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Originally Posted by Eric3237
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.
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Interesting. I understand that a PR attempt is simply an expression of your current preparedness (fitness - fatigue), but if the volume day drops off then the PR day should drop as well, unless you'd been working with some accumulated fatigue. If fatigue is present, then PR's can continue as fatigue dissipates. If not, then the reduced volume won't be enough stress to improve/retain fitness and it'll drop. At least that's how I understand it as of now. You know this stuff better than I do so what am I missing?
I've also always thought that one PR doesn't lead to another once a bunch of progress has been made. If one PR lead to another, HIT would actually work
and volume day wouldn't be necessary. I do understand that volume day is linked to the next volume day, but have always thought of PR day is an expression of your current preparedness. That is tied to volume day as volume day is what's building fitness. I've never thought of PR day as the "stress" for the next PR day and it's simply independant of everything else. What am I missing here?
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Originally Posted by Eric
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.
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Sure, but I've always thought of it slightly differently. I've always thought of the PR attempt as an expression, or product, of your preparedness at any one time, not just your fitness. If fitness goes down, which is tied to volume day, then so does preparedness and the weight on PR day will have to drop some. I wasn't referring to "Intensity Cycling" per se, but simply expecting to have to use less weight on your maximal attempt.
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Originally Posted by Eric
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.
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OK, yeah. That's what I was getting at. That would mean that PR day and Stress Day are linked in at least some way.
Define "monkey"
Nice post by the way.
Cheers,
Jeff
PS: Hops, I hope you don't mind us talking about this stuff in your log. Good session mate.