Another pump set thread

[Scott Stevenson]

Hi everyone, I'm glad this board exists!


I stopped training for 6 weeks due to having examns, but the end is nearing and looking forward to training again. I'm doubting between the two way DC or fortitude tier 1. I have done both (on seperate occasions) for a relative short time (give or take 6 weeks) and liked both. I also listen to Scott' podcasts whenever I find the time. I remember him saying (or the interviewer) that fortitude was to improve after DC or the DC training on it's own. I think he was mainly pointing at the 'cruise' time where DC almost stops training and fortitude keeps doing some work (2-3 workouts, MR of pumpsets only).

My main question is the next: DC is mainly (allmost only) heavy slag iron whereas fortiude includes pumpsets and autoregulating/ picking exercises on the fly which is blasphemy in DC terms. I remember JP being guided by Scott, but I haven't seen him advocating nor doing pumpsets after his guidance. How come? Am I looking at this too rigidly for a HIT viewpoint?

The pumpsets were murdering me tho, and i didn't even do techniques. But I programmed them weekly I.E.: trying to overload them week by week but that seems to be a 'wrong' approach in fortitude or did I read the book not good enough?


Thanks in advance!

Yes, some, but certainly not all folks doing DC would run into that issue with backsliding during the intensive cruise (and many were getting really beat up and spending too much of the cruise NOT training...)

Jordan was doing the Pump sets just as straight sets in the 15-20 rep range, and his sense was that staying with higher tension and pushing the loads were the way to go for him.

I can't recall all the details, but at one point, too, he was also taking all of the loading sets to failure (rather than leaving 1-2 reps in the tank) and when he started doing that, he started progressing more rapidly....

Really, though, I can't speak for Jordan, but I'd not read too much into that. I know Jordan really likes DC training, but I also don't have the sense that he advocated widow makers a great deal. My guess is context / volume / stimulus of the other aspects of his programming are such that doing WM's wouldn't make sense, but again - only Jordan can say...

-S