FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

I have swapped out the back squats for that reason mainly. Honestly the amount of times we fail in this program has me not anting to squat free bar. It just isnt a wise decision. More hacks, leg presses and such.

The warm ups order was more to save time as when I am in a pinch for time I have found the order of exercises to help a lot. Otherwise my stretches get cut out due to time.

I couldn't agree more that in order to auto regulate one needs to pyramid their weight up (which is their warm up essentially) very good point Scott!

Jason,

You might re-read the sections in the book on how to do the different Set Types.

You really shouldn't be failing that often: Once / MR and perhaps even once for the loading sets (last set of your compound exercise, but with the option to fail on the isolation exercises).

You'd only take a set to failure when its safe to do so. Some might not feel safe doing DB flies to failure if they can't just dump the DBs, for instance.

Squats should be done in a power rack with safeties (or a mono lift with safety straps or what have you). You can do BB presses in a power rack, too - I almost never do OH BB presses unless in a power rack. SOOO much easier.

FYI, you can stretch between warm-ups for the next muscle groups, if this otherwise means you'd not fit the stretches in. E.g.

-Finish back

-Do first light warm-up for chest.

-Stretch back (perhaps even just one side, whichever is least developed or feels like it was not targeted as well during the training - you can check in on this very quickly)

-Next chest warm-up

-(Finish back stretching)

-Train chest

-S