Managing Fatigue

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hi All,

currently doing HLM template and reached week 4 where back off sets are all supposed to go up. We recently had our 3rd child plus with the holidays I unsurprisingly was fatigued this week. Decided to re-do week 3s volume due to how fatigued I was feeling midway through first workout. Each day has been the same. My plan is to do week 4 next week.

My question is whether In a situation like this where one is feeling beat up from life circumstances/stress, would you recommend he/she does the amount of volume called for, and just make sure to pay close attention to RPE, or would you recommend doing what I did here and back volume off while still paying attention to RPE? In other words, should one go with the called for increase in volume even if feeling extra fatigued and expect the RPE to regulate the fatigue, or hold off on increasing volume to help adjust for fatigue? Or does it not really matter?

Hope this makes sense!

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NM,

Thanks for the post and I hope you’re doing well.

I would do the same amount of volume at the prescribed RPE, yes. If you’re feeling extra fatigued the weight is likely to be much lighter, thus autoregulating the stress :slight_smile:

-Jordan

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Thanks Jordan! To clarify, when you say, “I would do the same amount of volume”, you’re saying you would do the prescribed increase in volume (despite how you’re feeling) and expect RPE to take care of autoregulation?

just making sure by “same amount of volume” you don’t mean you would have kept volume same as I did?

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I’m kind of confused by the wording, but to be clear- I wouldn’t change the volume if it was explicitly prescribed. I would alter the weight based on RPE, however :slight_smile:

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That answers it. Thank you!