Dr. Bret Contreras

He had this hypertrophy-specific training, and he called it strategic reconditioning or something like that.

And, you know, we always thought maybe there's something to it where it primes your – then it primes you to get newbie gains again, or at least it will actually –

help you grow more muscle.

Um, but it was always just kind of a theory, but in practice, a lot of bodybuilders don't tend to do that.

They tend to tend to train you around, but the thing is you need to deload.

It's really hard to not get nagging pain.

It's important to not necessarily take a week off, but chill for at least a few days, maybe a whole week.

Um, but this was recently put to the test in the literature, um, taking a week off, um,

Brad Schoenfeld was on that paper.

And what they found was you didn't see better benefits taking the week off, but you also didn't lose much.

So it's like, but what I want to talk about is this literature.

I'm not well versed in it.

I'd have to go back and look, but it's people who did periodic training.

Like if you train for a few weeks and then take a week off and then train for a few weeks and

Yes, you lose strength, you decondition, you lose strength and some size, but you quickly gain it back.

And this whole notion that you have to be training year round all the time, it's just not evidence based on a few studies that have shown that you...

they show similar results with people that take some periodic time off you gain it back quickly due to like muscle memory here's where it can be beneficial if it helps your psychological desire to train or if it helps heal nagging injuries or pain

then it can be beneficial.

I don't recommend it to my followers, but I do recommend having times where you chill.

Life sometimes forces you into that.