FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

What's the reason for this Scott ?
I'm guessing cos the whole point of occlusion is to use light load so you'd lose out the progressive nature of the MR?

A couple reasons:

1.) You're already doing you own thing with FT and not sticking with the system, but still calling it that. I really don't care what folks do (honestly), but I do try to make it known if someone is saying they are doing FT and are not, which I see you doing.

2.) You are in prep. and prob. have low glycogen levels, which occlusion will exacerbate. This not IMO the to be winging a program in the way you are. What I see you doing is trying to find a way to make the training more psychologically easy by adding in new and novel things, rather than adjusting the training for the purposes of preserving muscle mass.

3.) There is a risk of clots with BFR / Occlusion Training - I'm not willing to just give someone a blanket recommendation to use that strategy.

-S