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I'm 23 and 205 wanting to compete at 198 raw for the first time my lifts aren't anything extraordinary, but I love strength sports and work hard every day to become stronger.
I do believe that for the most part as long as you work hard, eat, and stay consistent you will make gains. On the other hand though there are better methods for gaining strength. It all also depends from person to person, but I want to get your guys take on each methodology.
So I haven't ever been to westside or claim to fully understand everything about it, but i've used the methods of ME, DE, And RE days. I alternate through different lifts on my Max days and work up to about 90-95% for 2-3 and some days I just plan our Max out. I rarely did regular squats without a box or normal bench. I had only really ever done regular bench on DE day with bands.
I have loved westside because it got me from being 125 to 205lbs going from barely benching 95lbs to pausing 425 and squating 535 and deadlifting 585 which I just got last week. Now this was all done of a course of 3-4 years, now I want to try for more and want to try something new that might work.
To the point part of it is probably because I don't have Louie himself telling me what and how to do something, but I found that I ended up being able to box squat more than I could squat without the box. I read this article about raw lifting and how westside might not be the best for it it was on the juggernaut site. So instead of just changing everything I decided to drop DE day in favor of a heavier day but not quite max. So sort of like a undulating method with a heavier, medium, and lighter day with some really simple percentages. Well that had seem to get me stronger.\
So I decided to read the two juggernaut method books and want to try our the method it's a lot to commit too a huge block and giving up DE day is going to seem hard even though i'll be doing plyos and such for speed work.
So in your guys experience what do you like best? or am I just over thinking?
I do believe that for the most part as long as you work hard, eat, and stay consistent you will make gains. On the other hand though there are better methods for gaining strength. It all also depends from person to person, but I want to get your guys take on each methodology.
So I haven't ever been to westside or claim to fully understand everything about it, but i've used the methods of ME, DE, And RE days. I alternate through different lifts on my Max days and work up to about 90-95% for 2-3 and some days I just plan our Max out. I rarely did regular squats without a box or normal bench. I had only really ever done regular bench on DE day with bands.
I have loved westside because it got me from being 125 to 205lbs going from barely benching 95lbs to pausing 425 and squating 535 and deadlifting 585 which I just got last week. Now this was all done of a course of 3-4 years, now I want to try for more and want to try something new that might work.
To the point part of it is probably because I don't have Louie himself telling me what and how to do something, but I found that I ended up being able to box squat more than I could squat without the box. I read this article about raw lifting and how westside might not be the best for it it was on the juggernaut site. So instead of just changing everything I decided to drop DE day in favor of a heavier day but not quite max. So sort of like a undulating method with a heavier, medium, and lighter day with some really simple percentages. Well that had seem to get me stronger.\
So I decided to read the two juggernaut method books and want to try our the method it's a lot to commit too a huge block and giving up DE day is going to seem hard even though i'll be doing plyos and such for speed work.
So in your guys experience what do you like best? or am I just over thinking?