Help Basic vs turbo

[Altamir]

Well I suppose it could be a number of things soreness Ik isn't always a sign that I haven't recovered but after I hard workout I would sometimes be sore for idk 5-6 days sometimes especially legs. Sleep can be iffy because of a hectic lifestyle due to responsibilities. And usually travel on the weekend to visit family make things difficult to check off all the little boxes sleep, most of all. That being said I am a dedicated individual and always put my full effort in. But I can feel very run down sometimes. My nutrition has improved ten fold the last year though. Stress I don't feel is too bad I try to keep that in check, do a lot of yoga as well which honestly seems to help. The soreness doesn't bother me But it does make me wonder if I'm recovering. It's like the mind is ready again to hit the iron but the body doesn't always want to cooperate. I hope that makes sense. And thankyou for responding brother

Great response. I have a much clearer picture now. Great that you've brought your nutritional game up to par. And I know exactly what you mean by soreness. There is for sure times in FT given the frequency, that you will be sore or slightly sore going into a training session. Key here is, are you progressing. If you can go into a session, and improve, then you are on the right track. If you are stalling or regressing, an adjustment or a cruise is needed. To sort of map things out, at the start of an FT blast the frequency usually does not bother me, I'm fresh, but you can feel as the weeks pass, the fatigue builds. You aren't going into every single training session 100%.
And its up to you to either, bring it, back off, or cruise.

A brief aside, I had a great conversation with Scott about bringing up my triceps. I love PJR pullovers, but they leave me with almost crippling DOMs in my triceps. So I don't do them very often. Scott basically challenged me, threw down the gauntlet and said do them every damn week, and improve every week, sore or not. I honestly was a bit daunted, but I got after it, and made progress! Until proven other wise, limitations are purely set in your mind.

One hopefully final question for you. If you are traveling a lot on the weekends, do you still have time to train? Is this a sometimes thing? An option that might work well for you is the weeks where you can fit in 4 training sessions, run basic. The weeks where you can only do 3. Run family man plan. Pay attention to recovery on the weeks you can run 4 versus 3 and adjust your tiers accordingly.

So this is a bunch of hypothetical, but just to give you some ideas. Obviously, start at tier 1. And you may find that's plenty of volume when you are doing 4 days, but not quite enough when you are doing 3 days a week. So run your 3 days a week plan at tier 2, 4 days a week plan at tier 1. Or since you say sleep is rough sometimes with travel on the weekends. The opposite. Point I'm trying to make is the program can easily be auto-regulated by you to fit your recovery/lifestyle/training intensity/etc.

A lot of words here I know, but hopefully you found some of them helpful. Let me know what you think, and if you have anymore questions.