massive deload?

[Matsuo Munefusa.]

my squat is at 325 max right now. My goal is to get it to 480 in a couple years.

I have been feeling my form is slipping my negative is getting much too fast and my lower back is blasting out sometimes after a hard session.

A friend suggested I do a MASSIVE deload and reset at 135 and build right back up. I squat twice in 8 days so thats 10 pounds each workout or 20 pounds each 8 days, 100 pounds each 40 days, or 200 pounds to PR will take 80 days of deloading/resetting...almost three months!.

Do you think this is worth it? I went real real slow negatives on 135 the other day and I'll be DAMNED if I didnt feel it today in some muscles that usually arent sore from squatting 315!!

 

[painquestions]

A friend of mine is a trainer and he told me he did this one summer..the whole summer. deloaded and went REAL slow on literally everything he was doing. squats, deadlifts, cleans ...even when he was doing bis/tris ...everything. i think he was doing 10 second negatives on his squats. He said everyone at the gym was looking at him like he was crazy but by the end of the summer he was throwing up the numbers he wanted with total control. I've lifted with him a few times and now he is power cleaning standing on a balance board

im planning on doing this with my incline and flat benches...i think its worth a shot

 

[Binge_Artist]

Perfect form and slow negatives with light weight, and you certainly won't lose any strength.

Lots of folks have success with less "dramatic" deloads, and go to about 70% of their usual work weight, and work their way back up with 4 sec negatives.

 

[stevein7]

You can do this natural.


Squat 3 times per week for 2 weeks, plus whatever else after squats, but keep the session under an hour.


Using 10 k increments work up to a heavy single, not a max.
Do this for 6 sessions then take a week off heavy lifting.

Repeat.

Every cycle try to beat the previous max.

The deload week can be squats with only 225lb , 10 doubles on the minute, just to keep the groove.

2 weeks hard, 1 week easy, its magic.

 

[Matsuo Munefusa.]

im cruising at 175 today. its easy as shit its kinda fun though its no-pressure squatting just super-concentrated on perfect form and slow negatives. I think I'm learning ssomething valuable.