Your site continues to get better and better. What I truly enjoy are the articles by Dr. Ken and Matt Brzycki along with the other strength and conditioning coaches. It is good to see that sensible training is being used in athletics for sane results. HIT rules!
D. Farquhar
Your site is great - it is so comprehensive - it has answered many of my questions on natural body building - I love the honesty in the answers to the questions that asked - I have finally found a site that is real thankyou your site made my day - keep up the good work
Totally awesome!
German Fajardo
Gentlemen,
Great site! It's good to see intelligent, non-propoganda minded, iron desciples dedicated to educating the masses.
Stay Strong,
Ben Bethea
Minor League Strength & Conditioning Coordinator
San Diego Padres Baseball Club
Just read #008 of Rob's bottom line, and I loved it!
It's so accurate! I wonder if you could forward this onto him - he might sympathise.
I went into the gym the other day - I'm at Durham university in the UK, and it's a collegiate system, so it's rare that anyone is ever in there. We've just got a power-rack, now that they've put me in charge, and I was looking forward to a good session on the squats.
I go in, and there's no-one in. Perfect. So I dump my stuff, and get on the bike for a quick warm-up. As soon as I sit on it, some dweeb nerd comes in and wanders over to the power-rack. What's this, I think. No worries, he won't know how to use it. How right I am. He sets the hooks at shoulder height for squats. Then he tries to lift the 135 which is resting on the pins at bench press level, but of course can't. Watching him try was the funniest thing ever! So I get off the bike and quickly clean it for him and rest it on the hooks and return to my warm up.
He eventually gets set under the bar, and does 8 QUARTER (no exaggeration) reps and re-racks. There was no effort, so I just assumed he was warming up. About 5 minutes of walking around, shaking his legs, reading the posters on the walls, he decides to go for set 2. The same weight. The same depth. The same reps. I'm now beginning to get weary.
But this goes on for another 6 SETS! NO intensity, NO depth, and NO weight. I didn't want to work in as I'd rather he just finished and left. So eventually after 8 sets he sets the bar down on the hooks for the last time. And then what happens? He only goes and gets the bench underneath it for some pressing! At this point I walked out, only to return 30 minutes later just as he's finishing his last set of no intensity benches at about 80 pounds. That really fuelled my workout!
Don't get me wrong, I've got no problem with people who don't lift as
much as me at all - all that matters to me is intensity. I don't even
mind waiting for a piece of equipment, as long as it's not for too long. But I was ready to strangle this loser!
Anyway, great column, thanks for the read, I really enjoyed it.
Keep lifting,
Ollie
Hi there,
The site kicks ass and I like the new "quick polls"!
Tony S.
The article on making progress is one of the best I have read. It was absolutely outstanding. I have been a avid reader of this site for a few years and I am constantly amazed at the great info that comes across here. Herk's articles are a constant pleasure and I always look forward to them.
Keep up the great work.
Respectfully,
Mick Buckley
Hello!
This is a greatest site I've seen by far!
Regards from Singapore
Roland
Your site is such a wealth of information that I figure it will take me another year to finish reading all the past articles. Then I'll have to go back and read all the new stuff! I've honestly stopped searching the web for quality strength training sites. When I want to look somthin up, I'll go to CyberPump!..if I wanna post somthing, I'll jump over to bobs naturalstrength site. Other than that, the other countless hundreds of other sites I spent months searching through are of no comparison. (most of which may also contain "misguided" information). I'm quite glad I found this site near the beginning of my training. Actually, I'm more than just glad..
- Tom Kennedy
H.I.T.S.
What an excellent edition of Strong Women by Cheryl.
I am nothing but impressed. OK, I was impressed before, but more so now.
It was a darn good thing she addressed the issue of repetitive questions. That was varied, concise, in depth and very entertaining. If I were to recommend an edition to take a read at, this would be it.
Good job once again Cyberpump...and Cheryl of course.
Krista Schaus
Ontario Canada
I just read "Train Hard! - "Are You Hearing the Right Tone?" by The Editor and I am ecstatic! Thank God someone agrees with me! I'm 38, lifted like a punk in my youth, and now am desperately trying to get back to my former strength levels. I've had rotator cuff problems, neck and low-back injuries, tendentious in my elbow and 2 knee operations over the years. My chiropractor loves me! I log onto the Hardgainer Round Table and can't believe the ignorance (except for Fred Fornicola? one of the only sane, logical and practical of the RT). It's almost as if they all never read or assimilated a damn word Stuart said. We can all learn from his mistakes. I wish I had a mentor like him in my punk days. Thanks for letting me get this off my chest. Had I tried to express myself this way over at HGRT, I'd have been expelled before you could say "abbreviated"!
Mark Collins
Hi, I have been on the HIT program for five years now and I see that it is hard to get people to try it. One of my friends doesn't like it because it hurts to much. Anyway, I love it and see myself doing it for the rest of my life!
Thanks!!
To all Cyberpump Authors,
I'm a scrawny, 39 y/o male who has never has any muscle to speak of, a small frame with 6.6" wrists at 5'11".
While I understand my strength gains will be modest compared to many I am very happy with my start so far using the info from Cyberpump. I've already moved from doing chins and dips on an assisted machine (BW - 60lbs) to doing full BW chins and dips on the regular bars. I feel like a kid who just took off the training wheels of their first two wheeler. I just added 20 rep squats to my routine last month and I'm expecting even better strength gains in the future. I figure if I continue totrain progressively, and safely, and just try to get stronger that everything else will take care of itself (size, shape, etc...).
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction,
Ron
Dear Sir,
You have a fantastic web site. I go thru it before my workout to get fired up. I am always able to find something of interest. Thank you for all the help. I would suggest a section for those of us finacially challenged. I have slowly built up a great home gym. I cannot afford supplements. I take a multivitamin and try to eat right. There are probably quite a few people out there like myself. Any information about sales of equipment, special food items, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Like right now I am looking for an example of a good homemade protein shake. I have found a couple but besides that not much luck. Just a thought to make a great site even better. Thank you for your time and keep up the good work.
Training Hard,
Scott Newkirk
I enjoy all of the Steel Spiels. However, I thought the one with Krista Schaus is one of the best you have recently featured. And I always enjoy a womans perspective in the weight game, especially in the powerlifting or olympiclifting arena. Excellent. I am a retired police officer and I always like to hear about cops doing well in sports.
Mick
I've never emailed you before (and may never again), but this cynical old engineer has gotten a kick out of reading Herk's Log. Please thank him for me for taking the time to write it. He's a class act.
Jon Speer
I was disappointed to he that herk wouldn't be post for a few months but good luck to him on his course and of course I enjoy his log immensely keep it up fellas.
Wayne
Hell yeah!!! This site kicks some serious ass. I started HIT in 1984 thanks to a nautilus book although I use/prefer dumbells. I figured out supper slow on my own due to a martial arts back ground, and then picking the brains of guys I saw doing the same thing.
It's really disgusting that "conventional" training wisdom still doesn't get it. Their are a few other good sites(I link through your's... its bookmarked) but 95% of the stuff on the web is garbage. Most have caught on to not training over 1 hour, but they still want you to train on back to back days! I'm a VERY hard gainer & I've lost 50lbs due to a bad car wreck. It's going back on at the rate of 5/ month, if I followed the advice of the other sites it would never go back on! What the hell, if it wasn't for HIT I wouldn't have been 220lbs 7% at 38years to start with.
I haven't read your other letters yet... but I bet you get a lot like this. I just went through all the training/body building/weight lifting sites and of the 5% that aren't BS you guys are by far the best. Please keep up the greate work, I was overjoyed to find such a huge collection of people that know what they are talking about.
Peace:
Rev.E.A.Boettcher
Hello. Thank you for this great site I have been reading you all for a year or so now and love it all. My life is different because of the great information I get from this page and your links. This John Pearson story was cool I like it. Your friend David
Dear Editor,
I'm an American living in Japan, and since discovering Cyberpump around 6 months ago, I have been taking what amounts to a correspondence course in weightlifting through your web site. As far as content goes, I can't believe that Herk is taking time off. This guy is one of the greatest motivators I've ever read, and please listen to this irate reader when I tell you that if Herk needs "more time," make the log worth his while and, PAY HIM! Herk's Log is one of the highpoints of the site. I also have to compliment David Maurice on his well written articles on Chins and then Rows recently. Educated and easy to follow, these are extremely helpful for people like me who don't have any live bodies showing them the ropes. Thanks for a great site. This expatriate is logging in every day.
Brian
Tokyo, Japan
Dear Cyberpump-people:
Stumbled upon this site about two months ago. Used that time to study and compare your training methods with those found in Muscle and Fitness and other magazines I used to read for about ten years. Found what I learned here quite appealing and sensible, so deviced a programme, which has turned into a completely HIT-oriented scheme. Never thougt that exercising so briefly could turn one so sore. After ten years of going nowhere I gained 4 kilogrammes (about nine pounds) of mass (two-thirds of it muscle) in about three weeks time! Strenght is also going up in an astonishing rate. Thanks for that. Pity though, that I did not found out about HIT ten years ago.
I'll keep you informed about my gains in strenght for you to advertise the HIT-methods.
Robert Boetje; the Netherlands
Dear editor,
Congratulations on an exceptional website!
Thank you and keep up the good work,
Sincerely,
Aaron Stackhouse
Hello,
I read Cyberpump just about every day and really enjoy the down-to-earth style of the writers. One writer in particular, Dan Hutchinson, is one I really can relate to.
I really enjoy the site. Keep up the excellent work!!!
PB
Just a quick note of thanks...I couldn't be lifting again now without the information found on this site..and we all know how much lifting can mean to someone. Nuff said. Keep up the great work.
Sincerely,
Keith Reardon
I would like to thank all the contributors to cyberpump for creating and continuing to create a great bodybuilding site. I have learned a great deal by visiting. Everyone's column is written to thoroughly explain their training advice and gives the ever so important "WHY" they feel you should train this way.
Thanks again.
Dear Editor,
I have to thank you for your website. I stumbled into it about a little over a year ago. When I was trying to start back into weightlifting. About a year before I was lifting at a gym like the magazines told you and I over trained so bad that I had to stop. I knew I was killing myself. As I took sometime off, I decided to start up again and so I decided to search the web for any interesting information. And then I came to yours. Your website just blew my mind away. A whole other perspective of lifting. I threw out my magazines and just used your style. I also join the HIT list, and read the posts on almost a weekly basis. I read other websites, but no one comes close to the information that you have in your site. I have printed a large quantity of material from you sight that I use. Currently I have been using it now for about 2 months. This time no excuse not to continue (since I bought my self all the equipment I need). I even convinced two of my friends to try my program. One was lifting the "conventional" magazine way for about a year straight. He told me he found it more difficult my program than his old multi-set exercises. Also he said he gain more and faster with this style too. I just wanted to let you know about and thank you very much for opening my eyes to the truth.
Luis Galli
HITer for life
Have to say that Cyberpump is great. Loads of stuff to keep the "normal trainee" inspired with a wealth of knowledge for a very long time.
Keep it up.
Paul.
Greetings:
Thank you for a very informative and helpful web-site. Your approach is new to me. I have just tried it for a few workouts. However, I think it will be a very good system.
I do appreciate the gift of your web-site to folks like me.
Sincerely yours,
Bob Spradling