Why I Program High Volume and Long Duration Work

Not gonna lie i was pretty happy to get the 285 to go overhead

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When the volume, specifically the high volume of one or two isolated things, is continually taken out over long periods of time, the “top end” of the potential for the training seems to lower

What i mean is

Today i did 10x30 sec on the heavy OH BB holds (not all of them with 285, most in the 225-275 range)

Plus 10x50 reps for the hinged delt impulses superset with that

And to be quite frank

The reason i did that is cause going into the session, when i was writing it up, i was genuinely not feeling like doing something with high volume. Didn’t want the boring and the monotonous, wanted to be able to stick to high outputs where i just didn’t have to think as hard

But made me think about a couple months ago where i was doing that

Nothing that really kinda took me and just sat me down in a position where i just couldn’t move and had to finish

Seems like that type of work, which usually tends to be the higher volume - whether a slow lower, iso, joint move, impulse, etc - is what actually keeps the individual fresh

As weird as that sounds

Cause if everything i do in my training is something like a heavy BB lift, for 1 or 2 sets

Then i don’t really need to get that deep with it. Cause at some point the weight is just too heavy. And no matter how deep you get with it you just can’t lift it

But that’s not true with the simple, higher volume work

Cause with that, there is ALWAYS that aspect of i could probably do a little more or go a little further or probably could have pushed just a tad bit longer or harder

It very very rarely gets to the point of the weight was just too much or i actually physically couldn’t do it anymore

So it’s like getting to that point helps us sharpen the cleanliness of pursuit we have

For lack of a better way of saying it

Like it just very simply sits you down and asks what you want to do

And that seems to be very beneficial for the training process as a whole

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So I’ll cut out the longer duration work and higher volume work sometimes too

But I’ve learned not to do it for too long

Cause it keeps ya honest

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