Hi All! Im interested in your opinion on fatigue percents as a tool to determine weekly volume doing strenght training (autoregulation).

Am new here, but thought I'd kick off with a banger. My QL on the right side is silly tight. Do plenty of side bends (although stretching it sometimes hurts), unilateral training, and core training. Can confirm there's a slight imbalance between my right and left hamstring, but nothing major. Gets better after soft tissue release (as one may expect), but temporarily. All advice welcome!

I saw an older post about suggestions on creating a golden (OpTiMaL) microcycle that had no responses. Any suggestions here? I am an aging weightlifter who has neglected cardio for a long time (10+ years?). I recently added ploys and sprinting to my lower volume weightlifting program over the past 3-4 months and things have been going well but I am finally ready to bite the proverbial cardio bullet. Anybody been in a similar position? How did you program your cardio?

As somebody relatively new to personal training I have a lot of difficulty understanding what would be a good starting point for somebody new, specially with more compound lifts like the squat and RDLs. Testing 1RM seems to me to be too dangerous for a beginner (maybe I'm overestimating the dangers?) and at submaximal efforts I have problems assessing what's the real RPE. Does somebody have general advice? How do you make a first assessment with compound lifts?

I was talking with a strength coach who went to a starting strength seminar and he was talking about how it was better to squat in this position (see image) rather then ass to grass as it utilizes the stretch reflex more. Just curious if you guys would agree with this?