izzy... This is the most cogent, simply put peaking overview on the internet! I should know, because I have seen them all. Thanks to you, I am 3 weeks out from my first meet and confident I will set a National Record for my age and weight. (75 years old 80.5 k)! This is a simple way to compete and avoid injury...paramount factors in an older, eh, more experienced lifter... lol All the Best, Paul Perkins
These strategies could also be mixed and matched depending not he lift right? For example, it's easy to imagine a gradual taper being used for squats and deadlift, but a steep taper for bench since most people seem to be able to recover from pretty well from bench. Does that make sense?
+Sam McKay Yeah, but we are really talking recovery timeline with this point more than taper strategy. It will depend on how you train. For someone who benches three days a week, all Heavy/for high volume, what is "steep" and what is gradual will be very different than for someone who benches once a week
Izzy bro quick question... Say I come up with the idea to peak my strength to be able to do more on 5x5 than I last left off on. For example of a 4 week progression 3 days a week and adding 5lbs each day: 5x5/3x5/5x3/3x3 If 195lbs 5x5 was on Fri, I would just switch to 3x5 on Mon and pick back up with 200lbs. Would this be a good example of peaking my strength? Also if I left off with 195lbs 5x5 and after peaking my strength it should stand to reason that 195lbs or even 200lbs 5x5 should be a bit easier correct? Can I just keep running something like this building layers in a way? Would you be against a setup like this? Thanks.
This isn't peaking. You're talking about putting in a lighter workout between two harder workouts. That's called fatigue management and it is just an aspect of regular programming. IDK if your scheme would work, but it sounds like the typical Starting Strength/5x5 programming mentality of never using any periodization and just continually trying to run linear progressions by extending the timeline. I'd recommend running a program that is actually periodized once you're no longer a novice.
Izzy Narvaez Thank you for the quick reply Izzy. With a small loss in strength after dropping 15lbs to be at 216lbs but fairly recent 1RM attempts what would you recommend for someone with close to a 315lb x1 Squat, 205lb x1 Bench and 405lb x1 Deadlift. Thanks. And I guess it shows unless you know what youre doing you shouldnt make up your own chit lol.
Izzy Narvaez I hear you. Because of life and work I kept trying to find the best way to make progress over the past 1.5 years. Is what it is. Thanks for replying back. Appreciate all your work.
holy sheet thanks for this, i used to think peaking was just doing singles to get used to singles before a meet
izzy... This is the most cogent, simply put peaking overview on the internet! I should know, because I have seen them all.
Thanks to you, I am 3 weeks out from my first meet and confident I will set a National Record for my age and weight. (75 years old 80.5 k)!
This is a simple way to compete and avoid injury...paramount factors in an older, eh, more experienced lifter... lol
All the Best,
Paul Perkins
This guy is just so knowledgeable. Such an underrated youtuber!
Dude your bench and squat are sick. You gotta be way past those test PRs at this point. Keep it up, both the content, and the gains 💪🏼
+James Valaitis thanks!
Very informative and helpful. Thank you!
Still gold
Amazing video,Izzy!!!
thank you this explains things simply and perfectly !!!!
Just found your channel. Subbed!
Hey Izzy, could you show us an example of how you would structure an overreaching phase in the deadlift? Appreciate the great content as always.
+Zimri it'd be different depending on the individual because people have different volume tolerances
does Sheiko 32 use a steep taper or a gradual one?
These strategies could also be mixed and matched depending not he lift right? For example, it's easy to imagine a gradual taper being used for squats and deadlift, but a steep taper for bench since most people seem to be able to recover from pretty well from bench. Does that make sense?
+Sam McKay Yeah, but we are really talking recovery timeline with this point more than taper strategy. It will depend on how you train. For someone who benches three days a week, all Heavy/for high volume, what is "steep" and what is gradual will be very different than for someone who benches once a week
Makes sense, thanks for the info. Would love more videos diving into programming specifics like this. Very informative.
Izzy bro quick question...
Say I come up with the idea to peak my strength to be able to do more on 5x5 than I last left off on. For example of a 4 week progression 3 days a week and adding 5lbs each day: 5x5/3x5/5x3/3x3
If 195lbs 5x5 was on Fri, I would just switch to 3x5 on Mon and pick back up with 200lbs.
Would this be a good example of peaking my strength? Also if I left off with 195lbs 5x5 and after peaking my strength it should stand to reason that 195lbs or even 200lbs 5x5 should be a bit easier correct? Can I just keep running something like this building layers in a way? Would you be against a setup like this? Thanks.
This isn't peaking. You're talking about putting in a lighter workout between two harder workouts. That's called fatigue management and it is just an aspect of regular programming.
IDK if your scheme would work, but it sounds like the typical Starting Strength/5x5 programming mentality of never using any periodization and just continually trying to run linear progressions by extending the timeline. I'd recommend running a program that is actually periodized once you're no longer a novice.
Izzy Narvaez Thank you for the quick reply Izzy. With a small loss in strength after dropping 15lbs to be at 216lbs but fairly recent 1RM attempts what would you recommend for someone with close to a 315lb x1 Squat, 205lb x1 Bench and 405lb x1 Deadlift. Thanks. And I guess it shows unless you know what youre doing you shouldnt make up your own chit lol.
Hard to say from just numbers alone, it really is. Most males of average height at those numbers can benefit immensely from basic linear progression
Izzy Narvaez I hear you. Because of life and work I kept trying to find the best way to make progress over the past 1.5 years. Is what it is. Thanks for replying back. Appreciate all your work.
Awesome vid bud.
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How much do you weight currently?
+3terminatorgr 193lbs