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[Scott Stevenson]

Hey guys,

Nice to meet you all, my name is Constantino. I was a lightweight rower for nine years (6', 155lbs, lean for unhealthy periods of time), doing a bit in strength training but the vast majority of our training was cardio. It wasn't until my ninth year of rowing (on the off season) did I discover how fulfilling it is to make gains in the strength and hypertrophy realm. I bought a pair of gymnastic rings and did a volume approach to bodyweight workouts (I took Dr. Israetel's volume landmarks and applied them to various bodyweight exercises), and it took me far, particularly in rowing (with the superficial and narrow slice of research I did, I found that closed kinetic chain exercises were great for rowing).

I stopped rowing about a year ago and have been drifting around with approaches to workouts but staying in the bodyweight exercise realm. Some might have called me ideologically possessed with regards to needing to do bodyweight exercises--in retrospect, I would have to agree with them. Having recently ironed out my goals, which is pretty much to get jacked and lift a lot of weight, I realized that my bodyweight approach was quite suboptimal. I was also not loving the volume approach. Most importantly, I was missing feeling like an athlete--going into the gym and just getting wrecked.

I found Fortitude Training as an alternative to Dr. Israetel's volume appraoch and my previous bodyweight ideology. I'm pumped to get underway and make gains as well as to hopefully, once again, feel like an athlete.

Welcome, Constantino!

So, it sounds like you've done some RP inspired training already? It would be interesting to get your thoughts in comparing the two approaches. (FT vs. what Dr. Mike proposes. We're largely on the same page in many regards, but his "for the masses" suggestions are different than FT, I think. )

-S