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Originally Posted by DH
I think what would help a lot of lifters is to think for themselves lol
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Well, you know you said something also about HIT, but I think you can go so far as to blame trends in general. People are looking for the "way". They're looking for a bible. Most don't want to except responsibility for their own training.
People mistake METHODS for PRINCPLES. Bottom line. Like I said before 5x5's are usually built on a rationale and that is better than no rationale but at it's heart is is a "method". Someone has success doing some 5x5 and suddenly it's their fundamental training principle. Not only is it recommended across the board to everyone and anyone but they will keep on doing it forever thinking that it is "the way"
That's no different than HST OR HIT in a way.
What I think is important to realize is that a very knowledgable and experienced trainer or "coach", their training philosophy is built around the successes and failures they've had, their observations, theory, reading, all sorts of things. But you can be sure that when you see a "program" that if they are good, they have a "philosophy" that governs that. Big problem though...
We talk alot about the beginner, intermediate, and advanced as told by guys like Rippetoe. Now, I can explain in depth his "philosophy" and understand it. But what I also understand is that it is built around his rationale for training, his failures and success, his observations, his pool of knowledge he can pull from. So the "programs" fit in with the defintions.
Trying to take those programs and the definitions they are built on and generalize them is the mistake most people make.
Whether it's 5x5's, HIT, or HST. How many people think that a "deconditioning" week is paramount for "hypertrophy"? Because HST tries to prove that.
I remember when the "Texas Method" was being popularized and suddenly I was seeing a bunch of people appying "TM" to their customized split, lol. It's a method, folks. What is the underlying ratinale. How far can that take you? when is it appropriate and not appropriate and how can it be programmed in the most efficient way? Are their particular parts of it that are valuable to you throughout your training career? Are there other parts of it that will only prove to be applicaple at any given time in that career?