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Originally Posted by el borracho
What kind of program does everyone like to run immediately following a Max Press program? Deload week, then right back in to heavy lifting? Reduce the weight and increase reps for a while?
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I'm not really any help, but find the subject interesting because from all the mentions of it online, deloads seems like one of those topics that's just assumed as required sometimes, but then I listen to Renaissance Periodization who always does a really great job of getting into all the nuances and so forth that makes it far more logical.
And his general point from what I've gathered is basically if you have to question if you need a deload, you probably don't need one... I really upped squat/leg volume at one point and after ~6-8 weeks was kind of wrecked, especially hips and lower back... I KNEW at that point I had pushed myself hard enough that I needed a break, but for the most part I'm not working out at that level all the time to probably ever really need a deload week.
Some people mention doing one every 6-8 weeks and basically act as if you should just do that, but don't really provide the context that your body will sure as hell let you know through systemic fatigue, joints, less progress/shitty workouts, etc. I hadn't ever really chose to take breaks before, but that all made a lot of sense to me.
And I'm probably just preaching to the choir, but just my two cents.