Hey guys, just need a little advice on my routine. First let me give you a little background on my weight training history. I started lifting weights in high school about 3 days a week and made decent gains in strength and size, even thought I didn't look different in the mirror I could tell that I was getting bigger by others reactions. After my freshman year of college I joined the Marine Corps and enlisted as a reservist. I lost over 30 lbs in bootcamp and while I felt like I was in great shape and could do pushups all night when I got back to the weightroom I noticed that I was much weaker than when I left. So I found a training partner and we started lifting weights together. When we started about 2 months ago my friend was way stronger than me, he would do his set then we would strip weight off of the barbell so that I could do mine. By the end of a two month period I could lift what he lifted and even went with higher weight and for more reps on exercises that he was stronger than me in before. But over the past two weeks I have seemed to reach a plateau. It has even gotten to the point where I can only do 6-7 reps when I could do 10 before. I figure that I'm overtraining and need to take a few weeks off to let my body recover, at which point I can start lifting and make gains again. How long do you guys think I should take off or what I should do? I read an article about intensity cycling and thought that might be a good idea, to start working out with lighter weights and adding on to that. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
PFC Jay-Budaman, USMC
PFC Jay-Budaman, USMC
