Clarification

[Captain Crunch]

I've been following this board for awhile now and something hit me the other day which I had not heard before. Someone mentioned that they were going to try for a 4x week cycle and someone else responded that then there would be 8 total workouts in each microcycle. I just figured that when people increased the workouts during the week that they finished off the microcycle earlier and moved onto the next rep range. Am I wrong about this?

For example, when people workout 6x a week, does this mean that they finish off the 15's in one week or do they just decrease the increments and still workout 6x week for a two week period and therefore 12 workouts in each rep range?

Thanks

Mike

 

[Old and Grey]

You can do it either way Mike. Although the frequency is higher, the volume should remain about the same. I normally do a full body routine one day follwed by a different full body routione the next day. That means I will still have 6 workouts of each routine in a 2 week block although it will constitute 12 total workouts. In otherwords, 6 workouts of routine A and 6 workouts of routine B.

 

[vicious]

On a higher frequency program, if you don't have a A/B split, you could just use the same weights as the session before.

cheers,
Jules

 

[Totentanz]

Yeah, you can go either way, but I would recommend the longer cycle, with more workouts per microcycle versus the shorter microcycles. I don't think compressing the HST cycle into a shorter timeframe is as good as a longer HST cycle for your gains.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Thanks for the replies. I do two different full body workouts which I alternate. Currently I have been doing 3-4 workouts a week so occasionally I do A one day and B the next but usually I have a day off in between. I was thinking of increasing the number of workouts and it is good to know that I should still be doing a two week block which will work really well for me anyway.

Thanks again.

Mike