[Michaela]

What type of split and volume did you run in the past when you continuously got injured each season?

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[Michaela]

It’s great to have a plan, but more important to know this is all on a day to day case by case basis and what you think the plan may be doesn’t always end up being applicable. So don’t be dead set in your ways and incapable of being flexible if needed!

As far as natural vs enhanced, in both cases I believe the best peaking method is to just be peeled and change the least amount of things possible

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[Michaela]

I personally like to have my rest day calories lower than training day and I like cardio fasted 25 min 4x/week

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If you don’t feel it hindering recovery then it’s not hindering recovery. I personally do not drink caffeine other than coffee

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I second as Hilly has suggested. Really just depends on your recovery and training performance and monitoring body composition

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Does it affect your training and progressions negatively? If not and it’s just a sensation then I wouldn’t be concerned with it

I’d also look to your execution and why you’re feeling it in your neck. Make sure you’re keeping a neutral spine and not cranking your neck back like crazy when the reps get hard

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I am not sure about over there, but here in the states it has more preservatives and extras mixed in so that would be why I wouldn’t use it. But if that’s not the case there then there’s nothing wrong with it if it digests well for you

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[Michaela]

Definitely not something we are qualified to advise on man

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Yes, as long as it comes out a bit more solid than it goes in lol

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I like all rep ranges

Big body parts and big movements top set 6-10, back off sets 10-15
Smaller body parts, smaller movements 8-15
Sometimes I’ll even take progression all the way into the 20’s
Just progress

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[Michaela]

JP nailed it here with my exact thoughts before I even read his reply.
If you’re already training with accurate form, feeling the muscle, making the reps feel hard, controlling the weight, keeping each rep consistent and not making them easier when the set gets harder, then all you do is mimic that next week and aim to progress it

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I don’t particularly track it. I have the same amount of eaas each training day and it never changes. Have done this for over a decade.
Just be consistent and don’t drink it willy nilly all day long in different amounts every day

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[Michaela]

Best thing you can do is try it out and form consistency and feedback and then report back here with any questions based on that!

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There’s no guaranteed to work blueprint we can give you.
The best case scenario is you are ready and in shape and you do not have to manipulate anything.
If you have to manipulate things, choose to do the least at the first show, and then as you go into the next two you can tweak more things. But if you do too much at the first one you can sabotage the next two.

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It’s just part of it man, it takes extreme discipline to achieve extreme goals. The vision for the goal has to be more desired than any momentary craving

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