FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Hi again, been a while since i have been on here but thinking of delving into FT again after a while away on a PHUL type routine.

If i am honest, the reason i stopped FT after 4 blasts was just that i missed the regular progression on a particular exercise week in week out and wanted to simplify it a bit.

Of course, you can do this with your exercises for the MRs. Just bang away at the same ones until you plateau.

With hindsight, i believe there are many aspects of FT that suit me but not all and being a customisable style of program (as i understand it!) nothing is set in stone so i wonder if i could do the following with it:

Make loading sets the same exercise per body part each week for the duration of a blast, so say squats, inc bench, rack deads etc every week?

You can do whatever you'd like of course. It doesn't sound like using bands and chains to mix it up (three variations on squats, for instance) would scratch your itch here but you could also simply use different isolation exercises (and a different order - putting before vs. after the compound exercise).

Also, with 3 kids and daddy duties i am limited to training 2on 2 off 2on 1 off, you dont see any issue with this do you assuming nutrition etc is on point?

You can make that work, of course. (Well, it sounds as if you'll have to.) There are lots of ways to set this up based on how you recovery and how Pump sets affect you but aside from the "obvious" set up of having the 2 days off following the two loading set days you could do this:

Upper MR
Lower load / upper pump (autoregulating pump set exercises carefully here)
OFF
OFF
Upper Load / Lower pump
Lower MR
OFF