has anyone on getbig used HIT and had it work?

[tallandfat]

anyone?

[big L dawg]

yea...there was a legend on here named pumpster that it worked great for...

[wild willie]

I used HIT in the mid 90s......for a few years.......and yes......I did grow from that routine.

I must say though that after a while the body shuts down......and needs some time away.....that is when I added a few more sets to the routine......I never did high volume.......probably in the neighborhood of 10-12 sets for larger muscles and 8-9 for smaller muscles.


I did go as low as 6 sets for chest and back and legs......but only for a short time......normally I was closer to 10 sets.....HIT works but for a rather short period of time.....IMHO

On the other hand.....I have never trained with extremely high volume.....say 20-30 sets......that is just too overboard. You will benefit from more moderate volume. My .02 on the matter.

[JasonH]

Didn't really work for me - pity, cos I spent the better part of 10 years doing it. Then moved onto higher volume training and that seems to have been a bit more successful.

[local hero]

i do think it works, your form and feeling for the movements has to be perfect tho,,,,

much easier and probly better to take the middle road tho.

[yates fan]

did dorians version of hit for a couple of years,and it seemed to work ok,just got bored with it.

[20inch calves]

dogcrapp is keeps you motivated to beat your numbers every week. i tried it for a while and got good results

[tomjone20]

For a couple weeks about 6-7 years ago I did Tabata (1-2x a week).  It killed me; however, my measurements got significantly bigger in my chest, arms, and legs.

I will never forget the pain and throwing up but the effectiveness cannot be argued.

[ether]

I tried HIT about 10 years ago.

I followed Mentzer's program to the tee even spoke with him a couple of times about the program for some advice.

I did not have very good results, didn't lose anything but no real gains to speak of other than in the log book.

In theory I believe it works and still follow some of the principles to this day (but more of a Yates style program)...I don't think the average lifter can do a HIT program bc they simply can not muster enough intensity without a few warm ups.

[Hedgehog]

Did it for awhile. Yates style. It was ok. Didn't get any super gains from it.

Poliquin wrote a fairly good article and had a suggestion for those wanting to do HIT.

You can google Poliquin and HIT, probably will find it that way.

But it was basically a setup where you would first do around 6 weeks of high volume bodybuilding training, old school. Followed by 6 weeks of HIT. Followed by 6 weeks of German Volume Training. And followed by Max-OT or similar.

Basically, the point Poliquin was trying to get across I guess, is that HIT works very well if you switch to it from a higher volume protocol.

The gains you get is not from previously being "overtrained". But rather from the de-loading, tapering.

But you still need to put in volume training to get results.