Oh sorry I thought you said his training partners didn't train saturday? I must have misread it.
You obviously said Max didn't train saturday because his training partners arrived later than usual, this upset Max's delicate disposition and his plans for the remainder of the afternoon. Leaving him with no choice but to tell nick fanciful stories about taking time off training and a variety of bodily ailments.
Little bugger!
changing a lift is still a deload. the effort can still be high but it wont be as taxing on the CNS, most likely.
however it think that when you come back to the inital lift it will take 2-3 weeks to get back, or maybe more. which means that you do sorta deload anyways.
i like resetting. becuase your still grooving the motion, (the best way to imporve a squat is to squat), and it will give a bit of a break to the mind and body.
my opinions
Try squatting 60kg x 10 for the next 2 years, tell me how much your squat improves.
But I also like the idea of, if you stall in one lift, try a similar lift for a while then come back to it. I have done that a little bit with my clients, haven't had enough for long enough to really test it out, though, most are happily powering along in newbie linear progression. When I've done it, I've had them switch from back to front squat, OHP to bench, that sort of thing.
Try squatting 60kg x 10 for the next 2 years, tell me how much your squat improves.
You might take 2-3 weeks to get back in the groove, but I gave an example of Ryan adding 25kg FIRST SESSION BACK SQUATTING.
Maybe because the effort stayed high on trap bar deadlifts and he wasnt softcockingit
Please explain how Ryan hitting PB's in Trap bar deads was softcockinit?
How are they different? Mightn't a deload be a taper and vice versa?Tapering and deloading are different things.
Tapering is dropping your volume but not your intensity to peak for a comp. So you may lift at 50-60% of your normal volume but you will still be near maxing out. It is specific to a comp and only used before that.
Deloading is used as a recovery tool to allow you to be refreshed through out your training cycle (Markos likes full rest some other people like an active rest so they deload).
But many of the Russian powerlifting programs I have seen reduce both volume and intensity in the final 2 weeks of the competition phase.
I recall seeing similar advice on elitefts from Scott Yard and others saying you do the highest intensity sessions 2 or 3 weeks out then deload, by reducing volume and intensity so you are strong and fresh for comp. I think they call it supercompensation.
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