FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Thanks for the reply Scott! Makes sense to keep the hypers away from a taxing lower back movement, I will keep this in mind.

I am going to definitely throw in spider crawls for a pump set. Going up and down the wall a few times is crazy, can't imagine the pump one would get from taking it until failure.

I'd try to work those spider crawls in as John suggests them, and not try to take them to failure if that means a 3+ min long set or something crazy.

You mention deads in your post.

I did?... (Where?... LOL)

I actually was wondering your thoughts on including deads in the program. I wanted to use it as a loading set for one of my three selected workouts, but was afraid it might be too taxing of a movement to include. Also, we are meant to push ourselves to failure and since I am only doing one set and one given exercise since i'm on tier 1, i figured this wasn't a good idea. Any input?

If full deeds are are go to back thickness exercise for you, then go for it.

Someone asked me yesterday on another board:

Would you recommend rack deads over deads off of the floor?

I recommend the better of those two for building your back specifically. Full deads may be more doable on this program b/c the lower body work is happening on that day anyway (PUMP sets), but I'd still pick the exercises that are you go to for packing on size for your back thickness. This can mean using a low rack for the rack deads, too (between a just below the knee cap rack dead and a floor dead, if you have a sweet spot in there).

-S