FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Thank you.

I don't understand your note though. Are you saying I have 3 sets of exercises for loading sets of legs (leg press, leg extension and leg curl) but I don't follow after that. Just that each week the compound exercise will restate so week 2 would be squat for example?

Also what about everyone else trying to hold down 3 machines when doing this?? Seems like depending on the gym and time going it might conflict with other gym members.

Hey Bud,

Well, definitely do some searching here (e.g., in the Logs) as I notes in our PM's.

ALso, read page 87 in the book where it explains what you do with loading sets:

Rotating Exercises: Choose THREE Groupings (call them A, B and C) of
Loading Exercises for each muscle group, one set for EACH WEEK and Rotate through these week by week. Most important are the compound exercises, as practical gym limitations may not allow you to always use the same isolation exercises for zig-zagging.

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If you can use the same exercises for each of these Loading set rotations, that's great, but the main emphasis is on the COMPOUND exercise. That's the one you want to be you main progression exercise. You don't have to hold down three exercises, at the isolation are 2ndary in importance.

As I've noted before, you can indeed do things like use DB ham curs for your isolation exercises. These you can do on the floor and will always be available to you as long as you can get a dumbbell in the right weight. If you need to use the same isolation exercise for your LOADING sets each time, then you still have variety as long as the COMPOUND Loading sets exercise is different.

-S