THT 4.0 HIT Experiment Week #3

October 24, 2011

This week was a good week for sure. My first day on, I was cut short by other obligations and the rep notes reflect that. Day #1 Hack Squats (90 degree or lower) – 310lbs x 8 Smith machine bench press – 250lbs x 8 Pec deck (narrow grip) – 290lbs (no work, missed out [...]

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Lift Like A Girl!

October 19, 2011

A few weeks ago I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a month or so. She asked about my upcoming competition, and commented on how good she thought my arms were looking. She asked how to get her arms to look muscular. My reply, “Lifting weights and eating the right foods”, and then [...]

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Losing Weight is Easy.

October 13, 2011
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I know that some will disagree with me here but I firmly believe this to be the case. Losing weight and maintaining a healthy body is actually very simple. So, before a lynch mob comes for me, I’ll explain why and, more importantly, how you can lose weight safely, efficiently and easily in a few [...]

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Total Anabolism 4.0 HIT Experiment, Week #2 tally

October 12, 2011

There’s no need to beat around the bush here. Here are the raw numbers for my week that just was. Week #2, Day #1: Hack squats – 300lbs x 7 reps Smith machine bench press – 250lbs x 5 Narrow-grip pec deck – 290lbs x 5 Bent-over barbell rows – 120lbs x 6 Seated calf [...]

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Total Anabolism 4.0 HIT Experiment, Week #1

October 11, 2011
250lbs bench for reps

This will be a weekly-updated series of posts that go into some detail (for now) with my personal experiment with Mark McManus’s THT 4.0 / Total Anabolism training guide – specifically, the HIT portion of it. For those of us who are regular MuscleHackers, we’re quite familiar with a few core terms from Mark’s THT [...]

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Listen to yourself when you lift

October 11, 2011

Some time ago, I was faced with a REALLY bad back injury. No external trauma, but interally I was really messed up. It was actually more of a cascade of low physical fitness coupled with a pulled muscle… which devolved into multiple muscle sprains/pulls in a matter of days. I went through muscle spasms so [...]

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Healthy Eating: Cooking is Overrated.

September 27, 2011

Hopefully I got your attention with this headline. In this article I’m going to explain how to eat healthier. Most importantly, I’m going to show you that it’s easier than it sounds and that you barely even need a shred of cooking ability to do it. So, if you’ve recently embarked on a journey of [...]

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MANS Diet, Insulin and the Fat Phobia

September 22, 2011

Yes I know, horrible title but hopefully you will look beyond it and remember this article for it’s information and message. The MANS referred to in the title stands for ‘Musclehack Anabolic Nutritional Strategy‘ and is one out of two muscle building diets you can find on the MuscleHack page. The MANS diet is a [...]

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Be an ambassador for efficient weightlifting

September 21, 2011

This is a multi-meaning article. I try to live by this tenet each day, whether it’s in the gym or just hanging out with friends. An example was last night: two patrons at the gym were attempting bar squats on the Smith machine (the only way I do bar squats). However, their feet were too [...]

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Simplest Method To Get Bigger and Stronger

September 15, 2011
Squat

If  my plans are to get bigger and stronger then simply I would just keep on lifting heavier and heavier weights until I’m benching at least a 1000+ pounds!  Yeah? No. Sounds good in theory but we can’t “naturally” keep on lifting heavier weights indefinitely so the secret for progress is to increase workout intensity (only juice allowed here [...]

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