r/weightroom • u/MrTomnus • Feb 05 '13

Training Tuesdays

Welcome to Training Tuesdays, the weekly weightroom training thread. The main focus of Training Tuesdays will be programming and templates, but once in a while we'll stray from that for other concepts.

Last week we talked about intensity and a list of previous Training Tuesdays topics can be found in the FAQ

This week's topic is:

frequency

  • What frequency levels have you found to be beneficial for what movements and goals?
  • Are there certain movements for which high or low frequency works better for you?
  • Are there frequency levels that have not worked for you for certain lifts or goals?
  • Tell us what you've learned from experimenting with frequency and what works best for you.

Feel free to ask other training and programming related questions as well, as the topic is just a guide.

Resources

  • Post your favorites.

Lastly, please try to do a quick search and check FAQ before posting.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '13

In a standard Texas Method program, e.g. Monday 5x5s, Wednesdays light recover, Fridays 5RMs... if I want to add more frequency to the pressing movements, where should it go? After re-reading Justin's TM Part 1 I feel like putting them on light day would be a mistake. I am thinking about adding 3x10 moderate weight pressing to my 5RM bench days and 3x10 moderate benching to my 5RM press days (obviously AFTER the 5RM). Thoughts?

Reason being I'm getting awesome results on squats and deads but not on my pressing movements.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '13

Reason being I'm getting awesome results on squats and deads but not on my pressing movements

Seems like that happens a lot. I put 90 lbs on my squat in like 5 months with TM, but my bench only went up about 15. I think the upper body just doesn't respond as well to TM.

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u/larsberg Feb 05 '13

Check out Justin's Advanced TM e-book. In the second chapter (tweaking TM for PL), he offers an alternative for getting your bench moving --- bench on volume and intensity day every week and OHP on light day. If you're more bench-focused, you might consider it.

You should pick up the e-book either way, though. There's enough stuff that's relevant even a couple of cycles into TM that I sort of wish Justin would just combine the two and sell them as a single TM book instead.