Max Out on Squats Everyday [Article]

[mattypyuu]

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what are your guys thoughts on this?

[Danomyte]

I'm a big fan of this method and have trained like this for the past 5-years with some great results in OLY and PL. But have had my body broken more than others too.

When training like this and you hit your deload spot on - the super compensation properties are unbelievable - I feel like superman and the weights feel light as - PR city for sure.

Crack up - I know Bret and got to work with him a bit while he was here in NZ. He actually attempted this method - so I got to see him go through this method before he posted this article. Many times he walked in to the gym super fatigued wondering if he should train and then ended up hitting a PR #GoodGuy

[jimmybro1]

Interesting concept on overtraining

[Old Bull]

Quite a few of us have been Squatting min 4 days per week for the 18 months or so, and have been going pretty well on this. You have to mindful of whats happening with your body, and be pretty conditioned to start cycles like this. I think as it leaks out, a lot more will be doing this type of training.

[severe]

Interesting concept on overtraining

yeah. The rubbish collector analogy makes sense. I guess eating well is the other half of that idea.

[jimmybro1]

Interesting concept on overtraining

yeah. The rubbish collector analogy makes sense. I guess eating well is the other half of that idea.

But surely there are extremes, if your overloading your not going to recover. you would have to be smart about how far to push it.

[Phedder]

Interesting concept on overtraining

yeah. The rubbish collector analogy makes sense. I guess eating well is the other half of that idea.

But surely there are extremes, if your overloading your not going to recover. you would have to be smart about how far to push it.

From what I understand, how fast you push it is more important than how far. Given enough time, the human body can adapt to damn near anything But if you go from machine circuits 3 times one week for 30 min, to lifting weights 7x a week for two 2 hour sessions a day the next week you're going to have a bad time However given enough time to slowly increase your volume and frequency, it shouldn't be a problem.

Think of your body as a kitchen sink, the plug hole is your ability to recover from stress, the faucet is where the stress pours in from. If you turn the faucet on full blast, with a tiny plug hole, the sink is going to fill up. You're introducing too much stress for your recovery ability to handle. If however you could increase the size of the plug hole, suddenly you can have the faucet turned up higher than before whilst still allowing all the stress to drain away. So basically better recovery means you can handle more stress. I'm sure I've explained that analogy horribly, but that's how I can remember it right now :shifty:

[I Declare War]

So basically it's like porting a rotary engine? Keep going far enough and you end up with a big nasty peripheral port. Instead of water, you feed this beast with high octane race fuel! :grin:

[jimmybro1]

yeah. The rubbish collector analogy makes sense. I guess eating well is the other half of that idea.

But surely there are extremes, if your overloading your not going to recover. you would have to be smart about how far to push it.

From what I understand, how fast you push it is more important than how far. Given enough time, the human body can adapt to damn near anything But if you go from machine circuits 3 times one week for 30 min, to lifting weights 7x a week for two 2 hour sessions a day the next week you're going to have a bad time However given enough time to slowly increase your volume and frequency, it shouldn't be a problem.

Think of your body as a kitchen sink, the plug hole is your ability to recover from stress, the faucet is where the stress pours in from. If you turn the faucet on full blast, with a tiny plug hole, the sink is going to fill up. You're introducing too much stress for your recovery ability to handle. If however you could increase the size of the plug hole, suddenly you can have the faucet turned up higher than before whilst still allowing all the stress to drain away. So basically better recovery means you can handle more stress. I'm sure I've explained that analogy horribly, but that's how I can remember it right now :shifty:

Yeah I understand what you mean.

Good analogy. But you still have to find that balance and know how much stress your body can recover from.

I'm currently training 6 days a week and I'm just getting injures after injuries so forced to back down the frequency/intensity of my training as my body cannot recover. Have been training this way for 4-5 weeks now.

[Riccardo]

Overtraining isn't as easy to induce as some people might think. True overtraining syndrome is horrible and you will know it if you ever experience it, having said that it does happen and good programming is needed to avoid it. It's not just a case of going out tomorrow and squatting to your max every day there after until the end of time.

What it comes down to is the type of training you're doing also. The Bulgarian method works extremely well with weightlifting because most of the lifts they do are eccentricless, or more precisely have very minimal eccentric loading. The Bulgarians implemented this type of training specifically for their weightlifters. Heavy eccentric loading is what causes the majority of myofiber damage and takes a lot longer to recover from. Concentric only lifts like a snatch, power clean, Jerk, push press etc don't induce much myotrauma and are therefore easier to recover from. That means you can easily work up to max singles and triples with these lifts every day for prolonged periods of time without overtraining.

The problem comes when you try to do this with lifts that require heavy eccentric loading like a bench press. So the way to make this kind of training effective is to minimise the eccentric portion of a lift, do your squats Oly style, high bar and focus on being explosive rather than slow controlled reps. A lot of people will see good mass gains with the Bulgarian method as well.

Watch the way Pat Mendes squats or the guys from Cali strength. The eccentric portion of their squats are a lot faster than say a powerlifter.

[Danomyte]

Repped Ricardo.

2 a day trainings for me are easy when I'm in full oly lifting mode. Not so easy when in PL or SM mode.