HIT, Low Carb, No Gear

[go2failure]

If this has ever been you, please post your results while in this scenario. Try to quantify gains, strength/mass. If you lost lots of fat, mention that too.


Thanks,

G2F

 

[musketeer]

I did use this method and gained a TON of muscle.

I stayed lean and felt great too. 30lbs in 10 weeks without roids. My friends all did double takes when I came back from summer break at college. Best of all NO DRUGS.

I must stress that I was really living the bodybuilder lifestyle, working in a gym and eating every 2 hours. Sleeping 7 hours at night and napping for 2 hours every afternoon, taking about $100 of supps every week. When I started I was out of shape. Only drank about 5 times in ten weeks too.

My hit training was BRUTAL:

Squatting 315 for deep bodybuilding reps at a bodyweight of 170 (and I'm 6'0" tall)... Biceps tripple drop sets that left visible burst blood vessels in my arms... bloodshot eyes after most workouts... 5 days of weights and two days of cardio a week.

If really put all of your energy into it then you will achieve your dreams using this style of training...

 

[swordfish151]

can someone expand on this training?? im lost?? HIT? and you mentioned triple drop sets? can you give a breif outline on what you did for biceps? your routine that is?

 

[musketeer]

Biceps was once per week.

Incline dumbel curls on 55 deg bench.

arrange three pairs of dumbells (maybe):

55lbs
40lbs
30lbs

Rep the 55's like your life depends on it! Imagine that you are in a training video, and that you want to show both perfect form and impress the living hell out of the world with how strong you are and how brutally legendary your training is. When you reach REAL and absolute failure (about 5-8 reps if you've chosen the right weight), drop the 55's and instantly pick up the 40's. Try to beat your last rep count with the 55's. If you've got the right weights and went to real failure with the 55's then you won't. Fail with the 40's and grab up the 30's and try to make each rep golden and perfect. Your bi's shoulders and forearms will be like battery acid, but carry on as if that only makes you madder and stronger. Tell yourself that if you do not rip your muscles from the bone that your family will be killed. You wont rip your muscles from the bone with 30 pounders but the sensation is your goal. When you cannot move the dumbells at all then drop them to the ground, give your bi's a good stretch and your wrists. If you have fair skin and have ruptured some blood vessels then you may be able to see it on the surface. Your biceps should hurt for days from this effort. Next time, get one more rep with the 55's or use the 60's if you got 8 reps or more.

 

[swordfish151]

Biceps was once per week.

Incline dumbel curls on 55 deg bench.

arrange three pairs of dumbells (maybe):

55lbs
40lbs
30lbs

Rep the 55's like your life depends on it! Imagine that you are in a training video, and that you want to show both perfect form and impress the living hell out of the world with how strong you are and how brutally legendary your training is. When you reach REAL and absolute failure (about 5-8 reps if you've chosen the right weight), drop the 55's and instantly pick up the 40's. Try to beat your last rep count with the 55's. If you've got the right weights and went to real failure with the 55's then you won't. Fail with the 40's and grab up the 30's and try to make each rep golden and perfect. Your bi's shoulders and forearms will be like battery acid, but carry on as if that only makes you madder and stronger. Tell yourself that if you do not rip your muscles from the bone that your family will be killed. You wont rip your muscles from the bone with 30 pounders but the sensation is your goal. When you cannot move the dumbells at all then drop them to the ground, give your bi's a good stretch and your wrists. If you have fair skin and have ruptured some blood vessels then you may be able to see it on the surface. Your biceps should hurt for days from this effort. Next time, get one more rep with the 55's or use the 60's if you got 8 reps or more.

That sounds intense..i have done drop sets before..but not triple drop sets....do you do this just for one excerise or for all...meaning:

standing barbell curls (triple drop set)
seated incline dumbell curls (regular sets)

and so on...

and do you do triple drop sets for all your body parts?

 

[musketeer]

The tripple drop lends itself very well to stuff like biceps or shoulders or calves or isolation exercises for legs like extensions and curls. I only need to do one exercise for one tripple drop set for biceps.

That's right, biceps are trained for ONE SET ONCE PER WEEK!

Incline dumbel curls are great because they give you a great stretch AND contraction in one exercise. If I didn't do them then biceps workout might be:

Barbel preacher curls: 6 reps with 145lbs

Overhead cable curls: 12 reps with 100lbs DROP to 8 reps with 70lbs.

CHEST might be:

Incline Barbell Press: 6 reps with 245lbs + 2 forced
Flat Bench Flyes: 6 reps with 85 pounders DROP to 6 reps with 60 pounders
Dips: 6 reps with + 50lbs DROP to 12 reps with bodyweight

 

[swordfish151]

The tripple drop lends itself very well to stuff like biceps or shoulders or calves or isolation exercises for legs like extensions and curls. I only need to do one exercise for one tripple drop set for biceps.

That's right, biceps are trained for ONE SET ONCE PER WEEK!

Incline dumbel curls are great because they give you a great stretch AND contraction in one exercise. If I didn't do them then biceps workout might be:

Barbel preacher curls: 6 reps with 145lbs

Overhead cable curls: 12 reps with 100lbs DROP to 8 reps with 70lbs.

CHEST might be:

Incline Barbell Press: 6 reps with 245lbs + 2 forced
Flat Bench Flyes: 6 reps with 85 pounders DROP to 6 reps with 60 pounders
Dips: 6 reps with + 50lbs DROP to 12 reps with bodyweight

I see, so the drop set should be incorporated at the end of your routine. right?

 

[musketeer]

The one drop set is the ENTIRE biceps workout if possible.

OR

Sometimes I do a tripple drop for incline dumell press and do that first.

100 pounders, 85's, 65's, 45's total reps may be as high as 30!

Then do Flyes:

85's x 8 reps to failure + 2 forced reps.

 

[swordfish151]

The one drop set is the ENTIRE biceps workout if possible.

OR

Sometimes I do a tripple drop for incline dumell press and do that first.

100 pounders, 85's, 65's, 45's total reps may be as high as 30!

Then do Flyes:

85's x 8 reps to failure + 2 forced reps.

Tired it last night with my bicept workout, did it at the end...man that shit was intense!!! thought my arm was going to bust!

 

[musketeer]

Tired it last night with my bicept workout, did it at the end...man that shit was intense!!! thought my arm was going to bust!

Rock and roll

ALSO:

dont do this for squats!

works really well with laterals and cables too.

(and have a good spotter for anything seated overhead)

 

[swordfish151]

Rock and roll

ALSO:

dont do this for squats!

works really well with laterals and cables too.

(and have a good spotter for anything seated overhead)

yeah i probably wont be able to walk if i did it for squats!! I did it at the end of my tricep workout too...overhead press with the dumbells...crazy shit!!

 

[go2failure]

Thanks for the inputs...

2 workouts into a 3-day per week HIT program. I may end up making it 2 times per week to compensate for recovery.


HIT is very hard. My first session I almost yacked into a trashcan after squats, which would've been the first time ever. Today, I up the weights and went balls to the wall and just got dizzy. I guess my body just wasnt used to the huge shock the first workout gave me ...

 

[Tweakle]

you dont need to go to failure to grow

as a natural beyond failure training will overtrain you, and on a low carb diet you'll be tanking badly in the gym

low volume high intensity is great but you have limits and intensity of effort does not = results. Adding more weight to the bar is what gets you bigger, not puking into a trashcan.

 

[go2failure]

you dont need to go to failure to grow

as a natural beyond failure training will overtrain you, and on a low carb diet you'll be tanking badly in the gym

low volume high intensity is great but you have limits and intensity of effort does not = results. Adding more weight to the bar is what gets you bigger, not puking into a trashcan.

Yep, it would've been the first time puking over a workout ever.

I'm currently 230 at 12% bodyfat. I've done my fare share of high volume programs with respectable results. However, I've always gotten dramatic results with HIT= One set to failure.

This new program I've started is a radical approach to HIT and I have to say that it is truly what I was hoping it would be.

G2F

 

[go2failure]

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