I’m sensing that many of my readers are getting very interested in daily training. It would be irresponsible of me to send my readers off to battle unarmed, so I wanted to extend some advice as to how you can make daily training work for you. I believe that all types of routines can be very effective, including body-part splits, upper/lower spits, and push/pull splits. And I believe that every individual can make each type of split work for them, through program design variable manipulation. To me, daily training is a lifestyle. I suppose that many bodybuilders feel the same way about body-part split training. Now that I’ve gotten accustomed to daily training, it will be very hard to stray from it. Split routines just don’t seem complete anymore, and they don’t leave me feeling accomplished. To each his own though, and I will continue to train alongside my bodybuilding brethren with no judgment.

The fact of the matter is, I like to squat. I like to press. I like to pull. I like to do these every day. As long as I’m gaining strength and building up work capacity, who’s going to stop me? I’ve learned a ton from Broz but I have different goals than his lifters. I’m not an Olympic weightlifter, nor do I have any plans to Olympic weightlift or have a genetic predisposition to succeed at the sport. But my goals do entail being as muscular and strong as I can possibly be (without gaining a bunch of weight). I’ve learned that I respond very well to frequency. It seems that the more frequent I lift heavy, the stronger I get. I have made adjustments to allow this system to work for me, and I’d like to give you some clues as to how you can allow it to work for you too.

Law of Diminishing Returns?

I’ll be perfectly honest here and admit that I don’t know where the boundaries lie. How many squat sessions per week result in maximal adaptation? Five? Ten? Twenty? I have no idea. Obviously at some point you’d outstrip your ability to recover and would therefore go backward. If you got to the point where you were setting an alarm to wake up in the middle of the night and squat, then that would be absurd. The point is, the maximal number of sessions is probably more than what you’re currently doing. Much more.

Johnny Meathead reads an article about John Broz and immediately decides to change it up.

deadlifts 315 x 3, 365 x 1, 405 x 1, 425 x 1, 455 x 1