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Coming off I usually drop the intensity a bit, number of sets and go from 5 workout days to 4 workout days. It helps. A long long time ago I use to do like you and be stubborn about it when I came off and do actually more a I came off. invariably I dropped size really fast. Then at one point I was too busy with work and could only train 2-3 times a week and i kept more gains for longer. Then I thought about it.
As the body comes off it is going from anabolic to catabolic. No matter the more stress that is put on the body the more catabolic it will become. So I finally learned that the ting to do for a period of time was to drop intensity and ride out the catabolic period. Eat lean, high protein, lowish carbs, do a little more low intensity cardio like running outside or some sprints, and don't as in DO NOT train to failure. That stays in place for a few months then slowly work back.
It actuality, this sort of deload has some very positive effects. The joints and tendons are rested. When we go off nearly all of us feel brittle as the androgens lave and catabolistic metabolism races. Coming off is the most vulnerable period for injury. You can back off and after 16 weeks have a stronger underlying connective tissue structure, or go balls to the wall, lose a lot of gains and be riddled with tendonitis or worse.
Best thing to do is back off and eat clean. Then when you start feeling yourself again, usually by week 10 or 12, start putting the pedal down slowly. I'm getting pretty old but 2 years ago I ent through this style of recovery. I completely stopped squating and deadlifting. By week 12 I started up squatting and DL again. By week 16 I was squating 315 for sets of 15 and had put on 7 lbs naturally. My back, knees and hamstrings were feeling great and then I went back on. I was squatting in the mid 500s again in no time at 50 years of age.
Now years back in the past I would have be stubborn and went balls to the wall the whole time and pulled a hamstring really badly, strained my lower back and had a shitty cycle the next time at bat. The big lesson in this is thing longer term and reap the benefits.
As the body comes off it is going from anabolic to catabolic. No matter the more stress that is put on the body the more catabolic it will become. So I finally learned that the ting to do for a period of time was to drop intensity and ride out the catabolic period. Eat lean, high protein, lowish carbs, do a little more low intensity cardio like running outside or some sprints, and don't as in DO NOT train to failure. That stays in place for a few months then slowly work back.
It actuality, this sort of deload has some very positive effects. The joints and tendons are rested. When we go off nearly all of us feel brittle as the androgens lave and catabolistic metabolism races. Coming off is the most vulnerable period for injury. You can back off and after 16 weeks have a stronger underlying connective tissue structure, or go balls to the wall, lose a lot of gains and be riddled with tendonitis or worse.
Best thing to do is back off and eat clean. Then when you start feeling yourself again, usually by week 10 or 12, start putting the pedal down slowly. I'm getting pretty old but 2 years ago I ent through this style of recovery. I completely stopped squating and deadlifting. By week 12 I started up squatting and DL again. By week 16 I was squating 315 for sets of 15 and had put on 7 lbs naturally. My back, knees and hamstrings were feeling great and then I went back on. I was squatting in the mid 500s again in no time at 50 years of age.
Now years back in the past I would have be stubborn and went balls to the wall the whole time and pulled a hamstring really badly, strained my lower back and had a shitty cycle the next time at bat. The big lesson in this is thing longer term and reap the benefits.
pretty good advice
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