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- Brief
- Hard
- Infrequent
High-Intensity Training is strength work taken to momentary muscular failure — brief, hard, and infrequent. Popularised by Arthur Jones in the 1970s and refined by Mike Mentzer, it treats recovery as the variable that drives adaptation. Failure Point is the logbook built around it.
What we cover. Printed plain.
- What is High-Intensity Training?
- HIT vs HIIT
- One set to failure
- Recovery is the variable
- Progressive overload
- The Mentzer method
- Rest-pause
- Training to failure, safely
- How often should you train HIT?
- Why brief, hard, infrequent
- Evidence of adaptation
- Stalls and plateaus
- Designing a HIT program
- Why no streaks
- Reading recovery signals
- HIT routine examples
- Warm up before training
- Reflection after training
- Local-first, no cloud lock-in
- HIT squat
- HIT bench press
- HIT row
- HIT deadlift
The logbook for this method
Most apps assume you want to train six days a week. Failure Point assumes you'd rather train less — and grow more.