I have seen quite a few people on these boards give an impression that their main priority is to get through the program (F1-2/H1) as quickly as possible. I feel like these people are short-changing themselves with this attitude. I would like to offer a perspective that, may not be perfect (and corrections are welcome), but has helped me through a lot of emotionally challenging weeks of training where effort has seemed to be greater than reward. It may help you, too.
Stop and think about the core reason why you are investing some money, a lot of time, and a huge amount of sustained effort in this program. Until you are strong enough for technical skills, your training is not actually about the exercises you are doing. Your training is about placing certain muscle contractions under a certain resistance for a certain amount of time. You are logging seconds, and reps, under a specific type of force, tailored to your current level of ability to handle with effort. In response, the body adapts to this force by regenerating the tissues to handle it with greater ease. This regeneration is the actual product you are working for.
The exercises prescribed to you are nothing more than a vehicle to put your body under this strategic type of stress. This strategic stress, applied repeatedly over time, will produce a predictable result of improved condition. I suggest: do not look to "advance" as quickly as possible through the exercises; instead, look to get as much conditioning improvement as you possibly can out of each exercise. Building the best gymnastic body you can takes a discipline of depth, more than a discipline of speed.
Say you are working on the last programmed week of any exercise. If you feel any kind of struggle, or notice that you can do any rep in a way that generates more stress on the targeted movement (ie. better form) you are staring right at the opportunity you are looking for in this program. Why would you not capitalize on this opportunity to give your body this stress? Why would you walk away from the opportunity, right in front of you, to achieve your goal?
If you race through to the end, you will get to the end. Where will you be, at the end? (Besides having people pick holes in your form, should you wish to get accredited), you will be less conditioned than the person who took their time and focused on maximising their conditioning. By creating competition in your mind, and trying to win: you lost.
In my eyes, this is the full profoundness of the word "mastery". Mastery is not "I can do x sets of y reps" - that is just ability. Mastery is "I can do x sets and y reps of this exercise with such perfect form and such ease, it is obvious there is no more opportunity to stress my body with it. I have milked all the conditioning benefits out of this movement. If I want to get stronger, I have no choice but to find something more challenging for my body to adapt to." Then, the next exercise is truly ready.
You will still get to the end. But, you will have acquired so much more. You will have made the most of each step along the way. The body you will have, as a result, will maximise the benefit of why you turned to this product in the first place.
