I've been using this regimen for just over 3 years...
..I had a few months of interruptions but overall I am extremely please with my results. Closing in on 50, preventing injuries was a priority and doing the partials as described in the book pretty much guaranteed this for me. In my last workout that included the legs, my total weight topped 1.6 million (yes, you're reading that correctly) lbs. This program has done well in sculpting my body and giving me what I call practical strength. Strength that I can use in everyday tasks...i.e. last week I moved 15 yards of dirt from a driveway in a normal work day.
The only drawback sometimes is that the intensity of the workouts sometimes stimulates my system so much, I have a hard time going to bed at night, not soreness, more like the jitters. I have definitely noticed how developed my tendons in my legs have become. There have been plateaus at times but I always break through. I track and graph my progress using a spreadsheet modeled after some charts shown in the book. I can see improving for some time.
Don't Get Stuck
These important concepts for heavy training will teach you to knock down your mental blocks and really maximize your ability.
i'm fuzzy on the math, but the concepts are dead on
In reading the book, its too easy to get caught up in the mathematics, however, reading between the lines, the author's "concept" (versus implementation) gets right a few key points. You have to train heavy, and in doing so, heavy training is the only way to shock the tendons, ligaments - even old George Hackenschmidt said the same thing in his book (1920's). Also using the bench press as example, the author shows how the final press out position you can handle more weight, but getting it up is harder, how we need to train the latter part, the press out. this is what is exactly done in push pressing, and olympic jerk... you cheat with your body to hoist the weight up, it allows for much larger weight, but by keeping it overhead you make big gains... the authors concept is valid... if you just lived by a "sticking point" i.e. 'can't hoist up the weight' you'd always be stuck at say a bench of 120lbs or whatever. You have to eliminate the sticking point and get to the point where your body can bear the most weight. He talks about functional strength and full range of motion. I think heavy/HIT/hardgainer routines FAIL because of the person using them doesn't know the compound full body lifts. The most all around lifts are: front squat, romanian deadlift, overhead pressing (jerk/push press, etc) those done heavy will stimulate the full body. You will not stimulate the body by doing heavy cable curls. They go heavy on the wrong exercises. I didn't follow the math, but I did like the concepts the author puts out, all of his citations by the way for examples he cites all 50's 60's lifters (old school). Also he notes that weightlifters need carbs (if body is low in carbs it will cannabalize muscle) which is good to hear. carbs=good.
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