Thoughts after two blasts

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Sorry, I fell a few workouts behind on the log........working 14 hour days, one day off in the last 14 days......plus coaching my son's youth football team have really kept me behind. The workouts are still being done and I'm hitting it hard.

I just finished week six of my second blast of Fortitude Training. Now I'll be moving into a cruise.

What I will do here is list some observations from this training blast.

Scott posted on this web site that he thought many people were training at too high a tier and was also curious about how it was that so many people were hitting exactly four reps on the final set of muscle rounds.......were they truly at failure.

I'm not going to BS here........I've been training for about 36 years straight and am on the back end of 50 years old. My super supps would be considered fairly light by some standards but I'm happy with how I feel.

I was doing Tier 3 basic and by the end of blasts, hell even in the middle, I was dragging ass half the day after my early AM workouts.
So I decided to end this blast with three straight weeks of Tier 2 and make sure I was........
A. Really hitting failure
B. Being smart on exercise selection and sticking to the program guidelines
C. Make sure I was increasing weight and or reps
D. Incorporating set extension techniques on pump sets

I've battled shoulder joint issues for years stemming from old football injuries as well as powerlifting abuse.

I also found that with FT, when using Tier 3, I started getting knee issues and elbow issues, tendonitis stuff. Elbows weren't too bad but the right knee got bad enough to negatively affect my workouts for legs.

Sticking to Tier 2 has pretty much eliminated the joint issues and I was even able to incorporate incline bench for the first time in a couple of years.
My gains were great, my strength is moving up consistently, and I feel good physically. The workouts were every bit as tough as the higher tier but it didn't take me an entire day to have the energy to move.

So after this cruise I'll be sticking with Tier 2 for the future......

Regarding the super supps, I also think I'll be doing a 6 on, 2 cruise to match the training. Nothing exotic though, just basic.