I think I know what I am going to do here but throw out it out to the group for discussion - thoughts on putting an extra recovery week in at the end of SSB2 MV? I’m considering doing a recovery week for week 5, then doing the week 5 workouts followed by another recovery week before starting build. …

Here is the thread I made with a couple of options. [image] Alternate Sweet Spot Base, Work : Recovery Week Layout Training The following are some possible adjustments that can be made to the Sweet Spot Base plans. The goal is to shorten the number of “Work Weeks” between…

My personal experience adding an additional week of recovery does help. Chad’s link is great.

It looks like great minds thing alike :wink: Thanks for the link.

What’s a recovery week and why would you ever need an extra one?! :man_shrugging::rofl: (As you can tell, some of us…one of us? …is hell bent for leather and attempts to temper this defect with the use of “humour”. :laughing: )

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mcneese.chad January 23, 2019, 7:55pm 2

Here is the thread I made with a couple of options.

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