New to FT not New to Training

[Scott Stevenson]

I got Virgin Voyage and found it immensely helpful. I'm by no means a beginner and I would like to think that I'm somewhat astute at figuring things out, and it just made the pieces of the Fortitude Training puzzle fit nicely together. If you have the money to spare then it's a great investment.

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Glad you like the VV. I really encourage folks to use the book (cheaper, of course), but I DID make the VV for those who for whatever reason just wanted a template.

It's not often that someone buys that, but I'm very glad to see that it's worked and you feel it worth it.

I completed my first session today, and what I noted in my head was I know what training hard looks and feels like, the next few weeks will be adjusting a fine tuning, I felt the same last night reading and re-reading, what if I don't apply this 100% but actually it's a tool to let you apply yourself 100%, so be flexible, move around the programme.

I see it far more clearly now I have done a work out, I can see how I can tweak and add intensity even before upping any volume.

There are some key messages around how you approach a set, I have done a lot of TUT work and feel that helped me greatly today.

I'll now take the format and apply my way of training, which has been all about form and moving the weight in the best way for progression and no injuries.

Great forum

Thanks for the input, Big Al.

Yes, I've designed the program so that if you carry out the sets types as written, they will be hard, but that is relative to how hard you can train.

For one person, stopping 1-2 reps shy of failure is different than for another. Pain tolerance varies and thus so does metabolic stress during Pump sets, etc.

I'm pretty solid on the general notion that intensity of effort is what sets resistance exercise apart from endurance exercise, and thus makes it such a great stimulus for muscle growth: Efforts are so great that you're limited to ~30 to maybe 120 seconds before you can't continue. Endurance exercise can be carried out for much long - hours of course.

This is not to say that effort is not high during a marathon or what have you, but the nature of the stimulus of a bout that can't be continued (d/t intensity in terms of workload, tension, etc.) drives a different form of adaptation.

-S