Intensive Cruise

[Scott Stevenson]

Nordan,

My thought here is that you probably were not auto regulating your choice of exercises for the MRs. (It sounds like you felt like you needed to do the hack squat MR for some reason.)

You may have also pushed to far before taking the IC (see below).

You might need to eating more, too - which I'm wondering about b/c of you question about using FT when in a deficit. (Yes, folks do that all the time, e.g., when dieting in for a show.)

In the future, you might switch to the Basic version instead of Turbo (still going down a Tier), but this would depend on how far you've pushed in the Blast.

There can be FUNCTIONAL Overreaching - you're teetering on a performance decrement, but can recovery with a taper / time off - which differs from NON-functional overreaching, which is not quite overtraining, so you can recover from it, but you don't get a performance rebound per se. You might have pushed yourself into non-functional OR which is complicated by not eating quite enough. (This could make sense given how your first two Blasts differed.)

-S