baby and the bathwater

I won't erase blog posts even when I directly contradict myself. After I got back from vacation, I had an awesome idea. End easy strength with 10min EMOM of bodyweight movements. Increase the reps week by week until the volume is low key bonkers. And it IS a good idea. It felt so good, I tossed the baby out with the bathwater. 

Hey, instead of easy strength how about I just do this 10min emom! I can do press (squat and press) and pull (row and nordic) days. Oh joy! How quickly this fell apart. Because now the goal of increasing volume instead of load is mixed with movements that depend heavily on load via barbells. Am I training for strength or hypertrophy? Do I increase weight on non bodyweight and increase weight on barbell? What a pickle i created via a bad program no one asked for.

I tossed the baby out with the bathwater because I had a good idea for one aspect - hypertrophy - at the tail end of strength.

When I find myself in endless toil for sets and reps and load and movement selection, I know i am proper fucked.

Follow the program. Easy strength allows for 'everything else' so this is well within guidelines. But Easy strength still needs to exist as a base.