FT Questions....

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You are correct in that you are supposed to warm everything up first and then go from one to the other. As far as being sort of a nerd for percentages, I'm there with you. I did 5/3/1 for like a year and it fed my spreadsheet obsession. I think you can still do feeler sets. I wouldn't do 5's but a single or double is should be able to tell you. As you are warming up should be have a pretty good idea how the bar is moving and how you are feeling if things are going to go well or not (It's not perfect, but it's usually trustworthy).

I'm going to go a touch of a side tangent here, but it's a on point to the topic. I think the beauty of FT is that it is constructed in a way to teach you how to autoregulate your own training. If you keep a log book, pay attention to what is going on and how you are feeling. That plus the program gives you the tools to modify your training. Feeling beat up? Drop a tier, feeling awesome, jump a tier. Somewhere's in the middle? Hold steady. Shoulder hurts from pressing? Do isolation pump sets and MRs. Need to recover your hamstrings? Do an easier pump set (still to failure), instead of a burn the gym down screaming sweating bleeding pump set. Adjust your stretching, etc etc. I guess the point of this tangent is to sort of say. Maybe it's a good thing to break out of your percentage mindset and try a more "organic" method. It's personally taught me a lot about what I can and cannot handle. And both were surprising and changed some preconceived notions.

As far as losing count on MRs and pump sets. Don't sweat the pump sets. Just make sure you're giving 100% and keeping things moving. There are plenty of times (lower pump sets I'm looking at you!) I completely forget everything for a time, much less how many reps I did. It's a pretty cool thing I think MRs I think will come with time. After 2 years, I still muck them up now and again. end up doing 5 reps, do 7 clusters, only do 5 clusters, etc etc. It happens. Try and stay focused and keep it intense, the pieces should fall into place. I do know of one person who really struggled and ended up carrying a "clicker" with them to count the MRs. I am sure you could do something similar with a phone.

Anyway, hope this helps Best of luck!

Thx , this helps out alot!

With this system its also getting use to the new rep tempo . I always did some sort of rest on the last difficult reps. hold it at lock out and stuff will stay at tier 1 as long as possible since the last years of training everything was ANTI failure and volume volume and more volume without good enough results .

PS don't mind the bad english, im from europe and hardly ever write english.