Results Worth Sharing

**The Following Post is from "DO Trainee" on my Transformetrics Forum**

Greetings gang,

I wanted to share with you a new, though not surprising breakthrough in my VRT training. Since June of last year, I have been working on a training protocol that has been 98% VRT training (especially for my upper body. During this period of time, there have only been about 6 days of power cals. I will admit where my lower body is concerned, I have been doing TBSs to gain endurance with my legs.

Since taking on this protocol, I have done several types of experimentation with my VRT workouts: high intensity, high reps, Tiger Moves, super sets, etc. One move in particular I have been doing religiously is a VRT bench press, currently in reps of 40 with the highest intensity possible during those reps.

Last fall, around early September, I attempted a GUTS routine to see where my level of fitness was within the recommendations of John Peterson. Though I can't remember all the repetition numbers, I know that when I attempted military pushups my first set was only a set of 23 pushups. After completing the rest of the GUTS routine and it was time for the next set of pushups, I could only crank out about 11 before I was creeping and crawling my way up from muscle fatigue (I just didn't have the nervous force or the energy to generate any more repetitions, along with breathing as if I had run from hyenas).

Fast forward to two days ago when I made the decision to start adding power cals into my VRT routines. After countless lectures on the benefits of cardiovascular health (I'm a med student) I felt that it was something I needed to make a priority alongside my strength training. I decided to have another GUTS workout, and to my surprise I snapped off 30 pushups with absolutely no problem, followed by 21 pushups towards the end of the routine. My last, most tiring set was almost as many reps as when I started in September, and between then I had not done ANY PUSHUPS WHATSOEVER.

Once again, another testimony of the power you can achieve when you decide to build your muscles from the inside out without relying on outside forces (even the influence of gravity) to do your work for you.

For wisdom and truth,

DOtrainee