Took month "off" lmao

You can normally take a week or two off without losing strength; beyond that, it depends on how active you were, your age/sex, your diet, a lot of factors etc etc. I took a month off and lost about 10-15% on all my lifts plus a lot of endurance. Your mileage may vary.

I'd say only de-load for about a week at a time. Anything above that and you're fucking up possible gains by quite a Margin. Stick with your routine a month is just too much man

>>42820476
>whatever will this "break" benifit me or did i just play myself
You played yourself. At your pathetic level of development, there is no need, psychological or physiological, for a prolonged period of time off. That sort of time off is for Olympic athletes who've trained the last four years without more than two days off.

>>42820587
>lost 15% of lifts for going off for 15 days
Did you cut hard ?

>>42820476
Anyway outside of genetic dead ends the break won't benefit you unless you had injuries or are a 60kg female so you accumulated fatigue with those lifts.

I took the past 2 weeks off from all lower body development because I thought I might have tweaked my back. Used to be 5/5/3/2. Time to to go to the gym later today and see how much I fucked up. On the plus side in those 2 weeks I made lots of progress with upper body comparatively.

>>42820749
No, I just didn't do anything but scuba dive and eat pizza. So between muscle atrophy and CNS efficiency dropping, I lost a lot of strength.

>>42820749
>>42821542
And it was a month. 2 week of that would have me down some, but more endurance than raw strength.