Even so often in my Facebook group, the topic of supercompensation of training comes up in one context or another. And I invariably dump on the idea, pointing out that it is neither an accurate or correct model of the training process. Now I want to explain in detail why I believe that. Along with supercompensation, I also want to look at the fitness-fatigue model of training and General Adaptation Syndrome.
A Note about This Article
As I mentioned in the video, a great deal of the ideas I will discuss come from a paper titled The Basics of Training for Muscle Size and Strength: A Brief Review on the Theory. by Buckner et. al. I’d point out two things about this paper.
First, one of the authors (Jeremy Loenneke) puts out work from a lab that seems to have a bit of a HIT bias. I’m not trying to dismiss the paper so much as put some perspective on the author’s direction. … Keep Reading