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Agreed.  I thought you were doing this to grow, not to lose fat.  It seems awfully extreme and your chances of hurting yourself are pretty high.  Be careful.   Having said that, I am curious as to how your body will respond.  So, please do share with us what happens to you. ;)

If I cut my calories too much I lose lots of muscle. So, when cutting, I eat slightly below maintenance calories and do lots of cardio. Also, be sure to supplement protein before and after cardio, just as you would with weight training. Works for me.

My only problem with this kind of approach is that, once you've done it, and your body adapts to it .... then what? Once your body has dealt with 15 sets per day for each muscle group, you are never going to be able to return to 2 or 3 sets, 3 times per week and expect growth. Not unless you are...

It is possible that you may need to start integrating some fairly advanced techniques (emphasize stretch, loaded or pulse stretches, etc.) and possibly even adding some volume here and there. In the Faq, Bryan talks about how he, and some others who have been training for many years, now trains...

I agree. Four sets for the same small muscle group sounds like a lot. Especially since you have had so much success already with, presumably, less volume. Don't be too eager to jump into heavy volume. Once you do, you can't go back.

I seem to remember Bryan (in the FAQ, I believe) talking about the need for training calves extremely heavy. They are very resistant because we are walking around/using them all the time, so you will need to train with lots of weight, lots of volume, and use exercises that emphasize stretch.

Are you relatively new to training, or a long-time veteran?

Incidentally, with regards to strategic deconditioning, 9 days just isn't enough, in my opinion. As Bryan states, the first 7 days are really "recovery" more than "deconditioning". Given that, I would head toward 11 or 12 days at least. Just my opinion, though. ;)

If you are relatively new to weightlifting, one movement for shoulders is fine.  You will also be hitting them with your chest exercises.  If you are going to do incline db flyes for the stretch, that's cool, but if you are just going to do incline presses, then I would use a bar -- you'll be...

All you have to be concerned with is following the basic principles of HST (frequency, progressive load, etc.).  If you get to the end of your two weeks of 15s and you can still lift more ... go ahead.  If you reach your max ahead of schedule, you can repeat it or just go on to the 10s a little...

Not to argue with you vicious -- nothing but respect -- but I'm wondering what has lead you to this belief? I would think an extra 10 pounds through 5 or so concentric/eccentric repetitions would cause more damage to the tissue regardless of how much additional stretch one might get from the...

Essentially, that's about right. Keep reading, though. ... So much to learn ... ;)

Hey LievenX, Allow me to be the first to direct you to the FAQ section. This topic is well covered there. :)

Have to agree about using the machines for negatives. Works brilliantly. You can use this same two hands up, one hand down, technique with db curls, but it can be a bit awkward. As for the incline or not question, I think that the increased weight will be more important than the additional...

If you are only training once a week, then that changes things.  One of the main principles of HST is that of frequency (frequent, low volume workouts).  Training only once a week and still doing 1 or 2 sets per body part with submaximal loads is not going to get you very far.  On the other...

I have found that I can lose fat in the beginning without losing much muscle, if any, but that as I become leaner and closer to where I want to be, I need to work a little harder in my workouts and not eat too far under maintenance. If you can add enough cardio to make up for a few extra...

Domineaux, If all you are doing is eliminating zig-zagging or repeating weights, then there is no problem with that. Progressive loading is a main principle of HST and it sounds like that is what you are doing. If, however, you are just lifting as heavy as you can all the time, you are probably...

I agree with Old and Grey about dips and pull ups, but if you can't do them its not the end of the world. Either way you are hitting all the major parts that you need to, so don't worry. I wouldn't cut down to only 1 set of the 5s. In my experience it wasn't enough. If you can tolerate 2 sets...

I don't see any reason to do 3 sets of 10s or 4 sets of 5s. That sounds like an awful lot -- particularly for someone relatively new to all this. Unless you have been training for years and years, and are highly resistant to training stimuli, I'd say its overkill. I'm a big fan of doing what is...

In my opinion, if you've been training steadily for 2 years, just 10 sets might not be enough. In the 10s and 5s you may want to consider doing a few more sets to keep your overall volume from decreasing so dramatically (as you approach the 5s particularly). In other words, 15 reps of shoulder...