My good friend nodeal covered it. We got bigger, YES! Stronger, NO! We got fuckin weaker!!
We're back to our normal routines. I'm actually starting gymnastics exercises and incorporating them into my workouts. I'm going to be a gymnast one day. I have a long road ahead of me, however. Wish me luck!
HIT was a thrill. It was training at the highest possible intensity. It was fun while it lasted, but it just didn't do for me what I want out of training. Try it if you'd like because what happened to me and my training partner may not happen to you.
Davie, you're awesome bro and you were doing a much better version of HIT than I was (which happens to not be the way Mentzer preached).
One final word: Mentzer is a cvnt.
Hey figgs....i am sorry to hear u did not have the success you wer hoping for, as a routine for building ur body, i am glad u had success, tho its a shame about the strength gains. maybe its was the super intense pre-exhausting that had something to do with it, i am not 100% sure yet.
Thanks for the nice comments bro, i am enjoying it alot. the only real isolation/pre-exhausting im using is laterals b4 press behind necks (attempting to hit lateral delt harder), and leg raise(isolation tear dop a bit more) b4 squat and leg press.
Its great seeing the weights go up and as i said b4 im running out of weight on machines. I am having to up rep target on leg raise from 15 to 20 reps, as i managed all the weight stack for 15 reps. You have to make little changes like that (changing standing lateral raises to seated etc), but im loving it.
Took a diff mate of mine through a chest/arms workout on fri, after chest and bi's we started tri's with close grip bench, he started with what he thought would be far to light a weight, he couldnt get 3 reps lol.
its been good discussing diff trainng methods with alexxxx,pumpster etc recently. good to see we can all agree or completely disagree, but still have good debate about it.
davie