CALPIAN 5 WEEK PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

I undertook the Calpian 5 Week Program back in April of 2012, which I found at the Idaho Weightlifting Federation website.  This particular site, I believe, is the home site for Michael Conroy -- who, on a side note, is now the Director of Coaching Education with USA Weightlifting. The program was developed by John Thrush (founder of Calpian Weightlifting Club) and has been used by National level athletes.  I, myself, am NOT a National level athlete but decided to try this program out because it fit my desires to train 5 times per week.  Plus, it seemed to focus on developing leg strength through the use of stop squats, which are absolutely brutal!  They need to be renamed "Death Squats".  Furthermore, the program incorporates a heavy dose of snatch and clean pulls, that I had not used extensively in the past.  I did not perform any of the "GM" movements annotated in the spreadsheet, nor the prescribed abdominal (ABDS) exercises.  In all honesty, I'm lazy and I hate doing abdominal exercises.  So, without further rambling I'll update the blog daily with the weights, sets, reps, etc... I used throughout the program.  Enjoy.