I didn't read the thing but I'll share my story. I've been wanting to train a LOT ever since I got a barbell + weights and sawhorses - and thus could train at home. I was not happy enough with doing 3 sets of 5 rep squats, and felt like I was not training enough. Athletes in most other sports train a lot more often, why should you lift weights some set amount of time that seems like it's not barely enough for you?
So I just thought... fuck it, I'm not gonna follow the conventional wisdom. I'm just gonna follow my own brain/common sense. My idea was very simple - lift heavy weights often to get good at lifting heavy weights. I focused mainly on heavy triples (% off the 1rm really don't work for me, so by heavy I mean 90-95% of the day's 3 rep max), taking a lot of rest between these (15-20 minutes was usual, 1 hour was not too uncommon... obviously since I train at home I would often go somewhere, and do another triple few hours later after I would come back), and doing lots of these heavy triples. There really wasn't some magic number of triples that I would do, I would just do as many as I wanted to - sometimes just 5, sometimes 15. Usually I would train about 4-5 times a week like this, doing this for squats and military press (I know regret at least not doing chin ups).
I figured I would follow this approach as long as I didn't feel too bad (which could mean I was over training), or until I would get noticeably weaker in the lifts I did.
But really, this isn't all that important... the whole idea of this training was that I will just do heavy compound movements (as long as you do a normal number of reps like 5 you'll be fine), rest a lot between sets, and do this often. I think that you can train a lot... especially if you're young like I am and don't have some physically demanding job. In my opinion, in most situations, the more you train, the faster you will get better - over training does exist, but I just think that a lot of people could train more than they are training and get better faster this way. Whether this approach is suitable for you, I don't know. I'm pretty convinced that this way of training is not suitable if you are not willing to spend a lot of time lifting - while you will do say... X times more heavy lifting than on starting strength, you will not see X times more gains.
I dare to say I made pretty good gains training this way, getting my self a 230 push press, 365 concentric high bar squat, and a 500 deadlift after my first half year of training, following the above ways for about 4 months I think. While I've always been a stronger guy than other kids at school (which started to be less apparent as time went on and I started playing diablo2 lol), I didn't do any consistent training of some sort before this. Occasional bjj, occasional PE class in school, but that's it.
Hope you can make some sense out of what I wrote, I'm a bit stoned and English is not my first language, so it might be a bit hard to understand lol.
BTW if you're thinking of giving this a try, read some stuff about/from John Broz. While I did not do what he makes his lifters do, I tried to make sense of his training philosophy and applied to mine - well it mainly just gave me confidence to try this sort of training out. People often take some stuff he writes too literally, like: "there's no such thing as over training", but really... his whole point is that you should train hard if you really want to get better - and I think even Glenn Pendlay agreed with me on this when I was "defending" John Broz in some thread on this forum a few months ago.
