Ross you were right. I finished my tests and found out that with low intensities (80-90%) I can only REgain strength but not make new-real gains. I wrongly tought that if I could regain strength I would also be able to make gains with the same program. It was a BIG mistake... When I regained nearly all my strength I couldn't go further and even started to lose strength (10-15% !). It was the risk... I'll continue my routine and my tests. This time I want to see if 95% of the 1RM is egally effective as 100%. I know 80-90% is not enough to induce a stimulation so I have to train at least at 95%.
I did a workout yesterday :
Overhead Press : 54kg
Dumbell Curl : 25.5kg and 25kg
Deadlift : 170kg
All my Lifts are down especially OHP and Curl... I'll train once a week because at 95-100% there is no way I can train several times per week. On Curl I'll train my Left Arm at 100% and the Right Arm at 95% to see if I can make the same gains. The test failed with 80%, 85% and 90% but I'm still motivated to test 95%. If it's possible to make optimal gains at 95% it would be very good. It's still very heavy but if your Deadlift 1RM is 200kg you would train at 190kg with makes a difference between an extremly hard lift and a very hard Lift and thus recovery should be easier. We will see what's going to happend in 6-10 weeks. bTW I may have to decrease my frequency to once every 10 days or less if I cannot recover with 6-8 days between workouts.
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