If you are planning to compete, it's still important that your lifts backslide, IMO. It's what cycling is all about.If you're not planning to compete, is it a big deal if your lifts backslide for the intermediate term?
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If you are planning to compete, it's still important that your lifts backslide, IMO. It's what cycling is all about.If you're not planning to compete, is it a big deal if your lifts backslide for the intermediate term?
Six days to 'recover' could entail some long hours at work, forays into austere environments and other things that tax my recovery so a conservative sets/reps/loading scheme is best advised.I’ve definitely made progress on once weekly training when the goal was hypertrophy but I was nearly killing myself in that one session. But with six days to recover what’s the reason for not nearly killing yourself? So I wouldn’t do anything like the wimpy 5x5 suggested above but I would do five hard sets close to failure of exercises covering every muscle group. On the days off sleep well and eat more protein. You will get big but not as quickly as you would using higher frequency programs
Dr Fred Hatfield: Muscle RecoveryI'm curious how others on this forum might handle having only a single day/week to lift a barbell here.
Periodization Cycle TrainingIt's what cycling is all about.
If you are planning to compete, it's still important that your lifts backslide, IMO. It's what cycling is all about.
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A few other days per week I do hypertrophy training, conditioning, etc... Let's just call it GPP.
You know your own capacity so I’m not disputing that but the weekly program you’ve outlined has, at its toughest, three sets approaching “heavy”. With respect, that’s less than what you see in some people who train daily. And it’s more like the intensity that grandma experiences when she does the weekly shop. You don’t want to look like grandma, do you? I just can’t see how the adaptive response from such a mild workout at such infrequency is going to match any goal. If your other six days weekly are as strenuous you should probably be sleeping in on your workout day, not lifting barbells at all. At the very least (in my humble opinion) you should be maxing out (and regularly setting a PR) on each of your lifts on your workout day.Six days to 'recover' could entail some long hours at work, forays into austere environments and other things that tax my recovery so a conservative sets/reps/loading scheme is best advised.