HIT (High Intensity Training) – Will This Help You Build Muscle Faster?
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Mike Mentzer developed and practiced the most popular form of H.I.T. training to date. Dorian Yates used it to win six olympia titles throughout the 90’s. Two of the most densely muscular, and strongest bodybuilders of all time achieved their success through this often overlooked training system.
The fundamental principles of High Intensity Training (H.I.T.) are that exercise sessions should be brief, infrequent and intense. Exercises performed with a high level of effort or intensity are thought to stimulate the body to increase in muscularity and size. There is a great emphasis on rest and recovery more so than in any other training method out there.
In the weight room, a high level of intensity for example is performing an exercise to the point of muscular failure. After reaching muscular failure you increase the intensity even further by performing three to five post fatigue repetitions. Increasing weight, decreasing reps, and increasing the number of body parts trained in one session are all a big part of what High Intensity Training (H.I.T.) is all about.
A period of 48 to 72 hours is necessary for muscle tissue to properly recover from high intensity strength training. So train only two to three times a week when using H.I.T.. Performing any more than three sessions a week can become counter productive due to catabolic results.
There are a large number of skeptics who dispute the methods and the results claimed by advocates of High Intensity Training. Mike Mentzers H.I.T. design was thought to be so brief and intense that it could only be used and applied to professional bodybuilding at its highest levels, but practical application has proven this false.
With hundreds of “everyday” practitioners getting better results than they had ever before using traditional methods of training, many believe that the High Intensity Training methods lead to chronic injury, fatigue, loss of appetite, increased muscle and joint pain, insomnia, and the list seems to go on. Dorian Yates himself was plagued by near career ending injuries throughout his reign as Mr.O.
Since H.I.T. is a proven system of training for building muscle, easy to implement, and time saving, why is it that people find it difficult to break from traditional training methods and mindsets that preach massive amounts of workout volume and backbreaking work over the H.I.T. mentality which is short, sharp sessions with only a handful of sets and exercises?
There are several factors, not in the least, being misinformation and training attitude. So, for most of us training , with average genetics, and no performance enhancing drugs, it would be a worthwhile test to try a training cycle where you train less often and more intensely.
It’s quite possible that trying a totally different style of training may stimulate brand new results and muscle gains that can help to break you out of your plateau.
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Source by Maureen Kurman