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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to bounce forward with me, Tip Haul.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians the land on

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Speaker 1: which I'm recording this podcast, the waundry people of the

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Speaker 1: cooler Nation. I pay my respects to elders past and present.

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Speaker 1: Carrie had a great question, what is a dload week.

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Speaker 1: I've been told by a trainer before that I need

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Speaker 1: to deload in my workouts. They said, go crazy, eat

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Speaker 1: what you want for a week, no exercise, and then

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Speaker 1: come back and we'll have tricked your body and you'll

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Speaker 1: end up stronger than when you work out again.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure I trust this advice.

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Speaker 1: Help, Oh Carrie, Okay, that sounds fantastic, Like just go crazy,

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Speaker 1: eat what you want, no exercise, and come back and

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Speaker 1: you'll be stronger than before.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic.

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Speaker 1: A dload is definitely my jam and a deload week.

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Speaker 1: It is firstly well planned out, and it's a well

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Speaker 1: planned reduction in exercise intensity and volume, and it's commonly

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Speaker 1: incorporated into training programs to facilitate recovery and prevent overtraining.

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Speaker 1: And this whole concept is particularly relevant in strength training

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Speaker 1: or endurance sports and any physical training kind of routine

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Speaker 1: that involves high intensity or high volume periods.

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Speaker 2: So it's really important.

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Speaker 1: Let's look at the purpose of a deload week and

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Speaker 1: then how you might integrate it or yeah, because I

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Speaker 1: don't agree with everything your trainer has said. So first

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Speaker 1: of all, the purpose of a deload week is all

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Speaker 1: about recovery. So you've got intense training, it puts a

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Speaker 1: lot of stress on your muscles, a lot of stress

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Speaker 1: on your nervous system and your connective tissues. So deload

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Speaker 1: week allows these systems to recover, to repair, and it's

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Speaker 1: crucial for preventing injuries and that long term fatigue, that

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Speaker 1: nervous system just shutting down and going I've got nothing.

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Speaker 1: So then you've got but also performance improvement. So by

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Speaker 1: incorporating periods of lighter training, you know, particularly athletes can

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Speaker 1: avoid plateaus and they can then have the dload week

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Speaker 1: maintain and even improve performance by allowing the body to

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Speaker 1: adapt to the training load and then coming back. And

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Speaker 1: then you've got the really important thing, which I reckon

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Speaker 1: is amazing, the mental recovery. Continuous high intensity training can

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Speaker 1: be mentally exhausting, so dload week can also serve as

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Speaker 1: a mental break and help you to stay mentally fresh

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Speaker 1: and just give you motivation. So how then do you

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Speaker 1: implement all of this? So you've got to look at

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Speaker 1: a reduction in intensity or volume. So there are a

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Speaker 1: few ways to structure a deload week. You can reduce weights,

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Speaker 1: reduce you're lifting by forty to sixty percent of your

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Speaker 1: usual loads, and just maintain the number of repetitions and sets,

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Speaker 1: so just bring the way down.

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Speaker 2: Or you can reduce volume.

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Speaker 1: That's another way to approach, to keep the intensity the same,

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Speaker 1: the same amount of weights lifted, but reduce the volume

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Speaker 1: so fewer sets and fewer reps. So instead of reducing

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Speaker 1: the weights, you're reducing the reps and the sets. And

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Speaker 1: then you can also reduce frequencies. So maybe you train

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Speaker 1: three four times a week, so maybe as a dload week,

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Speaker 1: you just train twice and you're recovering more. And the

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Speaker 1: other way you can do a deload week is by

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Speaker 1: switching out your more intense exercises for less intense exercises.

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Speaker 1: Maybe focusing on different body parts can also bring a break.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you've been really focused on lower body and now

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Speaker 1: that's another way of doing it. Timing of deload weeks

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Speaker 1: are really important, so you've got dload weeks are typically

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Speaker 1: scheduled every three to six weeks, depending on the train

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Speaker 1: intensity of like you know, this is I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: on age, experience, your overall physical condition, and also looking

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Speaker 1: at the signs of needing a dload week. So are

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Speaker 1: you overtraining and having decreased the performance, persistent fatigue, reduced enthusiasm, motivation,

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Speaker 1: Are all these things happening to you, then definitely you

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Speaker 1: do need a dload or more recovery. There are some considerations,

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Speaker 1: But you know, you've got to look at what are

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Speaker 1: It's important to progress and get the benefit of that recovery.

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Speaker 2: So you want to have your.

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Speaker 1: Dload weeks very planned and strategic to maximize both. So

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Speaker 1: incorporating dload weeks is really good into your program. I

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Speaker 1: definitely need deload weeks every now and then. If you're

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Speaker 1: an athlete, yes, absolutely a week off a stringent diet plan.

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Speaker 1: If you're talking diet now, eat whatever you want. Your

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Speaker 1: trainer said can boost your metabolism and help. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not too sure of the science of this one. So

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Speaker 1: if you've been in a calorie deficit for a very

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Speaker 1: read it a bit and a great bring great psychological

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Speaker 1: relief to just eat more calories.

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Speaker 2: But I think eat whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: In my experience, that can be harmful because you get

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Speaker 1: that kind of binge mentality of the all or nothing

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Speaker 1: attitude where you're either on a diet or a regime,

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Speaker 1: or then you're off the diet doing whatever you want

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Speaker 1: eating it. You don't want that all or nothing. You

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Speaker 1: want this to be strategically planned. So if you're eating

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Speaker 1: I don't know, fourteen hundred calories a day, you might

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Speaker 1: want to increase that to two thousand calories, but just

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Speaker 1: be a little bit strategic about it. And in my

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Speaker 1: experienced diet breaks do work the best when they're strategic.

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Speaker 1: So you really want to prevent that metabolic slow down

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Speaker 1: by being on diets for a long period of time anyway,

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Speaker 1: because it can lead to decrease in metabolic rate and

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Speaker 1: that survival mechanism where the body becomes more efficient in

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Speaker 1: using energy and going, oh my gosh, we're in famine.

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Speaker 1: I better slow down everything, and it can affect your hormones.

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Speaker 1: So having a bit of a break from your usual

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Speaker 1: as letum, which regulates your hunger hormones, and cortisol, which

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Speaker 1: is your stress hormones. So all those things can be recalibrated,

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Speaker 1: and most importantly, I think mental health like having a

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Speaker 1: you're going to feel exhausted. So having a little break

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Speaker 1: you do do this, and it's also very important because

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Speaker 1: it helps your adherence to a diet. So allowing the

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Speaker 1: little bit more flexible, you're less likely to feel trapped

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Speaker 1: then in three weeks I'm going to have a diet

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Speaker 1: it's strategic, it's planned, you know what you're doing, you

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Speaker 1: know why you're doing it, and it's not just like

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Speaker 1: strategically planned and you're replenishing your energy stores, replenish glycogen

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Speaker 1: stores in muscles, you'd feel really good, feel really strong.

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Speaker 1: It's going to increase your physical performance in everyday activities

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Speaker 1: as well as exercise, and the diet breaks just flood

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Speaker 2: And it's really really good, and.

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Speaker 1: It reduces that risk of muscle loss, which is really important.

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Speaker 1: So you calorie restriction, especially significant long calorie restriction can

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Speaker 1: lead to muscle loss, so diet break can maintain that

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Speaker 1: really good tool, and dload weeks are really good tools.

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Speaker 1: But my main message here is make sure that they

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Speaker 1: I think you need to ask yourself the question why why,

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Speaker 1: Because maybe you being in such a long term dieting

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Speaker 1: mentality is not serving you. So that's one thing. Having

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Speaker 1: to increase my muscle mass, so I'm doing four strength

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Speaker 1: off my forties by mitigating any perimenopause symptoms and things

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Speaker 1: and that will just mean going down to two sessions

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Speaker 2: So it's like it's the way you do.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be complicated, but there does need

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Speaker 1: to be an overarching plan. It can't be just stop

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Speaker 1: a plan and it will set you back psychologically. Thanks

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