

February 23, 2014Ĭheck out the new Cube calculator for Brandon Lilly’s program. Others at freaky gyms can enter 18.7 or whatever. Honest folks using 20 kg bars can enter 44 lbs. The bar weight input in the form now allows you to enter any weight. I didn’t know some of you are such extreme masochists. November 6, 2014īoring But Big sets across 65%, 70%, 75%, and 80% now available thanks to a user request. Let me know which templates you want to see here. This also means I can add other templates with power cleans. Solid advice for young American football players. November 7, 2014Īdded the “Young Jim Wendler” routine from Wendler’s T Nation article thanks to a user request. November 19, 2014Īdded two warm-up options: DeFranco Agile 8 and None. November 20, 2014Īdded four more deload week options from the Beyond 5/3/1 book. November 22, 2014Īdded Boring But Big 5 × 5, 5 × 3, and 5 × 1 variations from the Beyond 5/3/1 book. November 23, 2014Īdded Boring But Big deload options from the Beyond 5/3/1 book. Even Wendler calls it just “Press” these days. Thanks to Rippetoe’s lectures, we’ve all grown up and know that “Press” means “Standing Overhead Barbell Press” or “Military Press”. I hope these changes to the calculator encourage more people to try it for a few cycles.


Simplest Strength is a great template that Wendler has promoted heavily. Now you can enter your maxes for the big assistance exercises: incline press, close-grip bench press, front squat, and stiff-leg deadlift. December 18, 2014įixed the Simplest Strength template. This template is not really 5/3/1 at all but it’s from Wendler and definitely reflects his way of thinking. Time to start thinking about your beach body! I’ve added the Beach Body Challenge template. December 22, 2014Ī generous donation supported the addition of a bodybuilding template from T-Nation Blood and Chalk 8 and Wendler’s Blog. It isn't a world of just press, dead, bench, squat anymore. For example, the Beach Body Challenge has hang cleans but no other template does. I've moved the Assistance Template selection to the top of the form and renamed it just Template because with Wendler’s newer templates even which main lifts are used is controlled by your template choice.
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January 16, 2015Ī generous donation supported the addition of the Full Body, Full Boring template from Wendler’s book Beyond 5/3/1: Simple Training for Extraordinary Results. March 22, 2015Īdded a 0.75 pound/kilogram plate input. October 13, 2015Īdded the Building the Monolith template. The site now is now served securely with https using Let’s Encrypt. Instruct the subject to rack the weight safely before getting out of the machine.Jim Wendler has a new book on the way: 5/3/1 Forever. The subject should lower the load toward their gluteals until their knees are just under 90 degrees before concentrically contracting leg muscles and extending the load back up. Instruct him or her to lift the weight off the rack, release the safety, and ready for the down phase of the movement. The subject should place their feet on the leg press platform with heels about shoulder width apart and under knees. At any point of failure, be sure to help re-rack the press for the participant.īegin by sitting in a leg press machine with the test load safely racked in the starting position. It should take minimally 5 testing sets to reach an appropriate relative intensities at under 35 total repetitions. Use appropriate warm up methods to activate agonist, antagonist, and synergist muscle groups prior to testing sub-maximal and maximal lifts. Traditional horizontal leg press machine with plate loader Procedure To measure estimated maximal strength based off of sub maximal effort.
