Titan Training Question

[jimmycnj99]

I am currently in week 1 of the Titan Training program. At first glance this looks like severe overtraining. For example: Monday is base training (i.e. heavy training) for legs, then you work legs AGAIN THE FOLLOWING DAY for volume, then on Thursday you work legs YET AGAIN for the muscle rounds. When do the muscles get a chance to grow???? I've read a lot of good things so I'm giving it a shot. I'm currently using gear so this will speed up muscle recovery. For someone natural though - training seems way to frequent.

 

[tronious]

I'm living proof that it's not. Not using anything other than creatine/glutamine. Went thru one cycle of the TITAN training...and gained significantly.

Hell, by the majority of my posts on this board I should be a paid spokesperson for it.

If you actually were to buy the manual...it explains pretty much in depth the "over training" topic. Good luck with the training. Stick with it. It's definitely worth it. How 'bout those muscle rounds!?

 

[jimmycnj99]

during the base training, do u train till failure - for example a forced rep or 2 on the final set?

 

[tronious]

actually no. The one thing they stress a lot of in the manual and video is not training to failure. They explain why...but it's been a while since I read the manual so I can't remember completely. Something about tearing the muscle instead of breaking it down. Made sense the way they explained it though. If I'm doing chest for instance and I'm doin' muscle rounds for chest...if I'm on rep #3 and no I can't possibly get #4, I'll either stop at 3 or tell my spotter to drop some weight for me so I can get the 4th. I don't ever want a spotter helpin' me. They're mainly there to give me lift off's, and drop weight so I don't have to get up and drop weight between sets on muscle rounds.

 

[matteoja]

They also cite psychological reasons for not going to failure. It increases the chance of neurological overtraining which is just as likely a danger in a program like this.
Joe

 

[tronious]

Thanks matteoja...that's what I was trying to remember from the book.

That's the big reason you don't train to failure. To let your nervous system recover more than for your muscles.