How'd you find HST

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Just curious how everyone actually came to find HST.

I was over at the forum for Men's Health magazine about 3.5 years ago and asked a question about routines and someone pointed me to here.

Once I found this place, read the material and tried it I've never went back.


Just curious as to how other people came across it.
 
googled "hypertrophy training" one day. My first impression was that it sounded like bull, doing such light weights and such high frequency. Since then I have come to see the science behind the training!
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Also looked up training programs on google and came across HST, sounded good, the science really striked home if you know what I mean...compared to other programs on the net this was, free...science based and not intuitive, and best of all it hardly had any adverstising at all.

I read and read and read...never looked back, in fact I hardkly ever visit any other sites, either than the Think muscle every so now and then.
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Web-Crawling for free porn - Thinkmuscle came up in one of the searches  
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 - signed up for the free newsletter. Didn't bother with the forum for ages; Bryan's bulletins/articles covered all the bases... Eventually went on the forum, lurked for about a year then registered.
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Got back into training after 20 years and decided to see what advice was on the net. Found that HIT was still advocated so got back into that. When I stalled out with that after about three months I looked again and chanced upon HST. Spent a few weeks reading before asking questions here. I liked what I read/learned and decided to give it a go. I now have a training plan for life that I can continue to use and adapt as my goals change.
 
Similar to Lol -- got back into training after a long hiatus and stalled out after about six months of the usual stuff (once a week to failure, etc). Came upon HST when looking on the net for something better. Nothing else seemed to compare and the forum is fantastic.
 
Just like Sci and Fausto i googled "hypertrophy programme" as I was tired of the more convetional routines that seemed to be getting me nowhere. And landed here. Was skeptical at first and thought that such a low volume routine would be bull, but decided to give it a bash and really liked the simplicity of it all. It's also great to follow a programme that is backed up by science rather than just a bunch of theories and opinions....
 
I was over at Menshealth.com on there forum...and Bryan Haycock joined up and started a thread to answer any questions....it was actually pretty cool he was there for a couple of weeks everyday answering question way more than he usually does.

As a matter of fact if you go over to menshealth.com and search for my name (it should still exist) you may find some good old threads with bryan on HST.
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came up with it on my own......hahaha.

seriously though, after yrs of training various ways i settled on a few "truths" for myself.

trained hard for up to 10-12 weeks straight then always took a week or 2 break. training any other way always led to overtraining or injury or mental burn out.

when still training each body part 1x a week i would "concentrate" on 1-2 body parts that i thought needed more work and would do them 2-3 times a week for that cycle. had to go lighter yet more freq. and it almost never failed to pay off. never thought i could treat my whole body that way.

realized that progressive wgt increase and main compounds were the key to actual growth in size and strength as opposed to endless isos' and always maxing out.

one day i came across a thread in t-mag that mentioned HST and when i found it i realized i was home. a lot more science and detail then i ever had in any of my programs but when intuition and experience are validated by others research and trail and error i knew i couldnt go wrong.

great forum for actual information, help and support without a lot of ads, attitude bad info and flamers.
 
Hey Slaps, do you remember when I said I wasn't interested in that geriatric aging florida retiree's vacation workout? (or something like that)

Boy, have I had to eat those words...!
 
I tried every routine I could find in mags and later on the net, always searching for that 'something right.'
Prior to this I had a go at power factor training which gave a bit of strenght increase but nothing much. One day I stumbled across this forum (through google I think) and started reading. I didn't think what I read could be right at first and lurked for a while and kept coming back to read more. Eventually I registered and started HST. No more searching.
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I read an article in some fitness mag that detailed a microcycle of a workout specific to "hypertrophy". I emailed the author about getting the rest of the mesocycle, and he told me that I'd have to pay for the rest of the information.

I deleted the email, brought up Google, typed "muscle hypertrophy" and the rest is history.
 
<div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">digging through bodybuilding.com for a new routine and found an article on hst. Guess I do get lucky sometimes. LOL!</div>
Same story for me. I was reading articles about training at bodybuilding.com and came across some stuff written by Bryan. Eventually I migrated to this site and read everything I could find. A bit later I registered, asked a few questions here and got started with HST. I haven't looked back ever since.
 
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