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Not sure why you're so hung up on higher intensity when it's only one variable.
To squat daily your average intensity goes up to a degree, and your frequency will probably double or triple, but your volume per session probably decreases by half or more. Some people handle volume better, some people can handle higher frequency.
The higher your numbers get, the harder it is to add to those poundages, as someone else alluded to a few pages ago
What are these programs/splits you've mentioned that allow advanced folks to achieve similar results at lower intensities?
The only other program I know that boasts similar results is Smolov for squats, and I'd hardly say that the intensities are lighter on that.
As I mentioned in my write up ITT I added 120 pounds to my 1RM in 11 weeks, and actually hit +135 pound single in a gym meet later that week but the depth was probably only just at parallel.
Anyways, it doesn't really matter what I think. I know the uses of this type of programming and folks far stronger than I am have ran it successfully for longer than I have, so I'll defer to them and use my own experience to judge.
There's also more than one way to skin a cat.
If your goals aren't of a powerlifting nature there's no need to squat that often.
Fred.
Fred.
thanks, appreciate adding the context & detail/explanation! being new to lifting generally (still figuring out what & even if there are distinctions between approach in aesthetics, hypertrophy, powerlifting, resistance, strength training are ) so i just been cramming listening to, reading, & watching stuff related to fitness generally. i couldn’t really tell you what splits programs work
tokes99 idk how long you’ve been lifting but that’s basically the concept of StrongLifts 5x5. You up the weight every session. It will get you hella gains your first year or two.
basically since the gyms reopened out here in cali, so less than year…i basically only had the goal of increasing ankle mobility after injuring my achilles years ago without really rehabbing or surgery; so i was just basically freestyling