Better than Focused Attraction Plan (FAP), especially given your current goals.
I saw it.
Yeah, i saw the thread but i decided not to read beyond the first two lines.
Arguing with strangers on the internet just doesn’t do it for me anymore.
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Fortitude Training - Tier 2
Decided to change programs. I’l return to TBJP but it’s been quite a while on this and i think the novelty stimulus is well worn off at this point.
Warmup:
Sled Push 150lbx80yd, slow
Sled Drag 150lbx80yd, slow
Sled Push 150lbx80yd, sprint
Sled Push 150lbx80yd, sprint
Isometric hold drop set for time following working weight on all FST7 sets. 7s, 6s, 5s, 4s, 3s, 2s, 1s hold, 1 rep each.
Saw it on a video, idk if it’s actual FST7 but it looked good and I ran with it. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, I’ll apologize to Hani Rambod later.
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I realized I never acknowledged this. Thanks for posting. Have you personally ever tried mouth taping? I’ve been seeing it everywhere online these days and am wondering if it’s worth a shot.
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I haven’t. I’m not much of a mouth breather and I’m acne prone so I didn’t want to risk it, though i probably should give it a try.
It wouldn’t hurt anything to try. Well, maybe your upper lip upon removal but otherwise it wouldn’t hurt 
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Good point, I didn’t even consider acne. I’m prone as well.
I have a weird jaw and nasal passages that have made me a total mouth breather my entire life so it might be worth a little acne to retrain my breathing. I’ll update if I go through with it and can actually notice any results.
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Love seeing the Training updates! It’s so cool seeing people do Fortitude… One of my favorite programs ever. Would love to revisit it, but it would be difficult working it out in a garage gym.
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I think i popped a blood vessel during leg press; vision went out in the right eye for like 5 mins. We’ll find out tomorrow.
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I’m supposed to be training today but i just don’t see how that’s possible with how sore my legs are. Just going to tan instead.
Would have done cardio at the gym but bedroom cardio went longer than expected 
Getting back on the meal prep train.
I may have found a way to continue classes longer than my VA bill allows, and I’d it works out as i hope - i may stretch it for a Master’s if not more. Might post a thread about it asking for opinions on cost/benefit.
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The best leg day just includes bicep curls in the squat rack, works with sore legs as well.
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Didn’t have time for missed exercises. I’m not upset about it - my legs didn’t want the sauce.
Meathead question:
My chest exercises always drop reps disproportionately fast after failure sets. Rest pause reps should go something akin to 16-8-4. All other bodyparts follow this accurately, but my chest would go 16-6-2 if not dropping reps even faster. My bench has always been shit too (305x7 lifetime PR), though my form is probably subpar too. Triceps and shoulders follow standard 50% rep reduction, so i don’t believe these are contributing factors. Feel free to reference my above Muscle Round sets, comparing chest to lat exercises. You’ll see the same for almost every heavy chest exercise in my log.
My thoughts are that this is a lack of fast-twitch muscle fibers in my pecs.
Differing opinions anyone?
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I’m honored and flattered that you tagged me but I think you know a lot more than I do.
You’re going to hate me for asking this, but if your pecs look fantastic, does it matter if they tucker out a little faster than the other muscle groups?
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For me, it’s shoulders that follow this pattern. Drop off in performance between sets is typical (especially with things like myo reps or drop sets). I think it is actually because of more fast twitch in that area. Once those fast twitch fibers are exhausted, there just isn’t much left. I am not sure on this just to be clear. Could have it backwards.
Where do you feel bench the most? For me, it is front delts, and so my bench sorta follows more traditional shoulder exercises with the drop in performance, but not as much because shoulder are less involved in bench than OHP for example.
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I’ll jump in before someone smart drops real knowledge.
I don’t think a small difference like that necessarily “means” anything; especially on compound movements. It could be anything from you slightly changed the angle of your elbows to rested one second too short to took a rep a little deeper.
It seems to me you’d be more likely to crap out harder after the first performance if you had a ton of fast-twitch fibers?
Maybe you’re just more practiced on lower reps here. If you tend to hit these types of movements in a lower zone, that’s just what you’ll end up being better at.
Maybe you’re so damn dialed in with your chest that you are awesome at fatiguing it and approaching true failure, and you were able to dig a deeper ditch on the first effort.
Thanks for letting me pontificate!
Edit: didn’t see the above two before I posted. Smart folks already beat me to it.
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This is a fascinating idea that I often wonder about. If someone can get a mind-muscle connection with the target area really fast, then does it even need as much time under tension to get the same benefits as other muscle groups?
And by the same token, if you have two different lifters – one who can’t easily feel the target muscles working and one who can – does the one who can need as much stimulation as the one who can’t? I don’t think so. I think the less experienced lifter, who can’t get that MMC, needs more volume to get the same muscular benefits.
So maybe, @Andrewgen_Receptors, you’re able to target your pecs a lot faster and harder than other muscle groups.
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My ego
Chest hardly feels stimulated, shoulders get sore but not tired, triceps are toasted and burnout on the top side of going up.
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Impossible.
Not really. I havent flat benched in forever because i stopped caring about arbitrary numbers; this was mostly a curiousity question.
Very possible.
Even more possible. Ego Benching is my favorite past-time.
If this were a different muscle (or maybe exercise), I’d be more likely to agree here. My Pecs don’t get seem to much out of heavy compounds for whatever reason.
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I would even go a step further. Let’s say they need the same stimulation as an absolute (100 hypertrophy units of stimulation!) The one actually firing his target muscle is going to get that stimulation in fewer reps - maybe she gets 25 “stimulation units” per rep and I get 15; she will hit her 100 units faster.
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