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Are Deload Weeks Hurting Your Gains? (Science Explained)

An IPF Masters World Champion and world record-holder comes back to set a PR in every lift and improve his total. What’s his secret?

I just wrapped up my first mesocycle today doing my deload week. I have two low carb days before I start my 2nd mesocycle of training that will take me to about 4 weeks out remaining when that is over. I combine some of my easier deload workouts into 1 day so as to have the weekend off from training…

How many times have you heard someone say something like: “Well, I squatted 500 in the gym a few weeks ago, but 450 felt heavy at the meet, and I missed 475.” That’s because they peaked wrong. I’m even convinced that if you ONLY hit your gym PRs in meets, you peaked poorly. If you’re good at progr…

In this roundtable discussion hosted by Steve Hall, Mike Israetel, James Krieger and I discuss the use of advanced periodization concepts to maximize muscle growth. We go into specific detail on deloads, resensitization effects, accumulation phases and delayed supercompensation. Enjoy!https://youtu.…

For ReviveStronger’s 100th video podcast, they wanted to do something special, so they invited Eric Helms, Mike Israetel and yours truly to a roundtable about deloads. What is deloading, why should you do it and how you should you go about it? 02:38 Eric defines what a Deload is 05:00 Menno talks ab…