**Marcus's HIT Dungeon**

[Igifuno]

I've got pork slow cooking, masa slowly cooking, and dried corn husks soaking in water. Tmrw night..... Pork Tamales! I didnt know they took two hours to steam..... That ruled them out for dinner tonight lol

Bunch of chops and fish cooking right now. Feeling better, I'll be back in the sanctuary tomorrow morning.

[almostgone]

Right on!

So I'm understanding more and more, even today, as I read. I can go ahead and lightly fatigue the muscles because going heavy and hard is all that matters. It is making more and more sense to me as I read. I think I may bunker down tonight and try and read the majority of this ridiculously long thread. Don't be surprised if I don't reply to older posts to help bump them up and keep them fresh for me to refer to later.

It is well worth it. I spent quite some time reading and re-reading through it to help me understand and post questions. This is great group of guys and gals and everyone encourages and motivates each other. Glad you joined in.

[Sfla80]

I've got pork slow cooking, masa slowly cooking, and dried corn husks soaking in water.

Tmrw night..... Pork Tamales! I didnt know they took two hours to steam..... That ruled them out for dinner tonight lol

Lmao.

Tamales in general are awesome. Have yet to make one though. But honestly probably eat one every week. Damn Guatemalan cooks treat me too good/bad lol

[Hazard]

How's mama and the family, Haz? Sounds like you may be spoiling them?

Everyone is doing great AG - thx for askin :-)

Can't wait for the 6-week no sex thing to be over with. It's killin both of us lol

Lmao.

Tamales in general are awesome. Have yet to make one though. But honestly probably eat one every week. Damn Guatemalan cooks treat me too good/bad lol

They're awesome.... But so much work. I severely underestimate them lol. Been going at it since 4pm lol

[Bodacious]

So the wife went off on me tonight. Said I was eating to damn much and I was going to have to go buy groceries. She said with you taking that shit all you wanna do is eat and Fxk. LMAO.... I told her I would help her out on the food. A lot of people don't understand how much that shit cost.I cooked 10lbs of chicken last week along. I am trying to eat as clean as I can. I don't want to put on to much water or fat. Hopefully the Var will help me out also.

[Hazard]

Ok I'm done..... I'm putting the masa in the fridge and picking up where I left off in the morning lol. The pork is almost done so ill shred it before bed. The corn husks will soak all night and ill build the tamales in the morning and start steaming them around noon tmrw.

They take a couple hours to steam..... This is one hell of a process for a finger food lolol

[Sfla80]

Ok I'm done..... I'm putting the masa in the fridge and picking up where I left off in the morning lol. The pork is almost done so ill shred it before bed. The corn husks will soak all night and ill build the tamales in the morning and start steaming them around noon tmrw.

They take a couple hours to steam..... This is one hell of a process for a finger food lolol

Take pics!!

Tonight's dinner just got done with a 13 hr shift. Something quick and easy from work.

Porcini filet and wedge salad

[novastepp]

I have been reading since the kids went to bed. Also been watching several videos, including Dorians that Marcus posted. I'm hooked! I can already tell I am going to do so well during my next workout!

[Sfla80]

So the wife went off on me tonight. Said I was eating to damn much and I was going to have to go buy groceries. She said with you taking that shit all you wanna do is eat and Fxk. LMAO.... I told her I would help her out on the food. A lot of people don't understand how much that shit cost.I cooked 10lbs of chicken last week along. I am trying to eat as clean as I can. I don't want to put on to much water or fat. Hopefully the Var will help me out also.

What's ur cycle bodacious? And trt?

[Hazard]

Take pics!!

Tonight's dinner just got done with a 13 hr shift. Something quick and easy from work.

Porcini filet and wedge salad

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Looks awesome!

I had Portuguese bbq. Pork ribs, chicken, skirt steak, grilled cabbage and carrots, yellow rice, French fries, and potatos. $30..... Not bad.

Ill snap some pics tonight and then tmrw as I build em

[Sfla80]

Looks awesome!

I had Portuguese bbq. Pork ribs, chicken, skirt steak, grilled cabbage and carrots, yellow rice, French fries, and potatos. $30..... Not bad.

Ill snap some pics tonight and then tmrw as I build em

30$???? Damn I would say not bad at all.

[Hazard]

30$???? Damn I would say not bad at all.

They're 10 minutes from my house too lol

Once I figured it was too late to have the tamales I just ordered some up. Couldn't beat it and the flavor was out of this world. They have a great piri piri sauce

[Hazard]

Pics:


Masa
Husks
Pork

I took the juice from the pork and put it in the masa with chicken stock, an onion, and a jalapeño.

[Bodacious]

Ok I'm done..... I'm putting the masa in the fridge and picking up where I left off in the morning lol. The pork is almost done so ill shred it before bed. The corn husks will soak all night and ill build the tamales in the morning and start steaming them around noon tmrw.

They take a couple hours to steam..... This is one hell of a process for a finger food lolol

Bet is going to be damn good once it's all done.

[Sfla80]

Pics:

Masa
Husks
Pork

I took the juice from the pork and put it in the masa with chicken stock, an onion, and a jalapeño.

Who taught you this??

[almostgone]

So the wife went off on me tonight. Said I was eating to damn much and I was going to have to go buy groceries. She said with you taking that shit all you wanna do is eat and Fxk. LMAO.... I told her I would help her out on the food. A lot of people don't understand how much that shit cost.I cooked 10lbs of chicken last week along. I am trying to eat as clean as I can. I don't want to put on to much water or fat. Hopefully the Var will help me out also.

If you can, buy in bulk. If.you don't have a Sams or Costco or something, ask the butcher @ your store if they have a case price on chicken, steak, etc. Sometimes, you can get a decent discount.

[Hazard]

Who taught you this??

No one *shrug*

It just makes sense to me. The pork was seasoned with adobo, chili powder, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder. I sliced and onion and a jalapeño and put it ontop of the pork. I poured in some apple cider vinegar and chicken stock an slow cooked it.

The flavor from the pork drippings plus the seasoning and chicken stock has to be awesome..... So I put 4 cups in the blended and then poured I in the masa and cooked it till its thick enough.

The masa flavor is AWESOME! I'm very pleased. Can't wait to eat a tamale tmrw

[almostgone]

Pics:


Masa
Husks
Pork

I took the juice from the pork and put it in the masa with chicken stock, an onion, and a jalapeño.

That's looks good, but if I ate something with that many flavors, I would make so many noises and smells that I wouldn't be able to blame it all on the dogs.

[Hazard]

That's looks good, but if I ate something with that many flavors, I would make so many noises and smells that I wouldn't be able to blame it all on the dogs.

Lmfao

[Bodacious]

That's looks good, but if I ate something with that many flavors, I would make so many noises and smells that I wouldn't be able to blame it all on the dogs.

Hahaha

[Igifuno]

Hit shoulders today. What a week. 5+ years after not exercising, eating like shit and doing other things, to lifting and eating clean all week. Cooking up some chicken drumsticks and brown rice for dinner.

Good for you Hog.. Keep it going and you'll be back in the routine in no time. First week is the hardest.

[Igifuno]

So the wife went off on me tonight. Said I was eating to damn much and I was going to have to go buy groceries. She said with you taking that shit all you wanna do is eat and Fxk. LMAO.... I told her I would help her out on the food. A lot of people don't understand how much that shit cost.I cooked 10lbs of chicken last week along. I am trying to eat as clean as I can. I don't want to put on to much water or fat. Hopefully the Var will help me out also.

Just stay at it, and it will be the norm before you know it. I don't have to go shopping with my wife anymore, she knows to get enough meat to feed a small village.

[Igifuno]

Food looks good Haz.

Man, some good posting going on today. Nap time now and legs in the morning.

Good night!

[almostgone]

Take pics!!

Tonight's dinner just got done with a 13 hr shift. Something quick and easy from work.

Porcini filet and wedge salad

That is some good looking filet!

[marcus300]

Great ideas! Thanks for posting.

I need to do drop sets on incline for sure, but I need to figure out how to do this quickly. I may have to squat the weight off the supports to hit another set soon after my first stop at failure.

I will try the flies to failure and shift to presses. This may work, but to be honest, I don't have 50s either. Haha. Maybe time to buy more dbs.

If this kind of training is new to you then I wouldn't concentrate on doing any beyond failure techniques. The first thing you need to conquer is failure now if your knew to HIT taking your body to true positive failure is going to be hard, what you may think is failure will be completely different than what true failure is so forget about rest pause, drop sets, negatives forced and just train your body but most of all your mind to take your working set to true failure. This is another zone which many are forgetting to do and concentrating on the beyond failure which will make them hold back on going to true failure.

This training mind set isn't something you can just turn on it takes time so if HIt really interests you then take each the first steps and make sure you get everything in place before moving onto into more advance training protocols.

[marcus300]

This thread is huge! I've been reading here and there, but it seems like this may be the most consistent workout thread in the site right now. I'm looking for a community to help me include some variations into my workouts. I have several different variations in my routine, and I know what HIT is, but I'm interesting in learning how you guts apply it. Check me if I'm wrong, but we are talking about a single working set after war ups and evaluation sets, correct!

Is there anyone, or a post in this thread, that could help me understand it so I can go for it? Many days my workouts need to be quick, <30 minutes, because I am watching/ playing w my kids while I am working out in my basement.

I'm all for reading and learning, and you guys seems to be very encouraging and helpful, so I want in. At least, a little bit, ya know, as a newbie to the thread.

-nOva

Here is a re post of some of the posts at the start of the thread which might help getting into the zone of HIT

Rep range
The ideal rep range for building size and stimulating hypertrophy is the 6 to 12 reps. Less than 6 reps will more or less increase strength and a degree of size, performing more than 12 reps will help build muscle endurance. Make sure that your reps fall within this range and your hitting true positive failure for the best chance of hypertrpohy. If your implementing one of the beyond failure methods such as forced & negs, rest pause or dropsetting you use a weight what is heavy enough to bring your positive failure at the low end of the rep range. An example for rest pause you use a weight what you will hit true positive failure at around the 4th rep then you would rest for around 10-15 seconds and do another couple of reps, then rest again for another 10-15 seconds and hit another 2 reps with the same weight. In total your doing 8 reps which is within range and your going to failure on each rest pause so you have a high chance of stimulating the right fibers to produce the best gains. As your rep range and strength increases towards a total of 12 reps you simple increase the weight being used so your constantly increasing intensity and overload, the two keys principles of any HIT programme. You use feeler sets to determine what weight you will be using on your working set, as you use different methods like dropsetting always makes sure you don't drop the weight to much so your not going over 12 reps in total. If you are you need to be using heavier weight on the drops so your rep range hits below the 12 reps in total. I always like to use around the 8 rep range in total and increase the reps upwards until I feel i can increase the weight so my rep range falls around the 8 rep range again. We are aiming for maximum muscle fiber recruitment hitting these rep ranges at failure will have the greatest potential for muscular growth. The above advice is for someone who is already advanced and is looking to build bigger thicker muscles, its not for someone who is building a base and foundation because these people can really benefit from using a lower rep range aswell as the above.

Stimulating growth
Remember going to true positive failure like I've describe previously hits the toughest muscle fibers what grow the biggest these are the fast twitch type 2b fibers, you hit these fibers and you will have the biggest chance of increasing in size. What we are aiming for is progression overload so you keep hitting the muscles with an increased weight so they need to change and adapt to the overload its being put under. This kind of continuous stress will have a reaction on the body and it will have no other alternative but to grow. We keep within the right rep range what stimulates the biggest growth and we continuously try and increase the intensity by increasing the reps then once the reps increase you increase the weight to bring the reps down within the correct range again. I can't stress enough about taking your muscle to true positive failure, this takes a lot of mental preparation. Before any muscle contraction occurs it originates from the brain sending signals to the nerves, the stronger the signal the more forceful the muscle contraction, in other words control your mind set pre working set and you will be in the best position to take your body to failure and beyond. I've commented many times how I go about doing my mental preparation but you master the mental side and you will see huge leaps in achieving your goals. Release the aggression by talking to your inner self and you will take your body to places its never been before. Stimulate growth by overloading your body to a state were its screaming for you to stop and no matter what you couldn't do one more rep even if your life depended on it, if you don't train in this fashion your not training hard enough.

Advanced training techniques

Forced and negatives
When your going to be implementing forced and negatives you need to be using a weight what your going to be hitting around the 3-4 rep range at true positive failure, then your spotter with help you with another 2 reps. I say 2 reps because its about the limit you can do once you have come to true positive failure and your partner is taking some of the weight off you, these forced reps will dig very deep into your muscle fiber recruitment. Once you have finished the forced reps the weight will be at the starting position and you start to complete negatives by lowering the weight very slowly, make sure you resist and fight the weight coming down and once at the bottom your partner will assist you to get the weight to the top of again and you will do another negative and you keep going until you cant do another negative, usually its around 2 negatives. Negatives done at this stage of a working set after positive muscle failure causes serious trauma to the muscle which will stimulate the release of growth factors. Your also 40% stronger on the eccentric part of the lift so once you hit failure in the lifting part of the exercise by yourself and adding forced with your partner the negatives will take you beyond and recruit further fibres like nothing I've experienced with any other training routine. Once this as been hit there is no need to do anything else because the damage has occurred and no more can be recruited only burn out and exhaustion. If we add the reps up you would be doing around 3-4 reps on the positive then 2 forced and then around 2 negative so in total your hitting around the 8 rep range. You have 3 strengths you have the positive, static and negative, the negative causes the most damage to the muscle and is the biggest cause of DOMS, you master negatives and you will see a huge improvement in muscle size and fullness.


Rest Pause
Again use a weight what you will be hitting true positive failure around the 3-4 reps range, put the weight down and rest for around 10-15 seconds which should give you around another 2 reps, then repeat and rest again and hit another 2+ reps again. Your completing a set of around 8 reps that you would normally use but your rest a couple of times within the set for around 10-15 seconds so you recover just enough to complete another 2 reps each time. This will recruit those tough type 2b muscle fibers and if you use your feeler sets correctly you can really cause some serious damage to your muscle and create an extreme amount of over load your body isn't use to. I like the 8 rep total mark but this isn't set in stone, you may prefer 10 reps in total or even 6 but just try and makes sure your in the 6-12 rep range and work from that to increase the intensity and overload.


Drop sets
This method needs a bit more thinking about but first lets explain what a drop set is. If we use DB curls for an example you would pick a weight again were you would be hitting around 3-4 reps at true positive failure and then get a set of lighter DB's and rep again for another couple of reps until failure and then drop the weight again and curl another set of lighter bells for another 2-3 reps. You have to make sure you drop the weight enough to make sure you get around 2-3 reps out at failure but make sure you don't drop the weight to much, if your repping loads of reps out remember your trying to be hitting around the 8-12 rep range so when your doing your feeler sets its crucial to make the lighter db set just enough so you keep within the total rep range. Halfs/quarters or partials With partials you are doing a standard working set to which will involve you conducting a strict full range of motion to true positive failure, at this stage you would carry on doing half reps until its impossible to complete another half rep then do a quarter reps right down till you cant move the weight. A fine example would be DB side laterals were you would do strict reps till failure then carry on doing half reps so the DB's are only coming up half way then keep going till your hardly moving the weight from the side. There will be a bit of body assistance and sloppy form come into play towards the end but at this stage its fine just to get those deep muscle fibers working by going beyond failure. Extremely effective way to recruit those tough fibers we require with a constant tension approach.


Hit Supersets
Hit supersets entail you doing one exercise right after another with very little rest as in-between the two movements. With these types of supersets your still hitting the 6-12 rep range so your not doing anymore than 12 reps over two exercises, this is very important. Example you would go to true positive failure lets say on DB shoulder press and be at failure around the 5-6 rep then go straight into db side laterals for another 6 reps at the most which would be failure again. You have to make sure you use the right weight to hit the correct rep range so you don't go over the 12 rep ceiling otherwise you will trigger the muscle endurance and exhaustion and you wont tap into the tough fibers we require. Great examples is coupling compounds movements with isolation.Combination This protocol would consist of a combination of any of the above methods, you could use rest pause and on the second rest pause you may not be able to do anymore reps so you could go straight into a drop set to finish the working set of to failure and beyond. You could even use drop sets with partials on the last drop set to really increase the burn and intensity. The combination is endless, its how you feel to complete the workings set and what you need to do to make sure its a productive one. These are great for a back up plan if your working set starts to go wrong for any reason.


Rest
Using the above protocols is extremely tasking on your body and CNS so you need to make sure the training session are short but intense enough to stimulate growth. You also need to make sure you rest enough and have a good solid diet to suit your requirements. There is one thing for sure its impossible to train like this correctly for weeks on end, no matter how anabolic you are your going to need to pull back on the above movements and decrease the intensity and let the body fully repair and heal. This doesn't mean you have to stop training in this style just take a pullback training routine for a few weeks and lower the intensity and increase the rest days. Cortisol will fight against muscle growth so if you experience any over training symptoms its time to change things around to help your body repair and heal.


Feel sets
The feel sets are sets what you will do previous your working set, these sets are done so you can determine what weight you will be doing on your working set. Sometimes on my first feeler set it feels light and I'm very powerful so the next feeler set I will put some poundage on and see how that feels, again if that feels easy I know I can go heavier on my working set. I also take in consideration what I am going to be doing whether its forced and negs or rest pause or drops, I just judge a weight what I will be hitting failure around the 4th - 6th rep mark or less and then incorporate the beyond failure protocols. I also remember what I did last time I did that movement because in the back of my mind I know I have to overload my body. I am always pushing heavier weights or trying to increase the intensity

.Nutrition

Food is a major player when we are building muscle tissue or shredding bf. We need to eat enough energy releasing foods to fuel our workouts and also to promote muscle building. Nutrition is a very individual thing and nothing is set in stone no matter who tells you it is, its not. We are all different and have different levels of activity and we need to establish a baseline diet and work off this to suit your needs and goals. Make no mistake if you want to grow bigger thicker muscles than your going to have to eat big, train big and be consistent with everything you do. Once you establish your maintenance diet you can put a strategy together to add muscle and body weight or shred body fat. Learning how your body responds to different amounts of calories will be one most beneficial things you can do because this will open a plan to determine how you go about attacking and achieving your goals


HIT training
we are specifically trying to stimulate a certain type of muscle fiber. We have different muscle fibers in the body and once you know how to train certain ones and the importance of making these grow you can design the ideal training routine to suit your goals. We are all aiming to add muscle tissue and we have to put ourselves under stress by progressively overloading our bodies so they have no alternative but to grow. All muscle contraction starts by nerves being activated, the stronger the nerve signal the more forceful muscle contraction can be applied to the lift. The nerves first get activated by the brain and this is where the mind muscle connection comes into play. I am always saying that you must get yourself in the right mind set for the working set, there are many ways to do this and ive explained many ways in my thread how I go about doing it, but the stronger the mind before the working set the better contraction and force can be applied to the muscle fibers. We can all do 10 reps with a certain weight but you can also really think about those ten reps and really activate the contraction in the muscle and work that muscle to the max and those reps will feel completely different. This is what separates a lot of people so before I move on really think about how you do reps and work that particular muscle to its max. I've seen many members saying they are doing so many reps with a certain amount of weight but I can say I bet a lot aren't really activating that muscle group to the max. Remember everything starts from within your brain, your inner self and how you go about attacking that working set. You have seen how I describe the zone I get myself into just prior to my working set and this is the zone you need to be in to fully work those muscle fibers to the max.

We are after activating the motoneurons within the network of nerves which is the signal for the muscle to contact, we have many different sizes but we are only interested in the large motonerurons which activate the large muscle fibers. We have slow switch and fast twitch fibers within the body and we are all made up of different amounts, that's why some of us grow bigger and faster and others struggle growing big thick muscles. Usually the guys who struggle with adding slabs of tissue on their frame are the guys who have more slow twitch fibers than fast, and the guys who are more genetically gifted with bodybuilding are the one who have more fast twitch. But either way you need to activate the fast twitch fibers and give yourself the best chance of building bigger larger muscles.The slow twitch ones are the ones what are more suited for endurance and are very resistant to fatigue the aerobic type athletes have a higher amount of these fibers over fast twitch.

Fast twitch muscle fibers are the ones we are concerned with activating and working. There are two types 2a and 2b. The type 2a ones are fibers which get activated when doing higher reps ranges lets say more than 12-15 reps, they are also the fibers what come into action around the 6-12 rep range. Type 2a fibers when activated correctly can grow in size and this is what many people tend to activate and see growth from when they start training. The type 2b fast twitch fibers are the ones what I adore lol these babies are the foundations of building bigger thicker muscles, if you activate these correctly they can grow tremendously in size and grow about 4 times the size of the 2a fast twitch fibers can, so you can see these are the ones what make the difference, but stimulating both type 2a and 2b fast twitch is getting the best out of both worlds but my personal aim and priority is to stimulate the type 2b fast twitch fibers and seriously breakdown these to get me some serious size on my frame.

What's the best way to stimulate the 2b fast twitch muscle fibers I hear you asking, well ive described it all the way through my thread but let me go over it again so you understand how important it is to have the right mind set what I speak of all the time and what kind of stimulation is needed to activate these tough fibers. Usually during a set of about 6-12 reps the type 2a are activated, you know the sets were your repping away and start struggle a little bit and rack it and move on. In basic terms your not going to true positive failure (I can go on and on what true positive failure is but trust me it takes along time to push your body to this limit and a lot of mental dedication its an advance training protocol) now if you took your set to true positive failure and you cant do anymore this is the time when the type 2b fast twitch fibers are activated, once you activate these fibers this is the best potential to really make your muscle grow bigger and thicker.

You will grow with normal sets and reps with modest intensity but if you want serious growth than you have to take your working set to true positive failure, this means using a weight what is heavy enough to make that working set very difficult and then going past true positive failure. Remember the type 2a fast twitch do all do all the work until you get to true positive failure then the type 2b come into play and these are the ones what produce the biggest gains in muscle size. You have to progressively overload your body each time you train, this means add more weight (or reps until you can add more weight) to stimulate growth, you also need to make sure your activating the type 2b fast twitch fibers which only get involved when you go to true positive failure. Your rep range needs to be between 6-12 reps at the failure point, I prefer around 6-8 reps range at failure. This is why its wise to have a partner when trying to activate the type 2b fast twitch fibers because you may think your going to positive failure but you wont be you need that reassurance of a partner who can just take that small amount of weight of the bar at true positive failure so you can mentally get past this sticking point. There are many advance protocols what you can use to get yourself to true positive failure which I've discussed in my thread.

HIT training will activate the tough type 2b muscle fibers and going to true positive will recruit all the muscle fibers which will give you the best chance of some serious tissue growth. Using advance training protocols like drop sets, rest pause, forced, negatives, supersets and even partials can be used to further your beyond failure training to help you activate the type 2b fast twitch fibers.



The mental training zone
Getting into the training zone mentally is hard work, I've been approached many times via pm on this subject and ive talked a lot about it within this thread but it is hard and probably has hard to learn as learning how to train how I've described throughout this thread. So lets talk about and see your thoughts and feeling on the subject but first let me try and get this across about the mental side of training. When you see Dorian speak or train you can see he is mentally as well as physically strong. Many of the top Pro's seem to have this ability to have this mental focus to train to the level what is required to stimulate those fibers what seem to grow the biggest. I really do think its something what can be learnt and by perseverance we can get this mental focus and use it to its fullest. I've always had the motivation to train and get big and nothing in my life would stop me but I did have to learn how to release those feelings to train to a level were i wanted to get to. Over time I got the mental edge to train to true positive failure I don't know why but its something over the years what came naturally to me and I've mentioned many times within this thread how I try and get into this zone. For me we all have our little things we do to prepare ourselves before one of those working sets what is going to test us mentally as well as physically, I feel this is an individual thing what you have to find what works for you.

For me I think about certain things what have happened to me in my past what ignites my adrenalin and releases an inner aggression what I can only state as unstoppable. I talk to my inner self and take away everything around me, I am alone and only can hear my inner voice speaking and I drift to a time and relive an event in my mind like I am there again, the feelings what I felt at the time I feel again, the atmosphere I feel around me exactly like it was, I relive the exact circumstances at that moment and how I felt after and this completely isolates me from the outside world and I am stuck in the past reliving an event. At a moments notice I can come straight out into this rage and channel these emotions into the working set with the adrenalin flowing and my inner voice shouting at me. I also use another method which works for me also, I can also concentrate and watch myself doing the working and yet again take myself out of the situation I am in and go through in my head what is about to happen and I can trigger the inner aggression. I know I want it so much, I know I have to take myself to places were my body has not been before, I know its going to hurt but I kind of like that knowing I am about to inflict pain onto myself, this again ignites all these feelings inside of me that make me feel unstoppable and no one could out lift or train with the same intensity as me. That's what I feel when I am in this zone I know no one can come close I truly believe this and with that positive thinking I can take myself to failure and beyond. That's the two ways what do it for me.

I know guys who listen to music and crank it up and get into the zone, I know guys who walk up and down thinking about the set and getting into the zone, I know guys who want to be slapped which I've done in the past which instantly releases the fighting instinct which allows you to lift more than you would if you weren't in the zone. The problem is with some guys is learning how to get into this zone, its all about mind control and taking yourself away from where you are and talking to your inner self and produce these feelings. Some people can't do this and it needs to be learnt over weeks/months just like training to true positive failure like we do with HIT. Ever watch Branch pre working set how he gets himself into the zone, you can actually see his eyes change and his whole demeanour into this animal what looks unstoppable, same with Dorian and many others they all have the ability to get into this zone and recruit those tough fibers what only get activated when your at failure and beyond.

I do watch Youtube videos many times before I go training because this for me motivates myself and helps me prepare for what I am about to do in the gym. I know some of you feed of this thread before working out because I can tell with what you say before and after you train, its all about motivation, dedication and having the mental focus to keep positive and have that inner drive. We all have been under a BB with some serious weight on thinking to yourself I am going to fail this, you even say to your partner watch me I think I am going to struggle with this one and guess what happens???? you struggle and the set is a waste of time. We all have been there and ive been there many times in the past thinking this way trying to break into new areas without having the positive mind set or approach what it takes do accomplish this.


Learn how to train your mind and you will develop further not only mentally but physically aswell. I've read a lot of mind control, self help books and I am trained in areas to help direct and open peoples minds. I really enjoy NLP which helped me when I was going through times of trouble in my mind and I couldn't focus on anything. You have to learn this behaviour if it doesn't come naturally, but simple steps and trying what works for you will point you in the right direction were you to can get into the zone what will help you develop further in your training.


ARE YOU TRAINING HARD ENOUGH?
I've had a few PM's about training and cycles and one thing what shines through to me is that a lot are not training hard enough they dont fully understand how to train correctly. We spend so much time designing cycles and eliminating sides we think we have the perfect environment to grow into something what looks like it was carved out of stone but after 15 weeks of these super cycles most are pming me asking how can they stop the gains sliding away. We assume members are training hard enough and intense enough but in reality they aren't. I see alot of members just coasting through their training sessions and doing a set number of reps and sets and think the diet and AAS will transform them into a living god but all what happens is the gains slide away and they end up going back on gear to get some kind of size back.

I can't emphasize enough how important it is to find the right training protocol for your body to grow. You have to try many training routines and find which one you respond best to. We also need to get in the right mind set when we walk in that gym, you going there for one purpose and if you don't push your body beyond what its capable of doing your not going to grow bigger. You want to be leaving that gym feeling like you just done 10 rounds with Tyson in his hay day. You have to go through the pain, you have to push and pull the hardest you have ever done before, you have to push your body to places where its never been before and push past the pain every single time you go in the gym.

Overload your body to a state were its screaming for you to stop and no matter what, you couldn't do one more rep even if your life depended on it. If you don't train in this fashion your not training hard enough. Do you want to be bigger than anyone else, do you want to turn heads and do you want to have that monster size what no one else has got then if this is the case stop FUKING around in the gym and stop going through the motions and push past your limits and use methods what take you to hell and back.

I train that hard my eye balls shake and I find it hard to focus, I mentally prepare myself and think of things what make me angry and I push that last rep out no matter what. I kind of like the pain in certain bodyparts and I can push past it into a world of total hell, I feel like I am on fire and I swear I can feel the blood surging through my veins into the muscle what I am working. When I've done my last working set I know I cant perform another rep even if someone had a gun to my head and said you'll die if you don't do another rep, I know I've come to my limit and the sick thing about this is I actually enjoy it., I dream about it, I think about it and I cant wait to get back in the gym to do it again. Its like I'm self harming because the torture I go through is extremely painful but I know this is what I have to do to maintain what I've got and to build those extra few lbs of tissue. This is what seperates the normal guys who look like they go to the gym to the fuking monsters what walk this earth

Now are you training hard enough? ask yourself can you train harder because if the answer is yes your restricting your gains and wasting money and time. Why spend all that money on gear, gh and food when your not attacking your body like you should be. Think about it and make your next workout like your going to war with yourself.

[NACH3]

Morning guys/gals

I'm already eating and getting ready for my chest session - hope everyone is having a nice w/e!

I'm going to torture my chest this am!

[marcus300]

Well I had to have 3 shots of coffee in my morning shake with 1 eph which sent me into another world. Not had coffee for over a week and I respond extremely well to it so I knew this workout was going to be serious. Driving to the gym I was saying to myself I am going to destroy my arms, this is what I do and this is how I do it, I am a god in the gym and no one can match me ( told you I was high)

I walked into the gym and it was full of normal people except for 4 guys who I know who are serious. I walked through the gym and I heard a group of normal guys say " that's him just watch that fuker train and the size of him if he takes his sweatshirt off" now you can imagine what that made me feel like. I was already in a high level zone but now I've got an audience watching me who think I am a freak.

Arms -triceps, biceps and forearms

rope pushdowns
3 warm up sets - weight slowly increasing and getting as much blood as possible into my elbow area and triceps
1 working set - serious weight to failure then dropset for another 2 reps to failure, then another drop to failure which was for 3 reps.

Seated overhead single db extension
2 feeler sets - hitting higher rep range around 12 reps, judging my working set weight - felt easy and I felt strong.
1 working to failure then rest pause for another 3 reps, then another rest pause for another 2 reps - triceps on fire

kickbacks
2 working sets to failure, plus 2 drops on each

finish on machine dips
1 working set to failure plus 3 drop sets


seated db curls
2 warm up sets - felt easy so went for it
1 working set to failure then did 2 rest pause which hit around 3-4 reps each

bent over cable concentration
1 feel set
1 working set to failure plus 2 rest pause - I actually screamed out on the last rest pause the pain hurt that much and I had to help the last rep with the other hand.

hammer db curls
1 feel set
1 working set to failure plus 3 drop sets

wrist curls with straight bar
2 working set to failure plus 2 rest pause

then just for shits and giggles I did overhand straight bar curls
1 working set with 4 rest pause, hitting higher rep range

Everyone watched me working out, which helps with motivation and taking myself to true failure.

Top came off and 3 guys said " fuk man your a fuking animal" I said thanks and walked out with a larger head than when I walked in

[marcus300]

Just taped them 20" - off gear just on trt - 252lbs at the moment

[NACH3]

Fvkin love your attitude man - 'told you I was high' lmao

So you know no one can match you in intensity, or anything HIT, right? Well, what if inwas to tell you that I/we all must think like this in order to get to that mindset? I think it's a very important aspect(confidence or even a type of arrogance) to have with anyone in this thread -- we all must think this way or we've already lost the battle b4 going in...

[NACH3]

Going in for an early session - I have a nice DTM(deep tissue massage) awaiting afterwards

Will report back w/my chest session - even tried some instant coffee in my shk lol

[Bodacious]

Fvkin love your attitude man - 'told you I was high' lmao

So you know no one can match you in intensity, or anything HIT, right? Well, what if inwas to tell you that I/we all must think like this in order to get to that mindset? I think it's a very important aspect(confidence or even a type of arrogance) to have with anyone in this thread -- we all must think this way or we've already lost the battle b4 going in...

X2 I agree.... I think before you even go into the gym you need to have confidence and some arrogance. You need to walk in there like a fuxking lion getting ready to fest. I wish I could do this every day day some of you guys.

[Bodacious]

Going in for an early session - I have a nice DTM(deep tissue massage) awaiting afterwards

Will report back w/my chest session - even tried some instant coffee in my shk lol

DTM today ohhh helll yeaaa..... Must be nice.

[Bodacious]

Well I had to have 3 shots of coffee in my morning shake with 1 eph which sent me into another world. Not had coffee for over a week and I respond extremely well to it so I knew this workout was going to be serious. Driving to the gym I was saying to myself I am going to destroy my arms, this is what I do and this is how I do it, I am a god in the gym and no one can match me ( told you I was high)

I walked into the gym and it was full of normal people except for 4 guys who I know who are serious. I walked through the gym and I heard a group of normal guys say " that's him just watch that fuker train and the size of him if he takes his sweatshirt off" now you can imagine what that made me feel like. I was already in a high level zone but now I've got an audience watching me who think I am a freak.

Arms -triceps, biceps and forearms

rope pushdowns
3 warm up sets - weight slowly increasing and getting as much blood as possible into my elbow area and triceps
1 working set - serious weight to failure then dropset for another 2 reps to failure, then another drop to failure which was for 3 reps.

Seated overhead single db extension
2 feeler sets - hitting higher rep range around 12 reps, judging my working set weight - felt easy and I felt strong.
1 working to failure then rest pause for another 3 reps, then another rest pause for another 2 reps - triceps on fire

kickbacks
2 working sets to failure, plus 2 drops on each

finish on machine dips
1 working set to failure plus 3 drop sets


seated db curls
2 warm up sets - felt easy so went for it
1 working set to failure then did 2 rest pause which hit around 3-4 reps each

bent over cable concentration
1 feel set
1 working set to failure plus 2 rest pause - I actually screamed out on the last rest pause the pain hurt that much and I had to help the last rep with the other hand.

hammer db curls
1 feel set
1 working set to failure plus 3 drop sets

wrist curls with straight bar
2 working set to failure plus 2 rest pause

then just for shits and giggles I did overhand straight bar curls
1 working set with 4 rest pause, hitting higher rep range

Everyone watched me working out, which helps with motivation and taking myself to true failure.

Top came off and 3 guys said " fuk man your a fuking animal" I said thanks and walked out with a larger head than when I walked in

LMAO....

How long did this take you???

[almostgone]

^^^ I'm guessing that took the big man 35-40 min. max but I may be wrong? He's a true beast and can call up some crazy intensity.

[novastepp]

If this kind of training is new to you then I wouldn't concentrate on doing any beyond failure techniques. The first thing you need to conquer is failure now if your knew to HIT taking your body to true positive failure is going to be hard, what you may think is failure will be completely different than what true failure is so forget about rest pause, drop sets, negatives forced and just train your body but most of all your mind to take your working set to true failure. This is another zone which many are forgetting to do and concentrating on the beyond failure which will make them hold back on going to true failure. This training mind set isn't something you can just turn on it takes time so if HIt really interests you then take each the first steps and make sure you get everything in place before moving onto into more advance training protocols.

I am new to the advanced failure part of HIT, but not training in general. I always hit failure when I trained for hypertrophy, so I was at least familiar with brining the fury and

"never allowing myself to quit, but allowing myself to fail", as I like to call it.

I had a great first HIT workout yesterday and due to my schedule tomorrow, I am going to have to go again today.

I realize it may take some time for me to arrive at the understanding, and ability to perform stadium quality HIT workouts, but rest assured that I am pushing myself and truly ready to destroy these workouts.

Glad you're here and still posting.

[almostgone]

Man, we are getting hammered by the rains. Eating a big bowl of veggie soup and 8 oz. chicken breast and then hitting the rack.
Chest session tonight.

[novastepp]

Going in for an early session - I have a nice DTM(deep tissue massage) awaiting afterwards Will report back w/my chest session - even tried some instant coffee in my shk lol

Tear it up my friend!

[novastepp]

I am new to the advanced failure part of HIT, but not training in general. I always hit failure when I trained for hypertrophy, so I was at least familiar with brining the fury and "never allowing myself to quit, but allowing myself to fail", as I like to call it. I had a great first HIT workout yesterday and due to my schedule tomorrow, I am going to have to go again today. I realize it may take some time for me to arrive at the understanding, and ability to perform stadium quality HIT workouts, but rest assured that I am pushing myself and truly ready to destroy these workouts. Glad you're here and still posting.

And I should say that I do understand it will take time for my CNS to adjust and accept the failure, and beyond failure, limit I will be engaging during the workouts. But my mindset is already there, it isn't an issue of will I do it, it's more of a question of teaching my body to respond, in kind.

[NACH3]

Hells yeah!!!

Chest
Stretching abs rolling lots of RC ex's(throughout session keeping em warm) static & dynamic stretching

Slight incline DB Press
3 feelers and hit 120s for 10+ so counted that as a warm up - 1w(120s) 5-6(1 forced) drop 4 drop 2 - coulda had more forces but guy wasn't up to par on spot
Slight incline flys
2 feelers 1w(80s) 5 drop(75s) 4 drop(same weight) 2+
Smith Incline Press was dead by this time
3 feelers 1w 4+(had to rack it short) (3drops) drop 3-4 drop 2+ drop(same weight do really a RP) 1
DB Incline flys
2 feelers 1w 7 drop 4
Cable incline flys(wanted to try these)
1w 8 +RP/2+ RP/1 super pumped
Cables high down sides(slightly bent over)
2w to failure - higher end reps w/a drop -- my chest exploded

Weights done in a fast very intense 38min -- on my way to my deep tissue massage
My R shoukder was tight too so I didn't push it too much