Loading and ZigZagging in Commercial Gym

[Scott Stevenson]

I have to admit that I found out the hard way on one of my last quad pump sets right into the stretch that it was too much... Almost went into some sort of shock during the stretch. I started sweating like a madman, almost threw up and then was wrecked for about 10 minutes. Hamstrings ended up almost a going through the motions type weights, even though I was trying to be intense.

Lesson learned.

The stretches are no joke - it's up to the person to make those as hard as they want to some degree.

The occlusion stretches are the ones that can test you and in a senses, I prefer these (and typically do these more often) b/c you can really focus on the muscle and don't have to worry about, as the stretch goes on, the difficulties in getting out from under / putting down a load.


And one thing I repeatedly find in camps and when working with folks who have been doing FT is that the stretches are neglected. Sometimes people don't even do them - at all... This is one of my first questions when someone is getting a lot of little nagging aches n' pain or overuse-type injuries: "Tell me how you're stretching?..."

Often the answer is, "Well, i've not really be doing a very good job at that... "

-S