Quote Originally Posted by Tlolec View Post
i do like what i'm able to do with the things that are incorporated into HIT. i just want to know if the step i'm taking are the correct ones. my body is responding to what i'm doing, but is it right?

i usually go to the Gym for about 45 min to an hr. can quite reach an hour before i'm spent.
when i work out i do this:

drop sets down to practically nothing every single time.

1 to less than 1 minute rest interval every single time, except for Squat day. towards the end i'm about to pass out.

negatives. i really try to emphasize these, but i found that when i was on cycle i didn't have to force myself so much to do these as an inclusive part of every single set. ideally, i'd like to do the last 2 reps using focused slow negatives. not every one of my sets get them, but i use them quite a bit during a session

pre fatigue. i've found myself not fully understanding this. i did a shoulder + trap routine that lasted over a period of days and pre fatigue was the main theme. 1 60 min session of rows for lower traps, 1 60 min session for posterior, and middle delts, then a 60 min session of shrugs with some hex squats thrown in. did two on one off then one on again. after i was done i had to go straight to bed.

forced repetitions, i got some of these in today. i can't do these very much at all unless i can use my other arm, or i've got a spot/never.

less reps per set. lately i've been hitting 4 - 5 reps. i'm not sure if that's high enough. i shoot for 8 - 9. i always do low rep volume

i don't really change the rep tempo. i just do the set and throw some negatives in there

i do power pause / use static contraction (hold the rep) every time.

i've been doing more partial repetitions lately. i'm starting to like them

i don't really do super sets, but i did to today with hammer curls and preacher curls

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well i tried. it was more like 45 min. why is that unbelievable? i eat right and i'm not old. my muslces used to seize/cramp up if i tried something like the above, but no more. i can keep going. albeit i usually end up with 2 5lb weights on my hammer bar, or the like. yea. it looks funny to see me struggling so hard with very light weight. -face red veins popping out of my face and spit flying out of my mouth



well, then i must not be doing hit. i'm following the guidance from Men's Body Sculpting written by Nick Evans MD. he calls it hyper intensity training. he said that when i combine a couple of the above techniques together with low rest intervals one can train to failure every single time they go to the GYM. i was sweating my ass of in the gym while doing only biceps and using the above stuff and it wasn't hot.

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i do not respond to volume.


You need to stop all the advanced protocols like drops rest pause etc.
Your not going to failure on your working sets, that's obvious to see,
you need to learn and teach your body how to go to true positive failure before attack any advance protocols, because all your body and mind is doing is leaving something in the tank for the further drops. rest pause or what ever else your doing to go beyond failure but in reality you never reached proper failure.
It takes months even yrs for some people to understand what failure means, if I came over to train you for one session you would understand what I mean and fully respect what true positive failure is, its not doing drop set after drop set after a working set.

Your best advise if you want to learn this is to go to my thread and start reading from page one, it will take you some time but everything is in there for you to understand and learn what true positive failure is, because once you have reached failure that's when the set starts and your not reaching it, you may think you are but your not and this is the no1 thing what many people cant do and drop HIT.