Max Rep. People are criticizing me for contributing to this board as an Ironager. I decided to offer my theories about training on the Gossip and Opinion board and others are interested and that is why this thread is still going. I think this is the first time a training thread has been taken seriously on the Getbig G&O board. I don't think it is an accident. I am doing my best to answer questions and so on.
Have at it Vince. I'm just wondering why it took you 12 pages to actually tell us something about your program and so far it doesn't appear to be anything other than a variation of Vince G and/or Larry Scott's program with a little twist of your own. I respect both Larry and Vince for their contributions MUCH more that Jones.
Larry and Vince both recognized the role of the pump in growth whereas Jones Mentzer both said the pump had nothing to do with muscle growth. This was a THEORY that neither gentleman ever proved. They offered some cockamamie story about doing 100 reps on curls and hw it produced a pump but no growth. Yet their training method with warm-ups offered a pump. And they grew. So it's just a theory that the pump doesn't contribute to growth. A false theory in my opinion. It’s not the only requirement for growth. In other words if you just pump and don’t fulfill the other requirements for growth then and only then would their theory on pump hold water.
The other requirements of course being:
1) Stimulation -- For muscles to grow, they have to have a good reason. (Jones would have called this “intensity of effort”) which includes intensity, pump and rest periods and workout duration. (Jones only recognized one way of measuring/achieving intensity which was another flaw in his thinking).
2) Stronger/Bigger -- Muscle size and strength go hand in hand, the stronger your muscles will become the bigger they will get and vice versa. Get stronger and mass will follow very shortly.
3) Recovery -- After a workout the body must first recover energy lost during the workout before it can even begin to grow and build new muscle mass. Improved recovery improves results. This also includes workout frequency and body-part frequency.
I must have found it useful to use both High Intensity, Low Volume at times but also VERY High Volume at times. By starting with volume training, I maximize training stress and to tax my bodies adaptive potential to the limits. Over a period of weeks I add to the workload causing a state of emergency in my body and its ability to adapt is pushed to a higher level. Then I abruptly and dramatically lower the volume. The adaptive energies are already at a high level for a short period of time, because of the previous volume training and the sharp contrast between high adaptive energy and lower volume results in a growth burst (I believe this is what most people experience when they switch to HIT from volume.) I simply make use of the benefits of both systems and could care less about which “camp” is correct.