In the last newsletter, I showed how taking two days off between the A and B New Wave Full-Body Workouts (page 19 in UMWR) is perfectly fine…
And it may be necessary—at least every so often—to ward off the Dread Factor…
When you get older, you need more time to recover, especially if you’re training your entire body…
You saw that taking two days off, such as training your whole body on Monday, resting two days, and then hitting it again on Thursday requires your third workout to be on the weekend—either Saturday or Sunday…
But there’s an alternative so you avoid weekend training—the Wednesday Low-Tide Workout…
Remember, with the New Wave Full-Body Workout, you prioritize a different half of your body at each—A: upper; B: lower.
The Low-Tide Workout has you de-prioritizing both upper and lower. That means on Wednesday, you do only one straight set for each muscle, stopping 1 or 2 reps short of failure…
Monday: Workout A
Wednesday: Low-Tide Workout
Friday: Workout B
Monday: Workout A
Wednesday: Low-Tide Workout
Friday: Workout B
As I’ve mentioned, recovery is an individual thing and is often a moving target…
So you can use that Low-Tide Workout as an “as-necessary” occurrence—whenever you don’t feel recovered…
For most trainees, alternating the full A and B workouts over Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will be the ideal hypertrophy frequency most of the time…
But don’t be afraid to wade in with a Low-Tide Workout whenever you’re not feeling up to surfing a big wave.
Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
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