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While I am probably more of an intermediate lifter, I added myo reps but I greatly reduced my working volume. Maybe one working set and then a few myo sets until I felt adequately fatigued. Like @Old and Grey is saying if you push yourself too much you will just get sick and injured which is...

I started with HST (after just screwing around in the gym) because I thought it was a really neat program and I liked the concepts. I would be more physically advanced if I had started on a basic linear progression BB model and then at maybe year 3 or 4 (or later) moved to the HST principles...

Well that wraps up that cycle. Pretty happy, wanted more but I like what I got. I have to take a week off even though my body is feeling good so I am going to take my SD and come back with some volume training. After about 3 weeks I will return to my maxing and I really feel I will hit 500...

Honestly 20lbs over 5months (or 1lb a week over 20 weeks) is a pretty good pace (assuming that it was fairly evenly distributed). I would say 5lbs is likely on the minimum side assuming your training has been on point.

Missing a ton of info to really make a suggestion but I'd say some of you best moves for upper body will be; Bench, OHP, curls, some kind of dip or skull crusher. For lower body; Bulgarian Split Squat and one legged dumbbell deadlift. I'd imagine you could get pretty big with just those.

Honestly I find recovery better defined as how you perform going into your next workout and how long you can grow in a volume block. However you can't really over recover unless you have started to decondition. Under recovery comes in a lot of forms, lack of sleep, underfed, still fatigued or...

Do more volume... 8)

@mickc1965 thanks man. I am just incrementing up 5lbs at a time and taking it slow. I usually feel like I keep 10lbs+ in the tank so I am sure 460 is in the cards but I'm trying to keep it steady. Also regarding the socks, I am it is just the way the camera was setup.

450 went well enough, will attempt 455 next week.

Feeling good, had a few friends join up yesterday so we messed around and maxed on DL and Bench. I ended up pulling 440 and it went pretty easy. I had needed some recuperation time but now I am feeling good again. I will work on getting my volume back in today and Wednesday, then probably go...

Increasing load is definitely not the only factor to muscle growth, there are a bunch of other factors that come into play such as time under tension, rest time, volume, intensity, form degradation....BUT really sets, reps, intensity are easy to measure and increment up. Now HST also tries to...

Also there are plenty of lifetime naturals out there that you can get a good sense of what is possible. You don't have to believe everyone is lying.

@Jester Yeah I am not doing any rep work for actual Deadlifts (all singles for anything over 315). I do all of my volume on RDLs and I am keeping that all high rep, lighter load. Most I have gone up to is 225x15, not sure I will go over 225, probably just increase the number of sets.

@Jester agreed, I deloaded a bit this week and I start my ascent again. Will attempt 450 likely in about a week in a half assuming everything goes well. Then I will attempt to continue into the 460 range. Rest and repeat until I hit that 500.

I wish you the best Mojo but what you said above is a misrepresentation of the facts. You can achieve more than a 22ffmi without drugs.

@mickc1965 No I slacked off on that. I will get back to it soon but I want to draw up a new lifting schedule where I can include that and sleep.

Hit a bit of a roadblock. I worked up to 450 and failed twice on Wednesday which would have been a 3rd PR in about a week which was unwise but I went for it anyways. Anyways on 445 I had strained my neck a little, it healed up but Wednesday but I felt like something was off. I just couldn't...