i'm not sure what you understood from my post - i don't think i made my point too clearly so here goes.
the point i was trying to make was that you could beat the crap out of your muscles every time you go into the gym - whether it's supersets, drop sets, to failure, slow negatives, whatever. so you go in with only a plan to do x sets per body part. so week 1 you may bench 200x10 as your max set and do some assortment of other exercises. you come in on monday, week 2 and say you're feeling good so you manage 220x8. now week 3, you don't feel too good and you can only manage a max set of 180x10. and it continues like this for all exercises and each week. basically i'm highlighting a method where there's no plan for progression over time, just a plan to beat the crap out of the muscles each time you work out. that's what 99% of bodybuilding wannabes will be doing. then there's an option like MM's HIT, which correct me if i'm wrong, does not focus much (if at all) on actually getting strong enough - not in a neural range of 1-3 reps, nor in a hypertrophy range of 8-12 reps and not even in the intermediate range (strength + hypertrophy) of 5-8. but using both these methods, you could eat like crazy and become bigger.
Have you read his book? Also when did this rep range become what defines strength and hypertrophy of a muscle?
Also I'm not saying you can't grow any other way, Look at me for example.. I never trained HIT until 9months ago and I built an O.K. base to work with.. I'm saying using a progressive overload High-Intensity program with adequate rest could possibly get you to point A faster than say another program that wasn't of such Intensity.
what i'm asking is whether throwing progression in a given rep range out of the window a good idea? i don't think so, whether you're a bodybuilder or not. yes biggt trains primarily for strength... but that's not the point. what he's done is to choose his focus rep range which happens to be for strength. so he gets stronger in that range while doing enough of higher rep stuff for hypertrophy, because hypertrophy will also improve his strength. he could just as easily choose to do it the other way around with a greater focus on improving lifts in the higher rep ranges and do enough to stay strong in the lower rep ranges too.
I think one must find what works for them bro, every human being is different and born with a different amount of muscle fibers so they will respond differently to different training techniques.. I'm merely giving people a idea of how "I" train, not asking or telling them to train this way. I'd love to see you take the time to post your routine and explain it thouroughly because I like to see different ways of doing things that I've yet to try.
Btw, If you follow John Little's work he is all about using Max Contraction training in which you actually do ONE all out high intensity REP. This is for muscle growth not just strength, how do you explain this from what you've just posted?
if a change is what you want and you don't want to get on a 5x5, why not try the shadows old school method. or maybe even the WSB for bodybuilders.
Because I've found something that works for me, why not try this method and see how it works for you before you dismiss it.
Btw, Last year at this time I was appox 195 with 12% BF give or take. Currently I'm sitting at 221 in the AM at 8-10% BF. I have pictures and logs to prove this.. so tell me, what other program do you think would give a bodybuilder such results as this? None that I'm willing to try until this method stops working for me. Over 20lbs of LBM within 12-14months has more than convinced me of this.
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