06-23-2018, 03:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-23-2018, 03:46 AM by hicksy_ian.)
(06-21-2018, 11:27 PM)Scott Stevenson Wrote: Welcome, Ian!
Do you think a couple weeks is long enough to give FT a fair shot in terms of arm growth?... (FYI, run a search on this topic and check the stickied FAQ in the FT forum for more on this topic.)
-S
Thanks Scott!
That's a fair point Scott and one I expected
. My reasoning is I was making superb progress using rest pause (specifically for tricep mass) to the degree that they appeared to be growing after every workout. So I'm a little hesitant to drop a technique that's working so well if I can fit it in and not tax the CNS (with it being a relatively small muscle group in comparison with back for example). On a related note, I remember seeing a study fairly recently where they compared triple drop sets (with three failure points) to three single sets with three failure points and the triple drop set group resulted in something like 50% more hypertrophy. I remember people putting this down to time under tension but i'm convinced that it's more to do with intensity.
E.g Having so many failure points in such a short space of time results in knocking off the slow twitch fibres (a simplification i know) and recruiting the fast twitch the closer to each failure point the trainee gets. I believe this is why DC's rest pause method is so damn effective and why it seems to build thick, dense looking muscle. I was just wondering if you had any thoughts on this, either relating to FT or my pseudo-science theory behind rest pause?
I'd really like to integrate some kind of dropset/rest pause into FT..because it seems so damn effective and i'm the kind of guy who hates the thought that he's not doing something optimally hypertrophy wise. I'd also be really interested in learning the specifics of how you developed FT, in regards to did you start out with DC two way split and then find that you had recovered by day 3 so started adding in pump work to increase protein synthesis? Or how/why you originally had the rest pause setup and why you decided to get rid of it as a mainstay technique etc. Are there any of your earlier podcasts which covers this as I think it would be a fascinating subject to hear of the process you went through.
Apologies for the bombardment of questions.