FT approved by CT

[Scott Stevenson]

I would imagine that supercharging was my own insertion on that one. If he used it then it was in the instructional video because it is not actually in the article. I definitely would not want to add these in if they would be detrimental to the FT methodology but felt good using them before on off days with a 4 day split. It was a different type of program with body parts getting hit twice a week but a little higher volume each training session. So the comparison would be like comparing apples to oranges on how it would work on off days for FT since training is different.

He just calls it Neural Charge Training to give it a name.

My thought was also two fold, First, does it actually 'charge' the CNS, or does it just activate the CNS more frequently without stressing which keeps it firing more efficiently.
Secondly I hate that when I start using TUT methods on lifts and what not that I tend to get slower. My reaction times just start to go down and reflexes are not as quick. However adding in some explosive movements really geared for speed kept me very explosive while still gaining muscle and being explosive and fast is very important to me.

I skimmed over the article.

There is no magic here, but if you don't make it seem like there is, few people will read the article.

I can find easily how he sets up a weekly "split" here but this is just the typical way one should / would train with the exercises he lists there to improve explosiveness: avoid metabolic and cardiovascular fatigue so the efforts and performance a maximal. This is just making use of specificity of training.

100m sprinter perform maximum efforts over short distances and train that way.

Marathon runners do the opposite and generally train that way.

There is no charging up of the nervous system (whatever that means) at work here

He note that this training does the following - I'll comment after a dash on each

• Increases insulin sensitivity - exercise doest this generally
• Stimulates the release of anabolic hormones - resistance exercise does this generally.
• Loads more nutrients into the muscle cell - exercise does this generally
• Jumpstarts recovery - perhaps he's referring to the plazma he recommends, but this is a generic statement. Training creates inroads to / slows recovery from any previous workout, but it's also was actually creates the entire "recovery" process in the first place. You could also say that a knife wound jumpstarts wound healing b/c you'd not have wound healing with a wound.
• Enhances work capacity - Training adaptation
• Stimulates further growth - THIS is what is / could be of use here.

On the last point: If this kind of power training means lifting heavier loads when training for hypertrophy (which 3-5 reps will not typically do very well), then there's something to say here. Again, you can't just ADD this extra training in on top of a given regimen and have it "jumpstart" recovery as it will contribute to total training load.

The key to using power movements if one wanted to would be to balance overall training volume and, frankly, probably to periodize them in (as many BB'ers do with periods of powerlifting).

• Prepares the body for the next workout - Generic and pretty much meaningless statement, unless he means that the power training adaptations will carry over to the bodybuilding workouts .

If maintaining my speed is also important to me then I imagine I probably would not want to try these but once or twice a week and probably keep my self on Tier 1 if also doing them
Here is the link to the article:
https://www.t-nation.com/workouts/neural...e-training

You'd need to balance training load for sure. I'd also MEASURE your speed in some objective way to see if there is an effect. (And frankly is SPEED is what you want, I'd training for specifically whatever that means to you as far as your sense of reaction time (do your really mean reaction time per se?) or what have you.

But yes, if you don't use it, you lose it, so stopping power training will generally mean a loss of whatever power adaptations were elicited by the previous training.

-S