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Lyle seems to think he's a natural. Here's what he had to say about it over at his forum (http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/forums....5&pp=15): "For what little it's worth, the pic of the guy linked on the 1st page looks natural to me. He's just a real big boy. But dieted down he looks...

I don't see many exercises in your program where negatives are feasible, at least without a spotter, aside from curls, dips (as robefc said, although I've never done negatives for dips), and possibly chin-ups. You said you do lat pull downs; you could do chins instead and do negatives by jumping...

Some people are crazy when it comes to fighting acne. If you search around on the internet, for just about every food imaginable you can find at least one person claiming that it causes acne, and you can find at least one person claiming that they "cured" their acne by cutting (insert...

Aaron_F recommended this article a little while ago: "Cracking the Rotator Cuff Conundrum" by Eric Cressey.

Question 2 Volume is basically the total number of reps you do in a workout; in other words, volume = sets x reps. Question 1 First figure out how much volume you want to do. Think about how many sets you would like to do for each muscle group, making sure that your body can handle it, of...

From Vicious' "Pimp My HST": "Partials, particularly pulsing, with isolation movements are by far the most effective way to generate metabolic stress in a specific muscle. A true pulse is really a very short partial (1-3 inches) done at near peak-contraction (but not lock-out.)...

Pulsing (at least the kind you're doing) is about creating metabolic stress, not about placing the muscle under a hypertrophy-inducing load. Therefore you don't need to increase the weights. The goal is just to create a lot of metabolic stress, as indicated by burn, pump, etc. Also, the rep...

I also took the diet recommendations from Bryan's "Eating for Size" and from Vicious' "Pimp My HST" and combined them into one easy-to-use Excel file. It's pretty simple, just fill in the yellow boxes and it will take care of the rest. You'll need to use your weight in lbs...

I (finally) finished reading through "Pimp My HST" and found it to be an excellent read. Well done, Vicious! In order to learn it better and to help me understand the material more thoroughly, I took some notes on it. Most of them are just copied right out of "Pimp My HST," a...

Costco sells canned chicken. As far as nutrition goes, 1/2 can of chicken is pretty much exactly equivalent to 1 can of tuna. I don't know if you'd want to use it as a replacement for chicken in recipes, but it's good for making sandwiches (basically the same as a tuna sandwich, but with chicken...

From Vicious' "Pimp My HST" (page 13 in v 1.0, sections 3.1.3 & 3.1.4): "Pulsing are essentially partials with very short ROM (like 1-3 inches.) Pulsing with peak contraction exercises is perhaps the most effective way to generate metabolic stress. A variation of pulsing, by...

I'm not sure if a George Foreman grill qualifies as a "hot plate", but if they let you then bring one. George is your friend. I like to use them to make tuna melts. You can add cheese if you want, but even just grilling a normal tuna sandwich at 350 degrees for 5-10 minutes makes it...

I've found that taking them in the middle of a meal helps to keep the fish burps at bay. Also, I've heard that they go away after a while (I don't know how long "a while" is), but I'm not sure if that's true or not.

How much are you talking when you say "higher doses"?

How about "hypoxia"? I've heard it used before on the board, but never fully understood what it is. According to dictionary.com, it's basically a deficiency of oxygen in either blood or tissue. It would be nice to hear a bit more thorough explanation, and also specifically how it...

Does the same go for squats?

A Google Scholar search for "high protein diet weight loss thermodynamics" found me these two reviews: The first review admits that low carbohydrate diets can lead to more weight loss than their higher calorie counterparts, but still maintains that "a calorie is a calorie&quot...

I have something to say about thermodynamics, but I'll start a new thread instead of hijacking this one.

Here is a study about glycogen repletion in rats that compares acetic acid and citric acid: Effect of acetate on glycogen replenishment in liver and skeletal muscles after exhaustive swimming in rats If you click on the thing that says "PDF [113 KB]" you can view the whole study.

It's on the last page of the Customizing HST thread. It's also available in pdf form, which is nice because dkm added in bookmarks so that you can easily jump to the particular section you're interested in.