Reddit reviews Squat Every Day: Thoughts on Overtraining and Recovery in Strength Training

How about a book called Squat Every Day

I am just now reading https://www.amazon.com/Squat-Every-Day-Thoughts-Overtraining-ebook/dp/B00CE5BCFG and in this book this topic is discussed and also looked on from different perspective with a question how hard a person can go with a training, how feeling of 'tiredness' is a delusion and which people may do Squat Every Day and not die.

He gets into details of human hormone system, brain and genes and I don't remember that but in general what you asked about is a result of genes but also way how they grew up. Some people are high reactive and they are very uncomfortable with unfamiliar things and stress and training is a very big stress for the body. They have been raised reactive and learned to be that way so it's natural for them to follow that pattern in adult life. Some people are low reactive and like to create things, stress and stimulus for themselves to feel that they are alive.

What you wrote is a good reasoning to convince only YOU that you need to train but you don't want to change other people and you don't want to think about what they do and jugde it from your perspective because you never know the whole story and its so complicated that you almost always miss your jugment.

Questions like these are answered here (and other places): Squat Every Day, by Matt Perryman

When it comes to squats, more often is always better, in my experience.

You may be interested in having a look at this book, which is where the OP's program is taken from.

As a side note if you're interested:

Norwegian Study

Squat Everyday

High frequency training is not for beginners, or even intermediates. You need rest to grow.

http://www.mashelite.com/squat-every-day-cures-all-ailments/

https://www.amazon.com/Squat-Every-Day-Matt-Perryman-ebook/dp/B00CE5BCFG

http://comebacksupplements.com/maxeverydaysquatprogram/

I used to train like this and it's no more dangerous than any other training regimen.

I train every day unless I travel, and frankly I have less fatigue/soreness and can do more volume this way. If you want science, check these books: Squat Every Day by Matt Perryman and Science of Sports Training by Thomas Kurz

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Basically, overtraining is largely a myth. Yes, you need adequate recovery, but adequate might be less than 24 hours, depending on the load and the type of workouts.

I mean you can squat every day if you want to, many weightlifters do exactly that. But do you need to? Nah. 2-3 times a week is sufficient.

Please tell that to Matt Perryman

Hah, that was a bit less retarded than I assumed it'd be. But yeah, I think high frequency training is an underrated concept and that there is perhaps too much obsession with overtraining and recovery. I might recommend Matt Perryman's book "Squat Every Day" or (if you're in the mood for angrier, rantier, much less mature discourse) various blog entries by Jamie Lewis [NSFW], and I think he has some books out too, though hell if I can find them. Perryman will sedately explain how a lot of overtraining is more psychological than physiological and how you can work to counteract that, Lewis will yell at you for being a lazy pussy if you aren't willing to lift heavy 7 days a week (he does mostly back his yelling up with sources though).

Alternative viewpoint: Squat Every Day

Bro split as in doing one body part per day? (thats what I think of it as)

You could do Vertical pushing/pulling, horizontal pushing/pulling, hammies, quads, and core as 7 different workouts easily to train every day and have minimal overlap between bodyparts.

The point is, yes, I wouldn't want to train my whole body 7 days a week, but you can easily lift every day as a natty as long as you're smart about how you're lifting... just need to divide up body parts. PPL, as I said, is already 6 days per week but you could just as easily throw a core day in there. For some people that can only afford a half hour a day or so to lifting, hitting the weights every day is definitely a good option.

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Edit: just some more info

PPL https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/37ylk5/a_linear_progression_based_ppl_program_for/

on overtraining: https://www.amazon.com/Squat-Every-Day-Thoughts-Overtraining-ebook/dp/B00CE5BCFG

smolov: https://stronglifts.com/smolov/

You might be interested in checking out Squat every day. It talks precisely about overtraining, adaptation to stress, and how you could program daily squats precisely TO make progress. He says overtraining in the sports science sense (lack of motivation to train, changes in biological stress markers, reduced performance) is basically limited to athletes at the highest levels, and in particular endurance athletes with crazy weekly workloads. This kind of overtraining can sideline an athlete for months. But for strength athletes, he mentions a study showing that you can still train very frequently, feel tired, increase your stress levels, yet still hit PRs. So if your performance doesn't suffer a blow, then you aren't "overtrained" in any way that you need to be worried about. As long as your body can adapt to the stress, you'll make progress.

On an anecdotal level, I've started to squat at least 4x a week, Mon-Tue and Thu-Fri. I don't go all out, and in that sense it's like the frequent pull-up guy. I haven't failed a rep since I started. But if I feel I'm having a good day, I'll go heavier. If not, I'll do volume. So far, it's been going well (though I've only been doing this for a month or two). I have some constant low-grade soreness, but I think I actually have MORE motivation and I feel like I'm making progress faster than when I was squatting 2x per week. Of course, there are other factors to consider, but yeah, definitely worth thinking about how much stress is good and how much is too much.

http://smile.amazon.com/Squat-Every-Day-Matt-Perryman-ebook/dp/B00CE5BCFG/

Also weightlifters.

Have you ever done a Smolov cycle Greg? Would you find it comparable to the Bulgarian method?

Also any recommendations to further look into the Bulgarian method? A bit of searching around recommended this text:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CE5BCFG/

I'm at about a 450 squat right now and was planning on running a Smolov cycle to break the 500 squat barrier early next year.

I have lifted weights eight sessions per week before after reading the book Squat Everyday by Matt Perryman. Doing that program I made some of the best progress of my life. The reason I stopped doing that program is because I felt like all I was doing with my life was lifting weights, my social life was suffering. I was completely healthy throughout the whole regimen.

I'm rather new to this subreddit but I saw it mentioned that an emphasis is placed on recovery here. That is good and all but I believe that recovery can be trained and improved (so does Matt Perryman, Mike Tuchscherer and the Norwegians)

But I must note that high of frequency training should not be taken lightly. It is not for beginners and you should work to increase frequency over the course of months. I took about 4 months to increase frequency to seven times per week. One last thing the frequency for every lift cannot be the same, deadlifting 7 times per week will burn you out. But benching and squatting 7 times per week and deadlifting twice per week is manageable.

http://www.amazon.com/Squat-Every-Day-Matt-Perryman-ebook/dp/B00CE5BCFG

I tried it while my thumb/shoulder was injured. Botched the numbers (supposed to take a a percent of your max and then put that number into the program) and wound up doing it all with too much weight. After three weeks, I had a severely strained hip flexor and couldn't squat anymore, which took a couple months to recover from, plus the thumb and shoulder issues. If I hadn't messed up the numbers I think it would have been great!

I think it's better to try and find a 1RM for the day, everyday. That method worked a lot better for me, especially while doing the double day squat program from Catalyst. That was my favorite and let me progress the most as well as get accustomed to moving 90% or more on multiple lifts in every session.
Also this is a good book: http://www.amazon.com/Squat-Every-Day-Matt-Perryman-ebook/dp/B00CE5BCFG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412823349&sr=8-1&keywords=squat+every+day

Sidenote: Matt Perryman's Squat Every Day is one of the best resources on "fatigue" and recovery available for laymen. It's worth a few bucks and will change the way you train.

http://www.amazon.com/Squat-Every-Day-Matt-Perryman-ebook/dp/B00CE5BCFG

>Been training pretty hard these last eight months or so and had previously hit my goals of a 500 squat, a 365 bench, and a now got a 600 pound deadlift.
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>Relavent stats:
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>5'5" short and 170-ish pounds (Depends on how much I sweat out here :\ )
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>Most of my training out here was based off of my Jacked & Tan training cycle, with some Squat Every Day kinda stuff packed in at the end.
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>Edit: This is exactly what Afghanistan is like.
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>Edit 2: Thanks everyone! I appreciate the support.