woodswise
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I tried it in the past and the last injury I sustained was b/c of pulling 2x week. I'm not confident my body can handle pulling, squatting, and benching twice a week. Benching, squatting twice and pulling, overhead pressing once a week already takes its toll.
We're only pulling and doing overheads twice per week. Once during the week and once on Strongman saturdays. Saturdays also have a combination of other exercises that vary from farmer carries, to yoke carry or stone loading. Though I find them taxing, the Saturdays don't interfere with my other training.
It seems to me that we worked up to this over about three years, increasing my volume as my endurance and recovery have increased. Now I can handle a lot more volume than ever before and hardly notice Saturday training the next day. Of course I eat a lot more food than ever before, too. I am thinking about increasing the volume even more. . .
Also, we aren't taking deadlift to failure every week. Oftentimes we do 5x5 with 80% or less of 1rm. Probably more than half our workouts are 5 x 5 or some higher endurance training. Over time we work up to sets of 3 x 1 rep of 90% or 95% and rarely do 1rm. Also, though we do often train to failure, my coach judges my strength almost perfectly and when doing higher volume, like 5x5, and gives me weights I can barely handle for all my reps on the workout, so that my last 1 or 2 reps are a struggle or failure. On the lower rep workouts, we sometimes finish with a low weight to max reps. Every workout is different from the last, and we repeat the pattern only a couple times per year.