Quote Originally Posted by oatmeal69 View Post
By not training to failure, you get what you already have. I wish I had known about HIT years ago, I'd be way better now.
Noobs to HIT will make gains..... The body is responding to the increased intensity..... That's the variable that you have tweaked to make gains with HIT...... However those gains will plateau and unless you are following basic principles of progressive tension overload the muscle will not respond....

As far as I'm aware the training style that is closest to optimal for muscle hypertrophy and strength is a non linear periodisation program with body parts being trained every 3 to 4 days....