FT Questions....

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230 - AWESOME!!! VERY Glad to hear that. (Is this is your highest BW ever?...)

No worries - it was a good question. (And you're welcome. )

I gained a heightened awareness of how rest interval (if you pick the right one) can help with limiting CNS drain from doing Titan training. I don't recall, but I think I'm pretty close on the rest intervals he set out in there. I played around with doing it differently (longer as you have mostly, but also a time or two with shorter rest intervals) and these seemed to be a good fit (and I figured they would be a good starting point for most folks.)

The one thing that folks don't realize if coming from a program like DC or another where the focus is on eliminating fatigue before a few # of go to sets, is that you will get used to training more quickly and the loads will go up. I'm sure you were (as I was) acutely aware of how gassed you were getting (esp. with legs and back) when you first started training this way, and that you could handle more weight had you rested more.

You'll develop a good tolerance if you stick with it. IT'll still be hard as all hell, but you might be surprised at what you can do.

-S

It's great that you mention DC training because my experience from ~2 years of DC is what made me question not waiting longer between sets and had me hesitant to reduce my rest intervals because of how gassed I was. In the back of my mind I already knew from experience- and now know for sure how shorter rest intervals and zig zagging will spare unnecessary CNS taxing and result in more muscle growth in the long run provided you plow through the training and get used to it - which I will! (Edit: Can't forget to include joint health/safety as you mentioned - don't want to be beat up as all hell by the time I'm 40! Longevity! Gotta live to be as old as Skip one day! -Just kidding no one lives that long, only dinosaurs and tortoises.)

Yeah 230 is the heaviest I've ever been! I stayed in the 210-215 range lean for about a year - way too long. I'll get a thread started soon with progress pictures. Building on more of a basketball player's 6'4 frame at 23 years old so 230 isn't yet as impressive as it would be for most physique athletes, as I often train with a friend who weighs 230 @ 5'8 and he's looking pretty crazy. This is just the beginning though. Being really tall and getting big at the same time is something not a whole lot of people ever do - much bigger muscle bellies and an entirely different look. Going to have to compete in men's physique if I decide to stay completely natural however - but that's not necessarily a bad thing. If I got to the ~280-310 pounds necessary for my frame to compete i'd probably get sleep apnea and high blood pressure anyways.