That’s not a great way to maintain the skill of strength. Doing an easy 3x5 at 50-60% on the big 3 (or whatever your biggest barbell lifts are) in the deload week will make the next week back go way smoother vs nothing. Taking a full week off the skilled lifts basically ensures detraining them. Which, the point is to shed fatigue, not decondition/detrain.
Well I said regarding maintaining strength. The right move is to still train some, but very light compared to usual. If you take a complete sabbatical from lifting every 4-8 weeks, you won’t make good progress. Things like vacation are often only 1-2x a year.
thats a good point. it seems like the solution here is a monthly vacation
are you using a jump rope on these? When I write conditioning work I tend to target specific timeframes like 6 minute springs, vs 8-12 minute sessions, and the occaasionally 20min conditioning effort. they can be miserable but man I feel like they pay dividends and just feel so good. literally feels like cleaning all the crud out of the lungs/system.
when I first went into the xfit world back around 2012 (maybe earlier??) I spent about 5-10 minutes every single day practicing double unders for like 6 months before I could string them together. that sounds pretty retarded for a guy who's been an athlete his whole life, but I rememberr they did take me a while to really truly do them well. I got really into them at one point, had an expensive RX brand speed rope, and I think my best was around 171 or something strung together (pushing 200). I knew I could consistently hit 100 in a minute. That was peak for me, lol. now days if I can fit them in, they're such a nice littler burner inbetween things like your kb swings etc. serious calf and achilles work too haha
