Managing Deloads and Neurological Fatigue

So realistically, it's going to be dependent on, are you still seeing results? So if they are still seeing results, I don't change the program. So the week to week is exactly the same or are they changing? Okay. It would have been. So if it's, if it's somebody who's really high level, like I train a girl from Chicago, Krista Carlson. So she's an absolute animal and her, sometimes her goals will change. Like she's more physique oriented, but sometimes she wants to do some strength stuff. So then I'm like, okay, I'm going to do strength stuff. And I've trained her for about two years. And I know that she can do maximal strength for about two weeks before the shit hits the fan. and she loses her appetite, she can't sleep and all, you know, that type of thing. So what I do is I write a six week program, but I go two weeks of maximal strength. And then I move her to a week of more metabolic or hypertrophy work with a little bit more aerobics and a little bit less volume. She recovers. And then I move her back to, uh, back to the strength work and then back to the, uh, what we call more of like a least mode week. Um, and that's how I do deloads. I don't do traditional deloads where somebody's lifting really heavy. We just cut some of the sets out because what I've noticed is there's still that sympathetic neurological stimulus. You're just kind of turning it off. So it would be like if you were burning your hand on something and you started seeing your hand blister and you just turn the heat down a little bit, well, your hand's still getting burned. Why don't we put some ice on it instead? And I just totally made that up. So I hope that makes sense. But the way I see it is if you're going to do a deload, just do a massive deload and switch the emphasis. So if you're doing something that's highly neurological, just move to something that's more metabolic for a week, let them recover, let their metrics get better, and then you can smash them again. Yeah, so that's interesting. So you basically, just the way I view it, is you're kind of taxing different systems, right? So the nervous system versus the muscular system versus maybe the energy production, the mitochondria in the liver, the ability to clear lactate. So if you know someone is neurologically fatigued because of the sympathetic overdrive, you know switching to something that's more muscular based or more energy based meaning going to require the mitochondria produce more energy or tax the liver or just going to be a different system does that sound kind of sound like it's alignment yeah yeah that's pretty much it so and everybody has their individual tolerance of things like um i'm on the i've always been a strength athlete everything's always been an extreme fast heavy um violent type of thing Well, yeah, Texas high school football, right? But that's just the way I'm built, right? I've got a jacked up nervous system, massive ADD. I've always been a big guy, even not when I'm training. I didn't train for six years and I'm still 110 kilos. So it's like that works for me. I can go in and do twice a day, five days a week of 3-2-1 wave loading and be totally fine. But I can give that to someone else and it will crush them within a few days and they'll be massively neurologically overtrained and they can't handle it. So I got you. Yeah, you've got the whole the art of coaching. And what we should be doing is looking at that client saying, OK, when do your metrics change? When do your symptoms increase? OK, now I need to figure out what's causing the subjective and objective data to get screwed up because now I know you're overreaching. So now I need to pull you out of overreaching so you can supercompensate and get bigger and faster and stronger. So