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Hey guys,
Just wanted a few thoughts and opinions over deloading, pretty much have been training without a break apart from the obvious rest days since the start of this year, before that had a 2 week holiday which cost me greatly. Just been reading up on deloading and wanted to know if it is necessary, to have a week in the gym and just "cruise" lifting lighter weights with low volume and just refining technique. Thoughts?
The thing is I don't feel that run down. I get up at 6am to train and I hit it hard, motivation level is high and I itch to go gym on my off days. It's just I read you should take deloads, every couple months or so, so it's more a case of reading than feeling.
Depends how hard you're going. When I was training with Westside I did 3 weeks going hard (3 sets at or above 90% in every max effort session) then one week 40,50,60%. This is also like this with 5/3/1
Deloading is good because it allows you to deliberately overtrain then recover (supercompensation)
If a bodybuilding keeps training to and beyond failure then they may be in need of deloading. But then again if you hit a muscle once a week like a lot of BBers do then it is much harder to overtrain.