Long term planning & testing 1RM's

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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36yo, currently in a calorie deficit and slowly losing weight.

I’m just about to start week 4 of my second run through of the Bridge, after which I’ll be running the 7 week hypertrophy and 12 weeks strength templates.

  1. I’m planning on adding back singles @ 8 on comp lifts for the remainder of the bridge. For the last week of the bridge I want to test my 1rm’s so that I have an apples-apples comparison for a few month later after I’ve run the 12 week strength. Seeing as the last week of the bridge is fairly low stress, does it make sense to swap that week out for weeks 12 (Realization) of the 12 week strength?

  2. The current goal is to have my waist comfortably under 40" by the end of the 7 weeks hypertrophy template. If I need to stay in a calorie deficit for longer, should repeat the hypertrophy template before moving on to 12 weeks strength?

I’m planning on upping my conditioning in a few weeks.

Currently I’m in a hotel with the wife/kids/dogs while my roof & siding are being replaced. We’re heading into week 5 out of hopefully only 6, and slipping out to train 3 nights a week is as much as I want to put my wife through right now.

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  1. I’m not sure I follow this question.

  2. How far are you away from the 40" threshold? How large of a deficit are you planning on implementing?