Advanced Trainee Routine Suggestion

LOL Great to hear! Thanks, these are easily the workouts of my life... thanks to your routine my friend.

God bless.

Another successful workout in the bag... 8 squats with a new weight I estimated would keep me down around 5 or 6 reps. And I went up on rows, yet again. Miscalculated calf raises in between,  due to my head being so fuzzy as I staggered around after squats. Still, I managed 6. I am thankful every brutal workout is offset with a mere hard one. Nicely balanced Bill my friend.

Thank you Lifter...

Yes, part of the mix is balance! Or stress management...

Awesome!

Great job,
Blessings,
Bill

Great war stories Lifter!  You know someone just isn't "getting it" if they ask why you don't throw in "a few more sets" after a workout like this.  LOL.

At your level and particular recovery needs, what does the 2-day rule tend to work out to?  I realize that this is highly individual (hence the structure of the rule) but I was curious what fit for you here, especially since these weights are in a different dimension from what I move around.

Thanks Bill and Capt.! When you have your nose to the grindstone and giving your all, the word "more" doesn't even enter your vocabulary. The stress from each workout is immediate and deeply depleting. For example, last night I started yawning heavily around dinner time, from the morning's workout, and when I went to bed I slept for a solid 10-hours! That's something I usually do only when I'm sick, which goes to show the drain my current poundages and intensity levels has upon me.

Bill's routine definitely requires sufficient rest-periods to offset the CNS upset. None more so than leg and back day! Those days are so agonisingly overwhelming, that I don't even think about training for at least 2 days. Now I realise less, as in overall frequency, is the usual rule, but I love to train and am well aware of my body's signals when I can get back in and progress, so I go by that to guide me.

Speaking to numerous other HITters, I have come to see how unique I am with what I am able to both generate and cope with, vs many others I interact with worldwide. I feel blessed I am like that, as even failure has proven too excessive for many, and only by going to sub-failure were they able to make any meaningful progress... and there's absolutely no shame in that as progress is where it's at!