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No, there are other factors besides adding resistance. Otherwise all top bodybuilders would be enormously strong and most are not. As muscles grow they seem to require more training than smaller muscles. More sets. Oh, there are methods that claim high intensity is the key and only a couple of...

Hi Dan. Yes, the truth about hypertrophy has to apply universally. If something turns out to falsify any of my theories or ideas then I will have to abandon them. That is how science progresses and it is far easier to be mistaken about matters than correct. One principle I do not agree with so...

I am growing my arms. What happens is that sometimes I can't get to the gym and then miss the day I was going to workout on. It is difficult keeping my arms at the maximum. However, recently I had them near my best ever. What I want to do is exceed that peak and this can occur only with...

If readers are making satisfactory gains with HST then all I can say is congratulations. Whatever is the point of discussing hypertrophy if you are already growing steadily? When that growth stops you might be interested in what I have written.

At any one time all of us are at certain points on the hypertrophy journey. It is always difficult to make any muscle grow more. What I have done is virtually ignored other muscles and trained only my arms. This has allowed me to find a method that keeps stimulating the muscles. Do my arms keep...

Nope, I didn't say either of those things. I could care less what the scientific community has found because they are not interested in bodybuilding. I know what I have discovered. There is a definite link between being able to sustain DOMS in a target muscle and rapid growth. The test of this...

Fausto you are proving what I said. If those gains are good enough for you then continue being a disciple and defend HST.

HST is whatever Bryan and others want it to be. I prefer to discuss the actual hypertrophy/hyperplasia processes in muscles and then reverse engineer a method to obtain that growth. Whatever generates the maximum amount of growth is the preferred method, safety and practical considerations taken...

You can understand that I am more interested in discussing hypertrophy theory than particular methods. I realise that trainees like to know what the methods are all about. It is just that when I did that in the past it made no difference at all and our quest was sidetracked but nuts and bolts...

Someone on this forum gave me a suggestion to read about Dante's Doggcrap training and I have spent some time doing that. Interesting reading. Another person who claims to know what hypertrophy specific training is but is different from what you read on this forum. Clearly both methods cannot be...

Savagebeast gave us a short introduction to Popper's ideas. However he missed the main idea that conjecture is needed to come up with a possible theory in the first place. Individuals and thinking originate theories, not science. It is always possible that an individual will come up with...

JV and fausto portray me as some stubborn old bloke who won't try anything new. That portrayal reeks of irrationality and thickness. Well, I try to be scientific in my training. If something doesn't work I abandon it and try something else. **Vince is deeply rooted already in old bodybuilding...

If Bryan and Dan decide that it is best for their board to close a thread then that is an operational decision we can accept. All I desire is that discussions continue to be open and not limited by moderators and consensus. If no one replies to me then how can the discussion last for 30 pages...

The requirements for rapid hypertrophy in large muscles is not because of our theories. We have these theories because that is what works. The reason there is some concensus is because various individuals have concluded similar things. A pump is a concomitant of getting a stimulating workout...

I don't dismiss anyone who can build huge muscles. It is so easy to credit drugs to their success. However, that is another subject and I prefer to talk about hypertrophy with no reference whatever to steroids, etc. I base my theory on my own experiences and also from being around a gym for...

I wonder if you are fair dinkum, Dan, about what you post here? You are precise when dealing with the studies but make personal decisions regarding what others may want to discuss. Yours is but one opinion on this forum, although, admittedly, a very considered one. I find it rather unfair for...

The reason I leave some forums is because some use personal attacks instead of debating the issues. That has already happened in this forum. The moderators should not tolerate those attacks. When they do the whole place becomes the less for it. The other reason is that the moderators stop...

Yes, Rob, that is essentially the main problem I have with HST. The amount of volume is absolutely critical but it must not be spread over training sessions. The volume must be done at the highest intensity level possible for the target reps. Some have tried to persuade us that a few sets will...

The plain truth is that hypertrophy is not a subject that has any currency in universities. There is an academic bias against bodybuilding. Thus, funding will go to strength studies because findings will be relevant to sports. There is no relevance for hypertrophy for its own sake. It is the...

Arthur Jones said he could sell #### if it was marketed the right way. People do sell chicken #### and call it Dynamic Lifter. So Arthur is right. Forgetting the hype, does a method work? HIT doesn't work as well as Arthur and Mike said it would. That high intensity method is not what the vast...