>not designing your program around having a deload week on spring break

Your lifts were fucked from the start

You've lost everything

>>36459000
Not OP but im interested in what a deload week entails.

Articles suggested varying things from not working out at all to lifting at 50% max.

Can you provide some anecdotal stuff about a deload week?

>>36458977
How long is spring break? A week, two? If your gains can be lost that quickly, you didn't have any to begin with.

>>36458977
>actually having plans that doesnt involve lifting for spring break
not gonna make it

>>36459160
Last time I did a deload week I reduced lifts to 75% normal levels and replaced it with some bodyweight work.

At the end, my lifts didn't immediately go up, but they felt stronger at the weight I left off on, and went up 10lbs after 2/3 weeks

>>36459300
Nice! I've only been lifitng for just over a month now, I'm guessing this is something that you should do more around the time I start to plateau.

Right now my lifts are increasing linearly every week.

>>36459346
You got the right idea