Origins of The Texas Method

[Wolfox]

I thought i'd share since it was a cool story.

the "Texas Method" first came into being with Olympic lifters. I was using multiple sets of 5 done 3 days a week for the lifters I coached back in the 2000 to 2004 time frame. A number of lifters started bargaining with me on Friday, they were tired from a hard week of training and did not want to do 4 or 5 heavy sets of squats. I told a couple of them (Donny Shankle was one) that if they could set a PR for one set of 5 on friday, they didnt have to do all 5 sets. So that started more and more of my lifters trying to make a PR single set on friday and thus get out of doing all 5 sets. Pretty soon a few started "cheating" on Wednesday, dropping sets or putting less weight on the bar than they were supposed to. Over a period of months I noticed that the guys who were the worst about cheating on wednesday then trying to make a PR on friday to get out of doing the full workload were actually making better progress than the guys who were doing our squatting work as programmed.

So that is how the Texas method started. Since then, Justin Lascek has probably contributed more than anyone else in advancing the method, I highly recommend his e-book on the subject.

[cephissus]

Pointless

The best Olympic lifters' training strategy is little more than "lift heavy, all the time".

If you are:

Flexible
Coordinated
Muscular
Tough
Not well-employed
Not particularly good at real sports
Not easily bored
Near a training center (motivation, basic coaching)
Willing to deal with drug dealers
Don't get bad side effects from drugs or training

Congrats, you're well-condotioned for weightlifting/bodybuilding/strongman/powerlifting/crossfit.

[Hulkotron]

Pointless

The best Olympic lifters' training strategy is little more than "lift heavy, all the time".

If you are:

Flexible
Coordinated
Muscular
Tough
Not well-employed
Not particularly good at real sports
Not easily bored
Near a training center (motivation, basic coaching)
Willing to deal with drug dealers
Don't get bad side effects from drugs or training

Congrats, you're well-condotioned for weightlifting/bodybuilding/strongman/powerlifting/crossfit.

 

[Mawse]

There was a skinny fat RipTard in the rack next to me this morning, doing his 5 reps of awful , grinded, layne norton style squats with an Eye of the Tiger look on his face.

 That motha fucka straight up KNEW that doing sets of five in the squat followed by the most Functional of lifts, the standing press was going to pay off in massive slabs of muscle if he stuck with it and drank his milk.