FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

- I nap both Saturdays and Sundays. I train about 7am and by 11am I'm dragging. Usually hit it hard for about 20minutes and I'm wide awake and good to go for the rest of the day. Does not effect my sleep at night.
- My job is extremely unstressful. Desk jockey, and it can be a bit hectic at times, but for the most part is really easy. I am in the process of working on getting a transition desk (going from sitting to standing and back again).
- Nothing too crazy, usually a walk with the dogs or some random chores on Sunday after training. Monday and Tuesday is very little activity, just work. I do spend time each morning after getting up stretching, finding tight spots, working out little kinks and niggles, and doing a little rotator cuff and hip pre-hab (getting older sucks). And run through the relaxed and mandatories for posing practice, since we finally got full height mirrors in the basement. I'd say roughly 20mins of moderate / light activity.
- Training time makes zero difference for me. Been training weekends in the morning, and weekdays in the evening for many many years now, long before FT. So as long as things are good overall, I can just get some good tunes banging over the headphones, flip the switch, and go to war.


Brillant. I've got one week left of my current blast, so I'll try and implement it for the next one and give it a go. I had originally set it up this way as I was still having chronic shoulder pain / issues, and saw the upper pump sets as a way to "pre-fatigue" my upper body for loading. Shoulder has been pain free for long awhile now, and getting stronger, so this is a good time to experiment.

DOMs from pump sets usually set in that day. I am mildly sore in my legs from loading, and then after pump sets my legs feel like dead weight for most of the day, sore, stiff, and sluggish. Usually gone by Monday. No way to tell, except to do it!

And bingo with sticking with turbo and further spreading out the damage. I'm really enjoying that aspect of it. I've never been great a recovery, but seem to be really good and pushing myself into big holes I cannot recover from. So this still makes a lot of sense to me with this set up.

Anyways as always thank you for the insight, guidance, and lesson on not only WHAT do to but WHY to do it. Cannot express how much I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. The wife will be happy too as we both train lower on Saturdays and sometimes fight for equipment. So that will solve that. I'll report back in probably about 4 weeks or so with how things are going, so that people can see the results from this. (and allow me to reflect on it myself)

The pleasure is mine, my man. Glad to be of help to you especially b/c I know how much effort you put into figuring things out (not to mention training like a madman).

I'd be interested in which kind of transition desk you come up with. I'm suggesting this to a good number of folks these days. It's the NEAT thing to do.

And I hear you about DOMS settling in right off the bat post-workout. Some part of the repeated bout effect (2nd time around with a damaging exercise protocol diminishes the extent of damage and DOMS) also seems to be a shift in the time course of DOMS, I've found, although this is really kind of tough to pick out in the research (esp. b/c there is so much variability). John Meadows never gets or and I'm sore all the time. Some of this comes down to diet, etc, too, but I find this pretty dang fascinating... (Reminds me to look more deeply into this to find insights into some other questions I have.)

An interesting feature here is that, at least in initially untrained persons, doing one bout that causes extended soreness (for 4-5 days) is not impacted by doing another bout just a couple days after the 1st bout. There's no additive effect, such the that second bout causes the DOMS to be prolonged or increases... LOL

-S