Haha, gotcha.
It makes sense, and then on occassion when you go for a rep and you miss it you might as well milk it by resisting it on the eccentric rather than just “giving up”.
Found it. Brewing a pot of decaf now and then reading time.
Wendler wrote something so poignant on the matter, and it relates to what you wrote that I have to share,
And as far as
goes, I’ve been such a person a lot previously. But after yesterday’s session I actually just felt like coasting today. I didn’t sleep well, so I even skipped climbing, figuring this was the better option for recovery and long-term success. This is relatively new.
Have you noticed that some people are like that always or that it’s something they’ll do when not challenged to their absolute? I.e., they do submax work, so they are not really… tired in the same sense, and as a consequence they cannot take it easy outside of the weightroom.
Of course, everything comes into play and that’s something the trainee should weigh in and make a note of if that’s the kind of person they are. Some are very intuitive, and other’s like me like to refer back to notes. It makes it easier to trace, and also remember rather than just “remember” if you catch my drift.
Hadn’t noticed. But if you write anything important in English ever I highly recommend creating a Grammarly account and installing the browser extension. It’ll keep your writing clean.
Great example. Not sure many people think about it from that perspective. They’ll rather just evaluate the addition/removal of a single/multiple session(s).
Hehe, this is almost a variant of Hepburn’s progression. And that would be a cool idea to explore. Let’s say you are training and you do 40 sets per week, you are recovering, and progressing. You are at some point in your MAV range. Now you add a set to a training day, do that for two weeks, before incrementing again, smearing out work sets across the week as time goes by. At some point, you hit your MRV, and after that you regress. Now you’d have data points so that you could taper back a bit to the MAV stage and when life is treating you great up the ante and go to that MRV “zone”.
MAV = Maximum adaptive volume. This is the proverbial sweet spot for volume: You are able
to maximize progress without accumulating excessive fatigue.
MRV = Maximum recoverable volume. This is the most volume you can do and still recover
from. Increasing volume further would likely lead to a detriment in performance and/or
muscle size.
I feel as if you were on board!