Strategic deconditioning breaks might be the key long-lasting growth, especially for hard-impossible gainers like myself. Typically, we talk about deconditioning in reference to someone who has been doing PE for many months in a row and has seen a great decline in measurable gains. But here, I am discussing something else. These are more strategic breaks.
I stumbled upon this “theory” by pure happenstance stemming from the recent barrage of negative results I have been getting through my PE. I did a very quality routine for a cycle of weeks and it yielded a loss in size for me. But today, after taking 8 days in a row off, I measured the losses back PLUS a gain of 0.32” in length. That’s a big growth spurt to have in a matter of one week’s time. Why do I think this happened? It was an accident strategic deconditioning break for me.
I'm going to quote from what I wrote in my progress log:
One constant I seem to find in many “hard” gainers is that they all have very high EQ levels. I know for me personally, my EQ never drops, no matter what I do. This always bothered me and made me believe that my high EQ was my Achilles heal to gaining. But now I think differently. My new line of thinking is this: constant high EQ is a sign that you need to take a break. I know that may be difficult to believe, but I honestly think it to be the case now. I’m not really sure what is going on in these cases. But I think for people like me, a simple cycle of 2-3 weeks of exercising followed by a week off might be the key in making those gains. We’ll see how it continues to play out.
DryJelq has touched upon this in some of his threads and I strongly encourage him and others to join in a discussion here. I think there is a lot of useful information to be discussed regarding deconditioning breaks and I don’t think enough people are using them. I know I will be from now on.
I stumbled upon this “theory” by pure happenstance stemming from the recent barrage of negative results I have been getting through my PE. I did a very quality routine for a cycle of weeks and it yielded a loss in size for me. But today, after taking 8 days in a row off, I measured the losses back PLUS a gain of 0.32” in length. That’s a big growth spurt to have in a matter of one week’s time. Why do I think this happened? It was an accident strategic deconditioning break for me.
I'm going to quote from what I wrote in my progress log:
Thinking back, most of my "flip-outs" on PE have come when I was very very upset at measuring a loss of size after putting in a good series of workouts. At that point, I would either do something different or do nothing at all for a long time (like, a month or so). Doing something different never did anything for me. When I would take the extended time off, when I came back, I'd always be right back where I started. But I wonder. What would have happened if I would have just taken a week off and then came back? Maybe this is my key component - always been right in front of my fucking face, but never realized it.
It almost seems like my insanely high EQ is a sign. When I do my PE routines, I get the high EQ and it flatlines at a 9-10. I keep it there by continuning what I'm doing. But, maybe this constant high EQ is a sign. Maybe this is MY sign that it's time to take a week off. Because, now I have, and I have come back with growth, big growth. Before, I wouldn't see this growth because I was too busy being pissed off at the world and my dick. Without returning to the exercises, I never cemented the gains and they just went away.
It almost seems like my insanely high EQ is a sign. When I do my PE routines, I get the high EQ and it flatlines at a 9-10. I keep it there by continuning what I'm doing. But, maybe this constant high EQ is a sign. Maybe this is MY sign that it's time to take a week off. Because, now I have, and I have come back with growth, big growth. Before, I wouldn't see this growth because I was too busy being pissed off at the world and my dick. Without returning to the exercises, I never cemented the gains and they just went away.
DryJelq has touched upon this in some of his threads and I strongly encourage him and others to join in a discussion here. I think there is a lot of useful information to be discussed regarding deconditioning breaks and I don’t think enough people are using them. I know I will be from now on.
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