Segansational's Motivation Log

[MrKleen73]

I've thought about this a lot for you. I'm pumped to see how your experience at the meet goes and what you decide from there!

Awww how sweet you have been thinking about him a lot! He is dead sexy!

I would love to see it myself. However, there is a part of me that would like to see him have at least one real meet prep before walking away from the idea. Just so he can experience the full thing, especially the benefit of a true peaking process to super compensate the CNS for the meet.

I am here to support whatever way he chooses to go though.

 

[Hyde]

So the reason I told you to go heavy again this week was to potentiate you for meet day - I neglected to mention it SHOULD feel harder this week (because you just went heavy last week). This is completely normal. Typically when I go max out in training to establish my 100% effort, when I go in the next time to do 90-95% of whatever I hit on 100% week, it feels even harder. I mean, often the 90s week is absolutely brutal to execute. In your case, you essentially had the 95% effort last week and 100% this week, which is completely fine - the point is this two heavy weeks followed by deload prepares you well for the meet to handle those type of efforts. And you also have a good idea where you are at.

Now rest up, nothing needs to be very heavy again until the meet.

 

[Segansational]

Rest rest rest. I suspect it’s from two weeks of peak consecutively. Your CNS needs to recover. Calories, carbs, creatine, sleep.

Don’t sweat it too much, can’t take the sets back now. Rest and recover and focus / meditate daily on visualizing moving the bar hard and fast with 185 with perfect form. If you know you can hit 175 with a brief pause during your work , load that as your first lift and violently drive that off your chest next weekend.

So the reason I told you to go heavy again this week was to potentiate you for meet day - I neglected to mention it SHOULD feel harder this week (because you just went heavy last week). This is completely normal. Typically when I go max out in training to establish my 100% effort, when I go in the next time to do 90-95% of whatever I hit on 100% week, it feels even harder. I mean, often the 90s week is absolutely brutal to execute. In your case, you essentially had the 95% effort last week and 100% this week, which is completely fine - the point is this two heavy weeks followed by deload prepares you well for the meet to handle those type of efforts. And you also have a good idea where you are at.

Now rest up, nothing needs to be very heavy again until the meet.

So, this is where I'm a bit stuck mentally:

Technically I still have the deadlift session for this week coming up (Sunday or potentially Monday) - which is also my highest risk for injury lift, but I sorta feel I need to complete to get a full picture of what to attempt on meet day.

But, that doesn't leave me with a full week to recover. And I am feeling a little beat up. So, is it better I just walk in "fresh" or give myself the full peak week advantage here so I have all the practice and data?

 

[Hyde]

So, this is where I'm a bit stuck mentally:

Technically I still have the deadlift session for this week coming up (Sunday or potentially Monday) - which is also my highest risk for injury lift, but I sorta feel I need to complete to get a full picture of what to attempt on meet day.

But, that doesn't leave me with a full week to recover. And I am feeling a little beat up. So, is it better I just walk in "fresh" or give myself the full peak week advantage here so I have all the practice and data?

If the meet is this coming week, the 24th, I would not pull over 60% max for a few singles, if you pull at all. You want to be fresh! And deadlifting is not that complicated. You won’t forget how when it’s time.