Deload / Intensive Cruise

[Scott Stevenson]

Thank you!  Both of your points are probably accurate. I did take 6 months off of heavy lifting to let my QL fully heal so I mainly did pump sets for all body parts.. I checked my ego at the door and started back with weights I used almost a year ago. Which probably explains why I was able to keep moving up…which was closely inline with my previous progression. Also I did increase my TRT for the first time because I wanted to get back to where I was before getting injured. Now I’m almost fully back to where I was strength wise so now I will get back to the basic fortitude principles of a 3-6 blast followed by a cruise. 

Thank you again 

Hey Brother!

You're welcome.   But note, it's not a principle that the Blast would last 3-6 weeks.  That's just typically how one would expect it to work out in most cases.  If someone needs to Cruise in 2 weeks, then so be it (although I might suspect the Volume Tier might have been a bit high in the case).  If someone makes it to 8 weeks before feeling a cruise is needed and then successfully cruises, recovers and ideally rebounds before starting the next Blast, then that's a victory.  

Main point is to auto-regulate, and not limit oneself to prescribed boundaries, but simultaneously keep in mind what the status quo tends to be.

Welcome back!!!

-Scott