FT Questions....

[Altamir]

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

haha. I do my best to train with "controlled insanity", at least from my perspective (probably just insane from others)

I will probably be getting something VERY close to this.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KU4N4L2?psc=1
I'm pretty lucky as my work will order it for me and foot the bill. Quite a few people have already got them and seem to like them.

And I've never gotten DOMs quite in the way that I get DOMs with FT. With whole body training and the frequency the soreness seems to "settle" over me. Working from one part of the body to the other as the day progresses. Chest is always last. Shoulders and arms always first, back seems to stick with me the longest. It's strange (though as you said DOMs is overall), but it's sort of useful. For example, I know a did a KILLER job on my bicep and tricep pump sets on upper pump day, if I get DOMs in them on upper loading the very next day, just from the compound lifts.

and I sometimes, but not really, miss newbie DOMs. I need to be able to function