I have to stop the madness. I know. I’ve been changing workouts every week – sometimes right in the middle of the week. It all started when I decided seriously to get into a daily workout. I stumbled across an Olympic Lift training book. So, I thought I would try that. Then I encountered Mark Rippetoe and Starting Strength. Then I ran across Texas 5×5 (which is a Rippetoe rip off). Somewhere in there I switched to Vince Grand’s 6×6. Then I thought I would try Mon Wed Frid 1 barbell exercise for each body part for 21 reps. Let’s not forget Barbell Complex workouts of 5 sets / 5 movements / 5 reps / 5 minutes rest in between. A few weeks ago I came across a very interesting workout centered on the big 5 (deadlift, squat, bench, clean and jerk, and snatch). But now, I’ve created my own version.
Using a modified 5×5 / modified Big 5 / modified Starting Strength, I came up with this. Using the following rep scheme of: 10 rep warm up / 7 rep moderate increase / 5 rep x 3 set “heavy”
Monday
Workout 1
Bench
75% Clean deadlift into an elbows high, triple extension, clean muscle over
Tuesday
Heavy Clean
Heavy Row
Wednesday
Workout 2
110% Clean Heavy Triple Extension Pull
Heavy Jerk
Thursday
Heavy Clean
Heavy Row
Friday
Workout 3
Deadlift
Front Squat
Monday
Heavy Clean
Heavy Row
Tuesday
Workout 4
Squat
70% Hang Clean
Wednesday
Heavy Clean
Heavy Row
Thursday
Workout 1
And, from then on you can see the pattern. Today is day 2 in the pattern. So, it’s heavy clean and then heavy row. While my clean is still an embarrassing 190, it is even worse because I stepping back off that to 180 and then using an every-other-work-out-add-2.5 pounds (ala Mark Rippetoe) and see what happens.
Kevin Driscoll 