How often do you deload? Do you take off an entire week or work with reduced loads/volume?
With 5/3/1, I deload on the 7th week, ideally for a full week. Other programs, it depends. If I am not pushing PRs all the time, I don’t need a deload. Deep Water didn’t need any.
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Is the deload mental (ie a mental break after getting a PR in a big lift)?
Physical
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INteresting, I would have thought Deep Water was more physically demanding that 5/3/1
Pushing for PRs is going to take more out of you than following prescribed sets and reps.
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got it
That’s a good middle ground. Some espouse a mandatory deload, regardless of any factor other than amount of weeks spent regularly lifting. For me, presence or absence of life stressors has a bigger recovery effect than my training itself, so deloading by feel makes sense.
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Maybe - it’s just what I saw all over the place. 3x10 for everything.
Feeling pretty good, actually, but noticing that after completing a PR set, my endurance thereafter is significantly reduced from where I was beforehand. Mostly though, I’m trying to get ahead of it - I’d rather deload without feeling like crap and continue feeling good instead of running into a wall and having to deload because of it - proactive vs reactive kind of thing.
I like this idea! Guilt-free deload. Lay 'em on me.
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1000 push up workout.
20 every minute on the minute for 20 minutes
Heading to bed. Can post more later, but something to get you going
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@frank_c got my wish. Ate absolute shit, since I was skating on wet ground, which I knew was gonna lead to that, but I just want skating to feel normal so I barreled through. The fall was fine except when I fell back, I instinctively put my hand out behind me and my palm hit the ground first. The blood I can handle, but my thumb and palm are very bruised and stuff hurts. Anyways, just part of the learning curve. Gotta remember to accept the fall and not try to stop it.
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I’m assuming you mean 50 minutes, but yeah, that sounds BRUTAL and right up my alley. If my palm bruise turns out super bad by tomorrow I’ll do 'em on my knuckles.
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Yeah: 50 min, you got it. It hammers the everything, haha.
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That’s cool, I’ve yet you try out just hitting a single at TM and doing some remedial assistance stuff so can’t vouch for it.
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So, despite my disdain for full deloads with no lifting, that’s what happened due to school being crazy along with work needing overtime. No guilt, just good food and the rest I needed. I did start off the week with an attempt at @T3hPwnisher’s 1000 pushup workout but my elbows started hurting around 400 reps and I called it at 500, 25 mins in. Chest was very sore the next day regardless.
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SVR II 3rd cycle
SSB Squats
170x5
200x5
220x5+ (10)
170x20
Cable chest press, wide grip lat pulldowns, leg Press for 5x10 each
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2 hours of skateboarding with the kids and playing tag too. Then they asked for steak and I bought them a nice ribeye at the grocery store. I may have done it as an excuse to get the 2 inch gargantuan ribeye that’s sitting in my fridge waiting for me to cook it with garlic mashed cauliflower.
In the meantime, the boys got their steak, perfect sear on it. I cook it a bit more for them than I would for me, but it just fell apart. Lucky lil’ buggers.
Good day overall.
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That your kids like ribeye means you are raising them right. Great stuff dude.
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It’s hands down their favorite meal, but we used to get by by letting them eat some of ours when we cooked it. Then, one time, they were upstairs playing and we cooked steaks and ate them, and they came downstairs just as we finished and said “We smell steak! Can we have some?”, and when we told them it was all gone, they cried.
I felt bad, and cooked them their own steak the next day, and it just became a once-a-week thing. They don’t eat candy ever, besides Halloween, so I’m glad to have that be their treat.
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Got some future Deep Water warriors there, haha. Great stuff.
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