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I should have stipulated, no caffeine or ephedrine for me. I do drink half my postworkout shake before and during my workout in the morning though.

On the go often, and I need to cook my veges fast. Is microwaving frozen veges unsafe, and does it damage the nutrition. Sorry for the dumb question, I hear so many conflicting statements on this. cheers

I'm currently doing a morning/evening split, and I've noticed that my morning workouts are markedly more difficult than my evening's. I wake up and within 20 minutes, I hit the weights, but I often feel like my nervous system hasn't woken up. My first exercise, trap-bar squats feel like I am...

Thanks for the good advice. I swear our gym's chin up bar is higher than a NBA ring making it hard for midgets like myself to reach doing normal chins. I will give the bench/chair idea a go, and yes I will post my results soon.

I don't have a spotter, so I was wondering how you guys do negatives on chins? Share some technique tips for getting past the eccentric without straining too much? Thanks

Thanks Noobie. Yeah, I did a search on POF and X-rep and I came up with a few previous threads. I was just wondering if anyone had combined the methods with HST and were willing to share their thoughts/results/programs etc. I was thinking for my next cycle to do something like this AM WORKOUT...

One program I had good experience with years ago is the Steve Holman POF program. I see that he has now combined the use of POF with something called X-reps - basically partials in the strongest range after reaching concentric failure. I was wondering; (1) Is there anyway I could combine the...

Hi, bit of history. First cycle went well. Trained 3 times a week. Gained 11 pounds, strength went through the roof. I'm coming back after a 6 year layoff. For my second HST cycle I wanted to experiment with twice a day training 3 times per week. How does this setup look? Workout A Trap Bar...

I've just completed my first 8 weeks of HST with good results. I trained using the same routine 3 times a week. I included trap bar squats and stiff legged deadlifts in my routine and did these lifts for each workout. My entire workout was trap bar squats stiff legged deadlifts dumbbell bench...

I understand that there is no need to recalculate maxes after the first cycle. However, I am coming off after a 5 year layoff due to illness, and I am rapidly gaining strength again. Would it be a good idea to take a week to recalculate my "new" maxes, considering I may have gained...

Thank you for your reply Brian. I'm sorry, but I'm a little confused by your reply. Do you mean, wait until I start my next cycle of HST, and then begin each 2 week phase with the same weight? for e.g. new trap bar squat max = 200lbs for 10 reps 15s - start at 100lbs and work up to new max...

I was reading the articles and FAQ, and they mentioned increasing the weight by 10-20 pounds for legs, and 5 pounds for smaller muscle groups. As a beginner are larger increments per workout "better"? My rep maxes aren't very high, so if I use 10-20 pound increments for legs my...