Help My first ft blast questions

[Scott Stevenson]

I must have read your periodization examples wrong?page 81 has the example.So would you suggest staying with one tier for each blast?Today the tier 2 muscle rounds kicked my but!My back and chest are already sore.Thank you sir.

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Actually, I think you didn't read my response above.

AUTOREGULATE your Tiers, at least when starting out with FT.

MANY people can't use Tier III - it's too much for them.

Those examples are simply examples, not prescriptions. (By analogy, you'd not order a 6 weeks worth with a food you don't like or had never tried. In the same way, I'd not suggest pre-programming, especially, when it includes Tier III, your Volume Tiers unless you know there's some sense in doing it that way.

If you, for instance, know that during week 3 of a Blast, you will have a light work schedule, and that you can recovery from Tier III for short periods, then it might make sense to plan on that.

If you have done a few Blasts and know you end up going about 6 weeks, then you might plot out a Blast - based on that experience - that lasts 6 weeks (but still be open to autoregulation).

The purpose here is the match stimulus and recovery. There are folks here on the board who have done FT for years now, and know that if they, for instance, do Tier III, followed by a drop back to Tier I [which is even a larger reduction in volume (Tier) than what I would *generally* prescribe happen during the Intensive Cruise, relative to the Progressive Blast), that there is a strong rebounding / recovery effect, so this is a bit of a planned functional overreaching.

OTOH, per the above example, maybe week 3 is a week on vacation (eat sleep train and grow) and Week 4 is back to work (scrape by, working later than normal, catching up). That would be another reason to plan on a changing Tiers at the outset.

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Why did you pick that particular example for moving through the Tiers?...

-S