FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Scott (also happy to hear anyone else's opinion),

Curious what your feelings / ideas are on adding different rep techniques to the Muscle Round system? For example, I've got really limited hamstring equipment at my gym (one machine basically). I did differently dumbbell hamstring curls (flat, incline, gironda style) for a time, but it got to the point where the weight I was able to move by my hamstrings was limited by my calves / feet keeping a firm grip on the DB. Felt like I was short changing the amount hamstring involvement. I made some changes to my programming to add in RDL in for hamstrings, but that still left me with a lot of MRs for hamstrings to fill. So I ended up one week doing 1½ reps for the MR set, just to get a different stimulus in there. It honestly felt like a combo of a pump set and a MR. It certainly throws off the 1:1 work rest ratio, and obviously lightened the load. Am I committing FT heresy here? Was just something thrown in for variety's sake, but I also thought it could be a good thing once and awhile one weaker body parts that have a bad mind muscle connection. (I am thinking biceps and triceps for myself, which just don't like to activate properly, miles better than where they were, but miles from where I'd like to be) Just want to make sure I'm not missing a bigger picture somewhere with this. Thanks!

No heresy whatsoever, my man! That's just a different Set Type.

(Do you need more Ham exercises?... )

-S