Jim… I’m 99% certain I know what your answer is going to be here, but what the hell. Maybe someone else can learn from the Question.
As the 5/3/1 cycles add up and the weights creep higher and higher towards your actual 1RM on any given exercise, is it wise to slowly drop the amount of assistance work to allow your body to recover better from the more intense PR Sets. I’ve seen many successful peaking cycles in power lifting work this way (not that this is a peaking program, but the idea remains the same… Drop the fluff and allow the body to recover from the heavy shit)
I think the long-term BBB plans in Beyond 5/3/1 kind of take care of this issue. 5x5 or 5x3, even with heavier loads, is a lot less daunting than the sets of 10 as the TM goes up. The 13 or 27 week plans in there set you up nicely for awhile if you want to train this way.
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
Jim… I’m 99% certain I know what your answer is going to be here, but what the hell. Maybe someone else can learn from the Question.
As the 5/3/1 cycles add up and the weights creep higher and higher towards your actual 1RM on any given exercise, is it wise to slowly drop the amount of assistance work to allow your body to recover better from the more intense PR Sets. I’ve seen many successful peaking cycles in power lifting work this way (not that this is a peaking program, but the idea remains the same… Drop the fluff and allow the body to recover from the heavy shit)
At which point you will probably be coming up on a reset or a “5 forward 3 back” kind of situation in my experience.
How say you, Jim? If you like it we can give it a cool name like “Mysteriously Vanishing BBB” or “Where did all my BBB go?” … Something like that.[/quote]
There is something like this in the Beyond 5/3/1 book but you should be getting stronger so this isn’t really an issue. I am a big fan of using the 5/3 method because the LOWER the TM, the better you will be (only if you are smart and want to get better).
I see what you are doing here but you are kinda missing the point of the TM - and getting too tied into it for BBB.