The Weightlifters Thread

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milohimself said:
I thought I was gonna screw up my form, but my back feels fine today. Touched the ground an ayythang.

And stop skipping on leg workouts! (pot calling the kettle black, I know)
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I don't have any excuses. I tore my meniscus 3 years ago. I need to let the fear go. I haven't squatted heavy since. Luckily for me, legs are a strong point so I haven't gotten out of balance.
 
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so as of right now are you only doing HIT? i started it last week. right now its beating me down. pretty sore for several days after each workout.
 
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Vol Mania 21 said:
so as of right now are you only doing HIT? i started it last week. right now its beating me down. pretty sore for several days after each workout.
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Yeah. It's cool. I've kept meticulous records, and after 4 weeks I've improved weekly on every lift.
 
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Vol Mania 21 said:
cld u give an example of one of your HIT days? i'd like to know if i'm doing it correctly
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Yesterday I did shoulders and arms:

lateral raise machine 110 x 6
rear db delt raise 15 x 10
barbell curls 90 x 8
tri press down cable 90 x 9
tri dip machine 130 x 8

I do each rep holding for 4 seconds in the static position, and then doing about 3 seconds on the negative motion. It takes me about 20-25 minutes.
 
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Vol Mania 21 said:
ok, that was basically my workout on monday. however i know some people go to failure
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Oh yeah. I go to failure every time with HIT. Those were the numbers of reps it took me to get to failure. I even go to failure on the front end of super-sets.

My spin on it: if I can't get to 8 reps I drop the weight until I can.
 
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nbakerld said:
Oh yeah. I go to failure every time with HIT. Those were the numbers of reps it took me to get to failure. I even go to failure on the front end of super-sets.

My spin on it: if I can't get to 8 reps I drop the weight until I can.
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What are you supposed to do?
 
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Full-Body Workout A for Hypertrophy


Movement Exercise 1 2 3 4

Explosive Power clean /5 /5 /5 /5

Knee Dominant Front Squat /10 /10 /10 /10

Hip Dominant Good morning /10 /10 /10 /10

Horizontal Push Bench Press /10 /10 /10 /10

Horizontal Pull Bent-Over Row /10 /10 /10 /10

Vertical Push Shoulder Press /10 /10 /10 /10

Vertical Pull Chin ups/ Pull ups /10 /10 /10 /10

Rotational Seated Russian Twist /10 /10 /10 /10

Bridging Four-point Plank 30-45 SEC X's 4
 
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chavisut said:
The part that is in bold.
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Do you mean "what ELSE are you supposed to do?"

Going to failure is not always necessary, nor is it always productive. In the HIT program I feel like it's necessary to go to failure every time.
 
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Had a great chest workout last night. Tinkering around with FST-7. Really regaining strength again and starting to move a lot of weight. Ran this morning and I'm lifting again after work. Starting to shake the rust off again. Oh, and Milo I'm going to hit legs Saturday morning. No more slacking.
 
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nbakerld said:
Do you mean "what ELSE are you supposed to do?"

Going to failure is not always necessary, nor is it always productive. In the HIT program I feel like it's necessary to go to failure every time.
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You said you even go to failure on the front end of the super set, implying that isn't the norm. That's how I took it at least.

So my question was, what are you supposed to do on the front end of the SS?
 
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chavisut said:
You said you even go to failure on the front end of the super set, implying that isn't the norm. That's how I took it at least.

So my question was, what are you supposed to do on the front end of the SS?
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It depends on your routine. In HIT, I don't remember him saying necessarily that you have to go to failure every time. In HIT the goal is to improve on your lifts every week. So when I do a pec-deck/incline press superset, I am tempted to quit the front end after I passed last week's benchmark because I don't want to exhaust myself so much it's impossible to pass my benchmark for the incline portion. That's why I worded it as if this were going above and beyond the norm.
 
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nbakerld said:
It depends on your routine. In HIT, I don't remember him saying necessarily that you have to go to failure every time. In HIT the goal is to improve on your lifts every week. So when I do a pec-deck/incline press superset, I am tempted to quit the front end after I passed last week's benchmark because I don't want to exhaust myself so much it's impossible to pass my benchmark for the incline portion. That's why I worded it as if this were going above and beyond the norm.
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My understanding is that that every work set is to failure with HIT. That's why I ask, wasn't sure.
 
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Anyone watch Scott Herman's videos? I do some of the workouts he post he has some unique stuff.
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chavisut said:
My understanding is that that every work set is to failure with HIT. That's why I ask, wasn't sure.
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I can't remember Mentzer explicitly saying that, but that's how I do it. I even add drop reps after failure often because in such a short workout I want to ensure I truly exhaust the muscle.
 
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Once when I was 17 or 18, I had a killer leg workout at the health club then ran 2 miles in 12ish minutes. Was walking downstairs to leave and tumbled about 8 steps from the bottom in front of the whole lobby. That was embarrassing.
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