We continue with foundational strength part six. This will be our last progressions post before continuing on. Im going to provide you a quick overview of daily undulating periodization or more accurately just undulating periodization. Now this progression method can get complex with utilizing different feedback methods to adjust week to week, but at its core I think it can be a fantastic tool for maintaining higher frequency of key strength movements without inducing too much total fatigue. Experienced coaches use some level of adjusting training variables week to week to ensure progress.
Daily Undulating Periodization (DUP)
DUP simply put is manipulating training variables multiple times throughout the same week in order to maintain higher frequency of a movement and in theory create greater neurological improvement and greater stimulus without such a need for longer recovery from doing back to back heavy/intense sessions. This could look like having a heavy squat day with lower volume and a light squat day with higher volume in the same week. Working on multiple facets (hypertrophy and strength) within the same week. When done right DUP can work very well for guys with busy schedules IMO. Stronger by Science has a great article diving more into this. Remember with all this stuff whether you program for yourself or use a coach it’s here to simply help you build understanding.