On these PR days the PR's are like any other PR you will ever make in your life....they are relative maxes. Meaning they are based on your ability at that time.

Now you are NOT supposed to link the stress day with the PR day in a progressive or tied together sense. Stress days are linked to the next stress day and PR days are linked to the next PR day, if anything. So that would mean one would hope to see some sort of straight forward progression between on PR day and the next.

But here's the point of it. There is no need to back off on PR days in order to artificially follow some pattern of the stress days. The trick is a basic skill that everyone needs to learn who doesn't have a coach or trainer guiding them. And that is to be able to come into a "PR" day and be able to make an educated guess as to their ability. Plan their warmups accordingly. Build up to the max attempt slowly and systematcially and, going, by the feel of that warmup and acclimation, further refine their guess as to what they will be able to lift for the attempt.

That is something that gets easier with time.

But the if the PR is basically a product of you fitness at any one time then there is no reason, in any shape or form, to back off it like you're doing intenstiy cycling. That day is also a day to gauge the effectiveness of what you are doing. If you tie it together with the stress day then that goes out the window. The fact is that you are trying NOT to regress. You don't want your PR's to go DOWN even if you back off the weight on stress day or whatever. For instance if you were to back off the weight on volume day too far and drop intensity below a certain percentage, so instead of just recovering you actually lose back track a little...that might be reflected on PR day.

So what happens on PR day can be used to determine what changes need to be made to the routine. But not if you monkey with PR day.

Anyway, nothing wrong with 8x3 but it just normally works better to start with the higher rep sets, 5x5, and then go to something like 8x3 in order to keep it going.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.