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Actually, some people can lose fat and gain muscle without steroids, but usually they are young and are pretty tight on their diet. Also it's a slow process.

Yes, that is correct. Think of the second set as a bonus, you don't need to get all your reps.

Your heaviest set, the first one, would put the most strain on the muscle therefore cause the most signaling for hypertrophy and strength. The second and third set would only induce metabolic stress, which is not a bad thing, but by hitting failure 3 times in your set you'd be taking a pretty...

Is that from HST or home cooking If the former, that's impressive. Ah to be young(er) again.

Agreed, it was fairly vague and no mention of controls or anything. Maybe the actual study had more details, but there was no link to it that I could find.

Bottom line is you need to lose fat, and you can't spot reduce, you need to lose the fat from all over. You still seem to be fixated upon doing ab exercises to lose fat around your abs, as are many people, but it just does not work that way, unfortunately.

Yup, because of SD. And what dkm said.

"New research presented at the American College of Sports Medicine's 2004 meeting found that, over a 2-month period, men who did one set of upper-body weight-lifting exercises had equal strength gains (21 percent) and better fat loss (19 percent versus 10 percent) than those who did three...

Yeah it's slow, some days are worse than others. I'm no webmaster but I think it has to do with the format of the site. Bryan is aware, I think it's a big job to fix it. See this thread if you can stand to wait for it ;) http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/cgi-bin....4;&#top

There was an old thread on here about constant progressive loading with a weighted vest, you might be able to search it. I think many of us have toyed with this idea.

Here's why I think it might not be optimal. Let's say that a muslces response to a certain weight is 100% the first time you use that weight. RBE is not an all or nothing event, so if you repeat that weight, you wouldn't get a 0% response vs. 100%, but you might get something like 20-30%...

Exactly. Weight train to at least preserve and maybe gain muscle mass, otherwise you'll lose muscle along with your fat which can LOWER your BMR

Are you doing any high rep burn sets during your 5's, or have you thought about doing a 15's workout once in a while to help with the joint issue? Or maybe just skip a workout to get some added recovery, I've certainly done that during the 5's.

My feeling is, and it may be wrong, that you felt the soreness because you were stopping your descent and holding yourself with your muscles as opposed to stopping when your joints stopped you. The problem with not going to full stretch is you don't put the muscle under load at full stretch, so...

This last cycle I only did 2 days of 15's, and so far, (starting 5's), I seem to be fine. My biggest problem with HST, and with training in general, is consistency. I've never been able to do more than two cycles back to back without something interrupting my training. Either illness, injury...

"However, the center says mycoprotein is made from a fungus and is more akin to mildew than mushrooms. " Since some people have severe allergies to mold/mildew, it could make people sick. I think they have the right to know. I like to know what I'm putting in my mouth, but that's just me.

Um, I'd rather they kept me from eating mold without my knowledge, so...

ADD. For the loaded stretch.

I can't help you with this, but if you don't get any answers here I'd suggest going over to the forums at avantlabs.com, they have more people interested in the chemical side of bbing.

You go Vicious!! The V man, the V-inator, V-O-Ramma, the Vicio-nizzellist, the.....ok I'll stop now