HIT Training for Mass?

[Abnigh9]

I think HIT Training is conventionally for cutting but I think I'd like to use it for mass. I just found an info on this, http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/hitworkout.htm . Good?

Btw, my goal is to gain 5-10lb. every month steadily. I'm currently 102lb. and 5'2.
I'm 18.

Yah I'm small but oh well.

Is going to failure good?

Btw, I'm not an extreme newb, I trained for two years. For strength. I just wanted to change up. So this goal is to bulk up.

 

[victor von doom]

that workout sucks. it's glorified circuit training.

read the BULKING GUIDE - it's much more efficient for what you want.

If you weigh 102 lbs. after training for 2 years. You are definitely doing something wrong. I'd say you are not training consistently, have a crappy workout program, without enough intensity, and most probably not eating anywhere near enough to promote muscle growth. Sorry.

 

[Templeton]

I think you are a little confused with the terminology here. So-called, High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is often used to drop bodyfat and involves some form of, what would usually be aerobic work, e.g. running, biking etc done in a high intensity fashion, i.e. incorporating sprints at intervals. The exercise therefore becomes somewhat anaerobic.

High Intensity Training (HIT) usually refers to the kind of resistance training popularised by Mike Mentzer in the late 70s and Arthur Jones and Casey Viator before that. HIT enthusiasts advocate very low sets per exercise and per bodypart, perhaps 3 exercises with one hard set of each for a certain muscle group. Naturally, one must work up to this one all out set which can lead to (justified IMHO) criticism of the HIT approach - surely the sets working up to the one all out set could be construed as part of a more multi set approach?

Anyway, I won't delve too deeply into the merits or otherwise of HIT except to say that it IS performed with muscle building in mind and is usually effective for a short period of time - perhaps as a way of busting through a plateau.

HIT - if performed as it should be - relies on going to failure on the all out working set, that is the nature of the method. Positive failure and often negative failure too.

There is nothing wrong with the routine you linked. Certainly for a beginner, and I would suggest an intermediate trainer too. A beginner could literally perform one set of each exercise as outlined. A good way to learn the exercises and become familiar with weight training generally. A slightly more advanced trainer should perform at least one warm up set (same reps will do) on most of those exercises. Certainly the squats, leg curls, shoulder presses, rows, bench presses tricep extensions and dips at least.

Unless you eat however, you won't grow no matter what routine you do. Sounds obvious but so many guys are lazy with their food intake. A naturally skinny guy needs to eat several times a day, each and every day. Not just a day here and there. Easier said than done.

 

[Abnigh9]

Monday Legs
Squats (3 sets)
Leg press (3 sets)
Leg extension (2 sets)
Leg curl (3 sets)
Stiff leg deadlift (2 sets)
Standing calf raise (3 sets)

Wednesday Back/biceps
Deadlift (3 sets)
Pullups (3 sets)
Barbell row (3 sets)
Shrugs (3 sets)
Barbell curl (3 sets)
Hammer curl (2 sets)

Friday Chest/shoulders/triceps
Bench press (3 sets)
Incline dumbell press (3 sets)
Dips (2 sets)
Military press (3 sets)
Side laterals (2sets)
Rear laterals (2 sets)
Lying tricep extension/skullcrusher (3 sets)
Close grip bench press (3 sets)

 

[madgame]

"I have been training for strength now I wanna bulk up"

Strength and mass come hand in hand. If those were 2 completely different thing having muscles wouldnt have to do anything with being strong but just with looking good and you could see a really skinny guy lift something really heavy and a big bodybuilder type of guy fail at lifting it. If it was possible to gain (a lot of ) strength without (a lot of) muscle mass powerlifters could be skinny guys (but still have strength).

besides trianign to failure is definetly the way to go (search for it theres some other posts around). You need to train to failure and always try to get one rep more and soon as u get like 2 reps more you put more weight on the bars. If u steadily increase your strength your muscles will have to grow too.

 

[Abnigh9]

Originally posted by madgame
"I have been training for strength now I wanna bulk up"

Strength and mass come hand in hand. If those were 2 completely different thing having muscles wouldnt have to do anything with being strong but just with looking good and you could see a really skinny guy lift something really heavy and a big bodybuilder type of guy fail at lifting it. If it was possible to gain (a lot of ) strength without (a lot of) muscle mass powerlifters could be skinny guys (but still have strength).

besides trianign to failure is definetly the way to go (search for it theres some other posts around). You need to train to failure and always try to get one rep more and soon as u get like 2 reps more you put more weight on the bars. If u steadily increase your strength your muscles will have to grow too.

... Misconception.

Size does not matter (heh, I mean in muscles.)
All your strength depend on your CNS.

If what you said were true, Arnold Schwarzgnegger is good to fight in ring.

I just realized, going to failure is bad. You can lose your muscle that way.

 

[semag]

I just realized, going to failure is bad. You can lose your muscle that way.

??????

That's a new one.

 

[Abnigh9]

Originally posted by semag
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That's a new one.

That's where I read off of forum.bodybuilding.com .

Don't ask me which thread, I forgot. I get almost everything off of that site. Even the workout routine you saw above.

 

[madgame]

... Misconception.

Size does not matter (heh, I mean in muscles.)
All your strength depend on your CNS.

If what you said were true, Arnold Schwarzgnegger is good to fight in ring.

I dont see your point. Fighting (in the ring) is a completely different thing, cause in the ring its definetly not all about strength. Its about technique, speed, power, experience. So if somebody is big/muscular/has strength he will be able to hit harder than somebody whos skinnier/weaker than him, but might still lose if he goes up against a fighter whos faster and has the better technique.

If you just measured the power of a punch I think Arnold Schwarzenegger would be able to punch pretty hard, though the muscles he carries probably slow him down..still hed be able to deliver a hard punch.

Look at Tyson or other heavyweight boxers. They do completely regular weightlifting, theyre big and you bet your ass they can fight in a ring lol.

Training to failure is the thing to do, but if you train to complete failure as in "overtraining to injury" as somebody called it (search for it on this forum there was a discussion going on) you might just overtrain and thus not get good results/maybe even lose muscle/strength. (Almost) all bodybuilders/powerlifters work out like that.

Seriously, do you think you can become as strong as Ronnie Coleman or..lets say some really big football player and lift the same weights as them without packing on muscle mass?

Ask somebody on bodybuilding.com (or which other site u go to) if its possible to gain strength during an extended period of time without packing on muscle mass and theyll tell u its impossible.