FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Awesome, this is what I had kind of come to grips with and was just a "hope" that it may fit since I have really good response to them.

What you are saying regarding the purpose of the movement makes complete sense, and I wasn't really thinking of doing them for speed so much as a builder due to my response to them.

I think I read in here that others found that they were able to do Upright Rows for MR even though doing them for a straight set often caused problems. I think I will give them a shot to see if they cause me any issues in the MR. If not that would be great because I used to respond really well to them before my shoulders and elbows started acting up.

That movement pattern just really lights up my delts and traps better than a lot of exercises.

I don't want to discourage you from finding ways to elicit muscle growth, but doing snatch grip high pulls using the FT set types is not something I'd recommend.

Now, if you wanted to incorporate those in a way that produces growth for you (e.g., by not coming near muscular failure), I'm for figuring out what works best for you.

If the round peg of that lift as you've been doing them means growth, I'd not try to fit it into the square hole of the FT set types, per se, but you may be able to use it (e.g., on days you'd do Loading sets otherwise) to your advantage. I'm not sure how you do those (some folks might only do no more than triples or perhaps sets of 5), so I'll leave it to you if you want to work up your own solution.

-S