Guest Column: Dalen Randa - Writing for EliteFTS - Back To Basics
Back to the Rock Pile: Don’t Mess with the Formula
By Dalen Randa
For www.EliteFTS.com
In a sense, back to the rock pile is the basics - the fundamental parts of a training program that make it work. I had been a periodization style single ply lifter for about ten years. I thought this was the basics for me, and I stuck to the fundamentals of this for all that time. I made small gains over the years until I was a medium level lifter with best lifts of a 551 lb squat, a 501 lb bench, and a 589 lb deadlift.
I was resistant to change because this was all I knew. I kept reading about Westside Barbell and the conjugate method of training. However, I also kept hearing from other lifters that those training methods were meant for lifters supplementing with anabolics. They told me that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with recovery and that I would fail at it. I knew that there was a gym 30 miles away from where I lived where they trained using those styles, but I just knew that it wasn’t for me. But then circumstances changed.
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