I’ve purchased the heidi workout recently and was just wondering if you think this kind of work out is for beginners or even for the advanced? As i already train hard but in a different way to this.

When figuring out when to stop a set (you recommend 3 in strength, 6 in size) should we stop at failure or to slow down, like you’ve mentioned in other articles?

I ask because I don’t have gym access and am currently unemployed and can’t buy any more equipment. I’ve got a nice power rack and bench setup, along with an olympic bar and weights (totaling 145 lbs w/bar – lost my job before I could buy more) so the load I’d be using for some lifts might be a tad low. It may be easier for me to stop when my speed slows and I want to be sure that’s still OK with what you’ve described.

I do, also, have several kettlebells that I can throw into the mix: 2 24kgs and 2 16kgs.

I’m actually an information technology guy, but haven’t been able to find a job in this sector so I’ve branched out and applied for local law enforcement. I have several months (or more) before I could likely get called in to an academy and I want to go in stronger and able to wipe the floor with people (if they call me that is – in any case, I wanna improve, 2009 wasn’t a great year for me).

Appreciate all the articles and your time!

Regards,
Richard

But what is you opinion on intermittent fasting? Example the warrior diet (warriordiet.com), or other feeding window approaches for example leangains (leangains.com).

The main idea in these is to give the digestive system some rest for a while which gives the body more time for detoxification. Also another key idea is to reap the benefits of undereating (fasting) and overating while minimizing the negative effects by frequently switching “modes”.

As we know there are hormonal and other positive effects on being hungry, as in nature hunger is what drives you to seek food. Only after a prolonged period of restricted calories the negative effects like muscle loss and slowing of metabolism should start to overhelm. And of course we also know for sure that overeating has very positive effects on things that we muscle heads like
But again, when overused and\or done too long, the negative effect of fat gain will catch us eventually.

If you think, in a very brute simplification you could see that the eating window IF schemes are just like the common bulk – cut phases commonly used but compressed to a very short cycle – one day.

There is some research giving some credibility to IF but it still quite new concept as a tool to use for performance\physique enhancing and the research is still incomplete I know.

All that being said, I think IF has some potential but not perhabs for very active people or for those who want to be really BIG. But what is your take on this? How well you know the IF?

Atleast trainers like Mike Mahler from T-Nation has had some postive things to say about the Warrior Diet:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/mahler49.htm
http://tnation.tmuscle.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_training_performance_bodybuilding/_warrior_diet

Good tips. What about, in addition to the above tips ofcourse, drinking a protein shake a little before having the main meal? Just a 1/2 dose of whey with some leucine? I feel this could not only add some protein to you diet but also could help in avoiding overeating.

I’ll give more specifics in future posts with regard to training parameters.

@CB

@Sal Difilipo

What do you think of boulder work instead of a medicine ball? How long?
What about car pushing instead of a sled? Also how long?