FT Questions....

[732mikee]

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

Yes, I felt dizzy mid rep and shaky after. Made it through the rest of the workout, just wasn't optimal overall.

This helps a lot Scott, thanks! I will rotate exercises more often to keep the novel stimulus going instead of pushing the stimulus of progressive overload.

I'm still pushing as hard as I can, and progressing on 90% of my lifts.