Thread: should training volume be reduced during PCT?

i believe people advocate fewer reps but heavier weight to encourage your body to hold onto the weight gains

I don't think it matters. I've moved to a higher volume training regimen through PCT doing 6-7 sets of between 6-10 reps. It's still hard work, just not lifting as heavy. I've noticed no difference to my last PCT when I done lower reps with higher weight. I actually prefer the higher volume work.

Originally Posted by Standard Donkey

i believe people advocate fewer reps but heavier weight to encourage your body to hold onto the weight gains

I don't think it matters when you're geared

as long as you aren't overtraining, you can keep everything the same, or change up your lifting program right before pct, and run it through pct.... you should be changing your lifting routines about monthly or every 6 weeks anyway(to keep it fresh, and keep your body guessing, so you don't plateau).... if you are going to diet for a show, you don't suddenly lessen the intensity of your workouts just because you are dieting.... so don't do it during pct(if you want to maintain your size and strength gains while 'on')... does this make sense?

too many people assume when they start dieting you should lessen the weight and increase the volume(and most of the time when you do this, you lower the amt of intensity with which you are working)..(this isn't always the case, but usually it does lessen intensity)... rather, you should keep intensity high, just like you would otherwise(or even increase intensity.. as long as it doesn't lead to overtraining) so that you don't lose what you spent so much precious time gaining!

On the note of overtraining..... I believe most people don't even come close to lifting to your body's potential(intensity-wise) so very few need to worry about overtraining..... a rule of thumb you can use(and this applies to most), keep your workouts to 1hr tops! BUT, in that hour, TRAIN!!! train like there's no tomorrow!! don't stop at 10 reps(after you are warmed upp) just cause you want to do a 10,8,6,4 rep sets on an exercise(if you are bodybuilding... there is a reason fo rthis in powerlifting)... if you started with a weight you can get 10, do 12(you would be surprised.. you got two more in you!)... then on the next set, do rest pause(you can leave weight the same(you shojuld get 12-13, then rest 30-60 sec, depending on the size of the muscle you are training...(legs, 60sec, bi's or tri's 30 sec..etc), then shoot for failure again(if you hit failure the first time, you will get basically half the number of reps.. just under(if your rest was short enough, and you REALLY hit failure the first time)... then, add 30%, and do a multi-drop set(say you were using 100lbs first time, this would be 130 this time...) go to failurrre(til you CANNOT GET ANOTHER REP WITHOUT HELP), DROP THE WEIGHT BY TO 60% OF WHAT IS WAS AT(JUST OVER HALF), SO YOU WOULD DROP TO 70-75LBS, YOU SHOULD GET SAME NUMBER OF REPS YOU GOT AT 130LBS(IF YOU CAN SQEEZE ANOTHER OUT, DO SO!!! THEN DROP AGAIN(45-50LBS WOULD BE NEXT ONE, USING 60% OF PRIOR WEIGHT..) YOU SHOULD AGAIN GET SAME NUMBER, MAYBE ONE OR TWO MORE.. GO TO FAILURE EITHER WAY!!!! THEN DROP AGAIN(30LBS APPROX IS NEXT WEIGHT), YOU SHOULD GET THAT MANY OR ONE OR TWO MORE.. AND DO IT AGAIN.. TIL YOU ARE DOWN TO 10LBS OR LESS..!!!! ALL THOSE DROPS(THAT WAS ONE BIG SET... AND YOUR SHIT IS FRIED AT THAT POINT!!!!!!)

USE MULTIPLE TRAINING PRINCIPLES IN EVERY SINGLE SET YOU DO!!!

Originally Posted by wheybolic63

during my upcoming dmz-15 cycle my training will be as follows:

Sunday-shoulders and tri's
monday-back
wednesday-legs
friday-chest and bi's

other days rest, maybe some cardio.
when coming off and going into pct should i drop it to only 3 days a week or should i just reduce the volume in terms of sets and length of the workouts? keeping in mind that i obviously want to maintain as much gains as possible and don't want to overtrain during PCT.

even when using steroids, you should keep your training to 3 days max , IMHO some will disagree

I switch it up to more of a light weight higher volume training and that seems to work with me.