Imagine being a quiet observer at a gym.
You see the natural bodybuilders, the juiced up guys, all lifting heavy weights.
They’ve been there for years and years.
They know the movements, how their muscles should feel, how and when to increase the weight, when to add days for recovery, what to eat to get the best nutrition for working out as well as recovery, how to track their sleep, etc.
And then you notice the new guy. Some skinny fat couch potato who never worked out, and the heaviest lifting he did last year was pulling the couch closer to the TV because his sight got worse.
He knows nothing about working out, nutrition, sleep,… everything the guys mentioned before already mastered (to a degree).
He sees them doing some heavy Romanian deadlifts, bench presses, etc.
So he gets a barbell and loads it to the same degree. He tries to lift it for some time, but aborts after 15 minutes. He’s spent.
His glykogen reserves are depleted, he cracked his back and feels like he was hit by a truck.
He needs a week to recover and then tries the same thing again. With the same results.
Over and over again.
When you ask him why he doesn’t reduce the weight and starts with something he can actually lift, he answers “I want the full results, of using the complete weights I have access to due to my membership”.
That’s what using full loops looks like from the outside.
Just like this guy would have gotten the best results with way less weight, you will get much better results with using shorter loops (if you’re overwhelmed with your current length).
There’s nothing to proof with running more than you can handle. And overexposure is a danger always present. Just look at the bickering in here, by very experienced users, these last couple of days.
Start small and slowly increase. If three minutes is to much run 90 seconds. If that’s still to much go for 30 or even 10. And then slowly increase over time. For good results you’re SC subs are supposed to be run for a whole year, as Saint recently reconfirmed. So a long time to grow even from 10 seconds.
Also, sometimes running short loops is enough to solve a big issue that causes major recon. And suddenly you’re able to jump from 3 minutes to 10. Or from 5 to 15.
I’ve ran KB1 last year for three cycles. The first to I was slowly building up from 3 to 5 minutes for two cycles. Heavy recon, low results. Then I felt some block dissolving. The third cycle I’ve ran full loops with great results and next to no recon.