Topic: What percentage of people do you think grossly overestimate their results?

[Jesster]

Jesster,
  Up until I found my coach, I had no concept of deloading, planning, or waving.  Instead, I basicly bodybuilded and went full out every session.  The movements were contrived.  The repetitions were high.  The weights were pretty darn high in retrospect.  It got me no where athletically.  Except in a lot of joint pain at a relatively young age.

   The best efforts I've experienced with my foray into proper athletic training has come after the deload, or the purposeful taper.  Body just stores upon the antsy and I go.  It's so awesome.  Again, I wish I would have understood this at an earlier age, but, oh well, it is what it is.

   It may be frustrating to see others making progress that just doesn't make sense.  But I am happy for them for the progress they've made. I'm happy that you recently set a 2RM PR.  It came after what I expected was some good thought out training.  Good work.  Keep it up.

All the best,
 Arden

Thanks. I don't O-lift, at least not yet, but I am incorporating a lot of ideas from Olympic lfting into my training. My routine is designed to build up the strength to do handstand pushups. The sets and reps are based on the Prilepin table, and the distributions of intensities is very similar to many Olympic coaches. How to progress is something I had to learn on my own. Essentially, up the sets before the reps. As far as I know, I am the first to really train bodyweight progressions this way. Most people use very simple protocols, like once they hit a certain rep requirement for a position, move on. My system allows me to use greater peak intensity, and seemingly more volume throughout the week. I can't say my method is the best, but it seems to work.

When it comes to deloading, I really don't plan them, yet. I can seemingly make 1 set increases pretty comfortably every week for some intensities. You can argue that my lighter day is somewhat of a deload. Either way, it seems to matter a lot. It feels like you don't want to skip that day.