Hello,
I just started The Bridge, last week. Due to travel (lack of equipment) and inexperience with RPE, I thought I should train (The Bridge) as much as possible this week starting from week one again. I will only have access to real equipment today so I will basically just be fooling around in my hotel gym the rest of the week.In my mind, I was making the best use of the situation. Are there any pitfalls to this line of thinking? Any suggestion?
Thanks,
If I understand, you’re saying that you kind of did week 1, can’t train this week, and are wondering about restarting after Thanksgiving? If so, the answer is yes-start with week 1 next week.
If you are restarting the bridge after just a quick “layoff” you might want to do a bit more upper body volume on week 1 the second time around.
I guess it depends on your history and everybody is different, but I found I had a hard time with the presses on week 2 of the bridge, possibly because week 1 was a significant drop in volume from the version of TM I had been doing previously.
I hurt my back and couldn’t squat or deadlift heavy on week 2 so I restarted the bridge, but I kept the pressing volume high because I definitely didn’t need a double dose of upper body deload in such a short timeframe.
It sounds like he did almost zero of week 1, then we have Thanksgiving. So let’s keep this simple-start week 1 as written and move forward from there. I HIGHLY suggest doing the program as written and not adding in extra work. You will adapt to the upper body volume.
I guess I misunderstood what he did and his layoff. For me I did all of week one, mostly only upper body in week 2 and felt no need to drop the upper body volume again when restarting.
Thank you! I am starting fresh!