Originally Posted by
jwagner
I'm doing Guided Programming, so I think he's the one that has created all of the strategies used, but it's not tailored to me specifically.
The group I'm in has something similar except a little more drawn out. The blocks seem to be 3-4 weeks long with an RTS-style deload between blocks (I've heard Mike refer to them as pivot cycles on some podcast or another). I definitely appreciate the three week blocks more than the four week ones. The four week blocks really feel like a grind and I think I got pretty close to my MRV if not just past it on the last one. Luckily TRAC steps in and helps moderate the volume in those situations keeping me from just pushing even further into no man's land.
To me, it's funny that I always thought TM was going to be too brutal for me being in my 30s so stuck with HLM before switching to RTS. Now, my "deload" weeks are pretty close to TM with 6x4 on all three main lifts in the first two days. I think it probably points to the lack of work capacity development that has been argued in the programming forum recently more than anything.