Fatigue Management | JTSstrength.com

Summary by Krater

Chad Wesley Smith explains fatigue management in strength training, covering the three states of fatigue, functional overreaching, and how to program deloads and light training sessions.

From the video

Answers: How do I manage fatigue in strength training?

• fatigue management in strength training
• functional overreaching
• deload programming and frequency
• common fatigue management mistakes

What it concludes

• Hard training (overload) is necessary to improve fitness, but causes fatigue to accumulate and lead to performance decline if not properly recovered from.
• Functional overreaching is a conscious decision to exceed your normal MRV through more volume or intensity, requiring a planned deload week to dissipate fatigue.
• Deloads should reduce volume significantly more than intensity, targeting 60 to 70 percent of normal overload volume and 80 to 90 percent of overload intensity.
• Making deload weeks too hard fails to decay fatigue and defeats the purpose of the deload week.
• Avoiding deloads or taking them too frequently both hinder long-term training progress.
• Passive and active recovery modalities like sleep and nutrition are far more important than temperature therapy or soft tissue work for fatigue management.