FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Hey Scott,

I've been doing FT for a year+ now, and can say without a shadow of a doubt that I've made some of the best progress and learned SO much about my own body's recovery abilities that it's insane.

The $20 spent on your ebook has yielded more than the thousands spent on all the other crap us bodybuilders spend on.

I remember a few years ago you answering a question with: "It depends", and I'd want to shout at the computer monitor and say: "Just tell me what to do!"...not realizing how much inter individuality was at play here, and how much you needed to learn about YOURSELF in this endeavor. Id really like to thank you for all of this, the FT system, the board, your willingness to come on here and help us out.

THANK YOU so much for that, man! Glad to help - it's just part of my mission, but it's great to hear kind feedback like this.

(There was someone who posted here and sent me some nasty emails who basically told me to "F" off - actually he did say that - b/c he wanted to be told what to do. I refunded his book purchase, of course. )

After a year of FT, I wanted to try something a little different before coming back to this again. I decided to try one of John Meadows high frequency programs, I'm running one of his program: (the taskmaster) for this blast. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the details of the programming, It's a high volume, high frequency (bodypart blocks), 6 days a week.

I'm someone who ran FT tier 1 EOD due to my body's recovery abilities. It's super tough for me to do multiple sets not to failure. 1 muscle round or 1 straight set in FT meant serious business.

I was wondering what you'd do in my instance? Take out one of the extra high frequency days? It's a back phase right now? Or remove 1 set from the 3-4 sets John has for each exercise?

Or just run the program as is, and see how my body reacts in 1-2 weeks, then adjust from there? (This seems like a logical thing to do)

Thanks again for everything,

John configures each of his programs differently, so I'm not sure how that one would lend itself to adjusting downward.

A few thoughts:

I would personally try to ride it out until you're quite certain you need to adjust downward. I think he uses a subjective scale to tell you how hard to push on many of those sets, so you may need to really ponder that and perhaps put in you mind the idea that there is not a kind of "work set" that is somewhere intermediate to a purely preparatory warm-up and how you'd carry out sets in FT (to failure or stopping with 1-2 reps in reserve). Think of those another kind of flexlble Set Type that's MD training specific. :

Does he say in this program that you can drop one of the extra days?... (That's a common feature of his programs.) If so, that would be the way to go (as needed), as his programs are well thought out. I'd not drop the extra day that's the focus of the training block, though, as it sounds like that's the key feature of this program?....

Also, he's got a FB group where you can post Q's. I'm an admin there (I think) so I can get you in to get some feedback if you like.

-S