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Originally Posted by hrdgain
I could cut my wieghts back and start back again at week 4 or 5, and basicly repeat weeks till I'm at my goal. Or i could just take a week or two and push lighter wieghts, then pick back up were I left off. I'm still about 3 weeks or more away from this, but I want to be ready in advance. Any suggestions would be very much apreciated.
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I think your second guessing a lot of things prematurely. This is not a criticism of you, bro, just an observation: you tend to get hung up on physiological details. So here your worried about you CNS. Don't be.
The workload does start to build up on this particular program but you may be overestimating what constitutes a "rest" and some extra recovery. One thing I will say for sure is don't back off unless you hit a plateau and/or miss reps on one (or more) exercises for a couple weeks.
There are SO many things you can do to make the workload more managable if you feel recovery is not up to par and what have you. One obvious thing is to increase the increments between the ramp up sets on Monday. This will make a huge difference. And if you look at the numbers you will realize that you are not reducing the workload by some drastic amount you are just "resetting" it. The average intensity will drop off some and that will constitute a little "rest".
You can always change the loading increments on any exercise it you feel you can't keep loading a certain amount.
You can adjust another day to allow for more recovery. I.E. you can cut down the squats on wednesday. Or drop a set on MP's if you are doing those (you should be).
There are lots of adjustments you can make at this stage and later down the road. Little things can make a big difference. This is why I warned about following the 'cookie cutter' version. It is much better to be flexible and to realize that you do not always
have to take drastic steps to continue progression.
One other thing I would mention is that this is really about training individual movement which you know but you really need to let each exercise have it's own flow. You don't want to go changing things simply to reach a specific goal on everything. Wherever you get for each movement is good and you can treat each movement individually. If you're having trouble with bench just adjust bench and keep everything that you are not having trouble with the same.
As far as lifting lighter weights for a while you don't ever want intensity to drop off very much or you'll be in trouble. You're worrying about cns fatigue but if you drop off too much what you get is cns detraining cuz that is the FIRST to go. So basically you'll find yourself making up ground rather than picking up where you left off. This kind of thing is the very reason to use this kind of weekly periodization rather than some western linear method.
Hope this helps...