Help Basic vs turbo

[SwaggyC]

Hey no problem, and your post is not long at all!

The sleep thing is for sure not going to help.

and not to be critical, but honest, you are over thinking things. Try not to add sets to anything. Run the program as is, learn, if something is not working, push harder, hit your pump sets harder, hit your stretches harder. If that doesn't work, then step back and re-evaluate. The objective here is to pour everything you have into one set. It's a skill and it takes time to master it. but it will yield GREAT results. What Scott has laid out for arms is plenty and I've actually found myself getting extremely close to my arms being over trained running turbo. This took time thought. I was not doing this right out of the gate week one. Honestly my first blast was I was thinking "these pump sets are sort of meh for arms" and now I think "oh damn, this is going to fucking hurt sooo bad" It takes time to get from A to B!

You are pretty new to the program, correct? Have you run basic yet? The issue may just be turbo. an You've got your MRs back to back, and that may just be too much to recover from. So that would honestly be my first recommendation. Just run basic and see how your legs respond. Also if your weight hasn't gone up in 2 weeks, time to add more food. For myself the gap between your training and rest days seems about right. Might just need more food overall.

Hope this helps and hope sleep gets buckled down. Let me know if you have any more questions!

Hi Altamir you seem very experienced with the program. I love to train very hard and push myself that's why I love this forum and concept of the program.
And reading through this thread makes me wonder because I sometimes have recovery issues. I would love to run the basic four day week version but do you think it would be wise to try the basic version and asses recovery or start with the 3 day version and build up a tolerance before moving on?