FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

FTC,

A few thoughts for you.

Start a journal or a new thread, if you'd like feedback on your actual program.

You look like you're likely OVER-analysing and not seeing the big picture. (I've been in the online game a while - seen this a lot. It's not abnormal really at all, so I'm not coming down on you.) Take a deep breath, go slow and keep it simple. This is a LONG process - YEARS. You'll slow gains more stressing about minor details then from not getting them right.

Here are some answers to your questions (which reflect that you're missing the big picture, methinks, and/or you've not got a lot of experience with some basic principles of program design):

(If I am rotating exercises every week anyways then how is this applicable?)

You keep a log book and focus on progression on the main, go to, (typically compound) exercises you use for your loading sets.

[E.g., You use BB squats for your main Loading Exercise for your A Rotation. [A would be the 1st week of an A, B, C rotation when you use different Thigh loading exercises for A, B, and C, such as BB squats (A), HS plate loaded squat (B) and smith squats © ] See page 94 figure at the top of the page.

(Ok so if I am combining iso movements with compound movements, does the COMBINATION equal 1 set or do I count compound and Iso sets separately?

See page 89 in the book and figure noted above.

Does the weight stay the same throughout the muscle round or am I supposed to pyramid up? I didn't see anything on this?

See page 94-95 (bottom) in the book, specifically Repetitions (and Load): "Pick a weight such that you can perform at very least 3 sets of 4 reps, failing in the 4th to 6th set." "As a guideline for doing Muscle Rounds for the frst time, this load usually corresponds with roughly a 15 repetition maximum for a continuous straight set. Obviously, if you can’t perform three sets of 4 at the start of a MR, the weight was too heavy.)"

-S