I don’t really like the single set of 10 “all-out” reps on Day 1. This especially doesn’t make sense to me if Jon was doing squats, cleans, and bench press with the same protocol on the same day for every week prior to outdoor.
I’ve talked with Mike Stone (current USOC Strength High Performance Specialist and former Strength Coach for Ireland) on several occasions and he told me quite a bit about Jonathan’s training. He did quite a bit of testing and work with Edwards. None of what he told me included the Day 1 protocol described in that article…..not that that necessarily means he didn’t do that at one point, I’ve just never heard of that kind of thing with Edwards. One thing I do like though is the simplicity of the program as well as the protocol for day 2.
I kind of get the impression from the article that the author of the article just wrote the article and didn’t know too much about Edwards training. For example:
“I am not sure how long this was done, but I will offer two ways of doing this depending on how long you plan to use this program.”
and
“I don’t know if assistance lifts were used….”
This doesn’t mean that it’s not a good article, just perhaps that it isn’t exactly Edwards training.
