Just thought I'd let you know that since I discovered your cyberpump web site I love to lift! I am a 35 year old ex-college basketball player. I was a typical over-trainer who would only stick to a program for 3 to 4 months, then quit because of no progress or regression.
I stumbled upon cyperpump in June of '99 and hadn't lifted a weight for about 10 years. I started a log the first day I began and when I look back at it I can't believe the progress I have made in just 4 months.
I do 1 set to failure in 4 lifts once a week. As stated earlier, I am 35 years old. I am 6'5", 200 lb. with a wing span of 6' 8". I also have very long legs.
I could only do 3 dips with my bodyweight when I began in June, now I can do 9 full reps with 20 lbs. I could only do 7 chin ups, now I can do 6 reps with 20 lbs. My legs have progressed slowly (but surely) because I get impatient and increase the weight too fast, then I have to lower the weight because of using bad form. However, I will squat 300lb to parallel before I die (I've tried going hamstrings to calves, but with my daddy-long-legs it just won't work)!
Thanks for cutting through all the bullshit. Your site has made a tremendous difference in my life.
Jon N.
Minnesota
I have been lurking on your site for several months and it's about time I gave something back. Your site is not only fantastically designed but packed with training wisdom. Many years ago I was immersed in a bodybuilding lifestyle (which I felt I had to maintain to keep making progress but career, marriage and children were the main priorities (and still are) and so it got squeezed out of my life. In reality Training didn't have to stop, I was wrong, HIT was the way to go but I was ignorant of abbreviated basics and the possibility of once a week training actually building serious size and strength. I'm still I feel a long way from realizing my potential and the weights I lift won't scare anyone but I'm getting there brick by brick.
HIT is for real people with real jobs and responsibilities, I have learned more than I ever knew when BB dominated my life from you. Not just training but a way of life which focuses on health and strength and and the section 'Where Lifters Roam' contains really moving prose. Thank you.
Mann
Hi, I just read your HIT FAQ, and I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for writing it as it was an excellent source of information for me!
Thanks again!!
/vijay
I discovered your site about two months ago and I have been delving into it daily ever since. In 1963-64, I competed in power lifting meets in the northern Calif. area and held the Calif. record in the squat. At that time, I employed a high volume approach to training, working up to maximum or near maximum lifts three days a week, every week. I am sure that had I been aware of HIT, I would have lifted much more than I did. But it's never too late. At age 61, I am now enjoying and benefiting from HIT and from your terrific site. It is far and away the best I have seen. I appreciate being able to go into your archives to make up for lost time, and keeping abreast of the current material. Thank you for sharing so much great information. It is truly appreciated.
Tom DiMaggio
I was interested to hear about the article [ed note: The recent article in M&F]. Could you possibly direct me to the issue it was contained in? I'm in Australia, so possibly the issues won't coincide...maybe I'll go searching on the web site.
By the way, I got into HIT through my elder brother who told me about McRobert's BRAWN, and I saw numerous advertisements in none other than MUSCLE & FITNESS. I guess any publicity is good publicity, as you've said.
Once again, thank you for a great site.
Greg Henderson.
Cyberpump,
This message is from London, England. Your site has given me endless hours of reading pleasure and much inspiration. The HIT philosophy explained by your team is most intelligent and enchanting. It almost feels as if I'm growing (intellectually and physically) while I read. I am now a true convert to HIT. I shall now help spread the word.
Love your web site. Found out about from US News and World Report. Been giving it a try since mid-July and the progress is good. The Nutrition pieces by Lyle McDonald are great, I learned a lot.
Rich
I just discovered HIT this past September and believe me its made a difference. After lifting off and on for over 50years (mostly off) and suffering through aches,pains, torn muscles,sore back,the army,marriage, kids, grandkids, the whole nine yards, HIT came to the rescue. No more disabilities. Lifting is fun and more productive. I'm 69 yrs old, 5'11", 172 , and fit as a fiddle and showing more gains than ever in the past. Its too bad that I didn't discover HIT years ago. At first I didn't think HIT would work, it was so contrary to what the muscle comics were showing, how could it work? (old ideas die hard) I gave it a try and loving it. I'm pushing iron slowly and loving it. Thanks for HIT: Harold Adams
I enjoy your site and visit it more than any other resource for weight training.
Scott Stephenson
Hi,
I would just like to thank Cyberpump! for donating the time and services needed to bring such a vast library of sensible knowledge to the average lifter. The kind of lifter that works all day, has many obligations but daydreams about that brutal set of Trap-bar deads to come. I have spent years of my life training on the champs routines and consuming mass quantities of the latest ground breaking supplements before realizing the ways of the HIT force. Not only is it more productive but also a hell of a lot easier to pay the bills just buying normal food.
I would really like to give special thanks to P.J. Striet. I am 22 and find it very hard to connect with someone close to my age when it comes to lifting. I would also like to know if there is any way I could contribute to keeping this site running financially.
HITer 4 Life
Jeff Bracalenti
Wow! I want to thank for including The Classic Collection by Arthur Jones. I read both bulletins, every chapter. It's absolutely mind boggling what Arthur knew back in the 70s.
Thank-you for an excellent Website,
Justin Hasselman
Hi, my name is Christian and I' m from Sweden. I don't have much to say or suggest. Just wanted to make sure you guys understand what a HUGE favor you are doing us by providing this wonderful piece of information. Thank you so much!
You are simply THE BEST.
Christian
Dear sir,
Let me at the outset express my heartfelt thanks to you for the service that you render for your readers by constantly updating your site with information that helps to reinforce the habits that go a long way in keeping people like me on the road of the true and straight. It isn't easy nor too effective to turn a blind eye to the little information that is otherwise available in the narrow forums to people who are not on the net. such a person was me. I live in India, Bombay and have been a silent reader of your site since the last 18 months, every single morning at 5 am, local time. It isn't easy but it has become a habit that I will make no effort to break. It helps to keep in touch with my field ( I operate a small facility from my residence and earn my living as a trainer) as well as the views of my peers from all over the world.
Sincerely,
Jairaj Shetty
Dear Cyberpump,
A year ago I remember commenting to some of my friends at the gym "I just can't seem to get past this plateau." Everyone had their requisite advice, some of it (in retrospect) truly ridiculous like "You should be doing 8-10 sets for your arms." My workouts proceeded to get longer and longer eventually reaching 4-5 days a week for 2-3 hours. Yet I still was making hardly any gains. About two months ago I was searching the web for bodybuilding information and stumbled across your site. I was skeptical at first but I figured I had nothing to lose. I told my friends about HIT and it's philosophies. I demonstrated slow, controlled movements as I had read. They all dismissed the advice. The other day I was walking through the gym and a friend I hadn't seen in a while was there. I said hi but he didn't respond. "That's strange," I thought so I said "Hi" again. He looked at me and then I realized he hadn't recognized me. It was then I realized what HIT had done for me: My weight has increased from 185 to 200 lbs. I have increased at least 30% on all my poundages and my wardrobe is becoming sparse as much of my old clothes don't fit in the arms and chest anymore. I can remember just a few months ago struggling with 30 lb. dumbbell shoulder presses. Yesterday I did a set of super-slow shoulder presses with 50 lb. dumbbells.
I think I need to re-evaluate my goals and increase them.
Thanks,
Cliff Chase
Let me start off by telling you what a great page you have here. Not only is the design great, but the content is overwhelming. It's the best I've seen on the net.
-John
What a fantastic site you´ve got. The only thing I miss are some pictures. Maybe you could put in some pictures of some bodybuilders who have had success with HIT. I have a feeling that most of the guys in the musclemags are on steroids, so it would be nice if you could show some bodybuilders who did it without drugs. This would give a lot of people some more realistic targets to aim for.
Best regards
Mikkel Risum, Denmark
This is by far the most fascinating and wonderful web site I've ever seen. I'm on it so much that I'm actually wondering if I'm not on it too much! Your articles are fascinating. I must say that at first I was hesitant of forgetting everything my multiple sets trainers were telling me, but you have solid proof and medical evidence that HIT can work. Keep up the good work! Your site is great!!
Congratulations on a *fantastic* web site.