Recovery weeks?

A rest week every month? Da fuk??!!!

Maybe once a year. But mentally I have a hard time doing it, so I don’t...

If you’re only lifting 3 days a week, you haven’t earned taking a week off.

I lift or run 7 days a week. I will occasionally take a day or two off. Never a week, even on vacation

I take a deload week every 5th week. Let the muscles rebuild and recover mentally. I just came off a 10 week tear and I regret it.

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Have also thought about the deload week. Less weight and/or reps/sets right?

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I'm sure there are a lot ways to do this, in my lifting program I keep the same reps and limit weight to between 40%-60% of 1 rep max.

What the hell do you do in the gym that takes two hours a day? Are you training for the Olympics?

So just a normal workout like the rest of us. Got it.

I'll go back to laughing at taking one week out of every 5 weeks for a mental recovery.

I take a week off every 8-12 weeks

the current program im on it 22 weeks so ill take one after that.

Not lifting, but for endurance training, it's pretty standard to do "blocks". 3-4 weeks of a build, 1 week of reduced workload. It's not an off week at all. But if you are normally doing 12+ hours of workouts in a week, you might bump it down to 8 hours. Just gives your body a chance to catch up.

You should always have your schedule set up for proper recovery (i.e. give your legs a rest after a big leg day), but the scaled back week lets your whole system recover. Like right now, I am battling a sinus infection/head cold that won't go away. Constantly grinding yourself down doesn't help that healing process. I'm in need of a scaled back week soon. Not because my legs need it (even though I did a 4 hour bike ride and ran a half marathon this weekend.....legs will be better by Tuesday), but because my immune system needs time to worry about 1 thing at a time.

I would imagine lifting for the most part has a more significant focus on recover and this isn't nearly as big of a deal. But still, if you start to feel run down....it's probably a good idea.