Thread: you hit the gym all fired up' and your strength has DROPPED!! what do you do?

go lighter, back off the weight instead of trying to push the heavy stuff. You may end up hurting yourself in the end because you are trying so hard to get those extra reps that are usually there. The day of light work may be beneficial to you, especially if you have ben going heavy for a while. It will kind of be like deloading, or active rest. Some days your on and some days your not.

go lighter offcourse

I say continue on your normal routine for another week or so. If you notice the same results, then take a week off.

You need to drop the weight back and start building back up again. You won't be able to hit the same weights every week. Eventually you will hit a wall. This is why you need to cycle your training.

i just do the same weight, for as many reps as possible

ephedra??sex??kidding of course...like they said..take it lighter, get some rest..look at diet..etc.

If you train heavy for long stretches of time I know I start losing strength. Powerlifting requires a little knowlege, those guys peak thier lifts in 2-3 month periods, they dont max out all the time and they dont always lift super heavy either.

Volume and training frequency would also be different, one US powerlifter said all his friends thought he was a madman for training so frequent as every 8 days, where most bodybuilders are 5-7.

thanks for the advice, in future i'll drop the weights back a bit n' give myself a break from going too heavy

i made the choice to struggle on going heavy for the rest of that week, the following week i dropped the weights back slightly and i was still really struggling to push the reps out, so i took last week off and did a full body workout yesterday to prepare myself to get back into it

i'll have to start building it up again, i guess i will have to make sure i DO cycle from heavy to moderate every couple of weeks, its easy to overlook at times when your 5kg off from hitting your short-term benching target n' you are making great progress doing what your doing... until then outta' nowhere it all falls apart!

peace

In strength training, there are no short term goals. Strength takes time and many people are so very eager to improve.

It is common place in strength training to drop the weight back to 70% of 1rm and build back up over the next 10-14 weeks

i usually drop the weight then go home and cry myself to sleep