Originally Posted by
Brodie Butland
So, I've sort of run into this problem twice. First, I had some really bad months at work last year--two big cases basically exploded at the same time...meant lots of nights of little sleep, and the weekdays just weren't conducive to training. So I cut down my training days to weekends only--either one or two days--and did basically a combination of Madcow and back-off sets so that I would do my intensity and volume on the same day. Definitely not ideal and has a lower gainzZz ceiling, but I set all-time PRs in the squat, deadlift, and bench press during that time...so it worked somewhat. (I started really having recovery trouble after the 410x4 squat and 465x4 deadlift--there were some personal reasons that kept me out of the gym for a month or so in June/July, so I don't know whether I would have ultimately gotten past those plateaus or not, but it was definitely getting rough at that time.) I haven't updated my log in a while, but feel free to take a look--pay especial attention to the January through May 2016 period.
Now that I'm a month in to fatherhood, I'm going back to the same weekend well to see how long I can go. Too early to tell how it's going to go, but I'm optimistic that I'll at least stay in a respectable ballpark until the little one starts sleeping through the night...my last squat was 370x4, so although fatherhood has taken some toll, I'm still starting significantly higher than I did on my last good run.