Maximum recoverable volume (MRV)
Maximum recoverable volume is the largest number of weekly sets a client still recovers from before the next session for that muscle. Above that point fatigue carries from one week into the next and performance per set falls, so the extra work subtracts instead of adding. It is not a fixed number: it moves with sleep, stress and where the block is.
Maximum recoverable volume is the largest number of weekly sets a client still recovers from before the next session for that muscle. Above that point fatigue carries from one week into the next and performance per set falls, so the extra work subtracts instead of adding. It is not a fixed number: it moves with sleep, stress and where the block is.
Also written as: MRV
In practice
It shows up in the log before it shows up in how the client feels: if volume rises and reps at the same load fall two weeks running, they went past their ceiling.
The common mistake
Hunting for it by adding sets until something breaks. The ceiling gets crossed weeks before any niggle appears, and by then the whole block returned less than it could have.
