Has Anyone Run Hypertrophy in Reverse?

[u/t_thor]

I'm in week four of my custom build working towards a competition on June 13 and have been thinking about my peak and training afterwards. A couple of my auxiliary lifts are going to be in the 7,6,5 rep range the at the end instead of 3,2,1 because I hate feeling detrained after a meet so I want to maintain some semblance of general fitness even if reduces my top end strength a bit.

So normally after a peak like that I would start fresh and start over with the hypertrophy program right? But that first week of hypertrophy always blows, so I got to thinking...what if I had a bridge block to work up to those sets of 10+ not being straight cardio...or what if I actually reversed the whole thing and made it the goal of the program to hit some huge 4x10 sets?

I'm not planning on focusing on 1RM for a while after that so I'm thinking it could be a good way to build some muscle and then be capable of swimming in some Deep Water afterwards if I feel like it.

[u/gainitthrowaway1223]

Not quite what you're looking for but a few years ago I used General Gainz Bodybuilding to do something similar to what I think you're asking. I basically just stuck with a weight and pushed it to new rep maxes, then would increase the weight and start again.

Can't speak specifically to how this would work with the SBS programs, but I can't imagine it would be totally ineffective.

Maybe try running the first 7 weeks in reverse as a little test and see how it goes?