periodization

[Canknucklehead]

Increasing dosage renders periodization pretty much moot. Just train heavy to failure, or even better, DC style/myo-reps and focus on beating the log book, and let the drugs do the work...

Seriously.

That’s exactly how I train... DC

 

[Jayne Scott]

Periodization of everything we do>

I thought i would make a thread where people could share how they periodize their training, diet and drug use so we might be able to learn from eachother and see other peoples point of view on things and maybe we can do things better for ourself and others.

This could go from month long macrocycles to microcycles or even progession schemes you use for your training, diet or drug use

Good thread.

 

[MR_Midas]

Periodization is working hard but in a smart and controlled way.
Most people who scream “just work hard”dont even keep jurnal or track of training and have not improved in ages but they think they train the hardest.
I realized this when coming of blasts that no matter how hard i tried i could not train as hard as on cycle.
On cycle i train twice a day with one or two day breaks
On a cruise this would be impossible and i have tried but failed every time .
Injuries ,weak immune system and all sorts of wheals falling of the wagon and i ended up sidelined and regressed in all aspects.
So i noticed a pattern and started deloading taking a week off all sorts of things to make my recovery better.
Depending on the goals for the year one can set up a plan with periods of strength,hypertrophy,leaning out, endurance , healing with the drugs and food matching the goal.
Also when trying to up strength or volume i dont follow a linear progression rather medium-high-low-repeat pattern.

I agree that periodization avoids injury, avoids overtraining and improves training efficiency.
I agree again with the fact that the main thing is control, keeping a diary and recording training. Again, consider food.

 

[MR_Midas]

I think we all started with a linear progression, when we tried to increase the load from week to week, from training, and if we didn’t, we immediately felt that we were training poorly. And this sooner or later led us to a dead end and overtraining. We fell into dependence on the progress of weights, volumes, duration of training

 

[Demondosage]

Would barbel be better for this movement ?

Possibly, due to the hands not being able to go inward and pinch the joint, but I think heavy weight in general can inflict a lot of trauma on the ac joints in the delts. At my best I was pressing overhead 130’s x 10 reps and I paid for it dearly in both shoulders. After that I didn’t shoulder press for months and months, maybe almost a year actually. When I got back into delt focused work I did more lateral raises to pre exhaust before presses, and never really did heavy presses for shoulders anymore. My shoulders never got any smaller either

 

[MR_Midas]

In general, the shoulders are very prone to injury and special attention must be paid to the full development of the deltas. So that there is no big difference in their development. And of course be careful with the weights on the bar.

 

[jJjburton]

6 days ago I shoulder pressed the 95s for 12

Today I shoulder pressed the 105s for 8

Did I period right?

Sounds like you do have your period, have the cramps occured yet?

 

[Nerdrage_Hilmateam]

In general, the shoulders are very prone to injury and special attention must be paid to the full development of the deltas. So that there is no big difference in their development. And of course be careful with the weights on the bar.

just in the bench press, you need to use periodization, not go all the way to the end. Especially when there are many more bench presses

 

[Demondosage]

Sounds like you do have your period, have the cramps occured yet?

Hahhaahahaha, epic response!!

 

[MR_Midas]

just in the bench press, you need to use periodization, not go all the way to the end. Especially when there are many more bench presses

I think not only in the bench press, but also in such heavy exercises as deadlifts and squats. Since multi-joint exercises and in addition to the physical involvement of the body, but also the central nervous system.

 

[MR_Midas]

Hahhaahahaha, epic response!!

lol, this question made me laugh too

 

[Nerdrage_Hilmateam]

I think not only in the bench press, but also in such heavy exercises as deadlifts and squats. Since multi-joint exercises and in addition to the physical involvement of the body, but also the central nervous system.

I agree. The nervous system shapes everything. It's elementary, even when you forget to put on good music. Already everything goes wrong.

 

[MR_Midas]

Music can help make even America's bad workout great.

 

[Nerdrage_Hilmateam]

Music can help make even America's bad workout great.

I'm really curious, what music is playing in your gyms? Whenever I look at youtube, every second listens to metal. I really like to work out this stuff myself.

 

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

Keep it to partial reps and don’t bring them in on those presses. I’m sure you know this already but the ac joints are a bitch and when they get impingement it takes a long time to heal. I’ve been there and heavy dumbbell military presses were the culprit

I usually do all my presses full range and then some. Like on over head press I bring the bar down to my stomach for extra gains

 

[Demondosage]

I usually do all my presses full range and then some. Like on over head press I bring the bar down to my stomach for extra gains

I wish I could do that without joint aggravation, haha

 

[MR_Midas]

I'm really curious, what music is playing in your gyms? Whenever I look at youtube, every second listens to metal. I really like to work out this stuff myself.

In the halls, it's usually not the way I like to play. Therefore, good old hard rock plays in my headphones.

 

[MR_Midas]

I wish I could do that without joint aggravation, haha

These exercises also often cause joint problems for me.