Originally Posted by
Michael Wolf
Ya, one lower stress week with intensity and volume pulled back enough to start the new round fresh, but not so much to detrain very much. Light workout the first day, medium the second day, heavier the third day, then two days off for weekend and hit it again next week. The heavier workout of this particular week would be considered a light to medium workout, Medium day an easy workout, and light day is borderline between WO and WU, so you basically are warming up to an easy work or two set that first day.
So in the case of a guy who did an easy 405 and a hard 425, it might be working up to one set of 300x3 the first day. 295x5 and then 315x3 the second day. And maybe something like 325x2, 345x2, 365x2 the third day. You could do it in a bunch of different ways, but if you assume 295x5 is just heavy enough to be contributory work for this person, then you're actually getting some decent amount of work in this week, but mostly at intensity low enough to be fresh at the end of it, while still hitting just enough work in the heavier range (345 and 365) to keep that aspect of training from backsliding as well.
As always, the point isn't to do exactly what I wrote. It's to understand how this is one example of applying the concept.