Sometimes hindsight only comes after months...

For some reason, I just realized why my program back from September of 2011 didn't work. I had taken the program that Mario made for me, and modified it by putting my own exercises in, back squatting more often, and overall just taking random stuff that I didn't like out and putting my own stuff in. Which was dumb.

I got nothing out of the program except some time to rest my hurt shoulder...which albeit was good, but I shouldn't have to lose that time for real progress. I didn't realize at the end of the program why it sucked so bad. I didn't even max my lifts after, because I was missing at 90% left and right. I went right to Smolov Jr where I made progress.

I can't believe I didn't learn from that. Either I need to do what a coach tells me, or I need to make something new. I can't just take the same old program and change the exercises and volume and not expect it to just suddenly work better. I'm sure that there was a reason that I wasn't simply back squatting every day in the program, and instead doing pulls some days. Things I didn't think about at the time, or really ever until now.

Hell, even the first day sucked because I didn't even know what percentages to use for stuff.

Here it was: http://cloystreng.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-day-of-new-program.html