FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Thanks for the reply. I am still trying to beat the book, just asking because I did horrible on incline DB loading sets this week. I went down in weight and reps. Altamir mentioned it sounded like I was carb depleted and went hypo so it could of been a fluke... I will give it a go again, and will rotate out if need be.

For "try to maintain" I just mean try to hit the same weight / reps.

I'm just thinking (or overthinking) that being in a calorie deficit and losing weight / body fat my numbers might suffer as far as weight / reps. Maybe I have the wrong mind set and should not even worry about it.

Did you feel hypoglycemic?... (Foggy head, dizzy, shaking, sweating perhaps...)

So, but "trying to maintain" you would either be training as hard as you can and (barely) able to maintain performance, or holding back to match reps with a given load.

On the other hand if your performance plateaus when you've got all your ducks lined up for a good performance in the gym (in the context of dieting), then, as you say, rotating out exercises is a great idea...

[Hint: Most folks, even when dieting, can progress on an exercise for a few rotations if adding back an exercise that they've not done for a while... although progress will stall more quickly. So, dieting typically means you rotate exercises out more frequently, but still can progress or *end up* maintaining gym performance on the exercises you use. OTOH, if you're getting whooped on an exercise, this is something to avoid IMO.

In essence you're exchanging he novel stimulus of those sets of a progressively overloaded exercise for the novel stimulus of a newly rotated in exercise. ]

-S