BBM Team,
I recently purchased the hypertrophy v2 template and am loving it–i’m on week 2.
Background: I have a newborn and am a professional working “8-6ish”. I really want to progress through the hypertrophy template, but, especially in week 2, i’ve been having to shuffle some of the lifts around. I lift in the morning around 6a. For ex. i get through deadlifts but get called away for work before i get through 1sec paused bench and myo leg press. I’ll go back later that day to finish the workout. If necessary, I may finish that workout the next morning before 25-30m cardio (otherwise would be a non-lifting day). I am currently in a calorie deficit and recognize that recovery and adaptation will be somewhat limited. My break periods between working sets are about 3-3.5 min, and I don’t engage in fuckery. The biggest drain on my time is the oft-massive BM, courtesy of my preworkout.
Questions: 1.Is it fine to move lifts around as needed throughout the week—so long as the volume is maintained and I continue to progress? I assume the major concern would be recovery for those muscle groups throughout the rest of the week, especially in a deficit, but I aint no doc.
- Am I wasting my time trying to do the hypertrophy template at this point?
Plea: what do
The example you give here of a training day split up will be just fine. You may or many not see some load variations pop up due to your overall fatigue or lack of fatigue in doing some lifts more fresh than if you have just done a comp lift. But then since you were at work, it might all even out. Haha So yes, I’d make these adjustments as needed and carry on. Even in a deficit, you should be fine and RPE will be nice and helpful. Trust that and long-term progress over the desire to increase the weight and miss reps or totally grind out a set.