FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

I have a question about Tier 1 basic, day 2 Back loading reps. It says 2 sets, to me this means 2 sets of the "4 set loading progession". So set 1 would be a width loading set, something like lat pulldown/meadows stretchers/lat pull down/meadows stretchers. Then set 2 would be a width loading set. Something like a BB row,pulley high row, BB Row, pulley high row. Would this be corect?

AfTer re reading the Above is very wrong. I went by the example in the book which uses tier 3 as an example, totaling 4 sets. At first I thought that was an example of what a loading set was, I got confused reading about the isolation exercises. So for tier 1 day 2 loading sets would Look like this?

Chest- compound movement, warmups then 1 set to failure
Delts- compound movement, warmups then 1 set to failure
Back- a width exercise and a thickness exercise - 1 set to failure for each
No bicep work

Sorry for your confusion.

Now that you've looked at it more closely you'll see that there is no zig-zagging for the Tier I when you're doing just 1 set per muscle group. This is why there is a "-" in the column where the rest interval would be. (There is no "interval" to have because you only do 1 set.)

Rather than confuse a shit ton of people with the above, I put in the Tier III examples and ended them with "... perform stretch of your choice" to indicate that that was the end of training that particular muscle (group).

What you're referring to as "4 set loading progression" is what I call zig zagging in FT. It's more so an alternation between / among exercises, rather than a progression, at least how I think of it.

I had hoped that the figure on the bottom of page 90, where I outline all zig-zaggin for all three tiers might help, but i know there is a TON if info. in the book, so skimming is gonna happen.

I hope you're entirely up to speed now, MM.

-S