Training through a dose escalation week — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.
What changes if the standard account of training through a dose escalation is wrong? I ask because I have been treating it as settled and I noticed this week that I could not say why.
Working through the consequences rather than the evidence, since others here are better placed on the evidence.
This follows the opening post rather than contradicting it.
Recovery: heavier training on a energy deficit and on a compound that slows gastric emptying requires attention to recovery (sleep, nutrition, stress). Recovery capacity declines with deficit, so training volume might need adjustment.
Someone should write this up properly, and it should probably not be me.
Where somebody is losing strength rapidly, the first questions are intake, sleep and total training volume, in that order.
Written in the hope of being told what I have missed.
Coming back to post #3, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
Volume: the number of sets per muscle group per week that supports muscle maintenance is roughly 12 to 18 hard sets. That varies by individual but gives a target range.
The variance between people here is larger than the effect being discussed.
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