't see much for bench press PRs from the last cycle, so I'm adding an extra day of them in the form of floor press. Between that and the extra pressing volume I'm hoping people can crack some milestones in the next 6 weeks.
As far as the arrangement of the strength training through the week, I moved bench press to Thursday and put the heavy front squats on Friday so that there's a day between them and Wednesday's deadlifts. Just trying to think of your back :)
Where's the Olympic lifts??
We already have back squats, deadlifts, and heavy front squats in this cycle, which can all add up to some serious tonnage totals by the end of each week...meaning they didn't make the cut for now except for light lifts on Monday's after back squats. However, that just leaves me room to add them regularly into the conditioning! So don't worry, you won't be missing snatches