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@johnc101 But does your way of going to failure lend itself better to shortened position movements?

@bobwhite I also am a huge fan of squats, and would add that the process of dialing in good form can teach you about your own body, and how to keep problem solving and not giving up. And I swear it increases T for a day, because after squat day my libido is a little higher than usual.

I push to failure on pretty much every exercise. And yes the reps get somewhat slower towards the end, but I find only a handful of exercises got me grinding hard. Stuff like preacher curls, c.g. Bench, overhead tricep extensions. Are proper grinding reps something to aim for on every...

@amerikanka Cool! What does the split look like, what did you add for back? And do you enjoy it and see progress?

@dawn16 Yeah, I've kinda accepted hypertrophy being secondary while running this, just trying something new and hopefully getting some value out of the strength gains and getting used to heavy weights.

I want to run Bullmastiff base phase to drive up my general strength and get more comfortable with heavy weights on SBD+OHP. But I also wish to induce hypertrophy where I can, which is where the decision making begins. This is the exercise selection Bromley lays out, spread across 4 days...

@deesweetz I agree, running it a couple of times and tweaking as I go seems like a good way to do it. Thank you!

Bullmastiff is a free 4 day upper/lower program by Alexander Bromley that consists of a 9 week base phase, and a 9 weeks peak phase. I will not be doing the peak phase, but rather look at running the base phase. Primarily for hypertrophy goals, but also getting better at handling heavy sets of...