[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
-Depletion workouts are great, but keep in mind if you’re dropping your carbs as well. You don’t want to be in the gym depleting for 2 hours every day while also having zero carbs all week. I would think that there is a point where you do so much damage (and I’m not just talking about excessive eccentric muscle trauma) that your body won’t ‘re-inflate’ easily, or quickly when you carb up.
-Legs are trick buggers, and what a lot of competitors I talk to do, is to first avoid any squats the last couple of weeks, and then, to hit yur legs for the last time a week out (no leg depletion work after Sunday, or maybe Monday at the latest)
-For Friday, I know Christian has written about incorporating a glycogen ‘supercompensation’ workout when you start carbing up (in his famous ‘6 days’ article). In seeing the higher nutrient uptake from the eccentric-less training he made use of in Daryl’s recent progress, you can see that the concept indeed has validity. Personally, I’ve always done a few sets focusing on my uuper chest Friday Mornings after a nice carb meal and coat of pro-tan
-Saturday (contest day) should be all about gettig (and keeping) a pump. Ingesting carbs while pumping and flexing will have a visable noticeable effect on your physique.
S[/quote]
thanks stu,
Yea I actually came across CT’s 6 day shredded article. Which I found very interesting, will definitely go over that as well… I was planning on doing my last leg workout out sunday morning, on the day of my first carb depletion day, while having a moderate carb day the day before, hoping to have good energy for a good depletion leg workout.
I read how some do back to back total body workouts before moving on to depleting some of the smaller muscles. I think I am going to stick with depleting one part at a time.
I wont be going to failure on any of my sets just high reps.
Stu, why do you think most BB dont squat before a competition? could be that its just too taxing on the body?? I would think maybe low weight, high reps would be an ideal way to start depleting the whole body. But like you said, there must be a point of diminishing returns.