FT Questions....

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I still did stretching on the other days, usually occlusion. Doing the exact stretch you are talking about (or actually Scott). I'd get into a power rack or smith machine, which would allow me to get a good stretch, better range of motion. There was significantly less fatigue from that as compared to the extreme stretch, but I could still feel a very nice, deep stretch through the fibers.

Glad to see you're still making some progress on you chest movements, even if its a slow rate. I am with you (and also agree with Scott above), that chest moves so much slower than legs. My progress last blast was nothing amazing, but it was progress, and I did not suffer from burnout at the end of my blast, where I actually regressed. This allowed me to keep the intensity high through my cruise and the start of my current blast. This felt much more like two steps forward, one step forward, instead of two steps forward, half a step back.

Best of luck to you. Let me know if you stumble across anything else with this. I will do the same.

Good to hear about your progress. I am going to do more of the occlusion style stretch in the rack on my next blast (esp. after Monday pump sets), and up the calories on my Tuesday AM carb meal (this I recently added in, as I feel like I really need the extra carbs/cals after Monday lower load/upper pump workouts) and hopefully that helps progression on upper loading.

Side note: I did find an awesome occlusion stretch yesterday. There is a seated cable fly station at my gym which I did for my second chest MR. Right after finishing the last possible rep, I lowered the cables back and leaned forward (with arms at the bottom of the fly position) and went right into the stretch for 90 sec. taking no rest between the last rep and the stretch. This was absolutely brutal! Also the nice thing about it is you can kind of increase/decrease the intensity of the stretch as needed by leaning more forward or backward. My entire chest feels like it went through a meatgrinder, even up by the collar bone. I wont be doing this on Mondays, however