FT Questions....

[Altamir]

Glad to see I'm not the only one having this issue. One thing I touched on before that post and you did not in yours was stretching. How aggressively are you stretching your chest? By the end of the first blast I had gotten REALLY good at the weighted chest stretch and was doing to far to often. I was in love though, I would be incredibly sore and I was growing like I hadn't in a long time. It eventually took its toll and I came very close to severely regressing my first blast. 2nd blast I tried to be more intelligent about its placement, and it seemed to help.

Let me know what you try and what seems to work for you. And I'll do the same (either here or in my log, probably both). I'm nowhere near as advanced as you are, but I am also going to try iso before compound and see if that helps. I am also going to increase the variety of my chest muscle rounds. I think this may be an individual thing (right down to the muscle group). For my previous blast I did a total of 4 different lifts for my shoulders (for both loading, and MRs, different stuff for pump) and never saw better progress. Chest from blast 1 to blast 2 I added a few different MRs and saw some progress there. I'm going to add at least 3 or 4 more for my 3rd. Give the muscle more time before coming back to a lift to see if that will help stave off the stalling. Good luck!

So I thought I would update this if anyone cared. All of this worked GREAT. I almost didn't repeat ANY chest MR, but when I came around to the last week a hit a few I had not in awhile and saw progress. I also was able to keep all my loading sets for chest moving forward and did not stall or burn out on anything. I also managed to do this with a shoulder and forearm problems!

I also only did extreme chest stretches on my last MR day and upper pump day, less if I was not feeling it. Made a big difference.