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Anonymous
Macrocycles and microcycles are basically schedules of rest designed for the body so overall performance improves. Like how if you're cutting down trees with a single ax, it's better to stop every time the ax starts getting blunt and sharpening it versus chopping the tree forever.
A typical mmicrocycle lasts 7-8 days, and goes llike this:
day 1: 50% load day 2: 60% load day 3: 70% load day 4: 60% load day 5: 70% load day 6: 80% load day 7: 40% load
And that's juts one muscle group. You can superimpose a second schedule of different loads on the first one for a different muscle. That's a tenet of the Periodization system that some bodybuilders use.
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