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Yeah I only go to parallel. I just read that I shouldnt do drop sets more than once a weak because it's so taxing on the CNS. I guess that explains my fatigue.

I was just wondering what would happen. The muscle would have to respond in some way. I mean would it get stronger, faster, bigger? It would have to lean towards one more than the other. I was curious to find out what.

Thanks for the advice JV. I think the weights were just too much. I'll take the next workout off and then try to go back up on the next workout. Should I cut back on drop sets every workout and just do it every other? I was also considering lowering the weight a little. I think I'm causing...

I just finished my 7th week of HST. I'm doing my 5rm in place of negatives as I don't have a spotter. I noticed the other night that after squating down (just to pick stuff up) a few times my legs started to become very sore. Normally I'm not sore at all, so this seemed a little strange to me...

What would happen if you did a weekly split of heavy lifting and then endurance training (Monday: Heavy Lifting Wednesday: Endurance Friday: Heavy Lifting Monday: Endurance, etc.)? Would one dominant over the other or could you hypertrophy while you gained endurance?

I'm going to do dynamic stretching because my legs are getting extremely tight.

What are you allowed to do when you SD? Can I do light cardio? Can I stretch? Do I need to cut back on food intake?

Note: This is an opinion. In no way do I consider myself an expert. I was thinking about this myself. It seems to me that the time spent working out isn't as important as the amount of energy you have to keep up with the workout (this means your diet is the 1st thing to consider followed by not...

I'm no expert, but I don't believe they (anti drop sets as you call them) will do anything for you in respect to HST. Basically increasing the weight like you are describing is like starting with your warm up set and then increasing it to your workout weight. If you do 50lbs for one set and then...

Thanks. Maybe I should just do less weight on the drops. The burn and failure happen about the same time for me.

Thanks for replying. How long does your workout take. I mean running through it all again after I'm done would add at least 20 minutes. I'm already pulling 1 hour right now. Wouldn't it have a bad effect since you go catabolic within the hour? I tried the drop set for a few exercises yesterday...

Thanks DKM Rovi, Do you do 2 sets of 5's and then drop sets or one set and then a drop set? I'm thinking this is probably what I need to do to get that pump I'm talking about.

Thanks guys. Can someone explain to me what a drop set or metabolic set is exactly? I'm confused.

Yeah I was expecting them to be really hard. I found my squat to be 130 for my max at 5's. Well I'm doing 105 right now and I'm like this is way too easy. I started doing them a lot slower and I added one more set for a total of 3 just to get some sort of pump.

I just started my 5's and it was way too easy to do. I was thinking maybe it was because its the first workout of the 5's, but I don't remember the 15's or 10's being this easy. I did my max's at first and I'm using the same increments as before. I barely even got a pump today. I noticed I got a...

drop sets? I just went back and re-read the faqs section again on this. Apparently you can do your 5 rpm for 2 more weeks after your 5's and NOT change the weight at all if you are scared of negatives or "- Select a load which is approximately your 2-rep max and do 1-2 concentric+3-4...

Rovi, LOL but seriously though I know what you mean. You're like help agh So I could do my 2rpm max weight for the last week by doing 3 reps of that and than do 2 negs and DON'T progressively increase weight? I think you were saying start with 5rpm weight and then progressively move it to...

I'm starting the 5's this week and wanted to be prepared for the negs. Does the negs week involve doing negs 3 times a week with the same weight each time? Their is no progression with the negs correct? I was thinking of doing something like 2 rpm weight (say 80) for 3 reps and than 2 reps of...

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I just started the Scrawny To Brawny Diet and spinach is the #1 vegatable used. Hopefully this new diet will take care of the problem. I just finished the 15's today. Can't wait to start the 10's.