On training days calling for heavier loads with weights you’ve never handled before, it’s not uncommon to rest five to ten minutes between sets.

Balance can be obtained through activities outside of your max-strength protocol.

Zulu revolves around a cluster of 4-6 main lifts+ performed over 4 days through the week. Each lift is practiced twice a week. If you can handle the volume, you can use up to 6 or 7major lifts + accessories.

If you want to minimize hypertrophy further, look to 4-5 minutes of rest+.

You need to do some form of muscular-endurance work to help express some of that max-strength as SE.

simplicity wins out over complicated.

You’re not lifting the barbells to challenge yourself, you are training to improve a skill. Not working out or exercising so you can enjoy an endorphin rush.

‘simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’.

For the operational athlete, training is about improving the attribute, not about getting better at using the tool.