09-23-2017, 06:08 AM
(09-23-2017, 12:07 AM)Scott Stevenson Wrote: This is all great to hear - and you've not even really gotten going yet! (Very glad Alex got you going on that direction.)
That's saying a lot if you were getting that broken down from whatever kind of bodybuilding training you were doing. More is obviously not better.
-S
No it definitely is not.
I was into frequent training, full body 3 times a week but was employing some sort of set extending principle and failure in in the last set of every lift for a while. All in the 6-8 rep range at that. I came from that old school masochistic mindset. I got really into Mentzer's HIT training for a while, and that mindset was carried over into much higher volume programs which simply led to trouble. You can't train at that level of intensity with that much volume forever. Something is going to break. After my 2nd shoulder surgery about 6 years ago I started exploring a lot of different avenues of recovery and training. I have gotten much better about it. However a lot of the damage was chronic and inflames when I push beyond my connective tissue's recovery capabilities. I also have degenerative arthritis in my shoulders, and knee. It runs in the family so that is also a factor in it all.
Since then, I learned my blasting periods have to be shorter, and I have to rely more on higher reps or much less rest to push the volume up without killing myself. I just really didn't know how to package it all together in one program like you have done here. Alex was the first person to give me a glimpse of it for something focused on hypertrophy.
I have done the athletic type full body performance based workouts for a while. In those I am always varying movements and intensity throughout the week. Often lifting heavy and explosively and had great luck not getting injured that way. Which is why I feel that this will be the same for me as far as safety. I seem to do better avoiding injury with a lot of variety of movements and intensity in my training.