Critique my HST routine

[casualbb]

even at 1 set per exercise?

That would probably be okay, but i'd advise in stead to double or triple up on fewer more basic exercises. 1 set of a bunch of things makes for a lot of changing equipment and a lot of finding maxes and a lot of bookkeeping for probably little or no benefit.

 

[theoak01]

the reason I said that is you said "Also, this is just me talking, but I feel squats and deads 3x week with progressive resistance is probably a bit much" but its not a full workout,its warm ups and 1 working set of whatever rep scheme your in.

it usually goes in 2 weeks blocks starting at 15,then 10,then 5

I may have read it wrong,but it seemed you thought he was doing full workouts with mulitple sets per exercise

 

[guldukat]

EDIT: Holy shit...sorry, didn't realize this message was going to be quite THAT long. D'oH!

the reason I said that is you said "Also, this is just me talking, but I feel squats and deads 3x week with progressive resistance is probably a bit much" but its not a full workout,its warm ups and 1 working set of whatever rep scheme your in.

it usually goes in 2 weeks blocks starting at 15,then 10,then 5

I may have read it wrong,but it seemed you thought he was doing full workouts with mulitple sets per exercise

Oh, okay. You did misunderstand me, but I was unclear and see why you got that impression. Thanks for the clarification man

I actually meant that, even with one set each of high-rep deads and squats (and only going to failure on the last day of the 15's, 10's etc.), it'd be too much for me. Even when working shy of failure--say, doing 8-10 reps w/ my ~15RM--and using very limited volume, I had a very hard time squatting and pulling in one session. I'd be so wiped by the time I finished those two, I'm sure I couldn't do rows, dips and the like much justice.

Things would get even worse in subsequent workouts as I started training ever closer to failure...by the last day of the 15's, I'd probably have to puke after the squat alone. When I'd finally get the balls to dead hard, I'd run puke some more, then take a half-hour joy ride on the floor as the room spun around my head At that point I definitely couldn't row, press etc. with any weight.

For that reason, when I try HST, I'll only concentrate on full squats or regular deads in a given cycle. If I decide to dead, I'd probably do leg presses or front squats instead of back squats; and if I squat, I might do Romanians or SLDL.

That's just me, though, of course. Someone else might easily be able to tolerate both deads and squats in a HST cycle, and there are probably ways to do that and avoid all the crap described above (e.g., an AM and PM session)...

Still, all that's complicated, and I wanted to advise caution in case SSBT's even half as prone to burnout as I am