FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Already began searching seems like a lot of speculation about accidents, sunlight exposure, smoke inhalation, etc...I'll see if I can find anything more definitive.

Those kinds of searches can take forever. You can sometimes find info. in the respective governmental sites.

I'll actually be getting blood work in about 3 weeks, and at that point will have been following the FT diet principles for 1 month. I also got blood work on 7/17 so we will see if there are any changes, I'll post in my log if anyone is interested diet wise it's the same sources of food and same protein amount. But considerably higher fat on average (mostly from more avocado, olive oil, and nuts..some eggs) and starchy carbs relegated to workout days (some fruits on off days but trying to keep it to under 100g total). Otherwise most factors are the same (I am splitting up my TRT to 3x/week now but same amount total).

I'd be interested to know if things change. Both diet and training and TRT all at once will make it hard to say quite what's at work, but interesting info. nonetheless.

(If you diet doesn't change, it will be interesting to see what happens to your weight / body comp, too. Most folks have to up the kcal unless dropping fat is a goal.)

How about those of us starting at 130lb untrained lol kidding....thanks for the feedback

I thought you were 127lb?...

I do the stretches after working legs but not much before. I will incorporate more stretching as warmup and I will try the oil. Really appreciate the advise.

Sure! I bet the stretches with enough warm-up will help a lot. Add the KW Oil and you'll feel like a 20yr old.

Scott, did you ever try keeping, the loading exercise, the same exercise until you stop to make progress on it? Sorry, coming from doing a strength program so long, I have it hardwired in my brain to squat, dead and bench every week.

I've not done that for years, and not with FT, but it tends to lead to a more quickly grinding halt in progress, e.g., in folks doing DC training.

I've had a few powerlifters (adding powerlifting here as a search term) ask about and do FT and the solution there was to use bands, chains, partials, presses off of blocks, box squats, and other variations on the big three to keep things fresh.

You could also "periodize" your rep ranges, too, e.g.

A Rotation: 10-12
B Rotation: 8-10
C Rotation: 6-8

Note that the Loading sets are about best exercises to make SIZE gains, no necessarily strength gains, al though the choice of exercise should be one that can be progressed upon. So, we're trying to put a square peg in a round hole to some degree. For a given person wanting to add chest size who has been flat benching religiously for decades with strength in mind, focusing on flat bench may not the solution for adding pec size.

-S