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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...

JV, You're not going to make it to 200 pounds? No big deal, unless your life goal was to be a successful bouncer. It's all about proportion--being excessively huge is simply unnattractive. Case in point: A few years ago there was a teacher/football coach who was not tall at all, but all the...

I'm not trying to sound like a single-minded disciple of HST (afterall, an open mind and examination of all sorts of training methods led me here in the first place), but bodybuilding.com indeed lacks any scientific foundation and is simply not a logical resource to use in the quest for a better...

Definitely see a doctor. An older person I know tore his deltoid working out and he was in severe pain for weeks. He went to see the doctor who ended up having to give him an Rx for an MRI. Turns out the tear is so bad they may have to do some kind of surgery on it. Let us know what the doctor...

Bodyguard, I'm sad to see you lost weight doing 6 day per week cycles as I just recently started a short, 5 day a week cycle to finish before I go back to school on the 27th. I started the cycle in the middle of the 10's so I will be sure to complete it and depending on my results, I will do a...

Sach, I know less about weight loss compared to bulking through HST but for one, yes it will be difficult to put NEW muscle mass on while dieting severely, but the purpose of HST would be to reduce or eliminate any potential muscle loss. Also, I suggest supplementing with creatine. I know I...