Wish I knew about this back in the day. There was a point between ages 21-24 where I was literally lifting more weight every single workout. I felt unstoppable. Then I hit a wall and plateaued and just couldn't get over. Instead of taking a step back, I just pushed harder and harder. My form started to suffer and I ended up hurting myself (torn rotator, bulging discs, tendonitis all over). That kept me out of the gym for a few years. Now I'm 37 and the way I train is much smarter, partly due to people such as yourself.
Nah…. After a few years of training hard you will plateau. There is no way around it naturally. If there was everyone would be lifting 20,000 lbs. there is a limit.
It's bittersweet to see this video come up first when I googled this.. It's so sad that this legend of a guy is gone, but at the same time it's so great that his good advice and awesome personality will live on! RIP Mountain Dog
After Johns death, I found this channel. I'm so happy I got access to his videos. His videos really helped me with my side and back delts. The other youtube channels didn't help much and the exercises were not as effective imo
You've confirmed I need a deload week. I've been pushing myself, but last work out did not feel great and did not have a good pump. Been feeling really fatigued in my last resting days.
Been deloading for a week now, first deload ever, since I only started training like 13 weeks ago. Gotta say I needed it... but damn IS IT BORING! hahaha
Is it weird this video made me tear up with relief? I thought I was losing my mind, but I think I just need to deload for a week or two. Thanks for the great advice!
Zachary Osborn trust me bro u need to take rest when u feel like u need rest. Listen to ur body. I tore my rotator cuff in my right shoulder and almost in my left too
It's okay to rest, listen to your body. It has a lot of things to manage besides your muscle growth, so it needs time to adjust to everything that's going on.
This is super helpful! I’ve been training for 4 solid weeks, maxed out on everything, weights are feeling heavier, nervous system is shot 🙈 was embarrassed because it’s only been a month, but your insight makes me feel better about it, body just needs some rest, everything is good!
Great video, just did 3 months going hard lifting and have seen great results, but I now just feel like absolute shit. Took every set to failure 75% of the time. Haven’t lost the motivation, far from it. I would feel like shit when I didn’t workout and couldn’t wait to get back in the next day. Gonna take it easy for a week and take the 20% de-load week advice. It’s just kinda shocking how everything was going so great and then bam, your body says nope, you had enough. I’m guessing the adrenal glands need a serious reboot.
Thank you so much, this was so helpful. I’ve been hitting it hard for 10 months now, I took a couple of prescribed deload weeks during that time where I reduced my weight but I was feeling overall pretty good. This last week it really hit me. Just like you explained, my passion to go to the gym let up, my weights feel heavier, I just feel blah. It was so comforting to hear the science behind it!
I do like John's explanation of things. I don't do bodybuilding, I do bodyweight and boxing training, and I've been really going for it for 7 months, but I got a signal from my body this week, in 2 parts: 1. I felt angry - emotional - for no reason before my workout. Sometimes I have to work myself up to get motivated, but I never feel angry about it 2. Afterwards I had no appetite. That is quite unusual So I took a deload week this week. I'm pretty sure I got it right, I pushed myself until something wasn't quite right, then I paid attention. I'm sure I could have pushed through it, but something didn't seem right.
hit the nail on the head with this one. in my experience there is no way to precisely program a dload because there is so many variables and so much time gets wasted in trying to approximate this
great video, I've never heard of deloading, I remember Tom platz at a seminar once saying take time off when you feel overtrained and that's what I've done all these years, I'm going to try the 2 rules of deloading now and see how it feels
Solid advice. Was feeling very off in the gym and overall just depressed. Felt zero pumps anywhere. Took 2 days off because I got the flu and when I came back, I felt amazing. Everyone should deload every 6 weeks or so if they need to.
I just deload for 3 weeks for Christmas and New Year's. Hit the gym today, I am about 10 lbs weaker on my lifts. Granted I was also off the creatine, EAA, and I had a lower protein intake.
Straight to the point, no extra bs, explained in easy to understand way, talking from experience.. this channel is gold. Subscribed! Thanks for the awesome content!
I just want to punch the people that give a thumbs down to Johns videos. They obviously don't body build! IMO, his videos make the most sense and explain things in laments terms or way the way most of us need and want to hear. Without getting too scientific and complicated to understand, because then you just say screw it I'll figure it out on my own and end up getting hurt or not achieving your goals because you get frustrated. Thanks John
Best possible things you could do is 1. Take a 1 week to a month off 2. My favorite is going light-mid weight and sets are much shorter focusing on form and pumps, and no failure reps or sets so your CNS can cruise control and recover while not losing or barley strength when coming back to do mid-heavy weights
I’ve trained 6 days a week for the past 6 months at maximum intensity. I’m excited to see what type of strength and energy I gain from my deload week during my February break
Super Awsome tip Im a 20 yr vet and I always go never give rest so great to know I've been doing more harm than good jus now started learning diet and supplements now this great tip thanks.
Great advice 🌟 I’ve been training hard for a good few months now and have been progressing like nothing I’ve seen before, both in strength and size. But last weekend I woke up and just did not want to move. Hard training coupled with a very physical job has finally taken its toll, and it’s such a crossroads when you love training but just can’t physically go for it! The motivation is there but the strength isn’t My biggest anxiety has been losing my progress, however one step back and two forward 😎 and over the long term nothing will be lost! Just got to keep active and allow it to pass 😁 Cheers John 🙌🏼🕊
If you have enough years under your belt youll feel it when its the right time: start to feel sluggish all the time,mental focus is off,maybe an ache here or there.if its been months since youve taken a deload then you can take even 2 weeks off
Awesome advice JM.. actually I thought it was spot on.. especially with decreasing intensity and stopping short of failure and lowering the volume... keep passing on that veteran knowledge. Love it brother!!💪🏾
A few months ago I hit this. I was in the final 3-4 weeks of my program, doing my heaviest sets and I just dreaded going to the gym. I’d force myself to go, and after 1 heavy set I just felt exhausted. Putting weights on the bar and taking them off again was exhausting. I thought I was getting sick because I was just tired and exhausted all the time. My strength was depleting drastically, I’m talking like my 1RM on bench was 20lbs down from my 1RM Bench at the start of my program. Once I finished that last month I felt accomplished enough that I just took 2 weeks off. Did a lot of walking and stretching and cheated on my diet a bit. Now I feel like a fucking tank and seeing strength gains again. No shame in giving your body a rest when you need it.
Sound advice 👌. I'm on day 4 of my deload. Still sore but just itching to get back to working out. I'll wait the full week though been at it for 6 months
Thank you, for explaining to me who this meant! I noticed that I was eating well, but my sleep, my body and my mind was all out of wack. I took a day off and that didn’t work, so I was confused; however, when I lowered the weights, pulled back, I noticed that my strength came back in two weeks. I appreciate the knowledge
Funny thing is I'm in Houston where the gyms are closed because of the floods. I was going to do some at-home workouts but I decided since I had been squatting 5 days a week for two months and I had a nagging little job-related forearm injury that was limiting my upper body work that I would just do a full de-load and low and behold, this video comes up.
Some great advice on deload! I've fiddled around with those deload structures for strength athletes with mixed results, and I've also come to the conclusion that strength protocols don't transfer over all that well. Oh, and if I remember most of those studies come from track athletes, if I remember zoudos correctly, so there's a huge question of applicability to strength training, let alone physique.
Always the right info from John, thanks. I'm in my 2nd year of pushing/pulling weights and I'm 56, never too late. Cut my sessions down to full body twice a week as I was nearly always feeling tired from 3 times. Good balance now, time to recover and can push hard each session. Kyjak on my off days so keep fairly active still. The lockdown felt like a deload session this year :) Was hard to stay motivated and workout from home.
I lifted for years without much of a break trying to do powerlifting style workouts…finally after many pulled muscles, lost strength, energy issues and needed some physical therapy for some muscle issues I finally added a de load…a little late to the party but I feel a lot better
It's hard for some people to understand the importance of a deload week/off week to allow the CNS to recover. So many things can be off when you are bordering over training. like John says sleep is a big one, libido, loss of appetite, weird things like sensitivity to light in extreme cases. these are serious signs that our body gives us to let us know it's time to back off for a bit. Great vid
Being now in my 50's, deloading has been a savior! Talk about lack of enthusiasm, lol. Plus body just doesn't recover as fast. Personally for me, been doing it after ever 4 weeks and seems to be going well.
@@johnc1280 Originally, tried the full week off (no working out). But then I was really worn out. More recently, just taking all my sets down to 50-60% of weight (keeping the same reps). YMMV and all that, but works for me.
Day 4 of deload week and I’m BORED. Been pushing myself and cutting and I was FATIGUED out. Realized I needed to deload when I couldn’t focus on my workouts and wasn’t enjoying it.
Ismashed 12 weeks straight and I’m working 2 jobs. I need to go to the gym at 5am to squeeze it in. I was shattered, I was ratty my weights not going up, I’ve hit a plateau. That’s when you need to take a break. I took 2 about 10 days off. Having that extra couple of hours sleep in morning. Went back to the gym and my bodies stronger, and I feel much better to lift. Going to smash another 12 weeks out.
I really hope He is with the Lord feeling nothing but love and complete health and peace, living forever, I just see love in that man. Hope i meet you one day Mr. Meadows.
John, would you mind making a video on topic of training? Volume/intensity, differentiation, recommendation, your experience with clients and your own preferences? Also whether there actually is a difference between natty and on gear training? Appreciate your content mate, keep it up!
I learned the hard way of deloading myself. Although I'm more of a calisthenics guy, to me the need for deloads isn't all that different from bodybuilding in my opinion. After doing German Volume Training for 14 weeks when I was supposed to be doing it at a maximum of 6 weeks, I began to experience crappy mood swings, tiredness, slight loss of motivation, sleep loss, and worst of all, shoulder pain. The shoulder pain was the straw that broke the camel's back for me and when I went to talk to my mom who's a caretaker for old people, she demanded me to back off of training despite the results I got from it. It was then I had to swallow my pride and take the entire week off of training. I'm almost halfway through my deload week right now and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. My sleep's getting better, I'm no longer getting depressed, and my shoulder is feeling healthier by the day. This goes to show how important deload weeks are. But when to take a deload can vary from person to person. How to take a deload week though is entirely up to the individual.
@@ritabanbhattacharya9038 Good on ya, bro. Although I still do calisthenics, I've been doing some weightlifting for my legs (primarily) and mid-delts. Mid-delt exercises is treated more as an accessory for me.
As I was training for nearly 4 times a week for 10 weeks straight, for the last 2 weeks there was no progress in terms of strength and gainz... I didn't go to gym for 10 days and when I went to the gym again, my strength was higher and gainz start to build up again... Deload guys, it really works...
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best use of a squat rack as ive ever seen
solid advice
thanks!
Hey Mike
Mike natty 🤴
@@unrelease9933 hes on HRT
@@James-qp3nh lies he’s natty
Never knew i could miss someone so much that ive never met before, rest easy legend
Wish I knew about this back in the day. There was a point between ages 21-24 where I was literally lifting more weight every single workout. I felt unstoppable. Then I hit a wall and plateaued and just couldn't get over. Instead of taking a step back, I just pushed harder and harder. My form started to suffer and I ended up hurting myself (torn rotator, bulging discs, tendonitis all over). That kept me out of the gym for a few years. Now I'm 37 and the way I train is much smarter, partly due to people such as yourself.
how did you solve your tendonitis?
Nah…. After a few years of training hard you will plateau. There is no way around it naturally. If there was everyone would be lifting 20,000 lbs. there is a limit.
@@rolandgerges9246it goes away in time.
@@executiveinvestments but getting injured is a pretty good sign of overtraining
@@jayw.8626 nope. Lifting too heavy, not warning up enough, poor nutrition all can lead to an injury.
Take one step back to take two steps forward. Great advice
My god it sucks not knowing we’ll ever get this quality content. RIP🙏🏿
What
I needed help and of course I came to this. You will be missed Mountain dog.
me too. sad times
Same here, R.I.P Mountaindog
It's bittersweet to see this video come up first when I googled this.. It's so sad that this legend of a guy is gone, but at the same time it's so great that his good advice and awesome personality will live on!
RIP Mountain Dog
@@JasM3dia he is still leaving impacts long after he's gone. LEGEND
Love this. Listen to your body, and when you deload:
1) reduce sets by ~20%
2) don’t take anything to failure
Or a complete week off
John’s wisdom and impact lives on. RIP brother in iron.
They should write a book capturing all his wisdom from RUclips and his friends.
After Johns death, I found this channel. I'm so happy I got access to his videos. His videos really helped me with my side and back delts. The other youtube channels didn't help much and the exercises were not as effective imo
You've confirmed I need a deload week. I've been pushing myself, but last work out did not feel great and did not have a good pump. Been feeling really fatigued in my last resting days.
Been deloading for a week now, first deload ever, since I only started training like 13 weeks ago.
Gotta say I needed it... but damn IS IT BORING! hahaha
Joey Oram hows the training going my man
did you keep training?
The Greatest Of All Times
Is it weird this video made me tear up with relief? I thought I was losing my mind, but I think I just need to deload for a week or two. Thanks for the great advice!
I was in tears because I thought I was getting weak
@@mikeearley1463 I literally broke down crying because my squat went from 175x10 to 175x2 in a couple days, so safe to say I’m gonna do a deload week
Zachary Osborn trust me bro u need to take rest when u feel like u need rest. Listen to ur body. I tore my rotator cuff in my right shoulder and almost in my left too
Yes oh my gosh exactly! This last week I thought I was losing it! This video really got me emotional too!
It's okay to rest, listen to your body. It has a lot of things to manage besides your muscle growth, so it needs time to adjust to everything that's going on.
Hope these great videos are with us forever. RIP John.
This is super helpful! I’ve been training for 4 solid weeks, maxed out on everything, weights are feeling heavier, nervous system is shot 🙈 was embarrassed because it’s only been a month, but your insight makes me feel better about it, body just needs some rest, everything is good!
lol trained for 4 weeks and thinking of deloading. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
The man is a legend. RIP
Great video, just did 3 months going hard lifting and have seen great results, but I now just feel like absolute shit. Took every set to failure 75% of the time. Haven’t lost the motivation, far from it. I would feel like shit when I didn’t workout and couldn’t wait to get back in the next day. Gonna take it easy for a week and take the 20% de-load week advice. It’s just kinda shocking how everything was going so great and then bam, your body says nope, you had enough. I’m guessing the adrenal glands need a serious reboot.
Thank you so much, this was so helpful. I’ve been hitting it hard for 10 months now, I took a couple of prescribed deload weeks during that time where I reduced my weight but I was feeling overall pretty good. This last week it really hit me. Just like you explained, my passion to go to the gym let up, my weights feel heavier, I just feel blah. It was so comforting to hear the science behind it!
Totally agree that it should be instinctive, by the time you can train hard enough to need it you should really be adept at spotting the signs
yep
like John says....listen to your body....as everyone is different and it tells you to have a break
I do like John's explanation of things.
I don't do bodybuilding, I do bodyweight and boxing training, and I've been really going for it for 7 months, but I got a signal from my body this week, in 2 parts:
1. I felt angry - emotional - for no reason before my workout. Sometimes I have to work myself up to get motivated, but I never feel angry about it
2. Afterwards I had no appetite. That is quite unusual
So I took a deload week this week.
I'm pretty sure I got it right, I pushed myself until something wasn't quite right, then I paid attention.
I'm sure I could have pushed through it, but something didn't seem right.
Split image of me, exact same experience here!
Superb...everything answered without digressing all the time as so many people on here do... Using 10,000 words when 2000 will do.
Thank you man I really needed this. My bench went down 10 pounds in less than a week and I was wondering what I was doing wrong.
I love how he gave intuitive guidance. Too many of us want a protocol based on exact times etc.
hit the nail on the head with this one. in my experience there is no way to precisely program a dload because there is so many variables and so much time gets wasted in trying to approximate this
thank you James! Hope all is well brother!
this video and the comments are a godsend. i had no idea i needed this. went hard for 8 weeks straight
Dam, talk about using the least words to explain a topic in massive depth. Such good advice.
RIP 🕊️ that was really helpful
great video, I've never heard of deloading, I remember Tom platz at a seminar once saying take time off when you feel overtrained and that's what I've done all these years, I'm going to try the 2 rules of deloading now and see how it feels
Much needed topic to discuss. Good to hear your take! Thanks!
thank you!
Solid advice. Was feeling very off in the gym and overall just depressed. Felt zero pumps anywhere. Took 2 days off because I got the flu and when I came back, I felt amazing. Everyone should deload every 6 weeks or so if they need to.
I just deload for 3 weeks for Christmas and New Year's. Hit the gym today, I am about 10 lbs weaker on my lifts. Granted I was also off the creatine, EAA, and I had a lower protein intake.
Helped so much. Described my situation perfectly, and helped me understand what to do.
Straight to the point, no extra bs, explained in easy to understand way, talking from experience.. this channel is gold. Subscribed! Thanks for the awesome content!
I never thought I would be here. First time I’ve consistently pushed myself so hard for so long
I just want to punch the people that give a thumbs down to Johns videos. They obviously don't body build! IMO, his videos make the most sense and explain things in laments terms or way the way most of us need and want to hear. Without getting too scientific and complicated to understand, because then you just say screw it I'll figure it out on my own and end up getting hurt or not achieving your goals because you get frustrated. Thanks John
thank you
Best possible things you could do is
1. Take a 1 week to a month off
2. My favorite is going light-mid weight and sets are much shorter focusing on form and pumps, and no failure reps or sets so your CNS can cruise control and recover while not losing or barley strength when coming back to do mid-heavy weights
This is the video I share with my clients. It’s so well said that I don’t have to add anything to it.
I’ve trained 6 days a week for the past 6 months at maximum intensity. I’m excited to see what type of strength and energy I gain from my deload week during my February break
I’m so happy you made a video about this I’m trying a new workout plan
You will be missed
I dialed back a few weeks ago, and I was surprised that I got a benefit from it.
At first you scared me, but through the consistent educational wisdom you have taught me many things. Thank you for the lessons senpai.
Super Awsome tip Im a 20 yr vet and I always go never give rest so great to know I've been doing more harm than good jus now started learning diet and supplements now this great tip thanks.
Great advice 🌟 I’ve been training hard for a good few months now and have been progressing like nothing I’ve seen before, both in strength and size. But last weekend I woke up and just did not want to move. Hard training coupled with a very physical job has finally taken its toll, and it’s such a crossroads when you love training but just can’t physically go for it! The motivation is there but the strength isn’t
My biggest anxiety has been losing my progress, however one step back and two forward 😎 and over the long term nothing will be lost! Just got to keep active and allow it to pass 😁
Cheers John 🙌🏼🕊
Really appreciate you touching this topic. I've been feeling run down for a few weeks and needed to hear this. Thank you.
you bet!
So much good info. Thanks, MountainDog ❤️
Thank you. Needed to hear it from a trusted pro/ trainer. Taken 1 week off after 10 months of training.
This is one of the best advices i've ever heard!! Thnxs!!!!!!
If you have enough years under your belt youll feel it when its the right time: start to feel sluggish all the time,mental focus is off,maybe an ache here or there.if its been months since youve taken a deload then you can take even 2 weeks off
Very good advice, and easy to follow.
Had to come back to this video. My CNS is shot and needed advice.
Awesome advice JM.. actually I thought it was spot on.. especially with decreasing intensity and stopping short of failure and lowering the volume... keep passing on that veteran knowledge. Love it brother!!💪🏾
A few months ago I hit this. I was in the final 3-4 weeks of my program, doing my heaviest sets and I just dreaded going to the gym. I’d force myself to go, and after 1 heavy set I just felt exhausted. Putting weights on the bar and taking them off again was exhausting. I thought I was getting sick because I was just tired and exhausted all the time. My strength was depleting drastically, I’m talking like my 1RM on bench was 20lbs down from my 1RM Bench at the start of my program.
Once I finished that last month I felt accomplished enough that I just took 2 weeks off. Did a lot of walking and stretching and cheated on my diet a bit. Now I feel like a fucking tank and seeing strength gains again. No shame in giving your body a rest when you need it.
Everything in this video nailed my situation right now
I think it’s time for me to deload I feel pretty much how he described
Thank you alot.
Sound advice 👌. I'm on day 4 of my deload. Still sore but just itching to get back to working out. I'll wait the full week though been at it for 6 months
Thank you, for explaining to me who this meant! I noticed that I was eating well, but my sleep, my body and my mind was all out of wack. I took a day off and that didn’t work, so I was confused; however, when I lowered the weights, pulled back, I noticed that my strength came back in two weeks. I appreciate the knowledge
My training program is so good, I'm deloading every week.
Funny thing is I'm in Houston where the gyms are closed because of the floods. I was going to do some at-home workouts but I decided since I had been squatting 5 days a week for two months and I had a nagging little job-related forearm injury that was limiting my upper body work that I would just do a full de-load and low and behold, this video comes up.
Divine intervention :)
Thanks for the good advice jacked Mark Hamill !
Awesome videos, John. Always straight to the point. No BS
hornestly I need to deload, thanks for the advice John..
Great and easy explanation
Some great advice on deload! I've fiddled around with those deload structures for strength athletes with mixed results, and I've also come to the conclusion that strength protocols don't transfer over all that well. Oh, and if I remember most of those studies come from track athletes, if I remember zoudos correctly, so there's a huge question of applicability to strength training, let alone physique.
exactly, not apples to apples
Always the right info from John, thanks. I'm in my 2nd year of pushing/pulling weights and I'm 56, never too late. Cut my sessions down to full body twice a week as I was nearly always feeling tired from 3 times. Good balance now, time to recover and can push hard each session. Kyjak on my off days so keep fairly active still. The lockdown felt like a deload session this year :) Was hard to stay motivated and workout from home.
I lifted for years without much of a break trying to do powerlifting style workouts…finally after many pulled muscles, lost strength, energy issues and needed some physical therapy for some muscle issues I finally added a de load…a little late to the party but I feel a lot better
Good advice / perspective, thanks.
Thanks again for the info. Great understanding and simplified for for us. 💎
Bro I needed the info.This Is AWESOME site. 10weeks out
best of luck!!!!!
Great vid. I lost performance and feel tired was looking how to deload while i can.
When he said “now we know how to deload” and then “so how do you deload” right after😂
Thank you for this. I definitely have to take it easier next week.
Thanks bro the exact video I was searching for thanks
It's hard for some people to understand the importance of a deload week/off week to allow the CNS to recover. So many things can be off when you are bordering over training. like John says sleep is a big one, libido, loss of appetite, weird things like sensitivity to light in extreme cases. these are serious signs that our body gives us to let us know it's time to back off for a bit. Great vid
Excellent recommendation - Much appreciated!
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us John! Bless you and your Family!
Thank you!! Exactly what I needed.
You always give good advice Thanks!
Being now in my 50's, deloading has been a savior! Talk about lack of enthusiasm, lol. Plus body just doesn't recover as fast. Personally for me, been doing it after ever 4 weeks and seems to be going well.
What do you do. I’m recently 40, I usually take a week off after months of training. A day off every 3 weeks
@@johnc1280 Originally, tried the full week off (no working out). But then I was really worn out. More recently, just taking all my sets down to 50-60% of weight (keeping the same reps). YMMV and all that, but works for me.
Thank you for this awesome tip!
Day 4 of deload week and I’m BORED. Been pushing myself and cutting and I was FATIGUED out. Realized I needed to deload when I couldn’t focus on my workouts and wasn’t enjoying it.
Ismashed 12 weeks straight and I’m working 2 jobs. I need to go to the gym at 5am to squeeze it in. I was shattered, I was ratty my weights not going up, I’ve hit a plateau. That’s when you need to take a break. I took 2 about 10 days off. Having that extra couple of hours sleep in morning. Went back to the gym and my bodies stronger, and I feel much better to lift. Going to smash another 12 weeks out.
I really hope He is with the Lord feeling nothing but love and complete health and peace, living forever, I just see love in that man. Hope i meet you one day Mr. Meadows.
Thank you for this. More blessings peace and prosperity 🙏
Thanks man I needed this
John, would you mind making a video on topic of training? Volume/intensity, differentiation, recommendation, your experience with clients and your own preferences? Also whether there actually is a difference between natty and on gear training? Appreciate your content mate, keep it up!
made it today..will go live next week!
Thanks, one of the few actually worth and informative channels out there, you sir are a motivation! Hope to get to meet you once.
Excellent Video
subbed cos of this video !! cheers mountaindog !!!
Welcome!
*Rest up OG*
Thank you Mr John advice
As expected of John. Really great advice as always.
Glad it was helpful!
Miss you Mountain Dog
I learned the hard way of deloading myself. Although I'm more of a calisthenics guy, to me the need for deloads isn't all that different from bodybuilding in my opinion. After doing German Volume Training for 14 weeks when I was supposed to be doing it at a maximum of 6 weeks, I began to experience crappy mood swings, tiredness, slight loss of motivation, sleep loss, and worst of all, shoulder pain. The shoulder pain was the straw that broke the camel's back for me and when I went to talk to my mom who's a caretaker for old people, she demanded me to back off of training despite the results I got from it. It was then I had to swallow my pride and take the entire week off of training. I'm almost halfway through my deload week right now and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. My sleep's getting better, I'm no longer getting depressed, and my shoulder is feeling healthier by the day.
This goes to show how important deload weeks are. But when to take a deload can vary from person to person. How to take a deload week though is entirely up to the individual.
Weird me too i do calisthenics too
@@ritabanbhattacharya9038 Good on ya, bro. Although I still do calisthenics, I've been doing some weightlifting for my legs (primarily) and mid-delts. Mid-delt exercises is treated more as an accessory for me.
Rest Easy John
As always , very informative 👍
Thank you!
Gold stuff John ! Thanks
thank you for listening!
As I was training for nearly 4 times a week for 10 weeks straight, for the last 2 weeks there was no progress in terms of strength and gainz... I didn't go to gym for 10 days and when I went to the gym again, my strength was higher and gainz start to build up again... Deload guys, it really works...
great channel,great teacher
thank you!