MR's and winded!

[righty]

This run through I have really been focusing on the basics with MR's. Wow do I get winded on these. Any suggestions?

I'll chip in here as someone who has been doing FT a while.
Initially (say, the first six months), these were brutal for me post-exercise breathing and recovery-wise.

But adaptation does come. Now, I'm a pretty rubbish bodybuilder in so much as I simply don't have the focus/have other things going on which preclude me from sticking to the gym for lengthy periods (I make good progress then go off to do something else non-gym related).

So, every so often, I have a groundhog day, where I'm back to the weight and shape I was, say, six months ago (or maybe fatter).

But MRs have progressively become easier in terms of recovery, as have loading sets (where the outcome is even more profound).

I can only put this down to the conditioning (and residual conditioning after stopping for a good few months, then restrarting) that FT imparts.

In fact, I was talking to Dr Scott (as a one-to-one client of his) about this effect only yesterday. The readiness to do another set after a max effort one is now simply light years ahead of what it was.

Or, in the briefest of terms, if you stick with it, I suspect the adaptations that will follow will greatly diminish the winded aspect (such that failure occurs absolutely through true muscular failure rather than running out of steam).