Readers Comments About Cyberpump!

I was training for several years, going to the gym 4-5 times a week (sometimes twice a day!) and eventually got jacked off with the whole thing. After a 2 year break I started training about 5 weeks ago using HIT and the results are amazing. Friends of mine at the gym are convinced that I'm on the juice (I'm not, and have no interest!) and I also suspect they think I have lost the plot only working out for 1/2hr 3x week. I have tried to explain the theory behind it (which in retrospect is pretty simple) but they don't get it.

The other comment I would make is that I've discovered that HIT is great if you tend to suffer from depression (which from time to time I have done - I suspect it is as much to do with the different attitude you have with HIT as anything else. It is also cheaper - the money I would have wasted on bb magazines now buys me a good multivitamin caps and protein powder :)

Thanks again,

Rob Mitchell
Melbourne, Australia

I've have to tell you this is by far the greatest bodybuilding/strength building site I have ever come across. Volumes of incredible information and tons of workouts - at first I was expecting to have to pay some crazy fee for the workout advice, or maybe be told to buy some supplements and you'd put me on a workout program. Instead, everything is clearly laid out in front of me where I can assemble my own program because I actually have gained an understanding as to what I"m doing and why. I have heard about HIT in the past but have never really looked into it. My bodyweight and strength level have been about the same for the last 3 years despite the fact that I've been on numerous supplement/nutrition programs as well as a huge array of different bodybuilding training programs. I am very excited to begin my HIT program and hope that I can reach my goals with more success than I have experienced in the past. Free advice. Wow, what a novice idea. Thanks, and I hope the site is around for as long as I'm lifting.

Ken Manning

Just found this place for the first time. One word comes to mind: WOW

Mikkel Risum

New to cyberpump.

Thank god someone else is promoting common sense.

If people only knew the damage they cause.

Also, wanted to introduce you to a brand new common sense training site for athletes.

The Quality Repetition (www.thequalityrepetition.com), Jamie LaBelle's new website!

Cyberpump,

I wrote in about two months ago and told you how happy I was to come across the site. Like I mentioned before, I was already in pretty good shape, but simply had hit a point where the increases in strength and size were diminishing. After reading practically everything on your site, I decided my workout routine really needed a change. I went from training four to five days a week, two hours per day, down to two days a week for an hour each day. I also stopped working most of the secondary muscles and am now concentrating on only the large muscle groups. I started doing deadlifts which I had never even considered before, and decreased the amount of my "in the gym" aerobic work. Long story short: the gains I have made in the past two months have "blown me away". My strength has very noticeably increased as has my size. Most importantly, I am not constantly fatigued from overtraining and those "nagging" aches and pains I seemed to regularly have are gone (I'm only 24 and shouldn't have "aches and pains" I believe). In summary I just want to thank you once again for the great information your site provides. The only negative aspect is the amount of time I spend at work reading your site--I may be out of a job soon if they ever do an internet audit on me! Keep up the good work!

Regards,
Paul

I would just like to say that I've just logged on to the net and discovered what I can only describe as your excellent web site.

Colin Gordon

Boy, you guys have got yourself one hell of a good site. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun navigating around a web page. The strength articles you guys make available are tremendous. I just finished reading the excerpt from "Dinosaur Training - Lost Secrets of Strength and Development", and now I'm all fired up to get serious about lifting again. I'm definately going to spread the word about this place. Thanks again for the great trip. Kudos to all.

Joe Dunn

Dear Editor,

After many years of lifting weights,I tried Your HIT beginner program this morning for the first time. I nearly puked. What a great feeling!!!

Excellent web site, Bruce A. Karas

Dear Editor,

I have been training the HIT method for the past 3 months (see previous "this is my life e-mail"), I believe in the HIT method wholeheartedly, however, I do feel that slight variations are required for individuals, not just for their difference in genetic, physical and financial state but the "inner self" which we all have.

The variation I am working on seems to work for me and perhaps some of your other ardent readers?

I work to failure on every exercise I do, with the final repetitions being in the order of 7 to 10 as a rule.

What I then do is rest, which you must do if you really have rep'd to failure and then I tried initially for a one rep maximum.

As you can imagine this was not my actual max but just what I could max after a failure set.

Having made note of this weight, I now continue, on every other workout for that body part, which is about two weeks, to place the same weight on the bar / machine/ whatever and see if I can now make that two reps, then three and so on.

I find this to be inspirational in that I can actually see as opposed to feel myself getting stronger. My target is to replace my usual weight for the failure set (which I increase in small increments) to the one that was my original max! just imagine how I will feel when I punch out eight reps with what used to be my max! At this point I will again go for a one-rep max after a failure set and start all over again.

By setting a 'target' weight through my own endeavors, as opposed to just trying to continuously increase poundage as I train, I find subconsciously that the failure set that precedes my max effort seems almost "easy" in comparison with what I know lies ahead.

Well it is just a method I am trying and so far it appears to be working … my 'max' on squat is now up to three reps, bench press two, standing behind neck press, three and so on….. As a point I use behind the neck press as I have found that this is a much more regimented lift than the standing military press, which as we all know really does lend itself to cheating, that's why it was dropped from the Olympics!

My best regards to you all at Cyberpump, you're doing a great job!

Jon Bard Harvey, LA

PS; It really is so hard to convince the guys at my gym that they are training in the wrong manner. But like you guys, in my own small way, I will keep trying.

Hello from Raleigh,

I have been training regularly for seven months. The first five months I gained a lot of strength which I attribute to being a beginner. The last two months I have been lifting once or twice a week and have gained so much more. I do the big three lifts (squat, deadlift, and bench press) along with some others. From the time I leave my apartment drive the two and a half miles run a half mile for warm up lift and return home I spend about an hour working out. My gym time is only about 40 minutes. I have to say that this web site has kept me in the lifting game. I was burning out after five months. I couldn't handle the four or five days a week for almost two hours at a time. I laugh when I see people doing concentration curls or ten sets of bench press and no squats. I wonder if their training log is as impressive as mine. Thanks for giving something without expecting anything in return. I love your sight and hope more stop by to learn the best way to lift. I cannot get my friends to train with me because they think that it is absurd to only do one set. Lucky for me I know it is not absurd.

Thanks again,

Mike

I just want to say that over the course of a year I have switched from volume training to HIT. I enjoy my training, have made progress and have reduced the joint pain that I used to experience with a non-controlled style. As a matter of fact, I am planning to use this style with my patient population.

Thanks
Tom Rolen

This is the best collection of fitness information i have ever seen! You should not only be proud that you are gaining from this information but also that everone who knows how to use this information is gaining as well. I mean more than muscles too, this site is honest and well rounded. I am glad that there is a well of correct information here for everyone to drink from! I am very thankful to have found this site so i can feel confident in my training and properly supported by decent information for a change. The HIT philosophy is just honest and natural, everyone should follow it! Train effectively and efficiently darn it ;-)

Hey,

I just wanted to compliment you on the quality of CyberPump. I check everyday for updates... I eat this stuff up! Like just about everybody else, I was training 3 times a week following routines that "Men's Health" threw my way. For a while it would work, then I'd plateau, if the programs even worked at all.

Since I've discovered HIT, I've reduced my lifting to twice a week, going with 1 set using as much weight as I can control for a 6 second rep. I have made noticable gains in my lower body strength and appearance in TWO SESSIONS. Two... my upper body strength is progressing well too.

Looking back at the way I used to train and seeing how all these people in the gym spend two hours at a time and look no bigger or more cut than they were 3 months ago, I can't understand how anyone could NOT apply HIT principles. I already feel stronger and today I will exceed the goal I set for myself 2 1/2 months ago for bench. This is after one week, as opposed to 2 months. I'm impressed. You've got a HITter for life.

Thanks for everything, the info here is priceless... I've told many of my friends to try this method.

Adam

I have just begun to read the information in your web sight. The information seams to supports a way of training that I have used for the last two years; warm up sufficiently and the two set of high intensity lifting. I lift with what I believe to be strict form and generally finish my work out in 40 minutes. I make sufficient strength gains with out over training.

The biographies in The Steel Spiel make me laugh each time I read about the strangest thing that they have seen in a gym. Watching people use their back so that they can do massive weights when doing bicep curls makes me laugh and cringe at the same time.

I do need to finish reading all the article but, I believe it is not premature when I say keep up the good work.

Sam

Dear Robert,

My name is Christopher Wu from Malaysia. You don't have to reply if you don't want to. I would just want to realte a small experience of mine. I made the mistake which a lot of people have done so far. Believing too much in those muscle mag crap. I did follow some of the training techniques in there and, I did grow, for a while, but then the style of training soon took its toll and I began overtraining, bad.

Then, about month and a half ago, I saw my friend, kind of a skinny guy, start to perform what you called 2 secs up and 4 secs down type of reps on the bench press. I scoffed at first but then, after some time, I saw the gains he was making and then he passed me your article on HIT. At first, when I read it, I didn't know whether to kick him or thank him because everything I read in there went against what I've read and believed in those highly publicized muscle mags.

But I decided to try it. I changed from volume training to HIT, paid better attention to my diet and got lots of rest. Well, it may not be much to you, but for example, after 2-3 arm training sessions in 2-3 weeks, my arms have grown 0.2 inches. And I am still making gains. I just want to say this, you have just found another firm believer in HIT.
THANK YOU !!!

Sincerely,
Chris

Dear Editor

What a fantastic web page. I discovered cyberpump about two weeks ago and I've visited it often. Reading articles written by Dr Ken or Arthur Jones, or Sean Toohey's article training with a living legend really get me fired up to train.

High Intensity is the only way to train, keep up the good work

Jeff.

Hello!

From the very day I came across your site a few weeks ago, and upon reading about the HIT concept, the ideas you promote have begun to strongly influence my attitude toward training with weights. I've been visiting the gym regularly for the past few months, and only very recently I started a planned split routine (a 2-part routine, training 3 x week). It provided a motivational boost in the beginning, but soon I fell into the 'overtraining trap' - the trainings were too time-consuming, and often I experienced insomnia. It seemed that I'll have to cut down my gym sessions and give up the ambition that initially drove me... until I found your pages!

Now it's a whole new game - I know that I MUST rest, and all of the evidence you present (after RATIONALLY REALIZING that "progresion + control + brevity + rest" have to result in an optimal muscle growth because they comply to the laws of NATURE ) convinced me to pursue discipline in my new routine! Moreover, let me point out that this confidence supplied me with a new entusiasm - the option of precisely monitoring one's progress is crucial for a beginner when deciding to stick to the training, and such a monitoning can be applied thoroughly only when training to complete failure!

That would be all - I would like to thank you for opening my eyes for me, and would appreciate if you could give me advice on the above mentioned problems. Train well and safe!

Sanjin from Rijeka, Croatia

I'm kinda new to the cyberpump website and HIT. I read your muscle mag follies though and I'll say one thing. Boy! You guys are cruel but it's true. They've ruined many aspiring trainees with their crap! Keep up the good work!

I've been reading cyberpump since about feb and have really hit hard until the last month. It was hard to break old habits and I have seen results. Anyhow, I do security in a large club in XX City. I am still new there to. Come to find out that every other guy I worked with on the security staff does steroids. I had talked to them a long time on it. And they had my interest. Thankfully I snapped out of it while going over Lyle's section and the Hit FAQ one day. Told them all I would stick to what I knew and knew was safe. Well needless to say your site greatly infulenced me to not do it. The thought of the gains was tempting but I am happier and can sleep easier knowing this. Also I have printed a ton of material from the site to give to several of them who do not have access to the net. And needless to say. They are amazed at all the information stored here. I'm working on them and two want to give it a try. They used to tell me I would hurt myself. =) Well it looks as if with the help of the team at Cyberpump I may be able to save a few good guys from really doing more damage to themselves.

Please share this with anyone but please keep the city name and my name out of it. Don't want to get anyone in trouble.

Name Withheld by Request

Just a quick note to say how great I feel this website is to promote proper training guidelines. I have been training HIT style for about 6 years. I have been training directly under the guidelines of Dr. Ken Leistner since becoming a member of his Iron Island Gym in Jan of 1994. I occasionally mixed my training to prepare for powerlifting competitions but always with a HIT mentality. Although Dr. Ken is no longer involved with Iron Island Gym the foundation he provided for me for each workout will never be forgotten. I have not spoken to him since he left(I was unaware he had sold it to Ralph). My training strayed a bit due to the fact I was under Dr.Ken's care for low back problems at the time he left.and was unable to train heavily on squats DL's etc. After he left I began to lose focus on HIT and began reverting to many less effective methods without progress. Your website allowed me to remember my roots, High rep squats, DL's,short workouts that had given me memorable experiences that induced severe vomiting throughout Dr. Ken's gym for 5 years. I have gained my focus again, began looking back at old issues of Steeltip, Hardgainer and HIT. I cannot wait to see improvement again since my back has improved greatly. Having had the luxury of training directly under Dr.Ken's coaching for so long I know first hand what true HIT training is all about.

Thanks, Vinny Ferraiuolo

Dear Editor

I just wanted to drop you a line of thanks for posting my words (I don't feel like I'm qualified enough to call it an "article") in the Tales from the Trenches section of cyberpump. It is really great to see a large and well known site like yours still take the time to publish the words of their readers. I think you are doing a great job on the net as well as providing a WEALTH of info to those seeking the truth in their training endeavors. Keep up the great work!

Steve Loflin

I think Lyle McDonald is probly more knowledgable than Dr.Sears, Eades, or Atkins when it comes to nutrition. They are all a bunch of non-athletes who don't even lift weights. They should start lifting weights so they themselves can see how futile caloric restriction is for gaining lean mass. Dr.Sears even admits to being OVERWEIGHT!! pshh...

Brad

Hello! Thank you for using our idea of "The Steel Spiel"! Let us tell you something about ourselves....Rickie Hargrove and Scott DeLuce

We are from Spartanburg, South Carolina and train together at The Nautilus Fitness Center, owned and operated by John Lankford in Spartanburg.

Scott is a personal trainer by profession, certified by ACE and Nautilus. Rickie is the mother of two children ages 14 and 8. We have been dating three years and training together over two. Rickie is an avid runner who until being brow beaten by Scott, CHOSE not to see the importance of weight training!

Our weight training schedule consists of two days weekly of the big basics, with emphasis on progression...plenty of rest and good food.

We compete each fall at the Nautilus Bench and Curl Contest, sponsored by John Lankford with all proceeds going to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Just to brag a bit... our lifts continue to increase each year as does the amount of money raised!!!

Thanks Cyberpump...we check your site most every day and really enjoy it!

Stay Strong,
Rickie and Scott

Hey man you guys rule!!!! The Arthur Jones Real Audio section is too cool. I never thought I would ever get to here the voice of the Man that is responsible for My Common Sense Training. Thanks guys Da Pump RULES!!!!

Sincerely,
Pedro Morales

Dear Sir:

With my blistering 14400kbps modem, old Arthur sounds a little disjointed :-)

Regardless, it's great, so's Arthur, so's Cyberpump!!! Best site on the net, has been my favorite for more than 2 years.

Best regards,

Mike Hansen
St.Catharines, ON, Canada<

Great article (Why? by Mr. Intensity). I hope people read it and take it to heart!

Thanks for taking the time to provide some sanity in the insane world of strength training. Keep up the great work!

Joe Swift

Hey!

I'm very grateful for your advice I found and read through on the internet. I'll start training right away. I especially like the natural way of practicing you suggest, without any artificial food or drinks that only ruin your health.

I hope this training programme helps me to get in better shape and to achieve better results in sport.

Thanks again

Bostjan

I think your site is great. I have been training the usual way doing 3 sets per exercise. But I got so bored and the gains were minimal. I tried to add more exercises by doing split routines but found myself overtraining. I saw the article about HIt training in Clarence Bass's web site and then an article appeared in the Oklahoma State University fire college magazine about 1 set training being as effective as 3 sets with lighter weights. I love my workouts now and my gains have been incredible. My workout time has decreased from 2 to 3 hours down to one and my strength has increased. I dont know why some people are so against 1 set training. It works. I guess you can cut a piece of wood with a hand saw or you can cut it with a circular saw in half the time (same results less effort).

Thanks...John

Let me just say that when I started training the HIT way, I was skeptical that the results would come as easy as you all claimed. I gave it a shot, and after only THREE weeks, I actually SAW results. I've been doing it for about a month and a bit now, and I have gained about 5 pounds, I'm sure of pure muscle. I still can't believe that spending less time in the gym would make me gain more. To all those doubters out there, I suggest, even for a month, try the HIT method!

Thanks

recently found this web site and I very glad I did. I have been a HIT fan since I discovered Dr Ken more than a few years ago. On that note, several years ago he did an article for MD that was a squat specialization program, I wonder if that could be located and re-printed. In 18 years of training that was the singular most effective program I have ever used. I look forward to MILO every other month primarily for Dr Kens articles(and stories about the legends of the game). Again I love the website.

Very respectfully
Andy Shelton

Dear Cyberpump,

Just wanted to drop a note saying that your website is the best training site on the net. The variety of common sense writers you have contributing is incredible. Thank you for all the information you supply.

In closing, I also want to thank Brian Minogue for the articles he writes. In my opinion, his understanding and communication of common sense training is the best out there. I look forward to each and every article he writes. His advocacy of the six core exercises (Squat / Pulldown / Overhead Press one workout, Deadlift / Bench Press / Row at the other) has allowed me to progress like I never have before. Plus, being 23 years old, I know I won't be wasting years of my life following some mindless training approach.

Thank you Mr. Minogue & Cyberpump, keep up the great work.

Steve Loflin

Glad I found your page on strength training. I already believed and trained in most of the principles to strength training your page promotes. I always thought that maybe it was just my opinion (especially reading any big muscle magazine publications) but your site has definitely reassured me. The page is extremely well laid out, informative and readable. You are at the top of my bookmark list!

Mitchell

Hello;

I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful website. I searched out and visited so many websites. Your website is the best! Once again, thanks for all of the wonderful resources on your website.

I really have found your site to be informative and valuable to my training efforts.

Michael

To the editor,

I have been reading the cyberpump web site for about four months now and I can honestly say that it is a terrific site for hardcore pertinent information about strength training. I would recommend that anyone looking to join a gym be forced to read your web page completely so that they don't waste their hard earned money on a bunch of worthless workout schemes that 95% of all people that lift weights use! Keep up the good work and I'll keep reading. Thanks.

Dear editor, I really enjoy your web site. I have spent alot of time reading through it and i have learned a great deal. keep up the good work.

Hi all,

First up I want to tell you that your site has helped immensely in cutting out the B.S that floats around the gyms...I daresay it is the same in Australia as it is in the U.S....very difficult for relative newcomers like myself. It is great to have a collection of scientifically based opinions and training methodologies to work from. But anyway...on to my questions!

Train hard!

Jason O'Rourke

I'm new to cyberpump and HIT, thanks for a great web page, so much good info it's hard to absorb it all.

Tony

To whom it may concern,

First of all, I want to say what an awesome concept HIT is. As an aspiring sports medicine professional, I love to read about strength training. My problem is those sissy ass muscle head magazines that try to ram supplements down your throat, and a chalked full of steriod monsters. Reading the HIT digest, and various sections on your website provides me with the valuable information I need to build a successful career.

Sincerely,
Kyle Moffett

P.S. Not to mention our "strength coach" drills the lift explosively method into our head, saying it will transfer onto the field. I always think, HOW? And yes, we do plyometrics :(.

I've been a HIT advocate since the first Darden books. This is really a great site!

I've really missed the writing of Leistner since the Steel tip has been gone but now with Cyberpump I'm enjoying his writing again.

I'm sure there will be others who I will enjoy to read but there is just something about the way Dr. Ken puts thing into perspective that never fails to get you fired up for your workouts. Reading his stuff probably has the same effect on me that Jones exercise bulletins had on him.

Thanks for the great work............JIM

Dear Sir,

I'd like to congratulate you on a great website. It's the first site I check every morning. I don't want to be interviewed personally but I would like to suggest that you interview Doug McGuff MD if he would agree. He has written some great articles as well as an interesting bulletin. He takes some of the concepts of Jones, Hutchins, and Mentzer and expands on them due to his medical background. I think it would be a very informative interview, especially for the superslow HIT'ers out here.

Thanks,
David Sears

[editor's note: We did do an interview with Dr. McGuff. Look for it in the coming weeks]

Great Interview with Mike Mentzer ! Keep up the outstanding work !

Faithful Reader From The Start, Mike Abril

I've just stumbled across your site recently, and have slowly started reading through the information. All I can say is "What a Great Site!" I feel like I've found more information in two days than I have in the 7 years I have been bodybuilding. Yes, I have seen a lot of this information before, but this is the first place which seems to summarize all the important aspects. Definately keep up the great site. I will definately be a frequent visitor from now on.

By the way, I'm 23, 5'11", 200lbs, about 8% bodyfat, and work out three times a week over here in Frankfurt where my company has relocated me from New York.

Kind regards,
Paul

Excellent site! Especially liked the link to the Arthur Jones articles.

Ned Beaumont

Hi fellow pumpers,

I was very pleased to discover your site at Dr. Ken's suggestion. I usually seek to take things off my computer, but in your case I was delighted to add something new.

Keep up the great work,
David Elkins

hello, i just wanted to say that i am now a firm believer in the hit program. i just started to lift with a friend who has been doing this and yesterday was the first workout. i was absoulutely dead from the workout for only doing like 10-12 sets for the entire body. we started with a set of 20 rep squats i thought i was going to die then we did military standing and then a row and thn the tris were the worst starting with pushdowns to failure then followed by pushups cause i could not even do any dips then when i reached failure on pushups i had to do negatives i thought my arms were going to fall off then bis were just as worse. to make it short i never knew that this much pain could be endured i almost threw up 3 times but i started to love it. we only lift 2 times per week and now i see why. thanks for making this site so great keep up the good work

Thanks
Roy Mcneace

wow I gotta tell you i'm impressed with the site i've never written to a magazine or anything like that before but i just finished reading a very small portion of your site and all i can say is "wow" I especially like the follies pages.

I'm 59, and had all but given up on weight training, as i'd gotten so burned out so many times before using the "conventional" multi-set, split routines, but thankfully i discovered your site and started training the "hit" way, which is the way my body was trying to tell me to train all along. you're performing a great service. bravo. best regards, Bob Boggs

I knew DrKL gave good training advice, but he deserves an award for that last bit. he hits (pardon the pun) on that all too human trait that most are way too busy talking to bother listening and way too worried about minute differences to see that we are all stiving for the same goal. weight training is alot like religion; think about it, how many christian denominations are there? and how many are ready to slit throats because one dunks and the other spinkles? if weight training became the predominate world religion, the SS folks would be blowing up the one setters, who would want to kill the machine only crowd. family quarrels are always the worst.

enjoyed the interview; you're really doing a great job.

Greg Godwin

Finally, a common sense approach to weight training! Muscle Mag Follies is the VITAL link, the holy grail of training. Where's that cackling coming from?

T.P. Reitzel

I've been training HIT style for a few weeks now and I notice that each time I attempt to add weight....IT WORKS!! I used to be from the "old school" of lifting heavy weights for set after set. I noticed that when I got sore after those workouts, I stayed sore and actually stayed the same weight. But since I've been training HIT style, I recently started back training but now when I get sore, I actually get bigger by staying out of the gym! Two weeks isn't enough to really tell what type of results I'm getting, but since my weight has gone up 5 lbs since then, I think something is working. I notice a lot of guys have RANTS about gyms. Well, after going through Cyberpump and reading the rants, I laughed my butt off because I see the same thing in the gym where I work out! To give an example, I injurd my knee a few weeks ago so I've been doing a lot of slow motion (4 seconds up, 4 seconds down) work for my uninjured leg. I've been doing one legged leg presses for 2 sets and I promise you, if I didn't have two legs, I wouldn't have made it out that day. I see why HITers are shunned upon. If you don't have the balls to work hard, work long and make yourself look good. While I was doing my workout, I noticed this group of guys coming in. I've seen them before and no doubt, they are some of the biggest guys in the gym. But each time I see them workout, I try to get as much work in one set as I can before I can't concentrate from laughing so hard. This particular day they decided to do shoulders. I think I see the workout now. First warm up by talking about BS and how you should get cut for a contest. Then laugh for aboslutely no reason at all. Then go through 3 warm up sets....i say if you haven't warmed up by then....just stop. Then you start off with lateral raises. I call them lateral flyes because at the rate of speed they were doing them, with a good updraft they could've become airborne. OH yeah, don't forget to make so much noise that everyone sees you. Then they went to legs. Leg extensions for many sets. Make sure you make the plates drop hard and make a lot of noise...once again...so everyone can see you.

Calf raises with 300lbs and a inch range of motion. When I fist started working out there, I tried the calf raises with one inch of motion to because it looked good(wish I knew about HIT then) But i've noticed on thing about this gym, if you move slowly....everyone thinks you need help!!! That pisses me off. Most of the guys dont' know how to spot anyway! First, you have to move very fast so you'll be more explosive and get better results. Then, make sure your spotter has bad breath so you'll be more pumped to finish the set by hearing him say, "IT'S ALL YOU BABY! YOU THE MAN!! YOU GOT IT!" all while he's pulling on the bar taking the tension of your muscles. I just wish everyone knew about HIT so everyone would be making better results in the gym. Maybe all HITers should just move to their own colony and have our own gyms. Until that glorious day happens, I guess we'll just have to bear with the stupidity and slap anybody that tried to get you to do more sets so we'll get the best results from volume. YEAH RIGHT!!!!

I'm not adept with the computer and do not have time to "browse" the internet. However, after numerous comments from patients and clients, I took a few days to view the various training sites and made comment to one other than Cyberpump. I wanted you to know that there seems to be a great deal of productive information on your site and a desire to exchange useful information. This is quite a bit different from the self serving sites that seem to proliferate on the internet. I am pleased that Tom Kelso, Matt B., and others have been kind enough to say many positive things about me and my writings. If I can distill thirty nine years of training experience to something useful, one can hang up on/hang their hat upon/obsess over any one particular aspect of training or one specific aspect of high intensity training. Without first achieving a high level of training intensity, it makes little sense to focus on rep speed, volume, etc. because you still won't be training productively. Especially for the young men and women seeking to make physical changes, you first have to train hard, that's the basis of everything else and the basics of training. Everything else augments that but without the proper level of training intensity, what do you really have?

Dr. Ken Leistner

Hey guys! I just wanted to drop a line to let you know that the improvements on the site, the new site, the no-popups, etc. are all exactly what the Dr. ordered. The site is faster, sleeker, leaner and meaner than ever. So, just when I thought you couldn't get better you took the step of kicking the java script out the door! Excellent work all the way around.

The articles just continue to get better and you continue to diversify. Cyberpump is a site which cateres to everyone from the beginner to the most advanced lifter/bodybuilder. All I can suggest on improvement is more! More! MORE! MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!! But that's just my opinion....

I have said and continue to say... HIT is winning the war, and Cyberpump is leading the way! (yes you may feel free to use this as a motto)

Eddie Johnson
Amarillo, Texas

Dear Persons Responsible,

I just wanted to send you my sincere thanks for all the help you have given me with my weight training. I was killing myself for over a year, lifting five days a week, set after useless set, seeing poor results. When I would ask why I couldn't seem to progress, the "experts" at my gym would suggest more exercises, more sets, "attacking" and "confusing" my muscles in various ways, and on and on. I now train with all the intensity I can muster twice a week for less than an hour. My lifts are increasing steadily. I feel good, and I could not be more pleased with my progress. It is the information from this website that has changed me from a chronically fatigued weakling to a strong woman with energy and time to pursue other interests. (Oh yeah, it's also fun to watch people's jaws drop when I squat and deadlift.) Again, thank you.

Very truly yours,
Laura

Great site! The articles are very informative and I love the commentary thrown in!

However for a new guy such as myself, it might be helpful to throw in some pictures of the exercises?

Brien

About a month and a half ago I found this site just messing around. I would really like to thank the maker's of this site. It has help me in many way's. It gave me some names of great H.I.T. traing books, and has opend my eyes to a new way of traing. I used to train 7 days aweek 2 1/2 to 3 hours a day. But now I 've foun theirs no need for that.

This site has taught me better ways to train to increase my power, witch has been my goal all a long. I'm a 15 year old , 5'8" ,168 pound male, and by using your traing techs. I have went from working out witha 135 pound bench prees 5 sets of 10 , to 175 5 set of 10. This has happen witheverything from curls to calf raises. I really want to thank you; this will help me so much in my fav sport football. This helps keep me one of the strongets members of the team for an other year.

Lot's of Love
Jeremiah

CYBERPUMP is one of the most refreshing strength training resources I have ever encountered. I love the unique blend of humor, sarcasm and practical advice to trainers.

I have been using HIT techniques for about a year now and am experiencing significant growth in my quads and hamstrings. I now train 1 to 2 times a week on a whole body routine emphasizing a balance of strength in my legs, hip and back.

Thanks for such a great site. Keep up the good works and keep jabbing away at the BFS drones. Thanks to powercleans and past overtraining my elbows and shoulders are still not 100%.

Boy, oh Boy! I just finally got around to looking at your site. (I've had it book-marked for quite some time) I am very, very impressed, to say the least!

I really appreciate all the trouble you've gone to in creating such a fantastic site! I really appreciate it. And the Arthur Jones articles are so cool. Thanks so much for providing such valuable content and keeping it free!

Best,
Dan

I have been training for about six months now. The first 4 I had been grossly overtraining using a 5 day split routine from a magazine. I turned to a 3 day a week hardgainer routine when a websight said that an eyetwitch is a sign of severe overtraining. I had a very annoying, almost constant twitch at times. I have achieved some strength gains but I'm definitely not satisfied with my results. I read an article by Mike Mentzer and I became interested in the HIT method. I found your websight and I just have to say that it is very informative and thorough in explaining this method in all aspects. I have designed a 2 day a week HIT routine from your samples that I'm going to start next week. I just wanted to say thank you and I am very eager to start HIT. I will write you again in a few weeks and let you know how it is working for me. Thank you again.

Michael

Hi ,

I jsut wanted to let u know that cyberpump have helped me a lot in attaining my goals. Some of the articles here have changed me from volume trainer to HIT abbreviated routines. and i have gained lots of muscles since then. It's the best source of info on net for any lifter. And Sean Tooheys articles are great they inform and entertain.

Thanks
Bobby
India.

I'm 23, been lifting since age 14, and just got a Nutrition degree from the U of Illinois. Great work. The only way I have been able to progress in the last two years is to drop my sets down to one work set per muscle per week. I do not have bad genetics. In case someone isn't growing, try this. Don't be afraid to go one set per 10 days even. Joe Weider got me off to a start, but without HIT and hardgainer training, I would still be stuck. Keep up the good work.

THANK YOU, for having a web site devoted to working out the way most people do. I have found some truly great sites devoted to weight training, but I find it hard to ask questions because the people that visit those sites workout 5-6 days a week and isolate body parts blah blah blah...... I just want to hit the weights 3 days a week, work my whole body and have fun and get in shape. I work 2 jobs and working out 6 x's a week is out of the question, not that I would anyway.

Enough babbling. Keep up the great work and be prepared for a frequent visitor.

Jim Wertman

I love the site. Keep up the great work.

Kevin S. Thacker

Your web site is awesome!!!!!

It's about time I found a site for HIT!!

I'm sick of trying to talk HIT on the other "marathon training" sites just to get shut out by the mindless zombies that are addicted to OVERTRAINING!!!!

I think what would make this site so great would be a real time chat room.

A place where true HITers could talk to each other live, and not have to try and talk to people who don't care what you have to say(due to their own ignorane). All the marathoners have their own chat rooms, we need ours!

Then this site would be totally complete, Please consider my suggestion. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU

Anderman11

Hello, my name is Bill Simanovich Jr. I come from an athletic backgroud including football, baseball, and track. I even participated in wrestling, gymnastics and martial arts briefly when I was quite young. Today my intrests are bodybuilding (noncompetitive) and powerlifting. Anyway, I write this to convey to you that I've tried many sports and activities but nothing does it like high intensity training!!! Fortunately, growing up I had a great dad who also played college football and trained using HIT methods. He's been a follower of Mentzer, Jones, and Dr. Leistner for years. I've never varied my approach HIT from day one. It's not just one way to train or a good approach it's the ONLY way!!!! I mean no other way produces the results HIT does, develops mental and physical toughness, and conditions like HIT. I get so sick of these "EXPERTS" who write in magazines or books that bash HIT. If they think one set just isn't enough then they can e-mail me at Simanovich@aol.com and I'll let them train with me once: I say once because after I scape their butt off the floor they will never come back!! I also train people and you know I find it amazing how after I get guys off 5-6 day a week split routines, the plyometrics, ballistics or what ever Poloquin prescribes and train them in a HIT fashion they ALL start to gain!!!!!! If only people would wake up, but truly most people are STUPID. You see HIT sounds to simple when actually it's an excuse to not work hard .They would rather Pump the muscle with Tricept kickbacks than go hard on C.G. Bench Presses. Anyway, I'm passionate about HIT training and I LOVE CYBERPUMP!! So keep HITTING away while all the pumpers wonder how I gained that 30lbs of muscle in 1 year with no drugs; It couldn't have been trainging twice a week with one set to failure Nahh they say . The joke is on them. HIT is the only way!!!!!! Keep up the great work!!

Your sight inspires me. Your points on overtraining hit home - excessive volume and insufficient recovery kept sabotaging my weightlifting. I can relate to the rants about bar-bodies too: during any given workout I see AT MOST two other people use the leg machines or squat rack. Guys who can eat me for breakfast on the bench press and curl have legs like twigs.

As a separate issue, I have a point to contribute. The only form of weightlifting that allows you to accurately measure progress is HIT. Each workout (or every other workout for a split routine) you can do the same exercises, use the same break between sets, the same repetition length, and the same order. In "normal" training you vary exercises, take breaks as long as you 'feel like,' speed up or slow down repetitions according to your mood, lift more or less weight depending upon your form, and wear yourself out on whichever exercises you do first, so the rest of your performance is poor.

It didn't strike me until after I started HIT that before I only ever improved on the first two or three exercises of each workout. After that, fatigue stopped me from giving the remaining sets real effort.

HIT for life, fit for life.

i just want to say that this is one of the best sites i have been on for info and things, i like your humor and honesty, i will be back for more, your info is just great. thanx.

Grant from Australia.

Great job guys! Two things not related to training. One, why does Don Chu's website not have a link to the NSCA? Two, why when good companies go bigtime on sellouts to corporate giants- does their service go to hell? I have called Hammer's 800 number twice and emailed them once, and I still can't get an up to date catalog and price list! OOPs I forgot the <cha-ching> after Hammer (respects to Matt B)

Frank S.

CYBERPUMP YOU HAVE HELP ME A LOT BY TELLING HOW TO GET BIGGER. I US TO BE A LITTLE GUY. BUT NOW I AM HUGE. I START ON ARE VARISTY FOOTBALL TEAM AT LINEBACKER.THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP.
CENTRAL31

Updated the link. By the way, amazing site. The layout is absolutely unbelievable.

ZAP

Keep on keepin on. Cyberpump rules.

JFC

Love the new site, no more waiting and it's soooo fast. Well done, you've just improved 100%!!!

Kevin B.S.Sc.

Yours is the site that I've been searching for. Thanks for saving me all that money that I would otherwise foolishly spend on all them muscle mags. By the way, loved your Muscle Mags Follies section. Keep up the awesome work. We appreciate it.

Joel

To whom it concerns:

My name is Ki Chun. I am 38 years old and been involved with martial arts and athletics since I was 11 years old. I have weight trained for over two decades, was a two time state champion in wrestling with an undefeated record, won over three dozen karate tournaments in both forms and fighting, and currently teach kick boxing aerobics at a gym. I only relay my past athletic history as a matter of record and not to boast in any way.

In all of my years of training I've heard bits and pieces of HIT but there were so many variations I never knew who to believe. I've torn my rotators in both shoulders as a result of bad advice, "explosive" training yields explosive results, with the only thing exploding was my shoulders. I have never found a more comprehensive source of HIT training then your site.

I know that these mere words do not reflect the appreciation and joy at having found this new knowledge. I am once again excited to go back to the gym and try out my new found routine. Thank you again for your site. Is there something I can do to be involved with your site? I don't even know if this is possible and so I pose this question to you.

Sincerely,

Ki Chun

Dear CyberPump, I was referred to your site by a freind and decided to check it out. I have been lifting steadily for the past two years and was experciencing severe burnout. I was on the verge of giving it up for a while. Now I have revamped my workout and schedule and lift only two days a week and am getting better results than the 4 days I was lifting before. It was hard at first training until complete failure and than doing 1 or 2 more reps. Feeling light headed and thinking I was going to throw up. But it is definetly paying off. Only 2 days a week, one set per exercise, I do not mind going all out on each rep and each set. Well, I really have enjoyed reading the site, I have learned a lot and have told many people about the site. Thanks again for all the great tips.

Matt Miller

I must admit I am really impressed with this site and pleasantly supprised by the complete lack of propaganda.

Benjamin Royer

I am 39 years old, I have been training HIT style for over 20 years and I never realized it until I stumbled across Cyberpump while looking for info on Arthur Jones.

I was looking for Arthur Jones articles to prove to some non-believing friends that this man, simply by his no BS way of explaining things, had transformed me from the "98 lb. weakling" to what I consider to be my genetically best condition, OVER 20 YEARS ago.

1977 was the year I found a small book by Jones, explaining the Nautilus Machines and their function (I can't remember the name), but in the town I lived, Nautilus was the submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I had been training at a YMCA that had nothing but free weights and a Universal Gym. I was 6' 1" and weighed 155lbs.

So for 2 years I trained, all the while searching for the Nautilus Way. I moved to Lakewood, Colorado and found the Holy Grail at 2 different centers. I still weighed 155lbs. when I started training in Lakewood, using the now dog-eared book as my guide. In 8 months of strict, self training and no supervision, I went to 183lbs. and gained 4 inches in my chest, 2 inches in the thighs, 1 inch in the arms.

Still, the thought of someone actually training as little as I did caused most people to laugh. I trained 3 times a week, with no workout lasting more than 1 hour, and at that, there were times I could not walk in a straight line after a workout. People I talked to just did'nt get it! (the concept, of course).

In 1983, my hometown got Nautilus, and I found my way back. Now I was 187lbs., had a 30" waist, 45" chest and tiny 14" arms, but I still believed, because I was as fit as I thought I could be.

Things change, stuff happens, and I stopped training from 1985 until 1990, (actually, I was a tournament Bass fisherman), but at the ripe old age of 31, I weighed 217lbs., had a 37" waist, a 42" chest, still tiny 14" arms, and I felt 90 years old. It was time for me to lay down, or do the right thing.

Now, at 39, after rededicating myself to this way of life, I feel that I am stronger and have more energy than ever. I am glad that HIT has become a way of life for others and since I turned my buddies onto Cyberpump, they can believe too. I now weigh only 190lbs, 46" chest, 32" waist (age, you know), 25" thighs, 17"neck and calves.

But the whole point of this rambling is to say I found Spector's article on the killer arm technique and put it to use. My tiny arms are now 15 1/2" each, after 3 killer workouts over the last 2 months, along with regular training of course. I also train only 2 days a week and definitely take a 10 day rest every 5-6 months, and my workouts have been refined down to only 42 minutes total.

This is the life. HIT helps me live it.

Thanks,
Ronnie Jones

CYBERPUMP is awesome. As a 20+ year advocate of HIT training who still keeps getting uglier and stronger everyday, I would like to thank you guys for an excellent website. After WFU yanked my chain, I have been fairly quiet and humble for the past couple of years; however, I know now where my real talent still remains and I will make a comeback soon- I promise. I'm going to start back at the High School level and develop some horses and then I will probably reappear on the College or Professional scene------so watch out. Thats the bottom line because joeylebull says so!

I really enjoyed stumbling across your site. I am 28, and have decided lately that I need to "get in shape," and after purchasing Matt B's book , I decided to surf the web for like minded ideas, as most muscle mags don't agree with him. What a pleasure to discover so much info without the hype! My only problem with so much info. is that seems even within the HIT community there is much in terms of disagreement. For example, Matt B is totally opposed to squats, while others claim you can't get anywhere without them. But better too much info then getting tons of ads for supplements and stuff. I appreciate you cutting through the hype. I particularly love all off Mr. Baye's Post Delirium Workout Induced Ramblings, and of course anything by Matt B.

If Mr. Baye has any other writings I would love to read them.

Thanks again.

Marcus Sharp

Hey guys!; The bit on training to failure is great! I agree one-hundred and ten percent in the philosophy. The idea of training a lifter to accept or recognize personal failure is foolish. Each time I train to( muscle} failure , a feeling of great acomplishment floods me. Mind over,and working with matter. The entire H.I.T. method makes great sense. Maybe you guys can suggest a good basic book of routines and information? Limited in Wy. keep up the good work!

HI Everyone ;)

just let me say i think your site is awesome. A long time ago a buddy gave me the book "Brawn" and then one day i decided to look up HIT training on the net and i found you guys ;) well anyways I am making my own web site soon on the martial art I do Ninpo Taijutsu, and I would like to add your sight as a link? because i think it is the best sight for good practical knowlegde about lifting. My web site follows the same idea in that in presents ninpo in the same manner, i thought your sight would go along nicely as a good link, I haven't made my sight yet but i hope to have it up in the next month, give me a shout back telling me what you think,

thanks everyone

Matt D

Hello Cyberpump,

First of all, this page is for REAL. I am pleased to find a website that is leading (not misleading) people to effective training. It is refreshing to have an absence of the words "crestine" and "monohydrate" in every other sentence.

I must admit I have been searching for new ideas since I have recently plateaued with my training. After browsing some of the points it is obvious why, "OVERTRAINING". I have aches in both shoulders, I suspected the dreaded overtraining but did not want to admit it. As a result of the information on your site I have revamped my theory, I am going from a 5 day split (one body part per day) using 6-8 reps max to a 3 day split (chest, delts, tri's/legs,traps/back,bi's). Information and guideance as good as I read here is hard to find.

I see you finally got an ad banner you could be proud of. Congratulations.

Also, thank you for providing a site free of those annoying "pop-up" ads.

I have been visiting Cyberpump regularly for over two years, and the quality and depth of the site continues to amaze me. I wish that everyone who lifts weights would visit Cyberpump and learn something about the right way to get results. The site completely kicks ass, but I do have a couple of suggestions to make Cyberpump even better.

Think about getting a domain name of your own. It's not that expensive, and it would make it much easier to refer people to the site. Plus, the constant advertisements of GeoCities are somewhat annoying. Maybe the site could get sponsors who would pay for the web server. I know that the people at Cyberpump don't want to "sell out" but I'm sure that advertisers wouldn't require you to directly endorse their products. Plus, with the volume of traffic your site undoubtedly achieves you might even find a sponsor who is not directly related to the fitness/supplement industry.

[editor's note: David it is a done deal. Check out Cyberpump.com.]

You should also consider improving the search engine. This would substantially cut down on the number of repetitive emails your columnists would have to answer. Currently, the engine is a bit simplistic and visitors can't even search for a phrase.

These are minor points, really. I just want to see Cyberpump get the recognition it deserves (and maybe even become profitable without selling out). Mainly, I want to thank you and your staff for making Cyberpump the best site on the Net. That is not exaggeration, either.

-David Alexander

Great website. It has permanently changed the way I train.

Cheers, Vince.

Hi! I'm a lifter and a frequent guest to your wonderful site. I find your website very useful and encouraging to keep me lifting weights. Keep up the good work!

Daniel R. Jarvis, New York City

I just visited your site a geocities and the layout is awesome.

Charles

Dear Cyberpump,

Just wanted to thank you for the HIT 101 section by Brian Minogue. I've been in the Iron Game for almost 10 years now, the last 3 of which have been HIT (I've seen the light....). Not only do I believe Minogue's writings to be a great starting point for anyone just getting into the iron game, but it is also a great refresher to experienced lifter such as myself.

Keep those HIT 101 articles a comin'!!

S.L.
Georgia

What's up guys? Cyberpump is such a god send! I was surfing the web and fell into misc.fitness.weights I bet you know there are a lot of assholes in that News Group (Tuff Room). That group was very anti-HIT big surprise right?

This is what shocked me there was one guy who stuck up for Mentzer and HIT in general. This guys is no stranger to High Volume as he was a Marine. This is the amazing part of it all, he was 200 pounds or so and he got into a Motor Cycle accident. He lost one leg and his body weight went down to 150 pounds. He even thought of suicide between his wife leaving him and taking his child he needed to vent so he decided to try his first HIT program (Heavy Duty 2).

He put on 31 pounds of muscle in a pretty damn short period of time I forgot what the time frame was but it was incredible (with one leg no less) Then these scumbags cut him down on that News Group. Then I realize that HITers are truly a Minority group.

I thought I would share this with you just to say thank god for Cyberpump it is the only home for HITers!! A real nice one to boot!! I just wish there was a HIT message board or News Group for guys like us the HITers. Thanks for Listening. I had to vent, Purge, Release, Cleanse. Take care and keep HITing it!!!! > :)

Sincerely

Pedro

By the way, great site. Keep up the good work.

Gerrit

Outstanding webpage - no further comments are needed there.

I have been working with the internet and technology for the past 7 years.

For the record - This is the coolest web page I have ever seen.

Robert Sirowitz

CyberPump Rules.

Shane Daniels-Roberts

Hit

Hows it going, I love your site and have been doing different hit work outs for three months. The one problem I've noticed is that there is no area discusing proper form, and describing the different exercises that you mention in your huge amount of different work outs, or else I haven't found it yet. I love the variety of your work outs! I love the workout 1min dip, 1min chinup, tricep pulldown, and bicep curl to faliure, what a challenge! Once again I love your site and keep up the good work. Thanks for every thing.

DM Brown

I think your web page is organized extremely well. The feature you have for finding information was a brilliant thing (it makes searching for anything much easier!).

Gwen Fowers

Cyberpump. Wow! You guys are amazing! Great website!

I stumbled upon your site last night and boy am I glad! It has the most sensible and logical information of all the sites I've seen! The Q&A archive is perfect! Don't change a thing! Not that you would since this site gets a hell of a lot more hits than the other fitness sites on the web! keep up the good work! One question though:will the Q&A section ever be brought back? I've got a couple workout questions that I'd like to hear answers for. Thanks again for the great site!

Gary Walcott

Dear Cyberpump,

I'll like to appreciate the amount of efforts and wide research put in by your organization for preparing these schedules. Hats off to you.

Sincerely
Ashish Porwal

Hi there :)

In a search for a good bodybuilding info I came across your site. It's excellent. Few weeks ago I found Musclemedia site and found some good info there and thought of it as a best site for a natural bodybuilder, but when I found yours I realized that u got the number one site. Congratulations and thank God there is something Joe Weider and other musclemags and supplement moguls don't control so an average person can stop being ripped off and misinformed. It's a pity your site isn't well known or advertised more. In Poland the only info u can get is from Weider and MuscleMag Int magazines. No wonder people in the gym discuss new supplements or steroids all the time and spend countless hours in the gym seeing little results if any (which is also my case except steroids, which I never tried and don't intend to).

Crusader
Warsaw, Poland

It's about time someone used a little common sense when it comes to lifting. I have been using the 1-2 intense set method for over 15 years with excellent results. Still, I find plenty of new ideas on your site. It's too bad that so many people are STILL ignorant of this information. TO THIS DAY I see people loading up the lat pulldown machine and jerking away. I wish the cable would SNAP! That might knock some sense into them! And yes, people still come up to me and say "you can't get big with 1-2 sets," or "you have to spend at least 1-2 hours in the gym each workout" instead of the 30-40 minutes I spend there. Funny thing is...I look better than most of them...and can lift more, too. ONE LAST THING: keep pushing the DEADLIFTS!!! Why doesn't everyone do them??? I know a guy who won't do them under ANY circumstances because he might hurt his poor little back. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous?!?! The same guy jerks his lat pulls. Nuff said. I told him not to bench anymore...he might hurt his chest. Keep up the good work guys!

Regards, John Emerson

Hello all. I'm just writing to say that one workout was enough to convince me of the righteousness of the HIT method. I am 36 yrs old, and have trained using everything from Free weights to Bullworker since I was fifteen, but never with any consistency. Well, this summer, I noticed I couldn't see my shoes anymore, and was getting to the point where I was going to need a new wardrobe. I started off dieting, and took off maybe 15 lbs after quitting things like Snickers Bars, and Coca Cola. As my diet progressed, I started riding a bicycle every day for about 2 months, along with using an abroller, and some basic dumbbell training. I got the weight down pretty good, but I needed a way to work my back, and so I joined the local gym.

First workout was chest-tri, back-bi, legs, at 6 days a week, and it was too much. So I got a book from the library on NSCA training, and followed that routine for about a week and a half. After doing 3 sets of 12 for 3 days a week, full body, I got nothing much in the way of gains, but did condition. I think that primed me for more, so I searched around the net, and stumbled onto the hardgainer page, where it turned me onto the one set approach. After one workout, it was thrashingly good!

Reading around one night on the net, and figuring I had the be all end all workout, I read about HIT training, so my last workout, I gave it a shot. All I can say, is WOW! I hadn't felt like that since I first lifted weights. After one set of squats, I could barely walk to the water fountain for a drink between sets, as I normally do. After my way overtraining bout with NSCA style training (1.5 hrs), I was doing about 40 mins cardio. Since I'm up there, I think cardio is good, but after HIT, 20 minutes and I thought I'd die. I came home and carbed up, and it's been 2 days now. I'm still recovering, but have gained more from one workout than from 6 weeks of all other methods.

Most of all, I achieved good solid mental results. I was actually able to relax for the first time since I started training, not feeling keyed up as usual. I'm actually looking forward to incorporating the deadlift now, but probably using dumbbells, since I'm still a little concerned about my back. But I am absolutely sold on compound exercises, and will do them always. Plus, the first really sound nutritional information, and a good excuse not to use supps put it over the top for me. No more radically expensive diet plans, or pills, etc, makes this workout easy for anyone. All this needs is a little more exposure, and most people will probably get the message. Thanx for turning me around.

Curtis D. Levin

Hi i'm a 19 year old guy from Sweden who just wanted to tell you that your HIT page is just great. Me and my brother both football players in Sweden have been using your HIT traning program for awhile now and we are seeing some great progress.

Two football players from Sweden

Great information. Thanks and keep feeding the stuff to us. Thanks again.

Paul Weller

Great Page!!! All of them!

J.T. Magee

I am a big fan of your web site, at least there are some people who won't let the ground breaking descoveries of Arthur Jones die. Keep up the good work.

Hey Guys,

I am 45. Just dropped my weight from 220 to 170. Got rid of the pot belly and fat rear end. 40" waist jeans down to a comfortable 34" w/an occasional 32". Your web site is the best no-nosence-information packed I have ever read/visited.

Congrats on a great idea !

Ranger L. Heier,

Finally, I have come into my own!

I had known naturally that these guys that were living at the gym were wrong...I get in, pump up, and crawl out. See ya in a few!

Great Site!

Mark McGovern

Awesome website, you got me sold on HIT.

Xamgib

Hi. I'm just informing you your site is by far the best on the web. Thanks.

Donald Quin

Dear HITers. I am a recovering BFSer. I too not long ago bought into the lies that were told to me. Why did I do this? If its good enough for Nebraska, it must be good enough for us. Funny thing was though, up to that point, was sceptical to the importance of power cleans. It was in college where I was first forced to do these horendous excercises. Did I see any carryover onto the field, absolutely not, at least that I could see. I even got pretty good at them after awhile. Anyways, to my point. I have been converted. I have been to the pits of hell(exposive training), and have made it back, all in one piece. Which I can't say for all my teamates, where some had career ending injuries due to power cleans.

Ryan

Thanks for the site, it's one of the best fitness sites on the web. I have recently incorporated HIT into my workouts with great results. While I occasionally change up my workouts back to the "traditional method" to mix things up, HIT is a great principle. It's also interesting that some of the workouts I have read about in the last year from Shawn Phillips (Muscle Media) have advocated 1-2 sets at maximum intensity (sound familiar?).

Richard West

I just want to congratulate you on perhaps the most comprehensive fitness site I have seen. By just browsing for 10 minutes I have found the answers to most of my questions about strength training.

Sami Nuwar.

Wow I love this site! I have gone through here many a time in the past and there are always a few more things that catch my eye!

David Marchant

Hi!

Just wanted to thank you for saving me from death by overtraining... I had just started to lift weights and was using this 2days (or 3 or 4...) on, 1 day off "program". Well, actually I just went to the gym 5-6 days a week and threw the weights around for coupla hours... "The Secred Finnish Overtraining Headsplit Program" :)

Luckily, I found your homepage, read the HIT FAQ and some other stuff coupla times. I decided to give HIT a try and I'm glad I did! Nowadays I spend about 2 hours a week in the gym and make progress all the time.

The only problem I have with Cyberpump is that I have to print all the "Reflections of a HITer" out and go home to read 'em because people at our university's computer room start to give me these weird looks when I laugh my head off... So I have this huge pile of A4-papers with 9-point times all over at my place. I love 'em!

Turkka
Rovaniemi, Finland

I want to thank Jedi- Robert Spector and the cyberpump team for offer such good , logical, and thoroughly scientific information in what seems to be a very biased field! I am 19 year old Pre-med student at chico STate university, and I have been pursuing valid information about weightlifting for three years now. Previous to finding out about the HIT philosophy I struggled greatly with a variety of different programs given to me by the "so called" experts. I have an ectomorphic body type, and I don't need to tell you that all exercise programs I tried previously, were just a waste of my time. Since I found this cite over a year ago, I have gained two pounds, and maintained this growth. In the fall I will do some body measurements, at which time I will post the before and after stats. I am very interested in any nutritional advise that the cyberpump team could give me. I have read a variety of articles and tried a variety of supplements. I sure you guys can help. Thank you again for your hard work, experience, and willingness to share what works. Daniel Travers

Hey Cyberpump,

Just stumbled across your website on HIT. It's astounding. I have been weight trainging off and on (mostly on) for many years. In the last several years I have developed what I thought was my own personal style. I have always experienced very good results from my efforts and dedication. Little did I know that someone had a named program for exactly the type of program I had planned for myself. Most of my training techniques follow the EXACT same guidelines and principles that HIT outlines. I definitely agree with all the concepts and am proof (40 years of age, 5'6", 130 lbs., and look better now than I ever have in my life) that this program does work. Keep spreading the good news. I always brag on the benefits of weight training. Thanks, Suzanne Smith

It was refreshing to see in writing, what those of us who are veteran bodybuilders have known for years: train properly by doing full range repetitions under control. That is to say.... slowly. Train your body, not your ego. Since discovering your site, I have informed fellow "bodybuilders??" on how to find you (with the hopes that they will read and learn). Perhaps your site will shed some insight to those who think that simply because one has larger than average muscles, he/she must be dumb or on steroids. Not all of us have taken the way of the drug, and have remained 100% pure beef. Great site. Continue the great work.

Maurice Van Hemmen
bodybuilder
B.A., BaSc., B.Ed

Allow me to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your excellent work.

Bernard

CYBERPUMP! is unquestionably the best strength training resource on the Internet. I appreciate your obvious efforts to keep the content fresh by the frequency of updates and variety of contributors. Baye and Bryzcki are my favorite contributors. Their disparate styles manage to entertain and inform at the same time.

One suggestion, if I may: Have Rob Spector make more frequent contributions.

CYBERPUMP! is in my top five of all websites, regardless of subject matter.

Checking the news sites and then checking CYPERPUMP! is replacing my morning paper and coffee ritual. Keep up the good work.

I have been visiting your site since Dec of '95! I found this site by accident one day just surfing along. I read everything that day and I haven't looked back ! THANK YOU for such an informative and valuable site! I have told many of my friends, family,and coworkers about this site because of what I have learned from it. Keep up the outstanding , professional work !

A HITter for Life!
Mike Abril

Keep up the good work on an awesome site!!!

PETE FARKAS

I first stumbled on this site three months ago. The big dumbell called out to me "CAMERON....LOOK AROUND THIS SITE..". I spent two hours in front of my computer reading almost everything on your page and my life hasn't been the same since. Since I began HIT training my strength, appearance, and attitude have all improved dramatically. At first the guys in my gym thought I was crazy. One set? Thats all your'e gonna do? Now, three months later, they bow to me when I enter the gym. Thanks again and keep up the great work.

Cameron Kennedy

Howdy ,

Really enjoyed your site. I'm from the old school of long hard work outs and I'm starting to learn that the new HIT training is better in certain areas.

Thanks for the hard work

Coach AL ( Coachers)

Hi all,

Just discovered your site a few weeks ago and have been coming back every day to read up on one item or another. Stimulating, useful (!) and very encouraging. IMO the best weight lifting site on the web. Please don't change a thing. Thanks for all your efforts. Count on me to spread the word on this side of the Ocean.

Kind regards,
Allard

(A beginning weight lifter from Holland)

Hi there,

I just stumbled over your page and think it's really cool!

Susanne

I just started training this past January after a long layoff due to a back injury. I started back doing whole body workouts, just one set per bodypart, 8-12 reps and training to failure.

Surprisingly, I made fairly rapid gains (hmm, didn't even know I was HIT training at the time).

As my workouts stopped making me sore, I started to add sets. Not knowing any better, I clung to the Weider propaganda.

Then I found Cyberpump. Wow! What a revelation. No wonder I was always overtrained. The info. found here was a real eye-opener for me. I honestly feel that I can realize my goals without sweating about whether or not I'll end up overtraining.

I honestly thought I was limited by my genetics. Well I suppose we all are, but what I didn't know was my frustration in not making gains was due to overtraining, NOT genetics.

Your site has inspired me to train harder than ever. People in the gym look at me like I'm some kind of retard. My friends who train keep trying to "straighten me out". Heh heh. Too bad they aren't making gains like me. Four weeks ago, I worked out on the Pec-Deck and failed at 8 reps. A week later, I failed at 17! Don't tell me HIT doesn't work.

David Studenick

I'm just starting out to get into shape and develop a strength building program for my self. The summer is here and your page has what I'm looking for.

Thanks.

I love having a big brother to talk and get advice from in a time of need,:-) keep up the good work.

Robert Norris

There is no place like home. There is no place like home. I have a place I can come and feel comfortable and accepted. Just found the site. Love the reflection of a HITer section. Haven't laughed that much in months. Execpt at the gym where you see the strangest things. Yes, we HITers are a minority. The cynicism we encounter is unbelievable, is it not? In 1991 I was in an industrial accident in which I suffered a broken pelvis, left femur etc,etc,etc, anyway after a year of healing and rehab The doctors cut me loose with no informatiom to help me reverse the muscle atrophy. I startad going down the local rec center and started lifting the way I larened in High school. Guess what routine that was? Everytime I went to train I would run into this personal trainer. He would be training someone each time I came in. While his trainee was grinding out reps he would look at me and say "We have to talk." and then chuckle and go back to counting "up two, three, four down two, three, four". I would lok over and his trainee would be on the floor sucking wind like a Hoover and sweat rolling off him. After just one set. As time went by (a month or so.) I finely gave in and we sat down and had a talk. This guy was a HITer and a personal trainer to boot. He gave me the whole story ala Arthur Jones, Ellington Darden et al. I didn't believe the throwing-up afer barbell curls story until my first session with him. Twelve exercises for the whole body in under 45 minutes, I was fried to a crispy chrunch, but what a pump I had and loved a nauseous second of it.

From that point on my training days where changed forever. I am hooked on the intensity. I know what is meant be a runners high. Except it should be changed to a HITers high. Where I workout all it takes to claer out the weight room of the wannabe's is a set of extra slow and heavy squats to failure. Oh the looks I get as I lay under the rack. I have run off at the mouth long enough. I'm 43 5'10 210 @ 8% and stronger than I have ever been in my life. I owe a lot of credit to high intensity strength training for my rehab after my accident. I'm just your average joe and HIT works for me. I'm also a believer in a gallon of H2O every day ( not so much as a cold or snifful since 91) . Love your web site.

Your newest HITer,
Steven Hoelter

Hi,

I thoroughly enjoy your site! I was in the gym 5 days a week until running across your site, wondering why I didn't look forward to workouts and 'getting healthy'. Now I'm down to 3, full-body workouts a week, seeing and feeling the difference intensity makes. Granted, some days (actually, most days) I think I'm going to lose whatever's in my stomach, and I have to kinda slide out of the leg press, but it is definitely worth it. I'm referring people to your site almost daily.

Just to prove to non-believers that slow is safe and ballistic is idiotic, I'll relate a short story. My leg press last Monday was 415 x 9, total fatigue. Today, one week later (three workouts later) I pushed 455 x 14, total fatigue. No warmup, no easy sets, no injury. Just 2-3 seconds down, 2-3 seconds up. But while doing yard work this weekend, after having nearly cut through a small sapling, I figured I could give it a good pull and break the remaining fibers. That one good yank left me unable to turn my head to the left for the rest of the day! I strained something with my 'explosiveness' and was in pain for hours.

Once again, great site, great information, and thanks for all the help!

Shane Shoemaker Springfield, TN

Just wanted to drop a note to give my history and success with Heavy Duty and HIT.

I started training when I was 21 years old. Weighed in at about 160 lbs at 6'2". Pretty skinny. Yeah, I was a Weider follower. 5-6 days a week. 2 hours (UGHH!!!) a day. I made very minimal gains. I went up to maybe 170 lbs. Took a few years though. Kept this torrid pace up for about 3 years. Then I read an article by Dorian Yates about volume and training. I cut back on my training. Say, 4 days a week and cut back on the # of sets. It started to work some and I picked up another 5-10 lbs in the next year.

Then the big day came. The AAU Mr Maryland was held in the summer of 1993. This person by the name of Mike Mentzer was holding a seminar. I was so frustrated with my training by now, I said what the F*%K and spent the money to hear his spiel. What could I lose. Nothing else was working. What an enlightening experience. I bought his book, read it from front to back (several times) and started on a journey that took me from 180 lbs to a present weight of 230 lbs in about 4 years (and still growing). Alot of my gains have come from the last few years when I read his Heavy Duty 2 book and applied the principles in there.

Weider is old news. Step aside and make room for the HIT and Heavy Duty squads. We're here to stay.

John D. Strong

I started visiting Cyberpump! a few months ago. You guys and gals offer plenty of good advice. Hell, I'd still be doing power cleans if it weren't for the great info on your pages! I realize that you aren't in love with low reps, but they work great for me (I use 5X5, but my form is immaculate). Also, I learned about Brooks Kubik's Dinosaur Training from you, which has lead me to train with thick bars and bottom-position movements. The techniques and tips in your pages are excellent, and I will make sure to recommend you to anyone who needs good, honest training info. Also, your fun page is a riot! Keep up the good work.

Storm M. Fox

I found out about HIT, and Cyberpump, etc. about 2 months ago. It all made so much sense - still does. I love it and have made great gains.

Patrick Beggs

I love the site!

James Meadows

This is an awesome web site. I'm a Division I college wrestler and have been an avid weight for years now. One the first visit this site gave me so much new and helpful information. I'm a person that other people usually people usually turn to for advice. You have help me to change my workout for the better and hopefully I will see the results in action next season. Thanks.

Oritse Uku Benje

Folks, the work you are doing here is great. I stumbled onto your site while looking for info on weightlifting and immediately rejected it. I had lifted on and off for years and was of course brain washed into following the more is better junk. My brother and I started lifting again just over a year ago, and by working together we managed to keep each other going. However, after a year I had seen minimal results, and my brother was even more discouraged. I went back to the net for more info, and decided to go ahead and read all that you had to say. As I began to read it objectively I realized this was based on logical, sound principles. As you were not "selling" or endorsing any specific product I also felt there was little reason for you to be biased. Finally, the other methods had not worked, so I might as well try this. I took notes, asked some questions, and put together a new routine. WOW!! In 60 days, I have put 2.5 inches on my chest, 1.25 inches on my upper arms, and my legs heve gone nuts with nearly 3 inches added on my thighs. This is incredible. And when combined with the fact that I am continously seeing gains in reps and weight, I have to say I wish I had gotten this knowledge years ago. I have gotten my brother to convert, and after seeing our results, many of the guys using the equipment here on campus have asked me to help them set up a program (I always send them to your web site first, and they always love it). Thank you soooo much for what you are doing in destroying the myths being perpetuated by the other so called gurus out there. Maybe I can qualify as a Jedi in training?? I promise to uphold and defend all HIT prinpciples in all parts of the galaxy (and to you NSCA folks all I can say is "May the FARCE be with you.")

Sincerely,

Clyde T PS - Tell Matt B that NITRO rules and WWF drools.

Dear Cyberpump!!

I recently began a weight training program in Nov. 1997 after a period of pronounced inactivity. Although I have found the trip back to fitness and strength a challenging one, Cyberpump! has made the trip a whole lot easier! Adhering to a "volume approach " to strength training at first, I ran into your web site when I was doing a search on weightlifting sites. Having refined my approach to accordance with HIT principles, my workout times are about 1/3 what they used to be and my results are 2 to 3 times as good as they were!!! Thanks so much for the practical advise and suggestions from experienced contributers to your website. They have encouraged me into avoiding the stupidity so frequently displayed in the gym and have made my workouts a whole lot more productive. I especially have admired the book suggestions and have recently read Darden's " High Intensity Strength Training". Cyberpump has given me a lot of the finer points of training I desire and the encouragerment to continue to keep my weight training both SENSIBLE and PRODUCTIVE without sacrificing RESULTS or INTENSITY!!!! Thank you and keep up the great work.

Sincerely,
P. Gill
Gainesville, FL

Yo dude. i just started HIT a couple weeks ago and in 4 weeks my squat went from 295x8 to 315x12 (below parallel, of course) i used to use knee wraps a lot and when i combined HIT and not using the wraps, my squat went up like crazy after being stuck for so long WITH knee wraps i squat in the mid 400s (not bad for a 16 year old, huh) thanx, HITers

Dan Harrison

Your site is one of the most informative HIT sites I've ever seen! Keep up the good work. I will be recommending it to everyone I know.

SHANEH1@Earthlink.net

Having been involved in a variety of weight room environments, I have seen the principles of high intensity training poorly taught and understood. However, since my introduction to this training method in the late 70's, I have applied these principles without reverting to my previous training beliefs.

Not only is HIT a significant advance over the training systems continuously endorsed in magazines, it applies to all ages, fitness levels and medical conditions. As the owner of a rehabilitation and exercise clinic, we teach patients and customers these principles. Although it is not easy to complete HIT sessions, our research suggests that properly performed HIT training is significantly superior to the more traditional methods employed by most weight training and conditioning experts.

Michael Pollack at the University of Florida has demonstrated the unquestionable benefits associated with strength training. I use strength training in a manner that is related to obtaining a specific objective by following a system or protocol not just going to the gym or club to work out or lift. Given the enormous increase in our understanding of the results of appropriate, safe and effective exercise, thanks largely to individuals who understand that bodybuilding and power lifting mythology is beyond the needs or wants of most normal individuals, the application of HIT with the general public results in greater results, improved medical status, decreased disability and much higher compliance.

From a health standpoint alone, using HIT makes sense. With our need to get more in less time, using these proven techniques will enable nonathletes and deconditioned populations to be much healthier and better conditioned individuals.

Whereas the past 30 years has been the age of aerobics, the dawn of the next millenium will prove to be the watershed for strength training. My experience and application of HIT in a non-musclehead exercise environment validates my belief in the system and substantiates the benefits derived from harder, briefer and fewer sessions.

Kevin

To all the guys and gals at Cyberpump,

Here's to the best health/hardgainer site on the web. Keep up the good work and I'll be sure to recommend this site to my friends! Thank you for enlightening me on HIT (at last, something realistic for busy people!!) and showing me that I am not alone in this world of unhappy hardgainers!!

Vic C.

I haven't written you before, but I just wanted to let you know that there is another Division I University out there that is a HIT program. My name is Jim Kielbaso and I'm the Strength & Conditioning Coach at The University of Detroit Mercy. We've got a kick-ass basketball program in addition to our outstanding baseball and soccer programs. We've been HIT for two years now. I did my BS at Michigan State and MS at Michigan with Mike Gittleson. I'd be proud to be added to the fine list of HIT schools, and after our NCAA Basketball Tournament appearance (hopefully) I hope you'll be proud to include us, too. Let me know if there is ever anything I can do for you guys.

Jim Kielbaso

Hello, I enjoy reading an eclectic mix of strength/weight training information, and CyberPump is one of the places I stop. Keep up the good work.

Thanks Dan Dasko

Well, after about six years of looking for sensible advice on training, I finally found your awesome web page. I read Ellington Darden's Nautilus book in college and was excited over the potential he described. Unfortunately, I have found that to truly reach total muscle fatigue, a trainer (or a really dependable, intelligent, partner) is needed. I've gone through several partners and trainers and found that there are few people out there truly willing to give up the crap of low intensity, multi-set work-outs. I live in New York City and am desperate to find a trainer who really adheres to HIT methods and/or super slow technique. If you guys know of a trainer in the Big Apple I could use, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks.

Roy Hall

Hey Cyberpump!

I love your page. I think it's the best weightlifting page on the net.

Mike

I have a few words to say for all of the non-believers out there who think that HIT training philosophies are bull. First of all, my name is Glenn Giesregen and I started experimenting with weight training when I was in high school (around 1984). Like many others, I read the mags and followed the advice of the champs. More is better. I started out at a round 155-160 lbs. A little skinny on a 6 foot frame. I worked out 5 to 6 times a week for approximately an hour a session. I didn't get big, but I did get very cut. That's not what I was after. After high school, I joined the Navy for 6 years and did not train very much. I really wasn't dedicated to it and never got over 160lbs.

I got out of the Navy in 1993 and bought a weight bench and a 300# free weight set. I was going to get back into it and try to gain some weight on my still skinny frame. I resorted to the only training regimen that I knew. I hit the weights 5 times a week with multiple sets per exercise. I also did all the little "isolation" movements (ie. side laterals, wrist curls, etc...). I have always been a big eater, but my metabolism is very high and no matter what I ate, I did not gain a whole lot of weight. I didn't realize that I was overtraining. I made modest gains and reached a weight of 170 lbs. Convinced that what I was doing was working, I continued overtraining for another 2 years or so. I stayed at 170 lbs and reached what I believed was a training plateau.

About a year and a half ago, I decided to try something else. I searched the web for sites that might give me so me decent training information. I stumbled across Cyberpump and read the HIT FAQ. Like others, I thought that this was a bunch of B.S. How can any body workout only 2 times a week and go though just 1 set to failure on the major exercises. This is way to easy and there is no way that it will work. But I kept reading and some of the information started to make sense. I figured that I would follow some of the advice and give it a try. I didn't buy into all of it at first. I still overtrained, but I did cut back considerably. Still not making the gains that I wanted, I decided to go full bore on the HIT style of training. After all, training only twice a week was a lot better than 5 times. I also found out what intensity is and how to really take a set of exercises to failure. After a true year of training HIT I am happy to say that I am 187 lbs (and growing) by using these methods. Unbelievable. Looking at it now, it's hard to believe that if took me 14 years to get it right. Oh, I forgot to mention that I don't train with a partner. I did buy a power rack so that I could truly go to failure on my exercises. Training in this fashion, I can't imagine why anyone would want to train more than twice a week.

Glenn Giesregen

I'm writing you to thank you for answering questions. I'm a 14yr old boy who just gained 8 pounds in 3 weeks with on of your HIT routines.

Thanks.

Kyle

I am new to HIT and am looking forward to seeing the results over the conventional training that I have been doing. Outstanding website!! I will definitely be visiting you a lot as I renew my thinking of how to bodybuild. Thanks.

David Ortega

Hey, dudes!

This comes to you as a testimonial of the effectiveness of the HIT principle.

I started weight lifting when I was 19yrs old, stood 6'1", and weighed in at 120 pounds. Best thing I knew was stacks and peiodization for work-outs for 8 yrs. You've probably figured out that I still hadn't made great gains in physique or body weight.

THEN I found HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING! Boy-o, I'm telling you that in the last 5 years I have gone from a 160 pound wanna-be to a 200 pound still wantin' to be (bigger)! And I'm still getting bigger!! YEEEE-HAAAAA! No drugs, no phony crap, and no bull! Then the greatest contribution HIT coulda made in my life...

In December 1997, I was working on my car and yes, had a severe case of the dumbass. My 15 year old step-son had put it on the jack and I thought it waas stable enough for me to get under it! NOT! I had about 1/3 of my body under the car when the car rolled off the jack and onto my chest. I was stuck under the car for about a minute until my friends and son could get the car lifted enough for me to get back out from under it. The car for reference is a 1992 Mercury Tracer LTS that tips the scale at about 2300 puonds.

Now for the good news. After my fiance and friends beat me up some more, I went to the hospital. Numerous X-rays and a CAT scan show no internal damage and no broken bones. Only my pride got bruised, but I'll deal with that. The doctors contributed the thickness of my pecs (which still are nothing to brag about, yet) due to my temper and my muscularity from you guessed it...HIT!!!

I don't know if you guys are the ones to have started HIT or are just the champions of HIT on the WEB, but I figured if there was a place for this, it was with you guys. If there is somewhere else to send this that'll help please feel free to distribute this as needed.

Thanx for the laughs. Keep up the great work

Sincerely
Eric Deaton

I have been seriously training for 5 weeks now. I am a 27 year old ex-footballer who use to have all the wrong the ideas about training. I have been doing a lot of research and I just wanted to say thank you for all of your work. This site is a God send for me. I changed my diet a month ago and now plan to utilize the "HIT" program. The wealth of information and insight you have here is awesome. Again, thank you.

Great site!! I am a 39 year old female. Soon to be 40. When I turned 30 I started weight training and even did a little competitive bodybuilding. I trained my butt off for 5 straight years and it paid off. I haven't trained hard since I started to have problems with my heart. I have mitro valve pro lapse with regurgitation and a murmur. All of a sudden I started having problems in the gym, especially on leg days. My heart rate sky rocketed and would not come down. I was being trained by the owner of the gym who was a professional bodybuilder. My Doc said I just could not do anymore heavy weights. I have kept myself in shape with aerobics and light weight training ever since. Now that I am approaching the big 40 I wanted to reach a goal of cutting up a little bit and building up some of that hard earned muscle I had. In my quest for a workout I could do just a couple times a week I found a book on HIT that I had from the old days. I sunk my teeth into that and now I have hope for a workout that doesn't leave me energy deficit for the rest of the day. I feel my muscles are starting to pop already and my heart and energy level is great. I also don't feel like my life is the gym. I'll let you know how it goes. Here's to 40!! Thanks...Carol Yount

I have something to say. My name is Henry Smith and I live in Jackson,MS. I've been lifting weights for the past six years and just have 20lbs of muscle to show for it. Earlier this year, I read Ellington Darden's book, Grow, and I tried the methods and wsa astounded at the results. I started the course weighing 160lbs. Two weeks into the course I had to begin exercising for band camp and get my aerobic capacity back up to standards. My gains during the course were astounding. Each body part grew 1/2 inch!! My weight went up every day!! As I said, my weight was 160 when I started. Two weeks into the program I was a solid 175 lbs!!! That's 15 pounds in two weeks!! I believe I could have had maybe more results if I trained with partner!! For the past 5 months I've gotten back on the volume workouts and guess what?? The only time I feel a pump is when I do 5 sets, but by that time, I'm too tired to continue. But when I train HIT style, I can't even move. But I'll guarantee I'll grow. So that comes from someone who's been on both sides of the fence. Believe me, HIT works!! When I get the money, I'm going to buy more food, up my calories again and grow!!! Thanks, Cyberpump!!

Nit2000

Hey! You got it right.....It is actually a poor reflection on the whole company that puny web site that Bill Phillips has for his customers. While I am writing let me say that Cyberpump has ten times no a hundred times better Q&A and overall support. Just hang in there, keep up the good work it will all pay off in the long run!!

Tony

I have been surfing the net for about 3 years now, and yours was one of the first sites that I came across that had sane and logical advice for the average trainee that wasn't juiced to the gills and hgh and steroids. Keep up the great work, you get better on each visit. High intensity training is THE only way to train, even if everyone doesn't believe it yet. I know that I do my bit to promote it as THE way, I'm just glad that I have some help from others such as yourselves. Good luck with the future, and I look forward to visiting your site on a regular basis for a reality check. Kevin :-)

Hello,

What a page. At 33 I was raised on the Weider "What just happened?" principles. When I was 19 I weighed 140 lbs., after having lifted weights for 4 years (I was 120 when I started, at 5'9").

I went to a little college in Idaho. They had a complete Nautilus room. I started using it, the wrong way. A buddy said, "Here, read this." It was Ellington Darden's "The Natutilus Book". I read it twice. I went and bought my own copy. Who says HIT doesn't work? I gained 25 pounds in four months. I looked great, and the gals loved me. I took a daily vitamin and ate three squares a day. I'm back at it. Your site is Wundebar! Thanks, Jon Ziegler By the way where has all the old Nautilus gone? I'd like to buy a couple.

Congratulations on such an awesome website! I was just browsing and stumbled upon your musclemag commentaries which kept me laughing for the next hour or so....

The information contained here is truly awesome and I can already see the "preventative" benefits of not falling prey to all the commercial Weider-type advertising hype! Keep up the great work!

Kindest regards
Alex

IMHO-
I have been weight training again (for about 6 months), after a 17 year hiatus. I was referred to your web sight by a friend to whom I was explaining my training techniques. In the late 1970's I started Powerlifting purely by accident. In the beginning I had no one to "advise" me & was too stubborn to care. I had lost 40lbs of pure Fat and wanted to put power behind the genitically muscular physique I had been given at birth. With some trial & error, (and a little of my own logic), I started lifting using what you NOW call the HIT technique. After less than one year of training in that manner, I became known as the "Young" Franco Columbo of Northern Indiana State. I was only 16 years old at the time. My very first year of training I was prodded into entering the Indiana State Full Squat Championship Tournament. With only two weeks of Formal training with a coach... I took 2nd Place for my weight division. The 3-foot trophy is still on my mothers mantle. My point is... HIT works! And now at the age of 35, I have finally decided to change my sedentary lifestyle once again. And I'm glad to see that my logic at a young age was sound. Keep up the good work... it's worth every second of it.

R.R.

You folks are doing a great job of improving the site as well as bringing in outstanding people to handle such areas as the HardGainer Q & A.

Getting McRobert as a columnist is just more proof as to why Cyberpump! is by far the best location for information on weight training.

Thanks, really, and please, keep it up!

Best,

Elliott

To Cyberpump,

It's about time someone cracked down on the crap in the muscle magazines. I've heard enough about those pill poping punks. It's heartwarming to see a web site with a little common sense. HIT is the way to go and its better less people know. While they butcher muscle working out 5 days a week, we will grow laughing as we watch them waste their time. Keep up the good work!

Peter Viola

I have to say that your page is awesome. I've been reading it for hours.

Bart

Hello,

I am really impressed with your web-site. It is full of very useful information. I am mostly impressed with how "un-commercial" it is. It is so much information though, that I am overwhelmed! I have just decided to change my lifestyle for the better and take better care of my body. I would suggest that you build a page in your web site just for beginners like me. It would be very useful. I am sure that all the information would be very useful to a lot of us beginners if we could decipher it and be able to understand it.

When I first started to search the web for help, I was bombarded with sale pitches. Everywhere I went for information they would try to make my buy products I can not afford and have no idea what they are for! Finally I found your web site. I have been gathering information from it. I just wanted to make the suggestion above. But I commend you for the excellent job you are doing.

Thank You,

Rick Hdz

Cyberpump is the first sight I check out EVERY day. You have been of immeasurable help to me in my quest to regain my youth. Sincere Thanks

P.J.

Cyberpump,

I have been training seriously for 2 yrs and took up HIT 1 1/2 yrs ago. The gains that i have made over those 18 months has been amazing. I weighed about 165 and nooo muscle development except big forearms and calves, Oh yeah 13 inch biceps. Anyways i am currently 190lbs @5'9" with a 31" waist and still making gains that others cant believe. Currently My Deadlift is @410 for 3 reps and Incline press is at 255 for 2. All from 1 set every 7-8 days! Enough said.

Just wanted to say you have a great site. Keep up the good work. I won the EAS Grand Spokesperson Championship by training High Intensity. I'm in the process of building my own site and dedicating it to this type of training. Kick ass site.

Brad Wadlow EAS Champ. bradw@i1.net

See Brad's before and after pictures.

I started a HIT routine six weeks ago after coming across this site. I am stronger and more toned in this short time than in a year and a half. I can't belive more people don't get the idea of HIT. I get asked how I made these gains in a short amount of time and no one really belives me when I explain the idea of HIT to them. To bad so sad I am kicking ass.

My routine is simple -dips-pullups-curls-benchpress-legcurls-abs. Not in this order.

This is the real s$%&!!!! HIT it!!

R. Raskin

I read some of your HIT info then began doing some of the things you suggested..it's working great, I'm 5'5 130lbs and in 4 weeks my bench press has went up by more than 60 lbs. Im now benching 215lbs.....thanks a lot...Don't forget 2 seconds up 4 seconds down.

I just wanted to thank all of the writers and contributors of cyberpump.you have given me a new perspective for training. I was pretty stagnent as far as improvement, but using HIT principles, I've made great strides the last 9 months ( up 40 lbs in the major lifts). I can't thank you enough, your help has been invaluble.

Vernon King

Dear Cyberpump, This is the best weightlifting page I have found. It's nice to find someone that gives an honest approach to bodybuilding.

in SC

I love your site -- I have been a devotee of HIT since before it was called HIT (I used to call it the "Arthur Jones approach"). It's good to see so many people into the "right" way to lift weights.

Glenn

I really enjoy visiting your web page. As soon as you start up the HIT Digest Mailing List--please add me to the list. Again Great Page.

Thank You
T Michael Collins (TMC1359@worldnet.att.net)

Great web site. A friend of mine told me about it. Good info keep up the good work.

Trevor-s@worldnet.att.net

Super web page! You guys are the greatest! I have been promoting HIT on my web page and everyone loves it! Keep up the great work! http://www.primenet.com/~bdubay/naked.html

Bill DuBay
Costa Mesa, CA
bdubay@primenet.com
http://www.primenet.com/~bdubay

I would just like to say that I have found your site very informative. I am just getting started again with weight training. I am so glad to see that there is a potentially more effective training regime than what I was taught in High School football.

Thanks for all the hard work done on this webpage!

Always,

Lewis Mathews
Kumamoto, Japan

Hi Cyberpumpers

I just wanted to give back some of my happiness finding your GREAT PAGES on the web!!! Especially your comment about Supplementation is incredibly funny.

I've been training since 1989 in the Nautilus/MedX-Style and I'm working at that "Gym" for six years as a Trainer. EVERYONE of over customers trains the Arthur Jones-Way, even though most of them don't have the will to go to the absolute Limit (since we are specialized on Rehabilitation and Prevention).

I started width a bodywaeight of about 60 kg (130 lbs?) and gained in eight years of pure HIT-Training (I never did a second set in my life, but lots of High-Intensity techniques) 20 kg (about 45 lbs?). This may not be much, but compared with my genetics, I'm quite happy.

Just keep on doing your worthful, great work!!!

Tom Faller, Switzerland

Hey guys,

Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your website. I wrote to Matt B. and he actually wrote back! (Helluva guy! I even bought his book.)

Thanks again for all you do. JFC

Thanks for putting up an informative page with good info.

Rama

Just a short note of thanks. I'm 42 years old and have been lifting seriously since my 40th B-day. My bench work was stuck for the past 4 months or so. I started incorporating H.I.T. principles in my routine a month ago . I benched with 260# this morning (a 30# increase), a life time high!! Not just one rep max either, I popped 2 sets of 4 and felt great doing it. Next stop....300# !! THANKS AGAIN

Rick

I am 43, a father of 4 and a busy professional. I am also a life long fitness buff and have stayed in good shape thru running and swimming. I also weight trained on and off (mostly off). I just didn't have the time. A few months ago I discovered Cyberpump and my entire training philosophy was transformed. I now HIT twice a week and run or swim about three times. HIT is brilliant - simple, logical and practical.

I am not a bodybuilder and don't care if doing two hour workouts will create more muscle than HIT. For me the greatest aspect of HIT is maximum gain in minimum time.

I did a HIT routine for three months and had good results. I took ten days off and then began the 3x3 routine that I got off Cyberpump. This is beautiful in its' simplicity. Also very brutal. I do leg presses, underhhand pulldowns and dips. I do less than ten minutes of actual work but am completely destroyed. I rest five minutes and then do back extensions and abs. Puke city !

Your site is the greatest. Keep up the good work.

Yehoshua Zohar
Israel

Your site is very nice. . I am training body building since two years and thanks for your informative site.

Sincerelly from Turkey
M. Fatih

I don't know who writes the info columns on mistakes part 1-5 and bench pressing etc. but, I wish I knew all things you mentioned back when I used to lift. You are right on the money as far as My experiences go in every thing you've mentioned! I'm blown away at reading all the things that I had to go through are printed right in front of me like I wrote them my self. To make this short, I appreciate and respect your advice and coming from you I know I can get started in weight training again. Im just the average 170lb 5'8 guy who wants to start training again at age 35. If you can advise me on where to begin or where to obtain a workout program that I can follow, I would greatly appreciate it. Coming from you I know it would benefit me since your methods and experiences resemble mine as close as any I ever heard.

Eric

Thanks a zillion for publishing your HIT guide. It's made quite a difference in my workouts. I've tried off and on for years to develop an athletic physique, but always got frustrated after a few weeks because my strength gains would quickly plateau. I would work myself to exhaustion doing 3 sets of 10 reps, go home too sore and stiff to shower, stay sore and stiff for days and hardly grow at all. I was overtraining.

That was the case until I read your HIT guide on this website. I applied it and the results have been great. During the last 2 months (only 15 workouts) my upper body strength has increased by up to 50% and lower body by 88%!!

My physique is developing nicely; I am adding mass and definition where I want it and looking better than ever. I'm bigger and stronger now at the age of 35 than I have ever been. So much so that I got a nice compliment from my hard-to-please wife the other day, who said I have "a very nice body...quite a pleasure to look at."

Thanks again for your help. I wish I had taken some pictures of me before I started for a 'before-and-after' comparison. I'm not where I want to be yet, but, thanks to you, I'm getting there; for the first time.

Jerry Barrax

I've been weight lifting for over 10 years and I have read alot of information about lifting techniques and workout routines mostly from the muscle mags. I have always felt they are mostly full of crap. But, since all the information claimed that you have to work out often (and take supplements) to get results, I never listened to my body telling me that I was overtraining. That ended when I found Cyberpump about a year ago. I decreased my workouts from 4 times per week to 2, and I modified my workouts so I do less number of sets but I ALWAYS lift to failure ( after a warm up set, that is ). During the last year, I've seen size and strength increases that I haven't had since I started lifting. I think Cyberpump is a great source of honest information. And I'm convinced that HIT is the only way to train.

Brian Mielke

Thanks for your great site!

Herve'

Dear Cyberpump,

Your site is DYNAMITE!

Kid Serg

Your page is generally of high quality, but I want to give you extra credit for not letting the commercial muscle mags fool the readers of these pages! It's a thing worth a great handshake.

Sincerely,

Eero.
amateur bodybuilder / polytechnic university student
Raisio, Finland.

Hi there! Great site! it rules! :)

Somedude

CYBERPUMP IS VERY COOL AND GREAT !!!! I JUST LIKE IT. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

Thanks for your informative site which has given me quality info to make good training decisions.

Phillip Ball

Cyberpump continues to be the best weight training page on the web and one of the best pages in general.

Brendan Quigley

It has been almost a year since I found Cyberpump. I started lifting weights less than one year ago. (I am 43 years old, 5'7", and had never lifted a weight in my life prior to now, but was always in decent shape through running, etc.).

About one two months after I started using weights (following magazines and books that taught me all wrong), I found Cyberpump. It made sense.... too MUCH sense to work any other way. I am a busy professional/father, and can only work out 2-3 days per week downstairs in my basement. And I might add that I am lazy, and never HIT like I probably should, though I do try to take it to the edge on each set.

But since I started, I lost 15 pounds - from 180 to 165 (must have been fat!), gained I don't know how much muscle, at least 2" in my arms, -3" around the waste, and good gains in shoulders, legs, thighs, and back. All with less than 2 hours of work a week, and hardly any aerobics. Don't tell me that HIT doesn't work. It does, even for the casual and lazy type if you stick to it, and eat right about 5 out of 7 days a week (easy on the fatty foods and sweets is all I did, but still had anything I wanted on weekends).

I feel like a new man. Thanks to all of you at Cyberpump. Readers need to know it works even for those who can't give it 100%.... (I wish I could!).

Gary, in California

Great Site!!....tons of good info on lifting and training!!...I'm just a beginner, but I got alot of good information from the site...especially on good training habits (frequency of lifting per week)..Keep up the Great Work!

Tim

Hi, My name is Kai-Chin and I am from Singapore. I guess he situation of bodybuilding is practically the same everywhere; people just refuse to do the right thing although it sounds the most logical. I visit the gym once or twice a week and I have been training HIT stlye since I stumbled upon this fantastic site. Too often, people put to much faith in muscle mags and end up as corrupted as Joe Weider(although I must point out that Joe makes alot more money by corrupting others). I must thank all at Cyberpump for opening my mind to what is right and wrong. The articles found in here are hardly debatable because it is simply the right thing.I look forward to other great articles at Cyberpump and I hope my feedback has been useful.

Kai-chin.

Thanks for a really *great* source of information. I had been HITting for a few years and I didn't even know it until a few months ago! Keep up the great work.

Robert Ohlhausen

Hey, Keep up the good work! I got my question answered,got a routine and my gains took off.You guys should charge for this!

Andy

This page kicks butt!!

ttop300@nexus.xanadu2.net

I just read your Muscle Mag follies and was tickled to death at the obvious portions of stupidity in the magazines you pointed out. I must admit, I was into the more is better thing, but I never saw any results. I read Ellington Darden's book, "High Intensity Home Training" and was shocked at the things he wrote. Here I was, doing 5 workouts per week for different body parts at the intensity level grass has when it's growing! I thought, this is a lot of garbage. "5 sets is required to make muscle grow!" I thought. Then I read on and discovered a lot of true but obvious things. So I decided to give this method a try. I rested for an entire week to let my body recover. The next week, my arm measurements were up an entire 1/4 inch!!! I was dumbfounded!! Then I tried an arm routine in the book. I did one set of barbell curls with 100% intensity and I couldn't move for the next five minutes!! I then did one set of overhead triceps extensions with a dumbbell to failure. My arms stayed pumped for a full thirty minutes!! I am not exaggerating! I was overjoyed!! Never before have I experienced I pump like that before!!! I must state this again,"My arms stayed pumped for a full thirty minutes after one set of two exercises!!!! I realized I was on to something here. But the true results didn't come until the next morning. I woke up feeling much better than I could recall feeling. I looked at my arms and they looked a little bigger so I decided to get my tape measure and measure them. What I saw convinced me that you guys know what you are talking about. My arm measurement had gone up an entire 1/2 inch!!!! That convinced that HIT training was the way to go!! Keep up the good work. After a few months of studying high intensity principles of training, I challenged some guys that I could put them through the hardest work out they ever experienced!! Guess what, I haven't lost yet!!! Thanks a lot! Again, keep up the good work! Cyber pump is one of my favorite places!!!

Shadowh945@aol.com

Really enjoy the work you guys have put into Cyberpump. I've just returned to training after about a 4 year(sheesh) layoff..inspirational reading for sure. That Reflections of a Hiter guy is hilarious. The whole page gives me strength to resist my local gym owner's 20 sets per body part philosophy which he tries to cram down everyone's throat. Now if I could only get out of this chair (just had my squat workout, ugh).

Jim Stingily

Thanks for putting this information together. It has been of enormous help to me setting up an effective strength training program.

Doug

Hi! I have read everything on the Cyberpump site and have learned many things. I started to train many times but with the conventional wisdom of at least 3 sets per exercise, I always gave up due to exhaustion. Your site also motivated me to watch 'Pumping Iron" again, this time with a critical eye. Most of the exercises done in the movie were not full motion i.e. mostly half reps. Even Big Lou when doing military presses did not raise the bar above his head and performed the exercises so fast the I could see the bar bounce out of his hands at the top of each rep!! This movie inspired thousands of young men to try out bodybuilding. Unfortunately it also provided many bad examples of how to perform an exercise. I've only trained 3 times in the last two months, mostly due to work and study commitments. However I have noticed more improvement than when I was doing countless sets and 15+ exercises per session. The information you provide should be mandatory reading for any so called "Personal Trainer". Thanks for the best fitness site in the universe!!

John

I wanted to take a moment to personally thank the entire staff of Cyberpump for all the help and support given to me in preparing for my recent contest. I placed 2nd in the lt. heavyweight division, and although I felt a little"off" that day, the advice and supprt of cyberpump, along w/ the Saturday night gang on iron talk was much appreciated.

Thanks and keep up the great site.

Kwshlp@aol.com

Hey Cyberpump guys -- First of all, the pages look great! I've only recently begun (again) on the journey to a better body, and looking through your pages in the past couple weeks has DEFINITELY had an impact on my workouts.

Thanks a lot!

Michael Turay

Ladies and Gentlemen, I truly enjoy your site. I stumbled upon some of the priniciples that you promote about 6 years ago (the ones concerning overtraining). I have been lifting weights consistently since 1983 except for a six month layoff because of a severe shoulder injury. I also became frustrated with the muscle mags in about 1991. They promote such large training volume that you would have to have radical supplement technology just to maintain their recommended workouts. I have never taken steroids or performance enhancing drugs of any kind but I have tried most supplement categories and recommended workouts by the "prophets of the industry". Then there was a period of time about six years ago when my schedule did not allow the time for the superhuman workouts anymore and I began to cut back on my workout volume but still kept the consistency. I was still splitting bodyparts at the time so I decided that I would need to keep my workouts heavy to keep from losing strength. This dropped me down to four of five sets per bodypart instead of 15 or 20 and I was going up to 6 or 7 days between workouts. I had decided that this was better than nothing at all. The first positive sign of this schedule was that I did not have any "bad" days in the gym. Up until this time, there were a lot of workouts where I seemed much weaker than the workout before or did not have any stamina. After reducing the volume this side affect of overtraining completely disappeared. After about a month, I started making some of the biggest gains since my introduction to weight training in 1983. This all caused me to come to the conlusion that in the past, my body was not totally recuperating between workouts. I always felt that I had recovered but now I realized that I hadn't. Recuperation times can be very deceptive and overtraining is easy to do. It takes more discipline to hold back and wait for the proper training interval if you enjoy working out.

I then started preaching this training principle to my friends and they thought I was just getting lazy. Because of my schedule I was not working out with them anymore anyway. I believed in doing "some" sets to failure but was not very adamant about it and then I ran across the Cyberpump site right after it went on line. The principles that I was reading about were much more advanced that what I had found through trial and error but the thought process was still the same. I began experimenting with the principles in your FAQ's and tailored a workout that suited my conditions. I guess you could say that I do what you call an advanced version but I have taken two other people and taught them the principles with amazing results.

Keep up the good work,
Mark A. Prince

Yo guys,

Just wanted to say your site is great and keeps improving. I really like the way you've done the archives, and the stats are interesting. The chat room is also great. I've met some very helpful and friendly folks in there. This kind of information helps me stay motivated and keeps me coming back for more. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication.

HIT RULES! Later,
JFC

Dear cyberpump,

Thank you for putting both the Nautilus bulletin #1 and the articles by Arthur Jones' series: My first half century in the Iron Game.

Jones articles are packed with gems of common sense and straigtforward advice you can't find anywhere else. Thank you so much!!!!

Stryker
P.S.-Keep up the good work on Cyberpump!

I love this page

Ryan

Cyberpump crew,

You guys deserve a metal for your information. I am an exercise physiologist...hence, I find myself arguing with die-hard body-builders about all of the "Myths" that your team is busy de-bunking. Bravo on your "gutsy" attitude.

I peruse many fitness sites monthly, and I do believe that a site is considered awesome when you get the readers to use it as their Home page. Because of your interesting and changing information, I will use it as my homepage to keep up with your weekly additions.

Chris Johnson

Been checking out cyberpump for quite awhile now. Thought it was time to say hi. I,ve been on both sides of the training thing in my 51 years,having started as an olympic lifter under Al Christensen some 30 yrs ago. Yes, I even helped coach Dr. Mike Stone. We remain friends today, but I've been total HIT since I met Arthur Jones just as he was starting Nautilus. We spent some time together in the eary days, and I've kept up my interest thru the years. Anyway I really like your webpage. I also read Milo and attend Highland games, so I guess you could say I like the strength world.

Jim Bryan

Cyberpump!

Great Arthur Jones series, thanks ! How about some stuff from Stuart McRobert / Ken Leistner, or what would be really fantastic...some of the old Peary Rader, John McCallum article's - You'd make my decade if you could get some of that stuff !

Good work guys,
Dayrl

Hey CyberPumpers,

(Does that sound as silly to you as it does to me....?) Anyways, I just wanted to send you a sincere thank-you for keeping this site so high quality. The information is always informative and entertaining. We do appreciate the work you put into this site, even if you don't hear it that much.

Just one main point, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, keep the writing and columns top level. I used to really enjoy ****** as well, but now everyone and their younger brother writes there (a 16 year old!). Not that a 16 year old can't be knowledgable, but this particular one should maybe wait a few years. Cyberpump remains the highest standard. Thanks for giving us hitters a voice and spreading the word. Keep up the great work!

Sincerely,
-Derek.

Thanks for the Cyberpump site. I am a H.S. football coach in NJ. When I was a young player, my father took me to hear Dan Riley. I made some nice gains following his suggestions. However, it didn't line up with the muscle mags I devoured nor with the workouts recommended by the strength coaches I trained under. In fact, I am a Princeton grad and PU football alum who was very upset with the fact that the tigers had a HITer as strength coach. As you can see, I had bought into the prevailing ethos of how to prepare for football. Not too long ago while looking around on the www, I discovered your site. Since then I have spent countless hours reading through just about every article. I went to the local barnes & noble to purchase Matt Brzycki's book. After some initial skepticism, which turned to incredulity and finally to belief, our current off-season training program is now a hit program. Our players are just beginning to learn what it means to really train!

This weekend we will be going to army's clinic. I plan to spend some time with the strength staff to continue my "re-education".

What I am actually saying is thanks for bringing me back to my roots.

No more having the you-know-what scared out of me watching a freshman do cleans and snatches. No more sore wrists. you get the idea.

Jon Schultheis
Keansburg H.S.
Head Football Coach

I have just recently found this web site and I have to say it is fantastic. Well my story goes like this. I'm a exercise science major at a university in Illinois. I will not say which one for protection purposes. Anyway in 1994 I attended the University of Micigan and was fortunate enough to have a class that was instructed by Mike Gittelson whom as I'm sure you know is the football strength and conditioning coordinator. Any way I had to transfer back to this Illinois school to finish my education. From then on though I have been a big believer in HIT. So anyway last year I had to do an internship and I chose to do it with the strength and conditioning at this school. Little did I know that once I said anything about HIT the head coach which was my supervisor for the internship immediatly judged me and took a dislike towards me. Suffice it to say all of his assistants and volunteers took a dislike towards me as well. It was a bad experience and after I had it out with the head coach I quit the internship. He said he would give me an F for the class. This all because I believe in HIT. And to think I went into the internship with an open mind. It did'nt get me anywhere. I'm an A- student and I could not take an F for the course. Anyhow I had to share this experience with you guy's at HIT. The thing is none of them had the balls to say anything to me about my beliefs. NSCA sucks and so do power cleans!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian Barlow

Hey you guys are starting to look like a real web site. Seriously, the new features are great and should help you as well with answering redundant questions (the real reason behind the improvements I suspect). You're still the best web site for no bullshit weight training advise. I told Motz anyone who doesn't believe it should put "weight training" in their search engine and just try to find a better site. No Matches to your Query

Larry (Barbie Hands)

I enjoyed your web page. I am a member of the Super Slow Exercise Guild, and used to work with a trainer who had a subscription to The Steel Tip/H.I.T. and remember some of the articles from there. It's always great to find others who know what they're talking about. Did you know that Mentzer has a web site? www.mikementzer.com. Nothing new, same stuff he's been saying for years, (same pictures he's been using since the early 80's), but it's amusing nonetheless.

Thanks, and if you don't mind, I'd like to put a link to your site on mine when I finally figure out how to design one.

Andrew Baye

Just wanted to add my thanks--I've been following your page and HIT for about 2 years now. For the past six months or so my girlfriend has been working out with weights and she too is gung ho about the sensible HIT way of doing things--it means she can actually stand up in aerobics class 3 times a week, and possibly even walk home. "Don't overtrain"--"train intense"....oh boy are there a lot of Beavis and Butthead types in university gyms who haven't got your message.

My girlfriend and I even share with each other our "weight room follies" after every ANNOYING workout. I've got a million of 'em. The biggest problem in the gym is endless numbers of sets by beginning weightlifters. Hmmm...why do you see a long angry lineup at the squat rack bozo? Maybe because your fifth set was as pathetically bad in form as your first? I like the kind where the guy piles on three plates and does a really short range of motion and then pauses for about a half an hour at the top between "reps". The super short range of motion trick is also very popular with seated leg presses. I really like all the skinny guys wearing weightlifting belts while they do cable curls...hahahaha!

Anyway, thanks a bunch and keep the info flowing.

(Still trying to eat the last few tablets of Cybergenics I bought in 1991 so I can amuse myself by watching my urine turn fluorescent yellow...)

Andrew in Toronto

I am 24 years old and have been weight training off and on for the last 10 years. It has only been during the last couple of years that I have really gotten serious about it. I have looked long and hard for the honest kind of answers I have found on your website. As a second year medical student, I know quite a bit about biochemistry and physiology. Most muscle mags do nothing but promote the sales of the nutritional supplement and steroid industry. Thanks again for your straight forward approach.

Carlo Gibellato

Keep up the good work Cyberpump. I enjoy your honesty. It is nice to have a website for the natural trainer. You keep me motivated and bring me to reality when I become discouraged with my training. Nothing comes easy.

Jason

I think your page is doing a wonderful job of providing the common-sense bodybuilding community with true excercise information.

Marco Castillo

Cyberpump,
I've been visiting you site almost non-stop for about a week. It's MUCH better than when I was reading it last year. I've found that I don't have to wait to get HIT Newsletter every 6 months or so to get good HIT info. Keep up the good work!

Chris White

I want to let everyone know who is involved with the 'Cyberpump' Web Page.....Great Job! I try to visit once or twice a week and am never disappointed in the result of your efforts. Thanks you to everyone.

Mike

To the HIT team:

Thanks for everything you're doing. Keep up the good work! I'm writing to say that I'm especially pleased to see the new NutriMuscle Section (I hope it will help cut through the nonsense!) -- it is already off to a great start.

Good luck. D

AWESOME WEB PAGE! Just surfed in for the first time today. You have more useful information packed into your page than any other site I've seen yet!

Tom Venuto

Great job guys!!! I mean your page is by far the best weight training page on the web. You are the reason why I switch to HIT training. And in just 6 weeks I gained about 15 lbs of muscle while drastically increasing my strength. Keep up the good work!

Chris Thibb

You know, I didn't want to be one of those brown nosers who says that this is the best sight in the world and all pale in comparison, but I guess I'm a hypocrite (: This page is very easy to use. I just check out what's new for today and read it. Cyberpump knows how to keep their deluge of information in order. And that's the most important thing for a web page. Secondly, the information your columnists provide are honest and accurate. It is refreshing to see that good weightlifting information exists in the world. I would recommend this site to anyone getting ripped off by advertisement filled, ghost written, mundane content containing muscle mags.

Thanks to everyone who contributes their time to this site.

Jesse Souki

Your site is one of the best(if not) I've seen so far. It's great to find something devoted to natural bodybuilding. It's also great to see that I am doing things right in my training(sometimes you doubt yourself i.e. form,etc) Probably why I got big so fast. I agree with all your training tips, especially on biceps!

Kev

Just discovered your page and am overjoyed to be able to connect with other hit devotees. thanks.

Bob Phillips

Dear Cyberpump and members of the H.I.T. family, This "info." page is just what someone in my position is looking for. I am a strength coach and football/track coach at the high school level. I look forward to learning more about the field of strength and conditioning from your home page. Keep up the great work!

Chris Brumm

I have been lifting weights since my sophomore year in high school (I'm currently 23), that's about 8 years. In high school my friend and I used to come in 4 days a week and even on holidays. We were intense and also fooled into the suppliments and the "more is better" mantra poured out by muscle mags. Up until college, I was caught up in this fruitless method. A method that caused me to overtrain and inevitably lose my zest for training. I stumbled upon to this site and thought you people were crazy. It all seemed too easy!! Eventually, I was forced to workout less because of school and, in a way, was forced to adopt HIT's methods. In short, it was the best thing I ever did. HIT works, and I enjoy lifting once again. So, when you see those guys in the gym, who fruitlessly persue the false "godly body" that the mags promise, remember that changing the way you approch bodybuilding is difficlut if not impossible because bodybuilding is a necessity tied to our identity. Instead of scoffing at poor trainers, perhaps we should take a chance and let them know about Cyberpump. Happy training :)
-jesse

I love the Cyberpump page! I check in atleast once a day for new tips and updates. Keep up the amazing work!

Mike Simms

Hey, just wanted to let you guys know that I think your site rules.

Haruko Nakagawa

Hey guys. I just wanted to drop you a line and let you know how much I like your page. You have the best info going and I am sure to check it everyday.

Keep your info fresh like you have been doing. It gets boring going to a site and not seeing anything new.

I really like the HIT faq and the HIT stuff sections. That is chock full ofinfo. That training tips page is what all these beginners need. Those are the answers you hear from them... Why should I squat? How do I get big arms? etc. Keep directing towards building the whole body. It is a system after all. Anyway, by far the best stop on the info superhighway. Now all you need is a chat forum.

Jay

I'm a college student and I recently went home for a weekend to train with one of my buddys who plays division I football. Anyway, being uneducated in the area of proper (HIT) training techniques, he looked at my workout and refused to believe that it was really mine b/c I'm 6'2 about 235 and under 10% body fat. "8 exercises...1-2 sets apiece, that is it? This can't possibly do anything." Well, I convinced him to try it. He was laughing before the session and was hugging the bowl after it. Highlights included an Arthur Jones arm workout and manual lateral raises. I've never seen a man's lips turn purple afterdoing a 60 sec. chin. Then again, most mere mortals can't do 60 sec. chins. After our session, my friend had a different attitude, he didn't come out and tell me, but judging from the fact that he could not get off the floor, I think he had a change of opinion. For all of you who don't believe in HIT, strap on a pair of nutts and come down to Cincinnati, home of HT magazine, we'll be happy to show you a little hospitality.

I HIT, therefore I am

Great website guys. I am a high school football and baseball coach from Indiana. I have been a HITter for a long time, and this service is a great resource. I can hardly wait to sit down everyday and EXPLORE. By the way I train some of our kids with HIT and they hate my guts during our workouts, and hug me after.

This thing you have going will only grow as more people get commonsense towards the mistakes being made at many schools using BFS methodology etc.

Frank Severa

I just wanted to commend you on your site. I think it is excellent and after spending over two hours of homework time on it just now, although feeling guilty, I got a lot from it. Anyway though, great site!

Matt

Great Page, I have been heavily into upperbody workout to get high gains in my chest and arms, but after reading what you said about not forgeting the squats, that it in turns builds the whole body, I'm going to start doing squats now! Great info I have included you in a link on my weightlifting page! Great info, Thanks for the suggestions.

Mark

I have lifted for about ten years with, only, moderate success. People could tell that I worked out but I was disappointed in the overall effort. I saw the HIT Faq, read it and it made perfect sense. I am in my third 8 week cycle using the principles.

Several people who were strangers to me at the gym, now, come up to me and want to know various components of my training program. It is a gas! One big guy stated to me that I must be on steroids because I was getting so cut and defined.

Thanks for the valuable information.

Len

Just want to say thank you. Cyberpump is a lot of fun! Especially if you live in a country where the HIT and Nautilus priciples does not exist in the bodybuilding world.

Tomas Norlen

Congratulations on a great web page!! Anyway I have spent time reading a whole bunch of theories, but for logic and rational, HIT IS IT!

I think your page is awsome!!!!!!!!! It has revolutionized my training, keep up the good work.

Big Joe

I train under master strength coach Ed Cicale and I'm big on Arther Jones's methods. I did his arm workout the other day and almost blacked out, it was damn fun. HIT methods rule. We need to convert more people, we base our training on fact and fact alone. Great page.

PJ "Bull" Striet

I just want to say THANK YOU for this web page and esp. the HIT FAQ. I HAD been getting all my info on weight training from M&F for the majority. A few Men's Fitness's as well. And I'd been following their programs. I'd gotten nowhere (well, I put on a few pounds, but not much) in two years of lifting on and off. 6 months of on before Football season. I am an 18 year old High School (Canada) football player. And I LOVE this web site. I've only been on HIT for the last 2 weeks and already my chest is alot bigger, and my arms (even though I only do 1 set) are getting larger as well. I don't know exact measurements but they do look bigger. And my shoulders are wider now too. I know that because some of my fav shirts are now smaller!! And my waist is smaller so that isn't it. Even my younger brother who is all academics (chess team, etc) is taking up THIS training because it isn't 4,5,6 days a week. Just two (for now) Monday and Thursday and I'm gonna tell my coach about HIT.

I never thought I could make gains like this. 8 pounds in 2 weeks! I don't expect that to continue, but 8 POUNDS in 2 WEEKS! Of muscle too, because my waist is smaller and more defined.

Jeremy Hohertz, #36

Great page guys, keep up the great work!

Dale

First of all, congratulations on putting together one of the premier training resources - anywhere - whether that be magazines, journals or the Internet. I've enjoyed reading the information on your site for the past year and consider it a very accurate source of information. Once again, a job well done by you and the rest of the Cyberpump gang. Here's to hoping that Cyberpump will continue to provide great training information for years to come.

Sandeep De

Congrats! on a Super site! Much good and useful information for an old gym rat of 67. Love the MMF as they save me a lot of cash from not buying some of the mags that don't make it! A lot of good laughs. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Ed Bennett

Finally, I just wanted to say great page, better info! If there were more following your lead, a lot of time would be saved in the gym and a lot of money at the store! Keep up the excellent work! Happy lifting!

MIGHTY AG1

Just want to tell you how great I think your page is. I'm new to America Online and saw your corner. Started reading and having a great time. I used to spend all my time at libraries and newstands trying to get good info... but you have it all here.

I appreciate the lack of "sell", and the abundance of information you have for us.

Keep it up. I'm here with you.
GARY in California

Is there any reason left why you should read any of the muscle comic books? Do you have to buy any books about bodybuilding / strength trainig / powerlifting? Three months ago, I was sure. Then I started reading CYBERPUMP, and I'VE SEEN THE LIGHT! So why bother with the crap Joe Weider and his buddies are producing. HIT RULZ!

Gerrit

Thank you for the best training site on the web!

dartops@aol

Terrific page and keep up the great information.

PJ Striet, Cincinnati OH

I knew I was on to something when I got a hold of Mentzer's work, and now that I've found your site I know that my training will take a quantum leap forward. Anyway, keep up the great work and I'll keep reading and lifting intensely.

Jeff Lambert

First off THANK YOU for this site. I have tried everything over the years in terms of "revolutionary workout" systems, but finding your page was a blessing from Above.

Steve

Cyberpump is by far the best page on the net. I will continue to use it for important infomation. Thanks guys.

Gary Giffin
Fort Nelson, British Columbia

Thanks for the fantastic web page!

Bill Dubay

I had almost lost interest in my Internet connection when I discovered. This page greaT greAT grEAT gREAT GREAT.

Peter Jegas

Just thought I'd drop you a line to say this page is awesome. I just started lifting after a long period of just being too lazy.

I thought the entire (muscle) media was completely dominated by the supplement makers, and why should the net be any different. How refreshing to find a voice of reason, or several voices in this case.

Keep up the good work.

Rob Alexander

Great page!! I've learned a lot from Cyberpump, and expect to learn more as time goes on. Keep up the good work.

Alex Seldin

What a great page! You guys truly do a fantastic job and a much needed service to the many people that visit Cyberpump. I, for one, appreciate the amount of effort that goes into this site.

Todd Galimidi

I wanted to take a moment to thank you at Cyberpump for the terrific service you are doing and to express to you how much I appreciate what I consider to be the best and most informative web site around.

Eric Clark

THIS IS THE BEST SITE ON THE WEB BY FAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve Randall

Your site kicks ass! I especially liked Matt B.'s Reflections series--lotta good stuff in there. I found more useful info on your site that on many of the other "bodybuilding" sites on the net combined. Keep up the good work!

Matt Nye

Great page! Cyberpump is defintely one of the best sources of training information available.

Robert J. Fabsik Jr.

I would just like to take the time to thank you for all the free information. HIT training has had a huge impact on my training life. The HIT principles just made so much sense to me that I decided to change my whole routine. I now do whole body workouts twice per week, one set per excercise as hard as I can. I am out of the weight room in about 50 minutes and I feel fresh every time I enter the gym. I've made more gains in the past six months than I did in the year before I started using HIT principles.

Andy Wallen

I have been training for seven years. Two years ago I was under the impression that more was better so I was overtraining like a mad man. Thanks to your page I know what happened to me. In your HIT FAQ 2.0 #16 you discribe what happens to the immune system when you overtrain. Well I can swear that no truer words have been spoken (written). I got mono 4 (count 'em), four times in 15 months. My doctor couldn't believe it. It was very depressing because I thought I was doing good by training so hard. I backed off from doing so much and settled in to 2 split routines 2 days on one off. Now thanks your page I'm getting much better results from doing a full body HIT every third day. Thanks for the good info.

Larry Berube

HIT Rocks! Thanks a lot for all your invaluable comments and info, and keep it up!

PJ Ramey

Thanks for taking the time and effort to maintain a great web site!

Joe

I just wanted to thank you for putting together this page. I have found more useful information on Cyberpump than in all the other web pages on weightlifting that I have looked at.

Joe Berne

I really like your page. Good work!!

Michael

I am overjoyed by the quality of training information on this page. I had felt very isolated in my training style - you know how many people will tell you that you can't grow on one set per exercise, no matter how much mass you gain. Finally, I have found training advice I can use and a voice on the net with some intelligence.

Joseph C. Berne

The HIT series is absolutely outstanding. I feel very fortunate that I found the site. I have been reading and working out in this manner for sometime. However, since I run I have a hard time keeping weight on. From experience I know what a short routine can accomplish. Keep up the good work.

Mike Buckley

I have been an hit'er for a long time, But not a computer person for as long. I find your page both informative and useful!

Keep up the good work!

Mark Hanafee

I like your Web page, keep up the good work!

Frangois

This is a great site!

Fran

Awesome truthful infomation about gainig mass and training smart.

BEN

By far the best weight lifting page on the web. I love it.

Derek Saltel

Excellent page, by far the best lifting page on the web.

Brendan Quigley

I really have to tell you the already outstanding content of your site has been improved in its current iteration.

Keep on HITting!

Cheers,

Mark Ward

I really enjoy this page. I have been following Cyberpump! since its inception (almost), and I believe it to be the best strength training page available for the natural trainer. Also, I appreciate your candor and scientific rigor with which all information here is presented. It's refreshing to see scientific evidence and logic supporting training methodologies instead of guesswork and tradition.

Christopher C. Lamb

I would first like to congratulate you folks on an excellent web site. Even though I earn my living writing computer programs that are internet and web able, this is one of the few web sites that I personally find justifies the cost of my PPP account. In an area that is so dominated by half-truths and pseudo-science (strength training), it is nice to see a forum where alternatives to what Matt Brzycki so aptly calls "the muscle comics" are presented in an intelligent manner.

Joseph Swift

First off great site guy, keep up the good work. I love the muscle mag bashing since they con thousands of people out of there money each year on this steriod replacement that will let you gain 30-40 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks and take your body fat to 4%.

Jordan Aloof

You guys do a good job. Intense, brief, infrequent! Signing off from Bosnia. THANKS!

Donald Westbrooks

I appreciate your honest candor in regard to what is really going on in the bodybuilding/weightlifting world. It was also nice to see pictures of individuals who were not on the "juice".

The philosophy I've also maintained in physical fitness is to challenge my body within its God-given genetic potential. This is the philosophy I see communicated on your web page. Thank you again for your honest analysis as to what is really go on out there in commercially driven weight training land. Unfortunately, this is what gets the most publicity and appeals to Joe Q public. The deception is real and your page helps to unmask the hidden agenda behind these fantastic claims.

Steve

Hey Cyberpump! I enjoy your page and find it very informative (probably the one single best source of strength training information). Being a HITer is so much more rewarding than any other type of strength training and I am sure I will never turn back to the useless programs I did before (like that BFS nonsense)!!

BKS from Toronto

Just want to congratulate you on a terrific page. I have been a CyberPump fan for quite awhile, and am very impressed with the quality of information and frequency of updates on your page. Thanks for being a part of our community.

David Bohnett
CEO
GeoCities

Its refreshing to have something written in the weight field that isn't financially driven or product driven.

Laurence Alison

After surfing for that time, I was lucky to have come across your page after looking at other similar sites. Well, I'm sure you've heard this many times but it's great. Keep up the good work.

Vince Yong

I've only read this page for the last two hours and I find it so very good already. I've already broke out some binders, printed up some articles from your page, and put together a workout diary/info binder. I'm fired up!

You have a great page.

Michael Le

What's up, your page is totally mint! I heard about HIT, but you bring it to a whole new information level.

Joseph Sclafani

I think that Cyberpump! is the best pages on the web! Anyway - keep up the good work!! Tell it like it is!!

Henrik Svedlund

The new format is better, easier to find things!!

Keep up the good work!!

Andreas,Sweden

You have really done a nice job with this site, I really enjoy it, and I've learned a lot as well.

Thanks for all of your work.

Mike Allen

I recently read your training tips and found them to be most interesting."No Bullshit". Honesty for once! Keep up the great work and hoping to read the next tip of the week.

Dino Castrilli

Thanks for the great input every week on Cyberpump.

Eric

I love your publication either way, appreciating especially the candor and the relentless pointing out of the emperor's lack of clothing! Keep up the good work.

John Koenig

Thanks for the great resource.

Bob Bartek

Keep up the good work on excellent HIT training information. I got away from it for awhile but I'm using the HIT principles again and am feeling better and also making better progress. Thanks!

Fran Struna

One word, "bravo". thanks for bringing sane training information and guidelines to the internet.

David Harper

Greetings from a Minnesota HIT'er! I love Cyberpump - keep up the good work.

Jaren Bispala

Hey! First let me say thank you for putting your page on the net. I read about it in GQ and took a look. I immediately made my workout a HIT workout. Did my back workout yesterday, and yeah, it hurt so good!

Keep it up, I've already started converting some of my workout friends to be HITers! Thanks.

Owen Malcolm

Congratulations on your Cyberpump Pages, they are superb. It is good to see H.I.T. articles and people who have had great success, much the same as me.

Richard Levett

Nice page, I hope to see more of it.

Peter Lau

Great job. Keep up the good work.

Best Regards,

Cosmo

First let me say that you guy's are leaps and bounds above the crowd, except for Arthur Jones.

Keep up the sanity!

Donald Westbrooks

Congratulations on your wonderful page. Without any doubt the best at the net.

Nir

Excellent page. Get Jedi Rob to answer his HIT questions more frequently!!!

Keith Hopkins

This was my first time on the web and I found you by luck, but I will now frequent your pages. Thank you once again for providing the "REAL DEAL."

John Bolger

It's definitely the best weight-training related site on the Net that I know of. Keep up the good work.

Chuck Clark SPT

Love the page, keep it up!

I find your website very well organized with lots of good food for thought. Thank you. :):):):):):)

Steven Paulsen EMT-P

This is a great page. WOW!

Jianxiong

I think you have an excellent page here, probably the best I've seen in bodybuilding.

I really look forward to switch to it every Monday, in order to see the latest tip of the week, the new reflections, etc.

Good job !!

Pablo, Germany

I have to say that this is the best muscle page on the net!!

Jesse

This page kicks ass. It just keeps getting better and better. I used to have to leaf through Weider "comic books" to find stupid quotes, but you bring them right to my computer. :-)

Daniel Finn

I really dig your site...I got a site at HotSprings/1004..I would really like to add you guys to my list of Links...You guys really do a great job!!!!

Tommy Chill of Tommy Chill's Gym

This page is awesome.

Jen aka: FLEXGIRL

I enjoy your website very much. It's has lots of useful info.

Fuji Sartono

I first came across CyberPump 4 months ago. It should be held forth as a model for designing relevant, informative web pages.

It is informative and straight forward...no impossible promises or unrealistic standards...just plain, informed, practical info on healthy and realistic weight training.

I find myself a frequent visitor to this great resource. Many thanks...

Rob T

A friend of mine who I've been showing HIT and Super Slow [and pretty much training him in every form of life] told me recently that "everyone keeps saying I use steroids, but I don't use steroids" and that people "are sure that I was using drugs because of how fast I got muscle"... that put a smile on my face, considering he *used* to be 130lbs. Hehehehehehehehehheehehheehhehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehheeheheheh LONG LIVE HIT! He now got an internet account and can't stop reading Cyberpump!...... at 170lbs.......

Matt

INCREDIBLE web site!!! What a find, and I thank you!!

Bob

I just wanted to say you're doing a great job with Cyberpump. Keep it up. One more thing, does the HIT methods apply to brushing teeth?!! I hate brushing my teeth! takes too long!!

Steve

I have just resumed working out after about two years of laziness and am fascinated by the principles of HIT and have found your pages a great resource.

Jeff Brown

I like your page. Neat stuff.

Arthur De Vany

I have spent hours checking out your page over the last couple of days. It is great. I am a federal law enforcement officer and am trying our SuperSlow (on my own) and think that HIT is the way to go!

Thanks for the great source of information!

Elliott Miami, FL

I love what you've done with your www site. It keeps getting better and better.

Richard Winett, Ph.D. - Publisher of Master Trainer

This is the best damm page that I have seen on the net. I have been working in the gym for about 15 years - really like your FAQ and the good advice that I see here about being realistic.

Dick Damian

Great page, really enjoy it.

Had purchased Matt Brzycki's Practical Approach to Strength Training at the bookstore of the university I attend (Brock University, Ontario Canada). It seemed so much more logical than the weight lifting/bodybuilding books I had been reading before. Glad to see a web site that is devoted to the same ideals.

Fantastic page!! Look forward to reading it every week.

Sincerely yours

Mike Hansen

I just discovered your www site and was very impressed with the entire content--great job.

Jeff Merkeley

Thanks for a great site!

Robert

I'm a 40 year old probation officer/professional photographer that's has been interested in the iron game for about 20 years. Nothing on a competitive level, but enough to garner the looks of a few men & women though. I periodically have my old tendonitis injury sneak back into my shoulder and elbow. I feel even at my ripe old age, I still am learning everyday, and that is good. It is really refreshing to find a web page like yours that is no nonsense, good helpful info. truly concerned about not just the fitness of the bodybuilder/lifter but also the health. I have fallen into the information trap so many times-ex. reading x number of strenth-bodybuilding magazines and everyone says something different. I become more than just slightly confused. I've had that problem with photography also. All the seminars ...... All the photographers say if I just had this flash unit and that softbox or umbrella then my work would improve. I have learned one fact-if I just trust my abilities, go back to basics and master the basic concepts, then things will turn out pretty good. The same principle applies to other areas of life. Your web seems like it applies sensible principles and gets back to basics, much like Bob Hoffman of York Barbell Company preached for years. So many years I read countless stories of bodybuilders supersetting the same bodypart 2,3 and even 4 times a week. Boy, how training philosphies have changed. Keep up the good work on the web page. You will need a 5th digit on the visitor gauge real soon and if more people hear about it probably a 6th digit down the road. Thanks for the hard work.

I have visited your site for quite some time and I feel its one of the best weight sites on the web. You have inspired me to create my own web page on weight lifting. I am writing to complement you on your work and ask your permission to put a link to your page from mine. Hopefully when I get my up, and you want to, you can stop by and visit it to see if it meets with your approval. Again, thank you and keep up the good work!!

Sam

Just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that your site is one of the best I've seen. I have used HIT on and off for quite a number of years only resorting to multiple set methods (never more than 3 sets per movement) when I mentally "burn-out". During the past 2 months, I've been using a 3-days per week, full body routine and have made strength gains just like a "beginner". I view this as positive proof of the effectiveness of HIT as I have been training for the last 17 years.

Also note that these strength gains have been obtained while on a fairly strict diet in which I have dropped down from 207 to 185 lbs. with approx. 5% bodyfat.

Keep up the great work!

Todd Galimidi

On behalf of the weight-lifting section of the 'net that frequents your page, I'd like to say thanks. Thanks for all your hard work in keeping this page going, and thanks for giving me something productive to do on the 'net besides work.

As a 6'4" hardgainer (with a metabolism like a gerbil on uppers), I'd also like to thank you for posting sane and rational views on the lifting game! I can't tell you how sick I was of reading articles by chemically-tainted, hopped-up, self-important "champs" insisting that their viewpoint is the *only* way to train. I'm not quite two-hundred pounds, and have a devil of a time making strength gains, though no difficulty losing them. Your page of common-sense is a God-send!

Keep up the good work!

Ed Northcott,
Partner, net.works Multimedia

I followed your recommendation about form change for the squat on the weekend, and I singled 25 lbs less than my PR, *without* losing the use of my arm for several days! I was able to bench this morning only very minor pain. My arm feels like it is on the mend already - seeing as I didn't re-injur it again.

Thank you for replying - this has really pumped some new energy into my lifting as I'm not fighting a sore arm every day!

Keep up the good work on the web page!

Thanks again guys,

Darcy

Your "Cyperpump" page is unquestionably the best strength training related site I have yet found on the Internet. I am happy to see Rob Spector has also started his own page. The purpose of this correspondence is to let you that your good work is very much appreciated. Please keep it up.

Regards,

Chris Petko

I read your article on getting big guns with great amusement--and agreement.

I look forward to the one you do on abs!

Funny thing...supposedly N2.0 for Mac (68k) doesn't support Java, but I got the arm flexing just fine....Nice job.

Page looks great.

Paul

Saw your post and I dropped by your site today - pretty cool - how'd you do that "face" and "bicep cyberpump" thing?!

Hi!

The Cyberpump! WWW page is really cool! Only facts - no fiction :-)

Keep up the good work!

Karel

Dear Cyberpump,

I unforturnately represent one of the many genetically challenged. I'm 30 years old, 5'9", 138lbs., and have approximately 8% body fat (skin fold?). I've been lifting consistently for about a year now every day(Legs/Upper body on alternating days, 3 sets each/8 reps). I've gained about 4 pounds. What does the Cyberpump crystal ball see in my future. Is there hope for a guy who is afraid of beaches and if so will I ever be able to wear tank tops confidently? Any helpful hints are much appreciated, and thanks for presenting information that makes sense for a change. Your a gem in a huge landfill!

I'm a Junior in High School. I had been lifting in the high school weight room for 2 year without exessive progress until I learned about the HIT principals. When I first started to do some of the workouts like the 60 second chinup,people laughed, made fun of me, and told me that I wasn't doing anything for my muscles and that the only way that I could get big was to do their marathon workouts.

But after a couple months people started to take notice. I could see people staring at my bicepts as I did my 1 curl set. I was getting bigger. After about a year on HIT my muscles are practicaly bursting through my skin. While keeping the same level of body fat I have gone from 155 without HIT, to 175 with HIT. Now the people who lauphed at me before crowd around me to see what my next mind blowing workout is going to be

Nate G.

Enjoyed the page. I read one article and saved a few more. I'll return. I'm having "fun" workin out and not doing too bad for an "old" guy. (I stopped counting at 45 two years ago.) I'm 47, 6'1", 206, 43, 35, 17 16 23.

John Roszak

Hi, I first want to say that I accidently stumbled on to Cyberpump and boy I am glad I did. What an informative web page you all have created. Thank you for all your great work and information that you have provided. I am subscribing to the HT News Letter if that helps the cause for your efforts.

I just wanted to write and let you know how much I have enjoyed your web page - CYBERPUMP. I recently started weight lifting (about 4 months ago) and have really learned a lot from your page, especially from Tip of the Month, Reflections from a HITer, and the HIT FAQ.

Thanks very much for providing the info :)

Chuck Marshall

p.s - please share my thanks with the contributors to your page :)

hi there,

I really like your page and in particular the muscle mag follies area.

Anyway, enough from me - and thanx for Cyberpump - its a great inspiration - and makes me feel all that better to train the way I do - despite the attitude I cop from friends who go the "50 sets a bodypart" route - like sheep (and not having anything to show for it) becuase thats what "the champs" use...

Regards,

John McKenzie

I just wanted to send along my gratitude to you guys for your web page. I stumbled across 'cyberpump' about three months ago and have since changed my entire training program. I'm now a HIT advocate and have made tremendous gains thanks to all the incredibly useful information that all of you provide.

I know there is a ton of false information floating around out there and since I've started reading 'cyberpump' I can see how a lot of people train improperly.What you guys are saying makes sense .I also have some of the other people at my fitness club traing the proper way now as well. The word is spreading.Thanks again and PLEASE keep on 'cyberpumping'.