I’m off work for the next 16 days. With the exception of a couple days, I can train everyday. Anyone have experience with a short term over-training cycle?
I only plan to deadlift, squat, bench, OHP, and row… But like everyday… I typically workout 3-4 days a week, mostly compounds. I am thinking a short term serge might be a beneficial shock to the system. I am on TRT and have an extra dose of 240 mgs I am planning to use to assist with. I’ll also be able to get great sleep and eat well…
Watch your self but do it
I do chest/shoulder, back, arms, legs with no rest days and have gone a month with no breaks and been fine. You just need to make sure you watch your lower back and should be fine.
Personally I’d do a split to rest up more but depending on your level you might be able to pull it off.
[quote]AliveAgain36 wrote:
I’m off work for the next 16 days. With the exception of a couple days, I can train everyday. Anyone have experience with a short term over-training cycle?[/quote]
Training everyday doesn’t necessarily equate to overtraining, but in any case, for sure it can be useful.
Thibadeau’s Built for Bad program is almost this exactly:
Dan John’s 40 Day program also has you doing the exact same thing everyday:
Waterbury’s written about high frequency work for years, usually manipulating the sets and reps:
Poliquin has also written about short-term overreaching:
[quote]AliveAgain36 wrote:
I’m off work for the next 16 days. With the exception of a couple days, I can train everyday. Anyone have experience with a short term over-training cycle?[/quote]
Training everyday doesn’t necessarily equate to overtraining, but in any case, for sure it can be useful.
Thibadeau’s Built for Bad program is almost this exactly:
Dan John’s 40 Day program also has you doing the exact same thing everyday:
Waterbury’s written about high frequency work for years, usually manipulating the sets and reps:
Poliquin has also written about short-term overreaching:
More reading about the topic:
Long story short (too late), go for it.[/quote]
Thanks Chris - I appreciate it. I must be an idiot when it comes to searching. Look around but didn’t find these articles. Thanks for your help. I’m on day 3, and so far so good.
[quote]confusion wrote:
Can you give us an update and let us know how it’s worked out when you’re done? I am very curious about this. Confusion[/quote]
Will do. Tomorrow will be day four. So far so good… But early in cycle. Day 5 (Xmas) will be a day off. I’ll be anxious to see what the day after brings.
I do something like this for about a month out of each 16 week block and honestly I really enjoy the results. Basically I train my balls off heavy and high volume for Monday through Thursday and then rest for a full 3-4 days and repeat for about 4-6 cycles. Look something along the lines of this not recommending it just saying it works for me.
Day 1-Squat/ Speed Pulls and Lower
Squat to 3-5 rep max
Speed Pulls 8 sets of 1-3
3 assistance 5 sets of 10-20
Day 2- Press and Upper
Bench Press up to 3-5 max
Pause Press 3x5
2 upper Back movements
1 Triceps
Day 3- Front Squat/ Deadlift Overload and Lower
Front Squat up to 1-3 rep max with Knee Wraps
Reverse Band Pulls take current max for 3-5 triples
Lower Volume movements
Core
Day 4- Bench Overload
Reverse Band Bench up to Current max for 3-5 triples.
Triceps Press 5 sets of 10
Upper Back Movement 5x10
Triceps Press Down 8x8
Day 5,6,7 and possibly 8 rest completely
Rotate through this trying to add weight, reps, or use less band tension with same weight each week. Every time I do this I make it about 4 weeks before just feeling pretty run down then. I take a week off come back a bam almost ever single time were talking a PRs.