Low Stress week and Maxing

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hello

I’m currently wrapping up the Bridge 2.0. Eating better has been a focus of mine the past couple months and I’ve dropped from 187-182 on the Bridge while hitting a 10 lb squat PR on Tuesday. It’s nice to hit PR’s after spending YEARS going no where with sub optimal intermediate programming (thanks Rip).

Anyways, I used the low stress week as kind of a max week. I hit the PR on Tuesday and did pause squats today and maxed my press. The pause squats didn’t feel great today and I’m guessing because of some fatigue from the max on Tuesday. I know normally I wouldn’t start a new program and do the low stress week if I just finished a program on a low stress week BUT if I use the low stress week as a max week should I use another low stress week or is the point of the low stress week to attempt some PR’s due to the lower stress.

Also, I’ve done the Bridge, HLM and now Bridge 2.0. Would you recommend doing like a GPP template for my next go around as a “cleanse” or does it really matter?

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Tiger,

Yea I would do the low stress week as planned on the next template. I think if you’re having good results that we don’t have much to suggest you need a markedly different approach so any one of the templates would be fine IMO.