I would do volume day on Tuesday or early Wednesday morning, time permitting, and follow the 3-day TM volume day prescription. This way you get back and retain most of your progress.
I will be going on a trip out of state next week where I'm leaving on a Wednesday morning and coming back Monday at night the following week. This makes me skip the Intensity lifts for the first week and miss at least my first Volume session the next week on a 4-day split. I'll be able to do my Monday and Tuesday workouts for Week A, but i'll miss the rest and I could probably fit my Week B workout in and shift everything a day and just keep my ID Squat and DL on Saturday. Question is should I attempt to just repeat Squat and Pull numbers from the previous week without having had an ID for those on Week A?
I don't know if certain lifts really drop off or not but my recent ID lifts are this:
Squat: 395x3 (it'll be a 2RM next week)
Press: 2x3 at 151
Bench: 224x5
DL: 395x3
Current programming
Week A:
Monday: Press 5x5, Bench 3x8, Chin 3x5 weighted
Tuesday: Squat 3x5, SLDL 3x5, BB Row 3x5
Thursday: Press 2x3, Bench 3x3, Dips 3x5 weighted
Saturday: Squat 2RM, Deadlift 3RM, 3x15 Banded Goodmornings
Week B:
Monday: Bench 3x5, Press 3x8, Chin 3x5 weighted
Tuesday: Squat 3x5, SLDL 3x5, BB Row 3x5
Thursday: Bench 5RM, Press 3x3, Dips 3x5 weighted
Saturday: Squat 2RM, Deadlift 3RM, 3x15 Banded Goodmornings
I would do volume day on Tuesday or early Wednesday morning, time permitting, and follow the 3-day TM volume day prescription. This way you get back and retain most of your progress.
So, if I'm reading this correctly, you're going to miss 5 days, correct? It depends on how wedded to the weekly layout you are. I'm also doing a 4-day split (but it's the same from week to week), and I occasionally have to push off workouts for various reasons. I usually just do the next scheduled workout and shift everything accordingly if it's going to be a short break. A 5 day layoff is about where I would draw the line as far as repeating the previous workout vs moving forward.
I would imagine that you could do your Week B workout and repeat your squat/pull weights from the previous week on Saturday without too much trouble, since you're still going to be doing your volume work when you get back. That's what I would do, anyway.
Yeah it's a 5 day break which I figured was in the middle ground. I'm essentially going to have 2 VDs before I have any ID lifts which was the odd part. Only reason I do Saturday instead of Friday for ID squat/pull is because I like having the whole extra day of recovery for the big lifts and it gives me 3 days instead of 2 between VD and ID. Something I took from Justin Lascek's TM books which really helped out, but it's not a hard and fast rule I have to do it Saturday.