Recent content by Billy Robinson

I've found your recommendations and input enlightening. I'm thinking that SJ exercises seem hardest on older joints (especially the dreaded laterals). I approve of your heavy emphasis on the back and shoulders which is what gives a man his shape. :thumbsup:

Interesting, you're right it is a very unnatural movement. I think I'll drop laterals. They seem to stress my left elbow tendon. The evolutionary approach is interesting. I guess we only need to think of what we need for climbing (I've seen those gorillas at the zoo doing one seriously scary...

One thing I like about HST's 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 100% cycle is the contrast between the great pumps I get doing smooth strict reps and the eye bulging joint straining I get when going heavy.

I didn't find the abstract very clear but you won't get much argument from me here. I definitely favour MJ exercises. I have two Single Joint exercises in my routine excluding trunk. Dorian Yates said bodybuilders have way better lateral deltoid development than other iron athletes. So I choose...

What sets and frequency are you using on your HIT protocols.

People do HST differently, it's a set of principles. But after the strategic deconditioning ("softening up" layoff) I increase my sets, 2 x 15 in the first two weeks up to 4 x 8 towards the end of the cycle. I build up my fitness, it's wave / cyclic type of training. This is the best workout...

The gym was quite busy tonight and we were annoying people with sitting on various machines and benches for what looked like 5 sets each without budging. And the stop watch clicking had started getting tedious. I feel the Belgian study was flawed because the stunning results, I recall, were for...

Tsatsouline and Dan Johns like 3 clusters (2-3-5-10-2-3-5-10-2-3-5-10) for drug-free athletes seeking hypertrophy. It's certainly similar training to the 3/7 method and interesting to me to see the strategies padded out a bit.

I suppose we could say we're doing two intensified sets: the 3-4-5-6-7 ladder twice with the long 150 sec between. The system is old. Old-time strongman Hermann Görner used variants of it. From what I can gather the sources are Belgium, Germany, Russia. There's a couple of kindle books about...

Hi there. Yeah, I think all sets over 50%RM count to a degree. My own way of dealing with age, I'm 55, and "natural", is to use Bryan Haycock's HST as my base: old school three times a week full body routines with moderate total sets (two week cycles going from 75% to 100% loads) and regular one...

It's many years since I attempted serious bodybuilding using HIT and never got close to earlier levels of hypertrophy. I used thrice weekly full body routines to failure and even now I rep slowly and carefully, probably 3 secs concentric and eccentric. In hindsight I would've tried Dorian...

Well explained. Yeah, I like 50 reps; I find it my sweet spot for volume. I don't grow using lower HIT rep schemes.

It's to be repeated once so 50 reps. I tried it this morning too. It is basically the same as the 'ladders' that Pavel Tsatsouline has been teaching for years, presumably originating from Russia. I liked it a lot especially how easily you rack up 25 reps.