Enablers' Recommendations for Weight-lifting Series

What weight-lifting series are "must-haves"?

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Debinmi

Cathlete
Since there are only 3 days left to purchase dvds (supposedly), what weight-lifting series would you recommend to someone who doesn't have Cathe's full collection? You may choose your top 4 recommendations for series. (The poll system didn't allow for more choices). Please feel free to add your reasoning so a person could make an informed purchase.
 
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For me, STS2.0 provides the most options for Total Body, UB/LB split & the Body- Parts offer many options with the Premixes. Xtrain's undulating rotation gave me great gains without the cumbersome 1RM stuff of STS1.0. Hardcore Gym Styles is classic "bro-splits". Slow & Heavy is just so different than the other styles of lifting.
 
I'd add Intensity Series Pyramid Upper and Pyramid Lower Body workouts - they're more endurance-based, but those two workouts really kept me in great shape in the pre-STS years.

In order of preference with my two votes, I put

1. STS 2.0
2. XTrain

I don't have a lot of experience just yet with RWH's strength workouts. Nor do I have much experience with most of the other series in the list, except for STS, S&S, and 4DS. Those ones just aren't high on my list of preferred series.
 
Definitely STS 1 and 2. Slow & Heavy because it is different. Then Strong & Sweaty. I love the Ramped Up Upper Body workout in this series, and PHA and Total Body Giant Sets are good too. If I had a 5th option, I would choose Xtrain. I like the Chest, Back & Shoulders, Bis & Tris, and Burn Sets in this series.
 
Results: hands down it's STS2.0!
Then a 2-way split between STS original and the Slow & Heavy series. Xtrain rounds out the top 4.

Thanks for playing. :)
 
Fun to see the results. Thanks for starting the poll. Awesome to see STS 2.0 is at the top. It really is a great series - I'm jonesing for it after this 15-week original STS rotation. (I'm on my last week of Meso 3 this week - woohoo!)
 
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Yeah, woohoo! I'm looking forward to your final review/assessment. I pulled out my STS worksheets recently after you suggested we preserve our 1RM data in case the website/Workout Manager disappears with the restructuring/bankruptcy. I marveled, again, at all the variety in those Mesos. I think my last rotation was last early Fall but I only did the UB workouts due to my knee & didn't include Meso 3. So it's been awhile for a full rotation for me. I read an old post by "Kathryn" (she was a prolific poster for many many years here) where she combined the 2 UB workouts into one workout. I might take a look at how she may have done that. It'd provide an option on how to use the series without dedicating 3 days to it. IDK, something to look at.
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I'm definitely feeling stronger - was certainly impressed with some of the weights I've been able to accomplish at the 90% range during week 3. Proof will be in the pudding next week when I have to resort back to 8 reps at 85%!

I can't imagine combining both UB workouts from Meso 3 - I suppose maybe if I skipped some of the exercises, because I'm usually wanting to be done about half way through each of the workouts. Especially the Chest & Back one - soooo many presses and flys. Ugh.
 
Debinmi said:
workouts due to my knee
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Surprised to read, many times on the forum, about excuses because of injuries! Even, the 2Lazy4theGym lady announced on her blog that she stopped lifting completely, shifting to just body-weight training, becuase of injuries. Aren't you guys overdoing it, causing injuries instead of sustainable healthy strength? Just a curious question!
 
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Debinmi said:
STS2.0 Body Parts & the premixes
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There is a current trend, mimicking the Minimum Effective Dose (MED) approach, called Microdosing, where you train each body part, over the week, once in just a 10 minute workout (Chest, Back, Legs, Shoulders, Biceps, Triceps, Core) and that is all!
 
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Surprised to read, many times on the forum, about excuses because of injuries! Even, the 2Lazy4theGym lady announced on her blog that she stopped lifting completely, shifting to just body-weight training, becuase of injuries. Aren't you guys overdoing it, causing injuries instead of sustainable healthy strength? Just a curious question!
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As Debinmi said above, not all injuries are related to weight-lifting but can definitely result in the need to modify workouts. In my case, I am having to modify workouts due to tendonitis in my hip caused by driving in stop/start traffic for a prolonged period of time. I still can't do any jumping or high step work like step ups.
 
I have a bunch of blender add-ons and "finishers" already, so I don't think I need anymore at the present time,
but as you know, I love short 10 min. workouts :) and also those "Bite-Size" rebounder workouts, and you're
right, there are tons of cardio/weights/kettlebell, etc. workouts on YT.
 
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