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Originally Posted by Doug Funnie II
Redmen,
Those numbers are kind of low for where I'd expect them to be, even on a "deficit." Have they tried taking a week or two completely off? Sometimes you don't realize how fatigued you really are when you're training with brutal consistency.
My gym was closed for a month so I didn't lift, then when I came back I did SS twice a week for about 6 weeks while eating at a slight deficit. After the 5 weeks of SS I was stronger than I ever was on the TM, probably because I never took time to deload on TM.
I do suspect my brother (Guy #1) has a fair bit of room left in most of his lifts before he fails. Guy #2 could probably go a little further as well, at least on squats and DL, but I didn't think his numbers were especially low at this point.
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Originally Posted by Soulman
Redmen,
consider using the PPAN template if recovery is an issue? I.e. basically light squats/front squats on Wednesday.
I don't have the PPAN book, unfortunately. Is there a decent summary somewhere online?