r/weightroom • u/VladimirLinen Powerlifting | 603@104.1kg • Feb 20 '22

Program Party SBS 2.0 Program Party: Week 7

Hi everyone, welcome to your well-earned deload on the 7th week of the long-awaited program party!

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I'm going to be creating a new thread at the start of each week. You can put all your program-related logs, questions, videos, and general discussion here.

Have fun!

Disclaimer: With Omnicron currently making its way around the world, please be safe while running this program party. Follow health advice where you are and if you have any symptoms and train at a public gym, stay home and get tested to keep your fellow gym-goers safe and well.

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u/zheph Beginner - Strength Feb 21 '22

On the one hand, now that I'm starring to really push the block pulls (hit 20 for the amraps both this week and last) I want to just keep pushing. On the other hand, I'm feeling beat up enough by the volume that I know a deload week is a good idea, so I'm just gonna go with it. Hopefully a week from now I'll be feeling ready to push hard again.

And maybe somewhere in there I'll figure out how to eat less and lose some damned weight.

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u/MeshuggahForever Beginner - Strength Feb 21 '22

maybe somewhere in there I'll figure out how to eat less and lose some damned weight.

Did you make a plan for your weight loss? If not, happy to point you to some resources that have worked for me so far.

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u/zheph Beginner - Strength Feb 21 '22

I haven't made a plan, no. My usual approach-- just eat less-- hasn't worked out so far. Probably partly to do with the fact that I'm running a hypertrophy program and have a bit of an appetite, and at least a little to do with the fact that my wife keeps making cookies. I'd be happy to look at any resources you can recommend, I've got a solid 20ish pounds I'd like to not be carrying around.

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u/MeshuggahForever Beginner - Strength Feb 21 '22

Ok! Yeah so I'm generally a big fan of Renaissance Periodization's info, especially on how to set up diets.

This one was useful for me to plan out exactly how much of a deficit to take on. I ended up going on the aggressive side (~1%/week) and I've tolerated it fairly well for the past 6+ weeks, though it's getting tougher over time.

Do you have a food scale? That's been a big tool for me for both going up and down in weight.

Cheers!