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From memory, I believe Arnold used to only sleep 6 hours each night. Apparently that was all his body needed. He was definitely using his fair share of AAS, and his training was designed with this in mind. This just goes to show that, as dkm said, sleep requirments are a very subjective thing...

BIZ, what exactly do you mean by "damage control"? Are you talking about minimizing bloating, or will vinegar help to reduce the amount of fat you put on?

The program you're talking about is NOT HST. While the number of reps you do with HST is somewhat arbitrary*, the load progression is mandatory. By doing a 15, 10, and 5 rep workout all in the same week you're progressing in load for 1 week, but after that the RBE will have set in and so the...

I don't quite see why the RBE would set in more quickly. The way I see it, your weight progression would be about the same as with a 15-10-5 cycle, only the reps would be different. So if your, say, 15 RM is 100 lbs., then it could work like this 15-10-5 HST (2nd week 15s) (1st week 10s)...

You didn't mention his training experience, or if you did then I forgot it. This seems like a program that would be good for improving strength in someone who is relatively new to lifting, i.e. someone who has plenty of strength to gain. It probably wouldn't work so well for an advanced trainee...

It's official: BIZ is the MAN!

I think you meant to say you've been SDing for a year so that when you started lifting again you'd see some wicked gains! My first thought if I were in your predicament would be to focus more on strength for the time being. (Working your way up to the heavier weights, of course, not jumping...

I'm not so experienced with clustering, but I had another thought. You could try using hammer curls as opposed to db curls. There was a thread about this a long time ago, it was started by Bob Evans, I think. Most people are able to use more weight for hammer curls than db curls, enabling you to...

That's an interesting study looking at which factors do and do not influence creatine uptake. So Dan, you're saying that although glucose does help with creatine uptake, the reason for this is not the spike that it causes in insulin levels? Then how does it accomplish this?

If you're using a strength training program and you're gaining strength without gaining weight, then all is good and there's nothing to be unhappy about. I would only worry about gaining additional weight if your strength stagnates. Based on the thread Bryan in ThinkMuscle...

Optimum Nutrition's is also micronized Creapure creatine monohydrate. It doesn't say on the label that it is micronized, but I asked them if it is and they told me yes. I don't understand why they wouldn't want to advertise that on the product label, but that's their choice, not mine. Plus...

I wrote Ultimate Nutrition and they told me that they do use Creapure creatine, the stuff made by Degussa in Germany, so it should be good quality. From my own experience with HSN creatine, my digestive system gets a little angry at me whenever I start taking creatine or resume after not...

Paradox, an overview of WSB can be found in Aaron's thread Powerlifting, a basis. I don't know how long you've been lifting, but WSB is intended for advanced lifters. However, there's no reason why you can't take a few aspects of Westside, such as dynamic training, and incorportate them into...

Dan, how significant is the role of sodium in creatine uptake? Should I be taking my creatine with a sports drink containing both dextrose and sodium, such as Gatorade made from the powder mix (I believe pre-bottled Gatorade doesn't contain any/as much dextrose, plus it's more expensive)? Or...

One more thing... From what I've read about strength training, it is much more individualistic than HST. Sure you can tweak and customize HST in many, many ways, but at the core all these programs are the same: SD, progressive load, sufficient frequency, etc. These principles apply to everyone...

First of all, let me just point out the obvious. In case you didn't notice, I am not Bryan Haycock. That said, here's a quote by Bryan from the thread Does HST work for strength, SST, strength-Specific-Training, found in the HST FAQ, (Yeah, Blade posted it, but Bryan said it...

http://www.brinkzone.com/wheyitis.html This article discusses the difference between isolates and concentrates. Look in the sections "Different types of whey", "Whey Protein Concentrates:", and "The pros and cons of isolates, and the micro filtered vs. ion exchange...

If you find that cutting the 15s short into only 1 week works for you, then it's a great idea (for you, at least). There's certainly no reason why you can't do this in HST.

A bit of an update... I began to wonder if Ultimate Nutritions's Crea Pure really does use Creapure brand creatine. Nowhere on their website does it say this, and after looking around extensively, I found no reputable sources (small, less well-known online stores do not count as reputable)...

I'm not sure how many of you have heard about this, but no one mentions it and it was news to me, so I thought I'd post about it. I figured that some of the study-hungry individuals on this site would appreciate it. Google Scholar "Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for...