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Although it is very taxing, I have alwasys felt that doing drop sets has helped to push me further. Besides, drop sets are fun! For example, I start with 265 on the bench press (plates: 35,25,25,25) do the following in rapid succession on bench presses having my spotter strip off 25lb plates...

Pumping works. Really. It works. * Fascial stretching (necessary for growth) * engorgement with lactate to stimulate igf-1 * better vascularity As far as being sore, I have always tried to avoid this by warming up and stretching afterwards. By doing hot/cold intervals in the shower, and by...

Why these rep numbers? I see that 15's are mainly for stimulating tendon strength, and 10's are good for hypertrophy, and 5's. 5's are good for neural efficiency (pure strength). Do 5's build much size? Also, why not do: 1 week of 16s 1 week of 14s 1 week of 12s 1 week of 9s 1 week of 7s 1...

Why 0 days? Well, it was my first time. I didn't want to take time off. I didn't feel like it. I generally don't like taking days off. Poor living conditions, no job. Not much else to do but exercise. I was loving the shape I was in and seeing improvements. I think I would have made much...

I am now reaching failure without increasing weight due to strength decline. Last cycle, I did 0 days of SD. I got mixed results, but I think the biggest problem was that I was doing only 1 set for bench when I should have done 2. This time around, I started out lighter. I had ingested some...

Could be that you are dehydrated. Try drinking more water before and while you train.

I went to see a doc today to see why I was feeling so awful. Losing 7lbs of muscle in a week is almost impossible to acheive, even with low cals and bad mentation. I knew there was something going on and I was wondering if it was the antibiotics I had been taking. Doc said it was probably the...

That's not clear to me. contractile elements -n. pl. muscle fibers? actin filaments - n. pl. muscle contractile protein, right? Force transmitted to the newly-formed cytoskeleton - ? Cytoskeleton is protein filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm. Related movie...

My wife ordered me to "go to the f'n gym and workout," (emphasis hers) so yes blade, you are correct in your analysys: nothing you say will prevent me. Although I must say: based on the articles in the FAQ section, I do agree that it is consistent advice. Last week I was doing some...

jsraaf - post a camera so I can take some pics! :D :D

That green is hard to read. -- I wasn't looking for opinions, I was looking for a better understanding of the strategic decoditioning portion of the HST program. A body of knowledge is not based on opinion. As for whining, well. I apologized. And again. -- I did get on the scale today...

ad hominem. And quite a poor one at that.

My training is a little different from the guys you have trained. I wish you had seen me last wed and now.

Blade, 1 - I don't care for your ill explained article. 2- You're replies don't give much insight 3 - you are dumping your passive aggressive crap on my thread. Now I do have an attitude and I did apologize. If you still have a problem with my attitude, email me, otherwise, piss off.

Convincing me requires that you present a clear, logical, and valid argument. So far, I have testimonials, hearsay, and advice based on experience (e.g. "I usually drop isolation exercises around this time").

Deconditioning or rest? I read an article that stated something like : SD is not recuperation from overtraining, rather it is deconditioning. I definitely feel deconditioned.

WTF, blade? So your dumping more crap on my thread, eh restless?

Resting HR is up. Sleep is poor and much less than my normal 8-9 hours. Getting fatter on < 1800 cals a day. Muscle tone is greatly decreased. I look almost normal now.

UPDATE. I still have not exercised. I have decided to stick with this "routine" until monday. On that day, I shall commence 15's. I cut my cals to about 1800. I guess I was burning about 3500 cals /day and I was eating about 3000 cals. I have also cut out sleep. I'm am sleeping...

Sorry guys. I went nuts yesterday. Noone deserves to hear that, but I'm leaving it up there because if I ever consider this again, I want to read it to remember how awful I felt. And yes, I am addicted to my animal. When I stop exercising, I lose touch.