FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

In the book there is a template for the "family man" a 3 day plan.
However it states "upper body focus".
How would a "lower body focus" or "balanced between upper and lower" template look like?

I am thinking about using the 3 day program when I start up in 3 weeks.
This allows me to spend 4 days in a caloric minus and should combat any possible fat gains from having the larger calorie intakes on training days.
However, my legs are weaker than my upper so this template may not be ideal.

Thanks.

Con,

The main difference is in the Day 3, which is a full Body MR based workout, with progressively more volume (MR's) for upper body muscles as the Volume (Tier) increases. You can see in Day 3, reading from Tier I to III that there is an increase in Volume for upper body only.

To make a 3 day for the lower body, you'd just favor higher volume (more MR's) for the legs in the higher volume Tiers.

As long as training intensity is maintained, you can maintain gains pretty easily, so a baseline upper body set up (like Voluem Tier I in the Family Man Plan) would likely suffice.

You could potentially simply change the Lower body in your version (if you have the time to get this done in one workout) to look similar to what you see for the Day 3 (lower body ) Volume Tiers. Something more like what you see for the TURBO version would be best, simply b/c if you were to try to do BASIC Day 3 (all lower body volume on that day) and then ADD to that the upper body sets, this would be a recipe for disaster (simply too much, IMO).

-S