Hello,
As a person who overtrains extremely easily (=feeling burnt out, tiredness, losing strength and sore joints) I would like to ask the more knowledgeable members of this forum what your suggestion would be for a routine that should:
a) be abbreviated
b) consist of only 3 week cycles instead of the usual 6 weeks
Would you use all three rep ranges in such a brief cycle? Exercises?
I have searched the forum but couldn't come up with anything that combined these two requisites.
I should mention that I did try 3 week cycles (not abbreviated) about three years ago with no luck: I still felt overtrained and I ended up with an inflammation in my left pec. I think the problem was that the shorter cycles were offset by going to failure once every week instead of every two weeks. I have also tried HST on a couple of other occasions but with disappointing results, but I attribute that to poor implementation rather than a faulty theory, so for this reason I would like your opinion this time around.
I really hope you guys can help me with this.
As a person who overtrains extremely easily (=feeling burnt out, tiredness, losing strength and sore joints) I would like to ask the more knowledgeable members of this forum what your suggestion would be for a routine that should:
a) be abbreviated
b) consist of only 3 week cycles instead of the usual 6 weeks
Would you use all three rep ranges in such a brief cycle? Exercises?
I have searched the forum but couldn't come up with anything that combined these two requisites.
I should mention that I did try 3 week cycles (not abbreviated) about three years ago with no luck: I still felt overtrained and I ended up with an inflammation in my left pec. I think the problem was that the shorter cycles were offset by going to failure once every week instead of every two weeks. I have also tried HST on a couple of other occasions but with disappointing results, but I attribute that to poor implementation rather than a faulty theory, so for this reason I would like your opinion this time around.
I really hope you guys can help me with this.