Missing time is something every single member goes through at some point. Life happens. You get sick, you travel, work gets intense, or something comes up. The most important thing is knowing how to come back without hurting yourself or undoing your progress by rushing.
If you are sick, rest completely. Do not try to push through illness to stay on track. Your body is already under stress fighting whatever it is dealing with, and training on top of that slows your recovery and increases the chance of things getting worse. Give yourself full permission to rest until you are genuinely feeling well again.
When you are ready to return, how you come back depends on how much time you missed. If you were out for one to two weeks, start with a deload week before picking up where you left off. That means going through your sessions at around 50 to 60 percent effort, focusing on form and movement quality, not performance. After that deload week, continue from where you stopped in the program.
If you missed three weeks or more, step back one full phase in the program. Yes, it might feel like a step backward, but it is actually the fastest way forward. Your strength and conditioning drop faster than it feels like they should during a long break, and jumping straight back into where you left off puts real strain on joints and tendons that are no longer prepared for that load.
One thing we want to be clear about: never jump back into max effort tests or max rep sets after time off, no matter how good you feel. That is the most common way to get hurt after a break. Build back in, earn it again over a week or two, and you will be back to full capacity faster.