In-Depth Coverage With Examples, Modifications, etc etc etc It is the height of nonsense and a hallmark of the unscientific and spurious explanations behind these programs. When you can no longer recover on a day to day basis, you must move onto a “weekly” workload schedule. Why can you recover on a day to day basis? Because you are a novice. In other words, it is saying that you are a novice because you recover from the workload on a day to day basis. This circular reasoning defines a beginner and intermediate according to the needs of the program. The trainee is in transition from a novice to an intermediate is unable to make progress with either a workload he can recover from enough to do 2 to 3 times per week, or conversely, a workload that is stressful enough to produce the stress/adaptation/supercompensation cycle that he cannot recover from quickly enough to do 2 to 3 times per week. High volume at moderate intensity is used at the first of the week, a light workout is done in the middle for maintenance of motor pathways, and then a high-intensity workout at very low volume ends the week.Īccording to its originators, such a method is usually the first program to use when simple “linear programming” doesn’t work anymore. This method uses a sharp contrast in training variables between the beginning and the end of the week. If you are just beginning, but past the initial stages of training, you may want to give something like this a whirl, but there are much better ways to go, quite frankly. When they hit the inevitable wall in such a program as the TM, instead of determining that it is time to move on, they hit the bodybuilding gurus up for “how to make it work.” And there is no shortage of such gurus willing to tell them about all the things they are doing wrong, or all the magical tweaks they can use to keep progressing in this fashion.įirst, let’s start with the program or one possible iteration of it. Unfortunately, most trainees want to find one program they can use, seemingly, for the rest of their lives. A 5×5, when it works, only works for a little while. The main purpose of this article is to make a point about how simple such a program is, and how it is limited in scope. This article will cover any such ‘eBook’ longer than one or two pages. I do not know if these are the same eBooks and after reading this article you will understand why I didn’t think it worth my time to find out. At this time, there is a free eBook being offered on Scribd. When this article was originally published at GUS, my older site, in 2015, there was a Texas Method eBook being offered for sale.