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Originally Posted by canablistic_Turnip  Have you tried it! I mean really tried it and as for ur Data it goes both ways. Because no one really has made a fool proof program yet. I made gains in volume trainning and powerlifting. Hell I started weight trainning to win medals in weightlifting in highschool. I progressed to HIT (Probably from yates then to mentzers line of thinking) I'm not preaching that HIT is more or less effective than volume what I was simply trying to state. Is there is an assumption that Volume is harder due to the time spent in the Gym. If you have ever given a High intensity program ago (and u say u have) then you would realise this. That is why I wrote my experience. |
No of course I haven't tried it, I just said that for my health!!! I've tried it, had fun (read excruciating pain in muscles that I never knew were there) doing it, and I've moved on to better things.
I never said anything about volume training. There is not HIT and Volume only training. You would know (and have kinda stated) that there are many subdivisions of HIT. Volume is only one other way of training, not the only alternative to HIT. To what I refer is the maximising efficiency and loading parameters of lifting. This goes into training strength, endurance, power, speed (for me primarily strength) as a complete package.
The research doesn't go both ways! Any HIT research has mainly come from Arthur Jones and his people (Darden, etc) and then there is the rest of the exercise researchers. Amittedly most exercise science is poorly written and quite often poorly set up so that conclusions about any program type cannot be drawn (hey lets see if people who have never trained before make gains dong this, and not compare it to anything!). But the research I refer to is that done by professional coaches, that is published in the journals. This research is results orrientated, and really shows HIT to be below par.
So HIT works fine, just you could be doing better. Read some of the articles
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). From experience of using High intensity (when done properly) yes the numbers seem less but it is one of the most painfull things u will ever experience in ur life. Because you can't cheat then u never have a chance to relax during the reps (no momentum) The pain levels shoot through the roof and these sets seem to be the longest painful (Intense) experience that you will ever feel and when normal reps are exhausted then you move into exhausting static and negative motion. I am no stranger to pain I have broken my arm, dislocated fingers and used to box at one stage so I know what hard work is and I can honestly say that these don't even come close to a high intensity set (Volume to me is easier than HIT that is why I train with hit now). The truth is if u can even think of doing another rep after a HIT set then u haven't maxed out intensity. Mentzer and others used to imagine that there was a guy with a gun to the back of the heads saying one more rep! it was do or die. In my oppinion a lot of people critisise high intensity because they have never done it "PROPERLY". It really depends on your personality and grit determination if you have a strong mental attitude you will succeed with HIT.
