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one small thing I forgot to mention --- I am talking incline bench. I do the incline/dip combo ala Bryan. I am not smart so I just do what I am told. So does this stuff still apply? Rob

thanks guys!! So so at the low point it is around my tits and then at the high point it is over the shoulders -- so it is a bit of an arch movement? right? (I think I was both raising it and lowering it around the shoulders) Robert

I was working out at my new gym where I sometimes lift with the personal trainers -- on their off time. One guy spotting me pointed out that I was lining up the wrong way -- too high-- the bar was tward my eyes not my chest. So I was over working my shoulders -- I have probably been doing this...

Well if you want compound movements go with the Big Four 1) Deadlifts 2) Squats 3) Dips 4) Incline Bench maybe add 5) Bent Row 6) Wide Grip Chin (pulldown)

Signs Or overtraining: 1) strength drops 2) you get sick --like a cold 3) you twitch and sake after a workout You will hit a point where you are no longer lifting more weight -- thats part of what negs are all about. You want to continue this as long as possible. Sometimes in the post 5s I...

I had the realization receintly that one could do HST everyday -- somehow I missed that over the past 3 years :confused: .. So now I am in my 5s and I am just working out "when ever I can" some days it is am/pm --- sometimes it is 3 days in a row. It is a slow time at the office so...

I am not saying this is the definative answer but I can think of two reasons to train to failure. 1) EGO It feeds ones ego to go as heavy as possible. This is the biggest reason many guys do it... that mixed with lack of knowlege, and mixed with some of the propeganda from the MAGS..."it...

I find when I do those back raises -- you know they are like a reverse sit up - my posture dramatically imporves. You build up the two "erector" muscles of the lowers back (verical muscles on either side of the spine) when those get strong and firm it is impossible to slouch -- at...

Maybe I should have said "feeds" rather than "meals"... 3 meals a day plus a before and after protien shake and some cottage cheese before bed ----> bam-o you have 6 "feeds" a day. But the bigger idea I think is the "drip" approach. Many smaller...

Great thread FAZ. There are more "iron agers" on here than I thought. But peoples comments on HST are really really interesting. Espeically the "seasoned" guys who have been lifting for 20 years -- tried alot of programs -- made alot of mistakes and like HST. Man this is a...

hmmm not sure how long you want to rest it -- that depends on how bad it is. A few days could work wonders or it could take a few weeks. SLDL is basically a ham and lower back exercize so you could just do leg curls for your hams.

There is notthing with an A / B split per se. But you want as much frequency as possible. The only reason to do shorter workout is it enables you to do more of them more frequently You want to hit the muscle as often as posssible. Also workouts of an hour or less cuts down on the catabolic...

been there, done that, got that T shirt. I find better results come from the HST "drip" method. Sure if you are on a steady diet of AS things are different... you can push it harder without running into an overtraining issue.

48 Lifted weights on and off since I was 14. More off than on. I would go hard for a year and then burn out. Been HSTing for 3 years now. It has answered all my problems regarding training. It is flexable. It does not require me to go all all out (and overtrain). I have gained more on HST than...

Chinese Water Torture I guess I had an epiphany of sorts when I realized (when someone told me) that you could do HST everyday (even though I have read this stuff over and over I guess I missed that part).  I guess what I am talking about here is frequency.  I now see a pattern.  Since...

From the department of redundancy I will agree with Fausto. I came back from a 9 year layoff using HST and it worked beautifully. ---> That was 3 years ago. I did vanilla HST (the one Bryan sugests) I ran on the off days. I did the running for about 4 months -- dropped weight then dropped the...

The problem is the "obvious beginner questions" bury the better more technical ones. There is nothing wrong with being a beginner. But you got to do your homework first. Can't just jump in asking questions and let other people do the "work" for you. We want and need...

Why did Vicious go to great lengths in his "customizing HST" thread to recomend higer frequency programs that had more than 24hrs rest time. For example the monday am tusday pm approach. I don't think I remember Bryan or Vicious or others recomending -- same muscle every day. Did I...

Thanks, I get the frequency thing and I get I understand the issues with volume. I just thought one needed 48 hours to recover. Sure HST radically increases volume over a traditional split -- but there is still 48 hours. Right?

I though we were supposed to wait 48 hours before hiting the same muscle again.