FT Questions....

[Altamir]

GREAT Feedback, Altamir!!!

THANK YOU!

Some thoughts on cruising to add to what you've said:

Just in case - the Intensive Cruise duration is based on he length of the blast, i.e., would be about ⅓ the length of the blast, so 4 week blast would mean maybe an 8 - 10 day cruise, but a 6 week blast would require about a 2 week cruise.

Also, in your case, some tweaks to the cruise could help you out, too:
1.)Consider how you spread the training out in terms of the days off at the end of he cruise (~⅓ of cruise period). You might stretch your training days over something more like ¾ of the cruise period, so that you're not taking 4 days away from the gym entirely, for instance.

2.) If you're dieting down in caloric deficit, using the cruise period to INCREASE kcal and produce some weight gain can be very effective. I've dieted a lot of folks this way (long before FT): Diet for 3-4 weeks and then have a week with higher carb and kcal to re-set motivation, restore thyroid and gain a bit of muscle with an overreaching effect. This woudl fit really well with a 4 week blast set up, I think, esp. as you get leaner and need to be more careful about muscle loss.

-S

Thanks for the additional tid bits here. I'd actually really like to do what you've suggested in the first point, push the last training day of my cruise a bit out. I think I'll be hitting that Tuesday evening, and I'll be starting my next blast Saturday morning, so 3½ days. A few blasts ago I switched from Basic to Turbo and I'm finding that's helping A LOT as well. Normally it'd be a week or more between the last lower muscle round day on a cruise, and my first lower loading session, now its a little bit of additional leg work only 3½ days out.

I'm actually filling in calories and a bit of carbs through this cruise, and I'm hungrier than ever. It always goes like this for me. The climb back up always seems to be worse than cutting down. Not sure if that's typical or not. After awhile, I seem to just get numb to feeling of being hungry, but coming out my body sort of "wakes up" to the idea that there are additional calories out there.

I really appreciate the extra pearls of wisdom you've shared with me hear. Training has really taken off since making these adjustments, and I'm excited to continue that, and continue to learn.