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I thought one of the basic tenets of the HST theory is to do a relatviely low volume 3 times a week. Surely doing 6 sets of 10 reps for a single exercise does not fit that theory at all. How is your body supposed to deal with such high volume 3x a week?

Hey, thanks for all the replies guys. Very helpful. I've not turned up to slag off something I've never even tried but I am a skeptic in all things. I always try to analyse and understand the underlying principles and look for causation etc. I have a good grounding in science and that's just...

Thanks for the answers. I'm not sure any of that really answers my key concern, which is uncertainty about hard evidence that progressive weight increase from say 75% of rep max to 100% of rep max is as effective as working to rep max and raising that max regularly. The post below contains...

Yes I did read that. The idea being that by not working out for 9-12 days that your muscle unadapts and is ready for the new cycle. But that unadaption must be shortlived and for the majority of the 8 week cycle the muscles are adapted to the previous workout at least. I guess what I'm asking...

Hi Just read the HST article. Interesting to read something built from basic princples up. The first question/doubt I have is this: For the start of the programme I am supposed to use my 15 rep max to work out the weight I will be using on workout #6. If this is say bench pressing 100lb then...