^^^ Definitely. Lower the intensity and frequency. I'm not a big fan of entirely taking a week off. My buddy Pat who competed this weekend did some ME work 2-3 weeks before the competition. Then he did some moderate work the following week. Last week he went to the gym twice and just did some light stuff. Then he squatted 900 on Saturday and barely missed a 565 bench right before he smoked 675 on DL. I talked to him about taking time off and he agreed...no way he could have done that if he hadn't been in the gym in 7 days.

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