I gained two inches in one workout precisely for those reasons.
I wasn't on a special diet. It was my first serious workout ever. I had just read about Arthur Jones and HIT.
I got on the machine. Found my one rep max manually (Don't do it, not safe), put 80% of my 1RM on the plates and did a couple reps, real slow until I couldn't do another rep. I tried one more time and knew I reached failure. I did the whole SuperSlow(TM) thing and negative reps too:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_23cl5n8NaQ]Vee's High Intensity Training Chin Up - YouTube[/ame]
That's all. It must have been eight reps max, surely not more. I felt sore as a motherfucker for about 5 or 6 days, which is why when you do HIT you hit the gym only about once a week. Twice if you're doing a split.
As far as the measurements, it was almost a week before I measured 2 inches of growth.
If you're weight training consistently you won't make such dramatic changes. But for a newbie who goes in all out, on good form, and goes straight to failure, I'm sure it'll possible.
I wasn't on a special diet. It was my first serious workout ever. I had just read about Arthur Jones and HIT.
I got on the machine. Found my one rep max manually (Don't do it, not safe), put 80% of my 1RM on the plates and did a couple reps, real slow until I couldn't do another rep. I tried one more time and knew I reached failure. I did the whole SuperSlow(TM) thing and negative reps too:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_23cl5n8NaQ]Vee's High Intensity Training Chin Up - YouTube[/ame]
That's all. It must have been eight reps max, surely not more. I felt sore as a motherfucker for about 5 or 6 days, which is why when you do HIT you hit the gym only about once a week. Twice if you're doing a split.
As far as the measurements, it was almost a week before I measured 2 inches of growth.
If you're weight training consistently you won't make such dramatic changes. But for a newbie who goes in all out, on good form, and goes straight to failure, I'm sure it'll possible.