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Justin's not far off the money. There's a lot of speculation floating around about what happens when you do very high frequency training, seemingly because exact science is not an exact science. This is really going to be a big wildcard, based on everything I know about the subject, so here's a list of highly contradictory things that could happen:
- Elevation in testosterone, causing improvements in muscularity and strength
- Depression in testosterone, causing lack of progress
- Strength is largely skill, so a high amount of practice could result in significant developments in strength
- Training produces a high amount of stress, so too much training and too little recovery could lead to over-reaching
---> Over-reaching would lead to a deficit in performance up front, however a subsequent deload could see testosterone levels soaring even higher, causing greater than usual strength gains in the weeks immediately after
- Light(ish) days could spur on active recovery
- Light(ish) days could hinder recovery
- Training on consecutive days could prevent injuries, by limiting how heavy I can go on any given day (thus stopping me from going heavy enough to get hurt)
- Training on consecutive days could cause injuries, by consistently putting stresses on the body without sufficient recovery
Today's stupid workout:
- Elevation in testosterone, causing improvements in muscularity and strength
- Depression in testosterone, causing lack of progress
- Strength is largely skill, so a high amount of practice could result in significant developments in strength
- Training produces a high amount of stress, so too much training and too little recovery could lead to over-reaching
---> Over-reaching would lead to a deficit in performance up front, however a subsequent deload could see testosterone levels soaring even higher, causing greater than usual strength gains in the weeks immediately after
- Light(ish) days could spur on active recovery
- Light(ish) days could hinder recovery
- Training on consecutive days could prevent injuries, by limiting how heavy I can go on any given day (thus stopping me from going heavy enough to get hurt)
- Training on consecutive days could cause injuries, by consistently putting stresses on the body without sufficient recovery
Today's stupid workout:
There are so many things I have seen to increase testosterone levels over the years, dietary supplements, training styles, abstinence, loose underwear, you name it people have suggested it.
Personally I don't know and really don't care that much, I do my training and have testes so will be producing testosterone at a male trainer level.
Battering the recovery system into submission is a good one. I have done it a number of times and it has always benefitted the next set of sessions. This is definitely one of those where you are looking forward rather than current.
Personally I don't know and really don't care that much, I do my training and have testes so will be producing testosterone at a male trainer level.
Battering the recovery system into submission is a good one. I have done it a number of times and it has always benefitted the next set of sessions. This is definitely one of those where you are looking forward rather than current.
The only problem with medicine is that it's a "practice". One University does a study and says blah blah, then another University does a study arguing it. You can read one article about how much test is produced from lifting heavy and how it benefits smaller muscle groups, then there's another story about how doing curls is doing curls regardless of weather or not you're doing squats and deads with them. Personally, I have good results doing squats and following them up with curls.
Good stuff. It wouldn't be training if we didn't overdo it every now and then, recovering from it earlier than anticipated always feels good.
Running good. Well done there.
Cheers 
I'm quite enjoying these "light" sessions. This evening's squat workout took all of about 20 minutes to complete: 10min to warm up and 10min to do my work sets. There's something quite liberating about knowing that what was hard two weeks ago is only a moderate effort now. I look forward to seeing how I go in the squat nemesis tomorrow, and then seeing what the difference is next week.
I'm quite enjoying these "light" sessions. This evening's squat workout took all of about 20 minutes to complete: 10min to warm up and 10min to do my work sets. There's something quite liberating about knowing that what was hard two weeks ago is only a moderate effort now. I look forward to seeing how I go in the squat nemesis tomorrow, and then seeing what the difference is next week.Be good to see.