Looks like the sale continues ...
Yes, forced choice requires responders to prioritize. Otherwise, many of us would say "get them all!". Lol, which is what I have done .. hee hee.
Yay! Job well done!
Yeah, woohoo! I'm looking forward to your final review/assessment. I pulled out my STS worksheets recently after you suggested we preserve our 1RM data in case the website/Workout Manager disappears with the restructuring/bankruptcy. I marveled, again, at all the variety in those Mesos. I think my last rotation was last early Fall but I only did the UB workouts due to my knee & didn't include Meso 3. So it's been awhile for a full rotation for me. I read an old post by "Kathryn" (she was a prolific poster for many many years here) where she combined the 2 UB workouts into one workout. I might take a look at how she may have done that. It'd provide an option on how to use the series without dedicating 3 days to it. IDK, something to look at.
I'm definitely feeling stronger - was certainly impressed with some of the weights I've been able to accomplish at the 90% range during week 3. Proof will be in the pudding next week when I have to resort back to 8 reps at 85%!
STS original was an eye-opener to me as to how much weight I could lift. Looking at some of "Kathryn"'s posts, she often criticized Cathe for going overboard on the "show" muscles, which many body builders do. So I suspect she may have evened out the sets between front and back and decreased sets for accessory muscles. I cannot find anything specific as to how she did it, but I'll probably not bother as it looks like it would be too much work.
Surprised to read, many times on the forum, about excuses because of injuries! Even, the 2Lazy4theGym lady announced on her blog that she stopped lifting completely, shifting to just body-weight training, becuase of injuries. Aren't you guys overdoing it, causing injuries instead of sustainable healthy strength? Just a curious question!
I injured my knee by torqueing it and/or hyperextening it in a cardio workout. The injuries may not have had anything to do with weight-lifting but it did affect my weight-lifting (and cardio and mobility). It was how I became so familiar with STS2.0 Body Parts & the premixes for UB, lol.
There is a current trend, mimicking the Minimum Effective Dose (MED) approach, called Microdosing, where you train each body part, over the week, once in just a 10 minute workout (Chest, Back, Legs, Shoulders, Biceps, Triceps, Core) and that is all!
Supposedly Cathe has said she prefers one body part a day workouts on a few occasions. She set up Cross-train Express, the ICE Muscle Meltdowns, the Xtrain Burn Sets, LIte's Pyramid Pump & STS2.0 Body Parts to allow for that type of training. It can be done with some of her other programs where she grouped body parts. Most of them take 10-20 minutes per body part without any warm-up or cool-down as she expected you were doing them on a cardio day.
