10-13-2018, 02:02 AM
(10-12-2018, 11:20 PM)Scott Stevenson Wrote: Be a tool maker and create your own tool (pump set technique) to suit yourself.
What you're missing is probably not a particular training technique, but rather the knowledge as to how to use the right one to suit your situation. It's a bit like someone who's bought he best toolkit at the hardware store and doesn't know what they all use and for some reason, wants to use them all regardless of the situation. Don't use a sledgehammer to remove a screw, or a hammer to drill a hole.
Pump sets could very well be used progressively if you wanted to, employing the same technique repeatedly, but the idea here is that you'd pick the technique (or derive one as you start the set, which is how I came with 5's into the Hole) based on how you feel in that very moment. For example, if you've just destroyed yourself with Lower Body loading on a given day, nearing the end of a Blast (several weeks in), are still sore in the upper body, then chances are it wouldn't be the best move to use 5's into the Hole for each and every Pump Set you do for Upper body that day.
-S
I very much get that!!! I do not use one or the other all of the time. I am just trying to kinda compile a list of suitable things to throw at my pump sets and also use them to attack some of my weaker bodyparts. Since the pump sets are designed to be on the fly I want to have a list in the back of my head of what is a good fit for FT so that I can throw that at the specific muscle I'm training/focusing on that day.
But from your answer, I feel like it really is free to go nuts and even try and come up with some techniques myself
So I will take your advice and not try and limit myself to a list of things but rather use my experience and go with the flow of the moment. As always thank you so much Scott for your advice and insight. And thank you for creating this forum it has given me a lot of answers that I have previously had to figure out on my own