Recent content by Scooper182

Hahaha I love the bar fight comments. I have two very strong friends who actually lift all the time yet don't care at all about having a good physique. They tell me they lift for what they call the "most noble reason"--bar fights.

Hmm it seems many are having bad experiences in the gym with thin guys doing situps and gawking at the deadlift.  Perhaps the aforementioned behavior is a result of bodybuilding magazines, but I can certainly say people my age (18-22) seem to have great knowledge on bodybuilding.  I go to a...

Chthonian: Please read bomsu's post: I correlate "losing one's job" to hampering one's economic situation.  I don't see how one is better economically without a job. Peace

bomsu, This is a very "unscientific" observation but I don't think mild alcohol consumption is going to hurt your gains all that much. I'd like to see some research on this issue--all I have to do is look around my college gym and social scene. The biggest, strongest most muscular...

Probably, yes. If you increase the number of reps for a certain rep count (say doing 13 reps since 10 seems too effortless) you would be increasing the TUT which is a good thing. On the same token, you'd still be applying the principle of progressive overload as your weights would increase every...

If you decide to workout at a frequency of 6 times per week, regardless of how you set it up, you absolutely MUST be eating a great deal of food. I had to cut back my workouts to 3 times per week as I am a thin guy with a fast metabolism. I simply couldn't eat enough with my metabolism and...

HST will give a person quick gains but 5 pounds in one week (for a natural lifter) seems extraordinary...I find it difficult to believe 5 pounds of lean mass can be gained in a week by a natural lifter on any program. I suspect there are many other factors at play, for instance, wrestlers can...

Excellent, plenty of reading material! As always, thank you Dan.

Edit:  I must've accidentally deleted part of the title of this thread.  I didn't mean to call it "Stud."  It should have said "Studies on Low/High Volume Training!" I was recently searching around here and elsewhere for studies demonstrating the differences/similarities...

Happy birthday Fausto.

Longer cycles are generally superior to shorter cycles and no it should not hurt your gains--if anything it will ensure you did the most work your muscles could handle before they SD. I know dkm feels that extending your 5 rep MAX and any negatives for many weeks are very useful--you're making...

I'm sure everyone has their own method for doing a higher frequency HST routine, but here's at least what I do. MWF I'll do a regular full body workout. Tuesday and Thursday I drop all my isolation moves (except for calves because I need them to grow--I have natural chicken legs). I know some...

Powerlifter--impressive Aaron. Have you found it difficult to be as strong as the guys you compete against that are tall?

mciarlo, I too will be returning to college and will go from using a home gym (free weights) to an advanced collegiate level gym--I will need to find new maxes for things like pulldowns, plus some of the rep maxes I found during this cycle were a little too high/or low. In another words, I too...

Well, obviously when we use the term animal there's a bit of hyperbole going on, but I think one can agree 200 NATURAL pounds, mostly muscle at 5'8" is exceptional.   Look at Shawn Ray--he's 5'7.5" and weights 215 pounds at competition.  Now HE's an animal ;) Aaron_F I've been...