FT Questions....

[Scott Stevenson]

well many thanks Scott for your ideas ..but lets get things from the begining again cause i feel we are going in places i didnt intened to..
as i said i came to FT after experimenting with mountaindog training for aout a year..
i proggresed in training 7 days a week plus 1-2 cardio( or ZERO if feling tired or not feeling it that day..) obviously not all of them was max poundage and max intensity.. ii was listening my body and as usualy my main 4 workouts where as intense as they could be!
the other 3 pump days increased blood flow aided in recuperation served also as destress pill if you like and ALSO ALOOWED ME STAING LEANER AND NOT RELY SO MUCH ON CARDIO..(i had this in mind when i wrote in this forum for ways to improve body composition etc after the 4 main days of FT training..)
i liked training more than cardio to do that and basicaly i asked you how i could follow a simiral approach ( TRAINING 6-7 DAYS) WHILE TRAINING WITH FT ...

as far as FT training ..i prety much beating the log at every workout plus 0,7-1 kg up in bodywheight in 4 weeks with same bodyfat...( keep in mind i do hard cardio the other 3 days)
i have a setendary job plus i follow your nutrition ideas for mass gains..

You're welcome, Bud.

I'll keep my answer simple:

To satisfy your need to train more days / week, you could:
-Split Day 1 and 2 into 4 workouts by splitting up the Loading and Pump Sets. (This gives you 6 training days / week)

-If you can recover, you could move to Tier III. (I would rather see you do this vs. continue to do cardio.)

For the purpose of bodybuilding, I would do neither of these, as you seem to be making great gains where you are, doing what you're doing. It sounds like you've gained more muscle from 4 weeks of FT than you did over 9 months of MD training (3 x 3 month programs).

For the purpose simply training more often, you can do whatever you like, really. Other than the above, in keeping with an FT format, as was mentioned days ago by Pumped: I devised FT in the way that I did for various reason, i.e., I've not got a better solution for you.

Consider this:

JOhn's base MD program is a 4x / week program, with extra days of training added in per your recovery ability. Shelby Starnes does MD training this way (4 days / week) and has made great gains for instance.

You, on the other hand, out of your need to train as often as possible, took John's program to a 7 d / week format. This resulted in very little progress over 9 months.
NOW, you're wanting to take my 4 days / week program and revise it by adding more training days into the week, even after you've been making great gains with FT (and know from the past that a program more like mine - Yates style). You're asking me to come up with some way to make what I see as an error in training judgment (adding extra days of training) into something that you can get away with.

It may be possible for you to train more days / week simply by splitting Days 1 and 2, but it seems you don't like that answer. (I've given it to you several times now.) I've given you the option to up your volume, too, to Tier III, but that doesn't seem like it would make sense, given you're making great gains right now.:

Increasing your volume and going to 6 days / week would be the same sort of thing that didn't work with MD training.

So, those are your options as I see them: continue making great gains or continue repeating your pattern riding the edge of overtraining and making little in the way of gains. What you do is TOTALLY up to you, my man. I friggin' LOVE to train, so I get you - and I've overdone it more than a few times.

You have my permission to go hog wild with the training for sure, but other than what I've said, I don't see any way for you to have your cake and eat it too, here.

-S