Troubleshooting and programming

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hey. Have been an ardent supporter of your templates and have such just picked up the Low Fatigue Strength template to give it a go. I’ve read the accompanying PDF and have a question about troubleshooting my programming.

I’ve noticed (after going back through 3 years of training logs) that I can normally increase my weight on the bar while ramping up the volume as the template progresses. Normally I find that once I’m into my second week of maximum programmed volume I see the weight on the bar stall and usually stagnate and sometime regress in order to maintain the prescribed RPE.

  1. This seems to happen more severely on the higher intensity templates.
  2. Session RPE is fine without seeing a marked increase overall

With reference to the troubleshooting guide:

Would you see this as a Too Much Fatigue situation and back off the volume by one set until things stabilized and go back up from there?

Would you implement a time cap to complete prescribed sets?

Appreciate any insight. Thanks.

Chris

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Maybe! You could try it out, for sure. I do like the time cap idea though for this situation.

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Jordan, would you generally recommend always using the time caps with the Low Fatigue Template, or only once/if the troubleshoots are applied? And would you start the timer before the initial working set or include even warm ups?

I gave the latter option a go this week, super fun way to train and the shorter session times are really cool, but once volume increases getting it all done within the time caps might definitely be more challenging without cutting rest times below even three minutes.

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The default program designs are how I would run the low fatigue templates until you need to troubleshoot. I would start the timer after warm-ups unless otherwise specified.