FT Questions....

[B_Forge]

Dealer's choice to fail on isolation exercises.

Fail only on the last set of your compound exercise (which could be just 1 set if you're doing Tier I.

So, right out of the gait, you're not using isolation vs. compound exercises. That's an OK twist on the program to use those exercises, but if you CAN do other exercises, I would.

A main goal idea of FT is to limit CNS taxation. Taking all three of those to failure isn't serving that. (You might be able to recover, of course, as you could have 3 sets to failure doing Tier II or III.) However, failure on a knee extension is a world of difference from failure on a split squat.

You're also missing out on the pre-fatiguing quality that can be had with putting isolation exercises before compound exercises.

You'll have to commander two machines (or a rack) do do the split squats and the leg press, too, which can be tough on some days. (Isolation exercises sometimes need to be done on the fly if the gym is busy / someone snags your machine. It's much safer to do this if for instance you need to switch to a different ham curl - and use a higher rep range - than if you try to use a rack / machine like that.)

Anyhow... I could go on, but the real question I think is why you chose those exercises (right off the bat on your first run at the program).

-S

Roger that. Gym just has limited equipment, so was saving the use of leg extensions and ham curls for pump sets later in the week so that I wasn't doing to same exercises in the same week. But I can definitely see how that's probably not the best way to go about it in terms of taxing the CNS. Will switch up my subsequent rotations to eliminate that and be a little more creative for finding isolating quad and hamstring movements.

Also, since I did 3 compound movements Day 1 what i'll do today for day 2 is just use 2 isolation movements for my pump sets (i.e. leg extension and ham curl) instead of doing a thigh exercise to try and limit possible CNS taxation for this week, then reset my rotations next week.

Hope that makes sense