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Thank you, that's very kind of you, but I think I've found a copy of it online. It will be a while before I am able to read through it, so I won't be trying anything like it for a while at least.

Yeah, I think my form is fine, my back is straight and everything, but thanks. I may see what's in the university library.

No, I'm not hunching over and rolling my back when I deadlift.

Yeah, higher frequency and lower volume are what I'm looking for really.

This is what I'd heard, but I wasn't sure what the programs were or where to find them.

I was going to be doing 5-6 days in a row, I'd be taking a rest day every 3 days.

Thanks. I think I'm going to try an upper/lower for now, and maybe move onto one of these routines in the future to see what it's like.

I don't like full body routines. I have been doing pull/push/legs for a while, but I want to change to an upper/lower so that I'll have more frequency on lifts as well as more frequent days off.

I don't mind if my stomach sticks out from food, I'm saying that the fact that my posture is so bad and my core is so weak that it causes my belly to stick out then it's a problem. I am no trolling. My hamstring is better, I was saying that I had injured it before. And as I said above, I've decided not to squat and…

It's ok everyone, as I've said a couple of times over the last couple of pages, I'm just going to do an upper/lower split, so I will only be hitting each body part at most three times a week with at least two days off from a particular bodypart in between exercising it, and will probably have additional days off depending…

I thought stating something like: "I don't want my deadlift to progress, and I don't really mind if it causes me long term damage, as long as I can keep it up for a month or two", would be quite clearly sarcastic.

Thanks, I will!

I have been stretching every day. Thanks, but I don't know what a smushroom is.

That sounds perfect, thank you!

I was always told that you gain more size from high volume and more strength from low volume. It would be lower volume but higher frequency.

Yeah, I always hear that profressional athletes do the same exercises all the time and it's ok for them, so I couldn't understand why I wouldn't be able to do the same if I built up to it.

Lol, yeah, who knows what's possible until they try it, right?

It seems like a good program, as do most of the other ones I've seen, but they are all a bit too low frequency for me I think. I realise it sounds idiotic, and I'm not saying that I know better than these great routines, but I know if I'm not lifting 5-6 times a week then I will just get fed up with the program I am doing,…

I don't want my deadlift to progress, and I don't really mind if it causes me long term damage, as long as I can keep it up for a month or two.

I was curious about the newer templates for Wendler, but I didn't really know enough about it. I assume all of the Wendler stuff is in books and I don't really have any money to be buying things at the moment. Plus, won't that template still be just three days a week? I want something more frequent really.

I think I'm just going to do an upper/lower split, it should give me good frequency without over doing it. Thanks for the input everyone.

No, I can see my posture is bad without a diagnosis. My shoulders hunch forward, my stomach sticks out, and my lower back rounds, causing my pain. I need to stretch the tense muscles and strengthen the weak ones.

If I'm just using alternatives then I'm not doing his routine, I'm doing something different.

I don't want hypertrophy days, and my gym doesn't have the equipment I'd need for some of his lifts.

I'm trying to improve strength rather than size. The sessions would be low volume.

But what about all the full-body routines that work out the same part of your body three times a week?

I want to work out more than three times a week though. I tried to find a routine which I could modify, but no luck. I'm not trying to find a short cut, I just like to workout regularly.

I'm looking for strength more than size at the moment. I was doing a pull/push/legs. But I think I might switch to an upper/lower, so I can hit everything three times a week instead of two.

Everyone seems to think I need to follow a specific programme which someone else has already written down though. And I can't find one which matches these criteria. I think I'll just carry on what I'm doing, trying to change is confusing me too much.

Can anyone recommend a simple squat/deadlift/bench, 3 days on 1 day off, tried and tested, available online, routine? Or does such a thing not exist? It may be better if I start a new thread to ask.