Yeah I didn’t look into them, which I’m sure you could tell. And I understand the limitations to linear progressions whether they are periodized or not, I am just saying when you account for who was the strongest and hit the best lifts it tends to gravitate towards the guys in the 80s with the straight line periodization. I had some good success using Dan John’s even easier strength that really shocked me; I intuitively pushed my lower rep sets to where I thought they should be and blasted my regular work sets without having to worry about them. It was very relieving. I see wendler is big on pushing submaximal lifts too in order to push 1rm, but at the end of the day dollars for donuts the best lifters used simpler programs and worked harder for higher totals. You used cws’ total as an example of his program working, but dismiss kirk and coans totals as them eating their way to the top when both were lean as fuck totaling higher numbers
