FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Hi Scott, is it alright to use the same exercises for Loading, MRs and Pump?

That would miss out on the importance of variety in training and would likely lead to overuse / repetitive movement injuries (aches n' pains / niggles) and would also likely mean you're using exercises that don't lend themselves well to those set types.

Take BB squats: Not a good choice for MR's b/c you'll be risking injury trying re-rack and unrack in a fatigued state and you'll could end up terminating the set if you were to use it for pump sets b/c of low back fatigue. Squatting for Loading sets, MR and Pump sets over the course of the week would likely wreck your low back and make doing any kind of deadlift variation (safely AND effectively for the lats) a no-go. Plus, the CNS stress of doing so would probably mean you terminate your Progressive Blast earlier than necessary. The variety serves to create different activation patterns, work around injuries and auto-regulate to keep you from prematurely needing a deload, so you'd be shooting yourself in the foot with a shotgun if you tried this, IMO.

[Note, it's possible of course set up a program where you train a single exercise several times / week for several weeks in a row. You really didn't outline at all any specifics of your question, so I answered it generically. My guess is - this is a bit of tough love here - that a kind of "generic" question like this tells me you've not really dug in deep on the e-book, reading the forums here, or thinking about how you plan on executing FT. I'm also guessing you've not actually done FT (for very long) or you'd probably be thinking, "HELL, NO!!!" when it comes to that question. The variety and self-selection of exercises is, IMO, an important part of a high frequency program. ]

-S