Recent content by xahrx

I found a couple of products called Liver Guard on the web. Ingredients weren't available for some, the others were everything and the kitchen sink supplements. A good antioxidant at a good dose is what's needed basically, which is cheapest and best gotten in bulk form I feel, though caps or...

Cissus seemed to work for a nagging shoulder ache I had, I think it's worth a try. Haladrol 50 is discontinued as far as I know, or sold under a new name now. It's a designer steroid and generally not one for beginners if you are one.

I'd say stay away from T Nation overall. My guess is the HST principles are general and successful enough that it wouldn't be unusual to see them to some degree in any successful weight training program. If you think about it, most of the popular programs advocate: Increasing the load over...

Area Under the Curve I'm guessing, lets you know the level of this or that for a given time interval.  Based on what he summed up there I would guess 48 hours being optimal if you want to take advantage of the summation effect.  Seems any more frequent and all other indicators dropped or stayed...

Not like that, no. As one example you'd do a full body workout of low volume 6 times a week. I set, maybe clustered to 15 reps, every day per exercise. Or you could do a push/pull or upper/lower split, one half in the am, one in the pm. You don't have to do anything fancy with the volume at all...

The summation effect is apparently arguable, but the basic premise is that if there is a summation effect, then working out as frequently as possible would add to the overall effect.  Specific to your question. aiming for 6x a week is more geared toward hypertrophy than strength because of this...

I'd say delete it. I mean, what's the point at this point, you know?

Plenty of other exercise systems have been discussed here. Most recently the ACIT system. The two people responsible for developing it came on, discussed their ideas, posted specific studies that they felt justified their ideas and it was discussed civily and turned out to be a worth while...

Bottom line is some of the claims Johnston seems to have made are apparently impossible and definitely not justifiable currently. He's not brought to bear anything that would prove his point, nor have you. I'm all for practicality in approach; what works, works. However if you let the reasoning...

Used to play 3-4 times a week. Both my regular partners dropped out, one because she wanted her 9th knee operation to be her last, the other had a kid. Now a days I play whenever I can which is once a month or so if I'm lucky. I may have found a partner who can play regularly again. I quit my...

I would think the racquetball and diet would matter more for weight loss. Keep your heart rate up will doing your workout I guess, go from one exercise to the next with as short a pause as possible. Other than that, eat a little less and keep playing. Nice to see a fellow rball player here.

I see. Not sure I agree, but thank you for clearing that up as I definitely had the wrong impression of what Johnston was saying. So what I'm gathering here is that Johnston's claim is that during a contraction individual motor units are recruited progressively from origin to toward the middle...

My fingers are getting HUGE from the typing in this thread.

And I don't doubt anyone's subjective experiences on this method, nor would I suggest they don't use something that works for them.  But, the only methods that are worth while in the sense being discussed here are those which are presented, argued and based on facts, because those are the only...

Thanks for the more in depth explanation of method. One of the claims brought up here is that muscle fibers are preferentially activated in different portions of the muscle at stretch as opposed to in the middle of the ROM. Is there anything to back this up?