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HIT Training
Introducing The New Mike Mentzer High Intensity Training Book...
Mike Mentzer and Me: My Heavy Duty Journal of High Intensity Training The Logical Approach to Bodybuilding
If you want to make the best progress with High Intensity Training you can't just follow a routine you found online, you need to fully understand the theory and practice of it so you can make any necessary adjustments so that it will actually work for you.
I wrote this book to share with you everything I learned over the past 45 years, what works, what doesn't and how to tailor High Intensity Training for your own unique body, exercise tolerance and recovery ability.
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Is HIT Training Right For You?
High Intensity Training is a proven method for superior size and strength building than other methods. The HIT Training regime provides muscles with enough stimuli to ensure rapid growth. The core principles of HIT Training illustrate that strength training should be intense, brief and infrequent.
High Intensity Training requires you to workout till you are completely exhausted, that is the point where your muscle cannot budge an inch, let alone lift more weight. If you have done some strength training you will know how it feels after a long session of training when the body is exhausted and you feel that someone has sucked the energy out of you. This is when you stop training, pack your equipment and return home.
HIT Training is different, it focuses on the point that you need to exercise to a point where your muscles face momentary failure. Normally when we train, we leave training when we are tired as described in the preceding paragraph. But if you are going to follow HIT Training you should not stop at that moment, you should push your body to the limit and try a couple of more reps. Squeeze some more reps at this point and you reach the famous magic point or break over point. Now you will see real growth in your muscles.
To reach the break over or magic point you can use a number of techniques. You can do the following:
Slowly increase the number of reps you do every time you go to the gym
Give your workout sessions a time limit and spend no more than a minute between the exercises
Change up your workout every 6 to 8 weeks
If you follow High Intensity Training correctly, your body will be extremely tired and you will feel unmatched fatigue after workout, whereas in Low Intensity Training you may not feel much fatigue, especially if you have done the same exercise in the past.
So if you want to grow your muscles, you will constantly need to challenge yourself to achieve higher limits. But be careful when doing strength training according to HIT Training as you should exercise with proper technique to avoid serious injury to your muscles. Take help from a qualified trainer to ensure your safety and quicker results.