FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

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.

Well, even Ken, as old as dirt, doesn't have sleep apnea even at his heaviest, so there is hope.

yeah, that sounds about right at that height, but, man is that impressive when someone is that large.

Your training partner sounds like a big dude - will look forward to seeing how the two of you grow.

-S