training arcs, not mesocycles

Ask yourself. What did Naruto do when training for a rasengan? Yhe answer is not, a bunch of random shit. He spammed shadow clones who all practiced the same movement to cheat the frequency and time of what would normally take years. What happened when he was done with this arc? Did he keep training the same movement in the same way? Hell no. He USED it while learning other new techniques - often spamming the same high frequency strategy.

I digress. This is not a parable for frequency as much as sticking to a program until you have earned the right to deviate.

Case and point, the armor building formula is a lot of kettlebell clean, press, and squat. My first few weeks, I added hypertrophy work for dips and rows and nordics. And it was fine. Things were fine. But there is a cost to going to failure mentally and physically and I paid the troll toll. Versus, dropping those movements and focusing on the main story arc, I've been able to push more weight and more volume every time I step in my garage. 

I get weird vibes of I can do this forever meaning this is fun and safe. Will I? Prob not. Dan john himself doesn't suggest that you do unless you work in deloads. The arcs that dan outlines more so bounce between his different programs.

- armor

- easy strength

- mass made simple

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