Honestly - if I consciously avoid failure, even coming “almost” to failure is worlds different than the type of ball-busting, beat-yourself-into-the-ground training that HIT advocates have been preaching for decades.
I definitely get you here - trusting a source goes a long way. I can vouch for him having done a lot of different methods and having a good idea of what works, but you don’t really know me either, so all I can do is offer my support for the idea that as long as intensity and volume are lowered, frequency can be high, and has its benefits.
I think you missed the farm boy analogy, but apply it to construction or any heavy manual labor job - it makes big people all the time with MUCH higher frequency than people who lift every day.
Anyways, I hope you stick around. The new forum might be tougher with rules, but that’s only because if there weren’t some form of forced intermingling, the forum would just be a few groups of people who never learn from one another or exchange ideas, and a lot of people would have missed out on a lot of cool new ideas.