I can't believe I'm reading this same.comment ..."I can't believe this knowledge is free..." again and again and again on these rp videos. It's like you ******* see that comment got a lot of likes on a previous video and then say the same thing on another video just for the likes. *********************
I needed this. Was pushing too hard in the gym for too long. Felt lethargic for 2-3 weeks. Then I got joint issues and then spent 2 months recovering / light lifting to heal the joint. Pure gold. Thank you!
Dr. Mike these in-depth lectures are the reason why I subscribed to your channel and became a Tier 2 member. I would have loved to have had an exercise science/sport physiology program available at my undergraduate university and have had you as a professor. This channel has given me the next best thing. Please do not stop giving out valuable information Iʻve spent years trying to find and learn.
Thanks Dr Mike. Very timely. As another has stated, I would like to send this video, and pretty much every other video you’ve made to my past “ego lifting” self. Really appreciate the knowledge.
Coming across this video was so timely.. I got sick with COVID two weeks ago so stayed out of my garagegym to heal up. I realized that I haven't taken more then 10-12 days off from lifting since the gyms shut down in 2020, and I bought my own equipment. I decided to turn "get better from being sick" into an active rest. Two weeks out of the garage completely, I'll start some light lifting/technique work this week, maybe mess around with some power Cleans and body weight workouts for a few weeks, and start up more seriously in the new year.
I'm going to force myself to do an active rest. I haven't skipped a week in over 5 years... hopefully I can get rid of all these aches and pains and actually get gainz again. When he said you'll know you need one when you feel like shit half way through week one after the deload that hit hard lol
How did the active rest phase end up going for you? Def think I’m going to do one this week followed by a deload week after as I think that set up would work better for me. My knees and my right shoulder just absolutely need the active rest phase/recovery I think
One of my fav vids from u. I cant thank u enough. I was training to failure on every exercise drop setting etc and have changed to an actually intelligent training scheduling and the gains be coming in. 💪finally enjoying training like i used to again
Thank you so much for this, I've been experiencing lots of under-recovery and have been troubleshooting my recovery training a lot the past month or two. This almost-hour long video will certainly give me tonnes of knowledge I can apply!
Great timing. ..yes I break my leg day to. 2 days a week now. Same volume. Just. Do leg press and hack On diff days. Joints feel good. And now I can up my yoga days to 2 days a week also. .. yes going to do after this deload a low maintenance program until I join new gym. I using a community gym. Right now. .. it’s ok. They got good machines. Just it’s. That I prefer a more private gym. //that’s just me. Thi. Anyway enough about me. Great video thanks Mike. ..
I needed this. I already started a recovery phase for a muscle group but I'm a few mesos in and think I need a half-week to full week. Massive gains to this point but starting to get really banged up. Still hitting PRs but achiness/strains are starting to show up/linger.
After 3 mesos i recommend to take a 3 or 4 weeks off period. No gym or at very best SUPER light few sessions. Key is full recovery as even deload weeks between mesos dont get rid of fatigue fully so it accumulates
I love this information! I’m relatively new lifter and only ever deloaded, never just rested a specific exercise/muscle group, but I will definitely give it a try ! Ty
I am back at the Gym after 10-plus years of being a Lazy FU**. I am 34 and one of those, I used to be in shape but let myself go guys. I started back for Overall Health, especially Blood Pressure, and am on my 2nd month of being back after a first Feeler month where I just got reacquainted with the gym. I have been progressing well, but on my last Shoulder day I was doing 80 Degree incline Dumbbell press, and boy the weight felt GOOD. I was able to push the weight on the first set where I would usually get 8-10 Reps and this time got a nice 12. The Mind Muscle connection and Activation were the Best it has ever been. I went on to a set of 10 another of 8 and 6 with an RIR of 0-1. This week I slept Ok and felt normal but when I did the Same weight not only did I not get 12 reps the first set but kind of struggled to get my normal reps from weeks before. On the other hand, I still did feel a good muscle activation which is something I was struggling with before, So that makes me happy. I was just confused and a bit bummed as to why this happened and I just hope that my next session goes well. Even though I went over a decade without doing anything I thought I knew quite a bit about bodybuilding and I do, but man I have been learning so much from watching this channel especially just how much I didn't know. I have been doing a Split of Chest Triceps, Back Biceps. Shoulders on their own day, and then legs. All of which I start off with 30-40 mins of Moderate Cardio on the Elliptical because it just feels better to me to do my Cardio first. I will be moving my Shoulders to chest and triceps day eventually but for now, it saves me time to have them on their own day. For some reason when I started back, I noticed a bad muscle imbalance from my left to right side especially with my left tricep being a lot weaker. When doing flat and or incline dumbbell press my left side mainly tricep will give out at say rep 8 and my right can just keep pumping like 5-8 more reps and some weight I can't even get the first lift up with the left but do it easy with the right. It has been getting better. I make sure to stop the exercise when the left is at failure and was doing an extra 1-2 sets with just the left. Now I am just stopping when the left is done and added Pin Presses to my chest and Tri workout, but other than the Pin Press I try to stick with unilateral lifts when I can and it seems to be working. I am so Thankful for this Channel.
Great. My shoulder killing me so I take a week off after my deload. Settle it down as it’s been. Makin me feel. Bad thu other workouts #burnt out. /shoulder injury. From a home invasion attack. Few years back. So great points here I follow the rest better so arm settle down a bit. ..
I want to meet Mike's dad! At least do an interview with him, why he picked up his whole family to leave, how he raised Mike, the difference in values he instilled in Mike and his sister.....
I'm bad for forcing myself to workout knowing I need a break, as fatigued as I am physically, mentally I'm beating myself up, "I need to workout, I can always do more" and I get weaker, lose gains and feeling even worse, but the sitting idle to rest is a battle, for me the hardest part of training is the rest period, mentally if I could work out 16 hours a day I would
As mike mentzer said: exercise restraint. Thr whole point of gym is to get muscular gains and if u dont take deload weeks then there will be no growth and thus the whole point why we go into the gym is shot to hell.
I would prefer if Mike simplified his theories of hypertrophy into a shorter video.I highly recommend his tutional videos of correct form for various exercises eg. dips.
That’s just it, some things only compress so far before information is lost. Very information-dense content here. This one video could be split up into shorter videos but we can also just use the pause button and consume chunks throughout the day.
Low volume resensitization. Stage. Yea learnt lots. May do this after my deload and a week rest /week off. Stage. Then do a low volume meso. Was goin to do a maintenance stage. Is this. Same as low volume. Please explain. Or is low maintenance different. To maintenance. Stage. From what you say. Low volume is maintenance. I just want to be sure. As I want to do one next mesocycle. And. Do that diet to. Lower food intake to. For a few months
From Mike's previous videos on hypertrophy maintenance etc, he has said that muscle mass can be *maintained* with as little as 4 hard sets per week. So if you're aiming for a low volume maintenance phase, then you can do as little as 4 hard sets per week per muscle group. If you're wanting a low volume GROWTH phase, then you're talking about Minimum Effective Volume, which is about 8 hard sets per week per muscle.
18:08 actually it's better to fuel up not often, since it's a timebreak from traveling somewhere. anecdote failure? or ... if you stop and do massive amounts of pushups and lifting of the cars, semi deadlift style. then it might be worth it. not sure. picture link coming...
Man i feel tired after work now a days 4th week into this block, but hitting pr's and recovery of muscleamd joints feel absolutely fine. Seems like its mental fatigue, is it sleep or nutrition?
When should you have a bad session and a recovery session compared to two bad sessions in a row then a recovery half week? Or is a half week meant to happen when you go bad session, recovery, bad session again?
@@derekbates6555 no way. It was unclear whether a bad session should always be followed by a recovery session, since then it would be impossible to detect two bad sessions in a row (since the recovery is very easy) as mentioned in the half week section.
Any advice on exercises to avoid (or at least to be careful with) for those us with bad asthma and costochondritis? Just had an asthma attack and costochondritis flare up yesterday. The pain was so bad I could hardly move, and had to struggle to take half breaths (obviously not ideal for bracing my core). The pain isn't bad as anymore so I decided I might as well let this be a deload week. I don't think my lifting is what caused the issue but I know lifting can exacerbate it if it isn't fully healed (this thing takes weeks and months to go away. I can't fully halt or suppress training for that long). So I'd like some advice on if I could at least train lower body and pulling movements at a similar, if not the same, level after the pain goes down, and just cut back on horizontal pressing and slowly work it up over time as I heal.
If you’re worried about exacerbating the asthma I’d say just do lower rep sets so you aren’t as out of breath. If you’re talking about the diaphragm and everything I’d say anything you don’t have to brace too hard for. However if that’s the case, with bench, If you’re using a proper arch you can’t actually brace the same way so I would assume it’s okay. If it’s the pressure from valsalva on your trachea then yeah avoid benching, and probably most heavy compounds
@@Jmack7861 Yeah that's exactly why I'm confused on what to do. The methods of dealing with both issues are contradictory. And as for bench, I have scoliosis so I can't physically can't arch my back much. My biggest arch looks pretty flat. But thanks for the advice man. I'll just stick to lower reps on squats, and higher reps on exercises that don't require as much cardiovascular activity to limit how much I have to brace forcefully. For now I'll cut back pressing and slowly work it back in. Thanks
One thing not made abundantly clear to me in this video is: do you just program in deloads/resensitization phases into your program and run 4 week/deload mesos for a block (3 mesos?) and then a resensitization phase, OR do you just keep training in a meso till you hit true MRV then do a deload, and keep doing mesos till your crushed and THEN run a resensitization? I don’t trust myself to go by feel, I will probably break something before I take a deload
In other vids he says to take a deload approximately every 4-8 weeks of accumulation (therefore ending that meso) OR when the symptoms of high fatigue OR overreaching your MRV manifest. (Mike did 2 vids on both btw If I remember correctly one is called "fatigue indicators" and the other one is "how to deload") So basically you wanna do it only when you actually have to, so you arent bullshitting yourself out of deez gains. Although I definitely get where youre coming from. I benched until I fucked up my shoulder because deloading is for "lazy" people. So why dont you plan a deload somewhere in your meso and then see how you are feeling when the time comes? I feel that concentrating more on body feel and my psychological state helped me get more in tune with training. Its definitely a skill to learn! Hope this helps you!
It was ABUNDANTLY clear, he literally says it’s auto regulation. You don’t program a deload, but they’ll tend to happen around the same week Mark as last time
@@derekbates6555 no he doesn’t clearly say to auto regulate. He says IF you’re autoregulating this is how you can tell. It’s all good though, thanks for feedback.
@@gioabeleda3269 would that be lifters taking "vitamin s"? 27 hard sets on a big muscle group, the systemic fatigue from that would waste most mortal men.
Really? Bro split 30 sets on Tuesday? Upper/Lower 15 sets on Monday and 15 sets on Thursday? Full Body 10 Hard sets on Monday, Wednesday and Friday? Here's what I think is going on. The volume landmarks for naturals and steroid users are waaaay different. Generally fitness influencers/coaches are pretty good at keeping their data and advice sequestered for "naturals" vice 'roid users. Periodically the'll slip up and mix their numbers. I've noticed this before on other videos. I think this may be what happened here.
@@mrfarenheit9159 10 hard sets is a reasonable amount for 3x a week frequency. So is 15 for 2x frequency. Your exercise selection will dictate probably 2-3 choices per day, or will include some form of intensity technique. Combine this with full rom strict technique training (and the load decrease that happens) and i think they will be fine. Of course not everyone will have that limit, some might have more, might have less. Its just a rough guideline that states with greater freq you most likely will increase your productive limit
Cannot believe this knowledge is free. All my friends think i have a phd in sport physiology, when i just binge watch these vids lol.
Your friends cannot be very smart if they cannot find all these videos...
I can't believe I'm reading this same.comment ..."I can't believe this knowledge is free..." again and again and again on these rp videos. It's like you ******* see that comment got a lot of likes on a previous video and then say the same thing on another video just for the likes. *********************
@@jbdmb Or maybe i just truly feel that way? Idk seems more logical to me.
Dude same! They are all like how the fuck do you know all this shit you work in a factory lol 🤣
@@Nial or you’re just unoriginal and I bet you don’t even look like you lift
I'm a simple man. I see an hour long university-grade lecture from Dr Mike, I press like.
I press BUST
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@drinkinouttacups2665 😅
The depth of these videos blows my mind to this day.
dr. mike was in top-form for this one
"until then, i bid you adieu"
I didnt know i needed this video thx muscle daddy
I’m glad there are still those of us keeping this alive
The Holy Order of Hairy Muscle Daddies must survive.
Someone should schedule Dr Mike/RP listening parties!!!
Count me in, big bro. I'll bring the protein shakes for all
I needed this. Was pushing too hard in the gym for too long. Felt lethargic for 2-3 weeks. Then I got joint issues and then spent 2 months recovering / light lifting to heal the joint. Pure gold. Thank you!
Dr. Mike these in-depth lectures are the reason why I subscribed to your channel and became a Tier 2 member. I would have loved to have had an exercise science/sport physiology program available at my undergraduate university and have had you as a professor. This channel has given me the next best thing. Please do not stop giving out valuable information Iʻve spent years trying to find and learn.
Thanks Dr Mike. Very timely. As another has stated, I would like to send this video, and pretty much every other video you’ve made to my past “ego lifting” self. Really appreciate the knowledge.
Just subscribed today and I’ve learned so damn much from this man thank you sir for your knowledge and wisdom and giving it to us for free
Best recovery video that I have ever viewed! Thank you
Coming across this video was so timely.. I got sick with COVID two weeks ago so stayed out of my garagegym to heal up. I realized that I haven't taken more then 10-12 days off from lifting since the gyms shut down in 2020, and I bought my own equipment. I decided to turn "get better from being sick" into an active rest. Two weeks out of the garage completely, I'll start some light lifting/technique work this week, maybe mess around with some power Cleans and body weight workouts for a few weeks, and start up more seriously in the new year.
Dr. Mike always had a way of explaining things to me so I could understand them
consistently changing my life. you're a blessing
Yes, I would like to send this to my past self. Just any time about 6 years ago just drop this video to small me
Thank you
Thanks so much for this one sensei just what I needed.
I'm going to force myself to do an active rest. I haven't skipped a week in over 5 years... hopefully I can get rid of all these aches and pains and actually get gainz again. When he said you'll know you need one when you feel like shit half way through week one after the deload that hit hard lol
How did the active rest phase end up going for you? Def think I’m going to do one this week followed by a deload week after as I think that set up would work better for me. My knees and my right shoulder just absolutely need the active rest phase/recovery I think
@@TheTopher528 Dont forget that passive rest can drop fatigue much better.
I just take time off and heal fully. Aint going for mr universe ey
One of my fav vids from u. I cant thank u enough. I was training to failure on every exercise drop setting etc and have changed to an actually intelligent training scheduling and the gains be coming in. 💪finally enjoying training like i used to again
Wish I knew this approach years ago! Thank you Dr Mike!
Thank you so much for this.
I fucking loved the Greg impression.
Exactly what I needed.
Thank you so much for this, I've been experiencing lots of under-recovery and have been troubleshooting my recovery training a lot the past month or two. This almost-hour long video will certainly give me tonnes of knowledge I can apply!
Dr. Mike you make my mesocycles so enjoyable. Please continue to be a bad ass!
Great timing. ..yes I break my leg day to. 2 days a week now. Same volume. Just. Do leg press and hack On diff days. Joints feel good. And now I can up my yoga days to 2 days a week also. .. yes going to do after this deload a low maintenance program until I join new gym. I using a community gym. Right now. .. it’s ok. They got good machines. Just it’s. That I prefer a more private gym. //that’s just me. Thi. Anyway enough about me. Great video thanks Mike. ..
I needed this. I already started a recovery phase for a muscle group but I'm a few mesos in and think I need a half-week to full week. Massive gains to this point but starting to get really banged up. Still hitting PRs but achiness/strains are starting to show up/linger.
After 3 mesos i recommend to take a 3 or 4 weeks off period. No gym or at very best SUPER light few sessions. Key is full recovery as even deload weeks between mesos dont get rid of fatigue fully so it accumulates
This was all the info I needed and just started looking into this 🙌
I love this information! I’m relatively new lifter and only ever deloaded, never just rested a specific exercise/muscle group, but I will definitely give it a try ! Ty
Great help, thank you
Thank you for the lecture and many heuristics.
So much respect for the thumbnail alone
I am back at the Gym after 10-plus years of being a Lazy FU**. I am 34 and one of those, I used to be in shape but let myself go guys. I started back for Overall Health, especially Blood Pressure, and am on my 2nd month of being back after a first Feeler month where I just got reacquainted with the gym. I have been progressing well, but on my last Shoulder day I was doing 80 Degree incline Dumbbell press, and boy the weight felt GOOD. I was able to push the weight on the first set where I would usually get 8-10 Reps and this time got a nice 12. The Mind Muscle connection and Activation were the Best it has ever been. I went on to a set of 10 another of 8 and 6 with an RIR of 0-1. This week I slept Ok and felt normal but when I did the Same weight not only did I not get 12 reps the first set but kind of struggled to get my normal reps from weeks before. On the other hand, I still did feel a good muscle activation which is something I was struggling with before, So that makes me happy. I was just confused and a bit bummed as to why this happened and I just hope that my next session goes well. Even though I went over a decade without doing anything I thought I knew quite a bit about bodybuilding and I do, but man I have been learning so much from watching this channel especially just how much I didn't know. I have been doing a Split of Chest Triceps, Back Biceps. Shoulders on their own day, and then legs. All of which I start off with 30-40 mins of Moderate Cardio on the Elliptical because it just feels better to me to do my Cardio first. I will be moving my Shoulders to chest and triceps day eventually but for now, it saves me time to have them on their own day. For some reason when I started back, I noticed a bad muscle imbalance from my left to right side especially with my left tricep being a lot weaker. When doing flat and or incline dumbbell press my left side mainly tricep will give out at say rep 8 and my right can just keep pumping like 5-8 more reps and some weight I can't even get the first lift up with the left but do it easy with the right. It has been getting better. I make sure to stop the exercise when the left is at failure and was doing an extra 1-2 sets with just the left. Now I am just stopping when the left is done and added Pin Presses to my chest and Tri workout, but other than the Pin Press I try to stick with unilateral lifts when I can and it seems to be working. I am so Thankful for this Channel.
word of the day: ameliorate
Love you
perfect timing. going into a deload and had some questions about tendon recovery
Your content is awesome man.
Great. My shoulder killing me so I take a week off after my deload. Settle it down as it’s been. Makin me feel. Bad thu other workouts #burnt out. /shoulder injury. From a home invasion attack. Few years back. So great points here I follow the rest better so arm settle down a bit. ..
It would be awesome if they came out with training programs. His knowledge is amazing
Uummm. . . .
lol
I want to meet Mike's dad! At least do an interview with him, why he picked up his whole family to leave, how he raised Mike, the difference in values he instilled in Mike and his sister.....
Love the vids 4 the alg
You make the best videos
I'm bad for forcing myself to workout knowing I need a break, as fatigued as I am physically, mentally I'm beating myself up, "I need to workout, I can always do more" and I get weaker, lose gains and feeling even worse, but the sitting idle to rest is a battle, for me the hardest part of training is the rest period, mentally if I could work out 16 hours a day I would
As mike mentzer said: exercise restraint. Thr whole point of gym is to get muscular gains and if u dont take deload weeks then there will be no growth and thus the whole point why we go into the gym is shot to hell.
Quality video 👍
Would love training advice for those working 12 hour shifts
Love jt
Today I learned the word ho·mol·o·gous.
For the next week im living like a beer commercial.
lol the greg imitation got me
"ok tanks, exactly the same as last time" 😁
42:13 "harder then last time!"
A few seconds in: Ooh! That happened to me today!
This video should probably be at over 1 million views..but imma mind my own business
I would prefer if Mike simplified his theories of hypertrophy into a shorter video.I highly recommend his tutional videos of correct form for various exercises eg. dips.
He has a playlist on his channel with
That’s just it, some things only compress so far before information is lost. Very information-dense content here. This one video could be split up into shorter videos but we can also just use the pause button and consume chunks throughout the day.
Отлично товарищ
Imma scream "Fuck that War time!" in the gym now
10 sets of 10 RIR is great for recovery.
Or i just take a week off. Even better
It’s unbelievable that this is free lmao. Like holy shit
The my swole brudda
Low volume resensitization. Stage. Yea learnt lots. May do this after my deload and a week rest /week off. Stage. Then do a low volume meso. Was goin to do a maintenance stage. Is this. Same as low volume. Please explain. Or is low maintenance different. To maintenance. Stage. From what you say. Low volume is maintenance. I just want to be sure. As I want to do one next mesocycle. And. Do that diet to. Lower food intake to. For a few months
From Mike's previous videos on hypertrophy maintenance etc, he has said that muscle mass can be *maintained* with as little as 4 hard sets per week. So if you're aiming for a low volume maintenance phase, then you can do as little as 4 hard sets per week per muscle group. If you're wanting a low volume GROWTH phase, then you're talking about Minimum Effective Volume, which is about 8 hard sets per week per muscle.
@@RDS_Armwrestling yes I goin to do this. First week into my meso now. .. do this for. Few months Then back into high volume
Low volume growth stage i why I doin right now. .. rp. Great for info
18:08 actually it's better to fuel up not often, since it's a timebreak from traveling somewhere. anecdote failure?
or ... if you stop and do massive amounts of pushups and lifting of the cars, semi deadlift style. then it might be worth it. not sure. picture link coming...
Thumbnail is him being a thumb lol
Does this apply for strength too?
If you feel you need to deload in week one xddxddd
I am work my upper body to death and still workout. My legs how ever die after 1 workout.
How do u handle cardio on a deload, should u cut back on that as well?
None at all OR very light walking at the most and short like 15 or 20min. Remember what the goal of deload is: to reduce fatigue so dont oush cardio
What about when the system fatigue is diet related? More calories or less training?
Maintenance phase. Do a deload and increase calories to maintenance.
What do you do if you get the flu or something and that is why a workout sucks?
Rwlax and recover. What else
is there good athlete recovery videos? I do Judo and have muscle soreness so idk what to do
Man i feel tired after work now a days 4th week into this block, but hitting pr's and recovery of muscleamd joints feel absolutely fine. Seems like its mental fatigue, is it sleep or nutrition?
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Meatball Mike strikes again
How can I do recovery training for soccer?
This is the best shit
Algo
Whats the best way to check for muscle gains is it weigh ins or maybe measurements?
probably measurements, but be sure to also measure your waist (fat approximation), also
I'd say a combination of measurements and strength progression
When should you have a bad session and a recovery session compared to two bad sessions in a row then a recovery half week? Or is a half week meant to happen when you go bad session, recovery, bad session again?
I like how this comment is edited and still makes no sense
You don’t schedule having a bad session bro
@@derekbates6555 no way. It was unclear whether a bad session should always be followed by a recovery session, since then it would be impossible to detect two bad sessions in a row (since the recovery is very easy) as mentioned in the half week section.
i wonder how dr.mike feels about being called muscle daddy
He might smile
Any advice on exercises to avoid (or at least to be careful with) for those us with bad asthma and costochondritis?
Just had an asthma attack and costochondritis flare up yesterday. The pain was so bad I could hardly move, and had to struggle to take half breaths (obviously not ideal for bracing my core). The pain isn't bad as anymore so I decided I might as well let this be a deload week.
I don't think my lifting is what caused the issue but I know lifting can exacerbate it if it isn't fully healed (this thing takes weeks and months to go away. I can't fully halt or suppress training for that long). So I'd like some advice on if I could at least train lower body and pulling movements at a similar, if not the same, level after the pain goes down, and just cut back on horizontal pressing and slowly work it up over time as I heal.
If you’re worried about exacerbating the asthma I’d say just do lower rep sets so you aren’t as out of breath. If you’re talking about the diaphragm and everything I’d say anything you don’t have to brace too hard for. However if that’s the case, with bench, If you’re using a proper arch you can’t actually brace the same way so I would assume it’s okay.
If it’s the pressure from valsalva on your trachea then yeah avoid benching, and probably most heavy compounds
@@Jmack7861 Yeah that's exactly why I'm confused on what to do. The methods of dealing with both issues are contradictory. And as for bench, I have scoliosis so I can't physically can't arch my back much. My biggest arch looks pretty flat.
But thanks for the advice man. I'll just stick to lower reps on squats, and higher reps on exercises that don't require as much cardiovascular activity to limit how much I have to brace forcefully. For now I'll cut back pressing and slowly work it back in. Thanks
One thing not made abundantly clear to me in this video is: do you just program in deloads/resensitization phases into your program and run 4 week/deload mesos for a block (3 mesos?) and then a resensitization phase, OR do you just keep training in a meso till you hit true MRV then do a deload, and keep doing mesos till your crushed and THEN run a resensitization? I don’t trust myself to go by feel, I will probably break something before I take a deload
In other vids he says to take a deload approximately every 4-8 weeks of accumulation (therefore ending that meso) OR when the symptoms of high fatigue OR overreaching your MRV manifest.
(Mike did 2 vids on both btw
If I remember correctly one is called "fatigue indicators" and the other one is "how to deload")
So basically you wanna do it only when you actually have to, so you arent bullshitting yourself out of deez gains. Although I definitely get where youre coming from.
I benched until I fucked up my shoulder because deloading is for "lazy" people. So why dont you plan a deload somewhere in your meso and then see how you are feeling when the time comes? I feel that concentrating more on body feel and my psychological state helped me get more in tune with training. Its definitely a skill to learn!
Hope this helps you!
It was ABUNDANTLY clear, he literally says it’s auto regulation. You don’t program a deload, but they’ll tend to happen around the same week Mark as last time
@@derekbates6555 no he doesn’t clearly say to auto regulate. He says IF you’re autoregulating this is how you can tell. It’s all good though, thanks for feedback.
@@M_Sebu thanks! Very helpful.
Second!! Baby!!!
Dr Mike pretty cool guy I wonder if he ever went to the JPizza or the one stop when he was a oak Park boy.... Either or great content
My legs are always slower to recover. 😭
#Icarus-right-into-the-Sun needs to be a thing
27 sets of back?? That sounds like way past MRV? I thought the MAV for back was around 14-16?
Depends on frequency. On average people can go up to 30 or so if I remember correctly
@@gioabeleda3269 would that be lifters taking "vitamin s"? 27 hard sets on a big muscle group, the systemic fatigue from that would waste most mortal men.
@@mrfarenheit9159 as he said...it depends on your frequency..
Really? Bro split 30 sets on Tuesday? Upper/Lower 15 sets on Monday and 15 sets on Thursday? Full Body 10 Hard sets on Monday, Wednesday and Friday?
Here's what I think is going on. The volume landmarks for naturals and steroid users are waaaay different. Generally fitness influencers/coaches are pretty good at keeping their data and advice sequestered for "naturals" vice 'roid users. Periodically the'll slip up and mix their numbers. I've noticed this before on other videos. I think this may be what happened here.
@@mrfarenheit9159 10 hard sets is a reasonable amount for 3x a week frequency. So is 15 for 2x frequency.
Your exercise selection will dictate probably 2-3 choices per day, or will include some form of intensity technique. Combine this with full rom strict technique training (and the load decrease that happens) and i think they will be fine.
Of course not everyone will have that limit, some might have more, might have less. Its just a rough guideline that states with greater freq you most likely will increase your productive limit
Would diet need to be adjusted if volume is dropped?
Not for short term low volume phases like recovery sessions or deloads.
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Start slow, maybe even super slow... then... GO HARDER THAN LAST TIME!
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Jesus mate, all of Mike's clients have relationship problems, always fighting with girlfriends and shit
Listen, son. You need to stop overcomplicating things and do some heavy compound movements. NON-NEGOTIABLE
I like Mike until.. he inserts and strays 2 many stupid jokes and long winded examples 🤦♂️
TLDR /IQ bell-curve meme, lift heavy sometimes, take it easy sometimes, go on vacation sometimes, be cool and listen to your body man.
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