185: Deloads (How to Use Them & Who Needs Them)

Your body can't adapt without recovery. That's why in addition to prioritizing weekly recovery we sometimes need a deload, where training load is dramatically reduced to "supercharge" recovery. It's like an oil change for our body. The study I referenced in which men who took multiple 3 week breaks throughout the course of a 24 week training cycle saw the same gains as men who trained throughout the cycle without breaks.