Programming considerations on vacation

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Hi Barbell Medicine team,

I’m currently running the 12 week strength press-focused template (week 2), but will be without access to a gym for weeks 11 and 12. I will be doing whatever movements I can during those weeks (pushups, dips, strongman stuff if I find heavy rocks, etc.), but obviously specificity is an issue. I was thinking of stopping after week 6 (developmental block) and starting the hypertrophy program, because the sets and rep schemes I would be doing on vacation would likely be more similar to that program. Does that make sense? I know this is an odd question, so I appreciate the help.

Cheers,

Ben

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Ben,

Thanks for the post and hope you had a good weekend.

I would plan on running the Press template through week 10, then coming back and starting with the last deload week in that program before finishing out that template :slight_smile:

Have a great vacation!

-Jordan

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That makes sense, thanks Jordan! Keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Ben