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LOL - I screwed it up on the TOC and deleted it. I just realized the other day and no one pointed it out to me either (the sample layout which is lost now is the same as the weight selection links). I want to say it's around page 10ish or just a bit beyond - not beyond 20 that's for sure. It was in response to JKurtz and only maps a sample of the first 4 weeks so when you start seeing his name after a while you'll find it. Don't read a lot into it, I plugged numbers due to exasperation. Setting weights will vary by individual so go on your past experience.
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I had no problem last time around going with the 3x a week schedule for the last 5-9 weeks. I'll be on a cycle when I hit the routine again as well. But if i choose to run it again after that, can one still make decent size gains only doing 2x a week for the final half of the program?
Back to our conversation about tolerances and capacities. If you intend to run anabolics, this will be enhanced enabling you to do significantly more work over a period. Luckily you have a reference and have run the program before so you won't be totally shooting in the dark.
Deloading and peaking with a 2x frequency lowers the workload and can be viewed as a 'more pure' deload if that makes sense. Using the 3x per week and building to a second set of records in triples this time is probably best thought of graphically as two waves with a trough between them that serves to deload enough to make the 2nd wave possible.
So anyway, it really depends on what you want to do and what you want to get out of your work. You can link together a variety of phases with multiple peaks and troughs, maybe at times there might be 100% recovery during deloading but at other times maybe enough to make the transition and next peak possible (i.e. thinking of the graph, the tough might not be as low as the baseline and the two waves might not by symmetrical, two troughs might also be at different levels so to speak). Probably useful to read this and think about planning: http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4643459&postcount=186. As well as this to see how people plan out longer macrocycles in sport: http://forum.mesomorphosis.com/showpost.php?p=48&postcount=3. One thing is for certain, your tolerances will be increased so lowering base or average workload below what one handled fairly well naturally isn't going to be optimal.
Deloading and peaking with a 2x frequency lowers the workload and can be viewed as a 'more pure' deload if that makes sense. Using the 3x per week and building to a second set of records in triples this time is probably best thought of graphically as two waves with a trough between them that serves to deload enough to make the 2nd wave possible.
So anyway, it really depends on what you want to do and what you want to get out of your work. You can link together a variety of phases with multiple peaks and troughs, maybe at times there might be 100% recovery during deloading but at other times maybe enough to make the transition and next peak possible (i.e. thinking of the graph, the tough might not be as low as the baseline and the two waves might not by symmetrical, two troughs might also be at different levels so to speak). Probably useful to read this and think about planning: http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4643459&postcount=186. As well as this to see how people plan out longer macrocycles in sport: http://forum.mesomorphosis.com/showpost.php?p=48&postcount=3. One thing is for certain, your tolerances will be increased so lowering base or average workload below what one handled fairly well naturally isn't going to be optimal.
