I’m worse at counting than I thought. I can only count up to
4 and this isn’t helpful on smolov because the reps range from 3 to 9. So I’ve
learnt how to count in sets of 4. For example, 9 reps would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2,
3, 4, and 1. Previously, I would have went, “1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, shit how many
reps was that man? I think I’ve just one more rep.” Clearly, this manner of
counting was not conducive for achieving the desired training effect.
Smolov is good for people of all attention spans. For those
with a short attention span, smolov is excellent because you work for a little
while, rest for a long time and repeat. For those with a long attention span,
smolov works equally well too because you’re gonna be in the gym for a long,
long time and you’re really going to need to focus because it’s depressing to
share the power cage with 3 groups of people, one after another.
Smolov is really excellent programming. Whoever thought of
squatting 4 times a week and even throwing in back to back sessions? Also, it’s
really easy to follow smolov because you only need to perform a single movement
and even the reps and loading parameters for the day’s session are fixed. How easy
is that?
