FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Hey Scott,

Where do you draw the line when it comes to overeaching and ending a FT blast?

Would you rather overdo it a little and then back off or just be right on the edge and go into a cruise?

Well, if I've "overdone" it then that's too much.

"Right on the edge" of what?...

This is all keeping the 5-6 week blast length in place (which I personally think is the most anyone can push themselves with this program if they're ducks are in a row).

There are those in some situations that will can can go longer, but 6 weeks fits the vast majority of situations.

Another thing I've learned from autoregulating over a few blasts is that if I'm flatter and more beat up, I can still set a PR doing a lower weight but get much higher reps during a loading set, while at the same time not taxing my nervous system as much (ex. doing 18 reps with 5 plates on the T bar instead of 8 with 6). . This technique has brought me back into the circle several times where I couldve pushed more weight, but I KNEW I'd pay the price the next day and in my next workouts. Seems like JP is also always teetering on the edge of overdoing it; although I think the weights and the lower rep ranges Jordan handles probably plays a big role in this.

There's also this (p. 123 in the book):

"Q: Are there ways to extend a Blast without dropping down a Volume Tier or changing from Turbo to Basic?
Yes, you can simply take a day off, training only three times in a week."

Yes, that's true for Jordan and I'm pretty sure he's basically admitted on our podcast that some of that heavy (dead)lifting is just b/c He love to do that.

Just some of my thoughts on this; hopefully I'll learn more over the next few blasts to at least come to some form of conclusion for myself.

P.S- Pressing slower for chest consciously now has given be some very insane progress on the numbers.

IT's really quite an individual endeavor b/c auto-regulation is subjective. We want to make it concrete, but consider things like music preferences, paint theshold and tolerance and what someone finds physically attractive in a romantic partner and you've got some basic parameters but a wide spectrum between them.

RIGHT ON r.e the chest training. Seems to be true for quite a few folks, myself included.

-S