(08-27-2015, 09:14 AM)marcheoucreve Wrote: Hi Scott, Hi everybody,

Just bought the FT book last week, after had listening to all Scott's interventions on every podcasts about it.

I've been training for 8 years now, and constantly looking for advanced training methodologies.

See you on the boards guys.

PS : please excuse my english, this is not my mothertongue

(09-10-2015, 10:17 PM)scousedave Wrote: Hi Everybody,

All roads lead to Rome and I kind of think the same thing applies to my training leading me to here. Got seriously into training in my early 20s and first started competing at 25. Dialed myself in for my first show myself and came down from my off season weight of 224 to 168. Suffice to say when I thought I was 15% BF I was probably more like 25% and ended up taking off huge chunks of muscle to get ripped (first pic). Jumping forward a few years I found DC training which led me IM where I followed Scott really closely after seeing the fantastic shape he got himself and his clients into plus I really enjoyed his writing style and willingness to share information and his analysis (had a few other shows in between - second pic). Suffice to say when I found out he was working on his own program I waited with baited breath till it was released. Jump forward to this year and after nearly a solid year of FT I took second place in the intermediate under 80kg class and then 4 weeks later took first place in the under 90kg class at two regional shows here in the UK (third pic).

(09-11-2015, 12:19 AM)RyanM Wrote: Hello Scott!

I purchased the ebook after seeing some positive discussion about it on Skip's board. I've played around with training the same bodypart multiple times in a week and had good results with that, so I'm curious to see your approach. Looking forward to learning a lot and seeing what works for me!

(09-10-2015, 10:56 PM)Scott Stevenson Wrote: WELCOME!!!

You look BAD ASS in that 2nd pic, man, especially.

Can you give a short synopsis of what brought you up a weight class in the four weeks between those last two show?... (You certainly didn't sacrifice conditioning, it doesn't look like.)

-S

(09-12-2015, 01:15 AM)scousedave Wrote: Thanks Scott,

I think the thing with the second pic is that the lighting is doing me a whole heep of favors. I weighed in at 82kg (180) there but realistically had another 6-8lbs to come off.

The year before I competed as a classic (I see the NPC has just introduced it for you guys with higher weight limits than what we have in Europe with fewer poses) at 77kg on show day and killed myself getting down there and probably lost 4-5 lb of muscle. I could have been a max of 78kg and a week out I weighed in at 80 so when I manipulated my water etc I'd dropped about 6 lbs (thanks to your guide on the Mountain Dog site).

I knew this year I could make the top of the inters under 80kg if I pushed it and came in at the top of the weight class, which I did just (had to get off the scale once and use the bathroom). However, again, I dropped a bit of muscle to make it - if this happens I lose it from my legs hence them being a bit of a weak point. So post show I had a cheat meal and then another the morning after and then went straight back to my contest diet with the introduction of an additional 75-100g per day of carbs (up to 250g per day Vs 150g). Effectively between shows I regained the tissue that I'd lost and then to top it off I had a MUCH more aggressive carb load compared to the first show (1750g Vs 1000g in 36 hours). Weighed in at 83kg (3kg nearly 7lb diff.) at the second show however condition wasn't as good as the first.