Week 6

Wave 2 — Rebuild to Peak

Second wave: full volume resumes with explosive work reintroduced, RPE ceiling and tempo pause climb toward a genuine peak in Week 7 (optional quality-gated top sets on squat/bench/deadlift), closing with Week 8s planned deload and the full 8-week benchmark retest battery.

Only 3 days this week?

A short week is not a failed week — the program is built to degrade gracefully (SHARED-CONTEXT invariant §8.5). Do the fallback session below instead of Conditioning · Push, Chest · Push, Shoulders · Push, Arms · Push, never in addition to them.

Substitute sessionChest, Shoulders & Arms — 3-day substitute · Push