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What is High Intensity Training
The start of the popularity of high intensity training was in the early 1970's when Arthur Jones launched the very first piece of Nautilus equipment. A company that later exploded in value as the fitness boom started a decade later. The basic foundation of this high intensity training is maximum effort for short periods.
Arthur Jones explained that if you train hard for less than an hour you will gain more muscle than if you trained with less intensity for a longer period. This was the precursor to HIT (high intensity training) that 50 years later was proven to be the most effective way of gaining muscle.
From a bodybuilding point of view it was a new type of training popularized by Mike Mentzer using his HIT training methods, similar to what Vince Geronda was doing before Mike. Again the amount of rest and recuperation one gets between these intense workouts is vitally important as the bodies adaptation to progressive resistance will differ from one person to the next.
Although sports scientists tell us that training to the point of failure more than once a week is potentially damaging to the central nervous system, many bodybuilders train to failure in every workout. Training HIT 3 times a week that is fine but unless you are on steroids your body will reach over-training eventually even if the symptoms are not there your rate of strength growth will decrease.
The bottom line is the inverse relationship of intensity and volume and that in order to avoid injury or overtraining your body needs a shorter time of all-out effort with less volume the harder you train. There are obviously countless ways that one can alternate different exercises.
Usually high intensity training involves one to three movements mixed together in a superset or one after the other. The division into sets of three or four shows the best results where the intensity of pushing to the limit for 120 seconds for each set is the most effective way to gain muscle.
High intensity training is just another way of training in order to gain muscle. All muscle gain is a result of a progressive overload on one or all muscle groups and it is our body's genetic ability to adapt to our environment that is the foundation of progressive resistance.
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