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Old 07-17-2008, 08:58 PM
mrodock mrodock is offline
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Vickie,

I am a beginning lifter and I have made some good progress in the last 7 weeks. I have gone from 150 to 168 pounds. And by working out 3 days a week on compound lifts I have improved my strength.

My 5 rep maxes:
Overhead press: 90 pounds to 125 pounds
Back Squat: 135 pounds to 270 pounds
Deadlift: 165 pounds to 275 pounds
DB Snatch: 50 pounds to 75 pounds
Bench Press: I messed this up initially and am now starting to make progress.

So here is the question. I have noticed in the last couple of weeks I have been extremely fatigued, negative, and barely able to get through my workouts. I might be getting dangerously close to overtraining (I'm still able to progress every week on weights though). I think I will start a deload week but I don't know how much to deload without really losing too much. I just want to deload lower body because upper body seems to be moving along alright still and doesn't seem to be causing too much fatigue. Would a 75% deload week be about right?

Thanks!

Matt
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"In my experience, if you stay with the essentials you WILL build a repeatable swing undoubtedly. If you can master the Imperatives you have a champion" (Vikram).

The reason you can't sustain the lag is because you are so eager to make the club move fast (a reaction to the intent of "hitting it far"). So on a full shot you throw it away too early, which doesn't happen for your short chip. (bts)
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