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Oh geesh Hannibal, I'm beginning to worry that YOU'VE got the estrogen induced hypersensitivity. Don't go away. The reason I prefer to contribute and answer questions on this board (rather than by private email) is BECAUSE I strongly feel a need for people to get varied input and opinions. This is BECAUSE there is no single 'right way' to train, diet, or maintain a healthy long term relationship etc.....
I studied and practiced most of Dr Siff's methods in my earlier years of training, so it is not out of ignorance that I comment. I made great strength gains and modest size gains, so I know it worked OK for me personally, but I was also pretty novice, and could also make size gains by doing full body weight circuits every other day!. I had to move on from there (since strength was not my main objective) when I hit an undeniable overtrained plateau. So I changed methods-I went to HIIT for a while. That also worked, even though (probably because) it is the complete opposite of what I was doing before. Of course that didn't work forever either. So from then on I learned the golden rule of bodybuilding. You have to change frequently. As I said earlier, I have no doubt that SteelWeaver would make good gains training with any method if followed with dedication and intensity, and now she's learning the benefits and limitations of the choices. Only she can tell if she's over trained.....if you don't believe in overtraining then clearly you would say she cannot possibly be overtrained. Sounds to me like semantics. Call it a plateau. Call it backsliding. Call it loss of size or lack of size gain. Call it injury prone. Call it anything you like, but if it ain't working then ya gotta change what you're doing.
I studied and practiced most of Dr Siff's methods in my earlier years of training, so it is not out of ignorance that I comment. I made great strength gains and modest size gains, so I know it worked OK for me personally, but I was also pretty novice, and could also make size gains by doing full body weight circuits every other day!. I had to move on from there (since strength was not my main objective) when I hit an undeniable overtrained plateau. So I changed methods-I went to HIIT for a while. That also worked, even though (probably because) it is the complete opposite of what I was doing before. Of course that didn't work forever either. So from then on I learned the golden rule of bodybuilding. You have to change frequently. As I said earlier, I have no doubt that SteelWeaver would make good gains training with any method if followed with dedication and intensity, and now she's learning the benefits and limitations of the choices. Only she can tell if she's over trained.....if you don't believe in overtraining then clearly you would say she cannot possibly be overtrained. Sounds to me like semantics. Call it a plateau. Call it backsliding. Call it loss of size or lack of size gain. Call it injury prone. Call it anything you like, but if it ain't working then ya gotta change what you're doing.
"Soviet research had shown that the body can adapt to a new style of training within a two to four week period." That is why in my own training and in those that I help.....training is changed every three weeks.
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