Supercompensation
Supercompensation is the point where performance rises above its previous level, once the fatigue of a training block dissipates. The model describes three phases: the load lowers performance, recovery returns it, and additional rest carries it past the starting point. It is why a client performs better the week after a deload than during it.
Supercompensation is the point where performance rises above its previous level, once the fatigue of a training block dissipates. The model describes three phases: the load lowers performance, recovery returns it, and additional rest carries it past the starting point. It is why a client performs better the week after a deload than during it.
In practice
It is the concrete argument for not measuring a block on its last day. The test that matters happens after the deload, once fatigue has gone and the adaptation stayed.
The common mistake
Reading it as a curve with dates on it. It is a model, not a calendar: the window does not last the same number of days for every client or every lift.
