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HIT VS Volume

By Vince On May 7, 2009 Under Muscle Building Training

I’m a huge advocate of High Intensity Training. I’m the kind of guy that thinks you should squeeze out every last rep to push yourself to the limit of every workout.

The secret is to know how to tweak the volume so you can stimulate each muscle group with high frequency. Bodybuilders would have you believe there’s nothing wrong with forced reps and strip sets.  If you’re not pushing yourself to absolute muscular failure every workout you’re just not going to make gains right?

I believe in taking each set to absolute muscular failure, but not each workout to absolute muscular failure.

I’ve believed that for a long time and I still do. But there’s something I believe in even more and that’s PERIODIZATION, which is an organized approach to cycling different training regimens during a specific period of time.

Many powerlifting cycles will last up to 12-weeks without any strict diet in place and when the 12-week cycle is done, it’s time to start eating better, and change up the training a bit.

I’ll don’t adhere to traditional powerlifting workouts but after a cycle of heavier lifting, I’ll take a week off or go right into a cycle of volume workouts.

With the volume workouts you take short breaks between sets (great for fat burning), and you do more sets. If you’re just concerned about building muscle these workouts are actually pretty good at that too.

Another advantage of switching to this sort of workout is giving the central nervous system, bones, joints and tendons a break.

This style of training is nothing new and it’s  not something I invented. It’s based on volume training techniques and a lot of the bodybuilders from the Golden Era swore by it.

I’ve been reading a lot about it lately in my friend Doberman Dan’s Hyper Growth program. He sent me a review copy of his “Hyper Growth Muscle Mass Training” program last week and so far from what I’ve read and tried out in my own workouts, it’s KILLER!

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If You’re Wondering What The Golden Era Is…

The bodybuilders of the Golden Era from the 50s, 60s, and 70s produced bodies that resembled Greek Gods! The symmetry and proportion untainted by the humongous drug bloated waists of today’s pro bodybuilders explains why even young men of today’s generation are inspired by the men of this past generation.

Guys like Vince Gironda, Frank Zane and Larry Scott Had Attained The Secrets To Achieving Steroid-Like Results Without Abusing Dr*ugs Like Many Of The Pros Of Today Have Done.

I’ll be posting a few articles from Doberman in the next few days. If you’re thirsty RIGHT NOW, than check out my friend Doberman Dan’s new program called, Hyper Growth Muscle Mass Training.

You guys know I hate hype and this program has been getting a lot of it lately. But the truth is Dan’s offering it a discount right now during the Pre-Sale which is going on TODAY Thursday May 7th through Sat. May 9th.

So definitely head over. If you’ve been stuck in a rut or consider yourself a HARDGAINER than this is probably a good fit for you. You might as well check it out during the promo.

Here’s the special invite page. You can’t even buy this unless someone gives you the page.

http://www.hypermusclegrowth.com/presale.htm

Keep training hard,

Vince DelMonte

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Rajesh

May 21, 2009

Marc, I train hard for about an hour everyday. But yet my lean mass hasn’t got bigger yet. I train with weights all 5 days of the week and do high-intensity aerobics for 2 days a week. I eat a well balanced diet and I must admit that I smoke. I’m cutting down on it and am planning to quit soon. Everytime I do a leg,quads I can sense the flow of lactic acid rushing in and the next day I experience excruciating pain in my hams, thigh muscles and calves.My biceps have got bigger in my 4 month training and my chest has not got any bigger. Could you recommend me anything? Do I need to tweak my workout?

Lycan

May 27, 2009

You train every day of the week? Of course you are not making any gains. Relax man train 3-4 times a week not everyday. Can’t optimally recover if you train that frequently.