FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

Hi Scott,

Thank you for the response.

You're welcome!

That's a lot good tips and I will organize my next workout with your advises.

I'm not strong at all but I do need proper warm-up (few sets) to really feel and prepare the muscle for the assault, in order to give my best on the exercise.

Before your program, I never have stretched other muscles groups than legs.

I really appeciate the sensation and benefice of stretching so I really put emphasis of those.

I don't know why, but I believed that the muscle group should be stretched IMMEDIATLY (without pause) after the last working set

That would depend on the type of stretch you're using and how you're doing the stretch. If you're stretching unilaterally, there's going to be a pause in between.

If you don't have your wits about you after a set, going right into a stretch (especially an Extreme Stretch) can be dangerous, too.

If you want to do an occlusion stretch ASAP afterwards, you can certainly do that. You'll see in the book wrt Occlusion stretches that I suggest you start them within a minute or two of finishing the last set of the last exercise for a muscle (group).

The option I gave was to allow you to actually finish the workout (before your gym closes.)

So with your instuctions I will be able to gain a few minutes, here and there.

Your reply reassure me, cause by dint of hearing and reading over the web that "workout should be short..., we need to excercise like sprinters..., ect" I told me : am I on the wrong path? Am I doing things the wrong way?

I love the program so far

If your workouts last so long that you feel you can't train hard near the end, then there could be a problem, but otherwise, I'd look at your recover (and progress) in the grander scheme.

While I didn't think it would make or break anything, I too thought the idea was to go into occlusion and extreme stretches as fast as possible to keep the maximum amount of blood possible in the muscle. Not that that always happened lol but man the burn is far more intense when you do go right into it.

No, I've never recommended as fast as possible, but obviously that would mean greater metabolite accumulation. That would have people running / hobbling across the gym to get to their favorite stretching station in some cases. (Not the greatest idea in some gyms especially.)

I'd also rather folks not try to do an Extreme Stretch in a highly fatigued situation because this (for some) may just be asking for injury.

-S