So, guys, Derek, moreplacemoredays.com. Today we're going to be talking about periodization,

and this is not going to be the traditional outline of periodization that you normally hear about

in the training, not even like training community. I don't know, like guys you talk about

hypertrophy like blocks or strength blocks, you know, where you are essentially periodizing your volume in

order to get up to a point where you are, you know what I'm talking about. If you know what periodization

is, it's a term that is often allocated towards your training schedule in terms of either a

hypertrophy or a strength training block where

one or the other is the goal. Now, what a lot of people don't talk about, though, when it comes to

that is the periodization of drug use. And this is something that I think goes very overlooked,

because you see guys very, very often still, will they go into a cycle with a pre-designed plan of exactly what

they're going to use on a week-to-week basis and that dosage is static.

It has nothing to do with their recovery needs.

It has nothing to do with their own biofeedback from their own body.

They're just literally going into a cycle with a piece of paper that says, week one to 12,

500 tests, 400 Deca, and they're just running,

like the whole fucking thing.

Like, does that make any actual sense?

No, it doesn't because your needs are going to change as your volume increases, as your

food increases, as your recovery gets fucking hindered because of the volume you're allocating to yourself or the

progressive overload that you may otherwise need more androgens to support, whatever it is,

your needs on day one are not the same as they are in the middle, nor are they the same at

the tail end when you're trying to just fucking crush yourself into the ground.

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