Is there an official opinion on how long SD (Strategic Deconditioning) should last?

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shiphen

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Is there an official opinion on how long SD (Strategic Deconditioning) should last?

On this page it says "1 week"
http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_notes.html

Whereas on this page it says "9 - 12 day"
http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_artcls_stratdecon.html

There is quite a lot of difference even between 9 and 12 days (i.e. a 33% increase !) let alone 7 to 12 days.

Also why is this period so vague? What does it depend upon?

With thanks


John
John Smith

P.S. I have now completed my first HST trainging cycle.
 
shiphen said:
Hi

Is there an official opinion on how long SD (Strategic Deconditioning) should last?

On this page it says "1 week"
http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_notes.html

Whereas on this page it says "9 - 12 day"
http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_artcls_stratdecon.html

There is quite a lot of difference even between 9 and 12 days (i.e. a 33% increase !) let alone 7 to 12 days.

Also why is this period so vague? What does it depend upon?

With thanks


John
John Smith

P.S. I have now completed my first HST trainging cycle.
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Some think that 2 weeks is not enough time to effectively decondition your muscles. I believe 1 week is not enough.

I believe the 1st week is enough to recouperate and additional days are where you start to decondition.

Why the discrepency? I don't know. Maybe those 2 statements were written at different times when Bryan had different opinions on the matter.

I chose to SD 9 days last time and it kind of drove me nuts to stay away from the iron that long. I'll go 9 days again next time - with the assumption that 7 days is not long enough and 12 days is far too long for me to keep my sanity.
 
I go with 9 days due to the evidence that satellite cell count probably goes up significantly on day 10, which would be the day you return to training. In my experience, I have found that 9 days off seems to help me surpass previous cycles better than when I take shorter or longer SDs.
 
Its really a matter of choice or trial and error, 7 - 14 days are guidelines, anything in between is ok!

Nothing to worry or fuss about! You need to decontion...point!

I agree with Tot's opinion, 9 days seemed to have favoured me when I was more active....rather decadent now ;)
 
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