I felt terrible, I was fat, my joints ached, and I didn't enjoy training. I spent way too many years training once every 10 days because that was the only way I could advance and make gains. Whether or not he trains this way is anyone's guess, but he has a responsibility to tell his readers that once you can no longer train 2x per week you need to go to the advanced method of training. If you look at Brooks' training style and his book synopsises, it is evident he caters to the beginner/intermediate style lifter. The golden fleece of this method is the timing of the back off period and the length of it. It can be difficult to learn the body and be successful with this method until you've gone through the avoid overtraining type of lifting to learn your CNS. Build up fatigue over 10-15 workouts to the point of overtraining and then back-off for 1-2 weeks to supercompensate. The advanced lifter cycles as Pavel advocates in PTTP. In order to keep progressing this way you have to train closer and closer to failure and train less often in order to keep progressing. The beginner and intermediate lifter use the avoid method to learn their CNS and when to recover. Train to avoid overtrain or use overtraining to your advantage. He may have changed things now, so I'm glad to hear that. Even in his Power Rack video he says cycling is bull, and in so many words that people abuse it. I never saw or heard him mention the benefits of cycling, ever. I haven't read the book and probably won't, but I have read the Files. They seem to be interested in being healthy and strong and not to look big like a balloon. Also often like PTTP daily workouts but short. (you will see a lot of 1 set per exercise eg starting with 5 reps and when you can do 10 reps you increase the weight. If you want to see more of oldtimers methods check out: as there you can find many books by oldtimers, so you can see what they did. If you use the Brooks idea, you do not workout more than 3 times a week, often also just 2 times as you need rest, doing more is too much and he tells that too. I also have the (old) dino files, in which you see several routines he uses and although it is done with dumbells, you can also use KB's for these (I did and it works wonderfull), or it a combinations of different tools. He does however use abbreviated training and if you read his stuff good you woud have discovered he also used cycling as you never can go heavier all the time, you need to back up. He just uses all implements, heavy barbells, dumbells, sandbags, logs etc, kind like strongman and also a bit like you see with twisted conditioning. Now he is a bit more conservative but still goes heavy and takes lots of rest, but he never did go to failure and in fact is not into HIT. In his younger years (when he wrote the dino book) he used singles and doubles a lot. Brooks does not train to failure, he uses heavy reps.
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