Experimenting with HIT training · Educated Meatheads

Experimenting with HIT training

Today, I started high intensity training, popularized by Mike mentzer. The method is to do 1 set only for each body part, but to push it all the way to failure. True failure too, not the "failure" where it starts to hurt.

The rationale is that it's better to do one set where you go all the way to failure and maximize the recruitment of muscle fibers, rather than leaving reps in the tank and leaving parts of the muscle unstimulated. When you leave reps in the tank, you leave gains on the table, according to the henneman size principle. It's all about maximizing quality over quantity.

It's a very hard way of training, you really have to push yourself, but I'm sure that it will work really well. It makes sense logically, and I've already found lower volume with higher intensity to be better for growth (and time efficiency), this is me taking that to it's logical conclusion.

I'll update people on how the experience is as time goes on.

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