Newbie gains again??

[Scott Stevenson]

my bad ...
meant 21 DAYS (3 exercise in Loading Days one per week) VS 14 days of SD
this way we have (again I assume) some kind of re-sensitization to the stimulus (to given exercise)

Ah, OK - yes, that could very well be at play, for sure. The 3 exercise rotation just seems empirically to work out well. (This has been covered here on the board a few times now.) The idea that I have concerning it is that the longer period between using an exercise (at least in a Loading Set context) prevents short-term practice effects that could mean plateauing more rapidly (d/t neural / psychological adaptations), making the progress more representative of muscular gains (the goal).

never heard (I think I know Bryan's works quite well over the years) of measuring state of deconditioning in real life in HST
but SD calls for 12-14 days as optimal (some re-sensitization but not too much to loose too much strength)

as far as I remember - been a while - SD calls not for a full deconditioning - just for some re-sensitization to lighter loads and been able to use them effectively in new HST cycle

Yes, def. not full detraining, so to speak. As I think he mentions, the repeated bout effect can last for months, so it would be interesting to gain an understanding of the time course of it's decay in the context of muscle size loss, too.

hence we are not missing anything - FT is so complete system !

thank you again Scott for deep analysis !

Well, I've tried to put the main pieces in play, but it's not perfect of course!

You're welcome!

-S