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Very interesting paragraph, though the science behind it seems to be missing. Just because something makes sense in theory doesn't mean it is true. That's where we take our heads out our asses and demand actual scientific proof; NOT a bunch of analogous reference passed off as logical proof.
You may also misunderstand HIT training - no offense, lets keep this discussion free of insults. You say that you have been doing HIT for a year now, since you started training. This doesn't make sense because I remember you posting your high volume workouts on the training section a while back. Your percieved level of intensity may have been high during these workouts (we can get into the definition of intensity later) but this is not HIT training. You can have very intense(again, perceived intensity) high volume workouts, but when you say you do "high intensity training" it is genreally assumed that you follow the HIT layout (Mentzer, arthur, etc)... HIT kinda has a trademark with that. Might wanna be careful with that to avoid confusion.
There's plenty of scientific research backed by Mentzer's statements. I'm not going to pull out the book and search for them all but trust me they exist, to a certain extent. There's no actual lab results or anything that I know of, however.
I understand the HIT workout routine. That's a seperate routine from my own. In my workouts, I focus on the principle of high intenstiy. Not Mentzer's exact routine. I use his routine for certain muscles like bis and calves. I'm going to start my first actual HIT routine in about a week and half. Yeah, I'll admit I didn't think to clarify on the fact that I don't use the HIT routine, but only have used its set of principles as a part of my own routine.
Good memory. I did once make the mistake of using high volume workouts. My workouts were not only percieved as intense, they were very intense. I was always an extremist in the gym. But the level of intensity, which was still great at that point, has been surpassed over and over again with time and experience. It's now all about absolute failure on each and every set.
I think it was around Oct-Nov '05 when I started to lower volume and raise intensity. I remember doing 20 set chest workouts and now, just an hour ago, I finished a 6 set chest workout. And as time went by, I continued raising the intensity which forced me to lower the volume. Even now I'm still learning how to raise intensity. My calf workout has just
recently been changed to 1 set. Before that I did 4, but I discovered a new level of intensity that I hadn't known to exist before.
I'm really looking foward to the challenge of following Mike Mentzer's HIT routine! I'll keep Getbig updated on it's effectiveness.