You may be right mtex. At least now I better understand your reasoning. I guess I'll find out in a couple more weeks, though I imagine that I'm not putting on as much bulk as most people here. I swear my body just wasn't meant to do that.
As far as the 2 sets EOD, I don't know what most body builders do each week, but I assumed that they were doing some sort of split routine. So at the end of the week the HST folks might be excercising that same body part more times, ie more sets per week than the split routine folks. I suppose it depends on the split.
Also the reason for doing only 2 sets EOD is that most people couldn't do a full body workout EOD doing more sets per lift. That and it makes the workouts take less time. If I were doing a full body workout EOD doing 3 or 4 sets per body part I'd be taking 2 or more hours probably and I'd be so spent that I couldn't work out EOD.
About increasing the weight every day, I do, but this means that for the start of the phase I have to go down to some smaller amount. Though when I repeat that phase again I should increase it by 5 or 10 lbs. Doesn't seem like that much and considering that I'm only lifting the heaviest the last 2 days of each phase it's not that difficult to push myself knowing that I get to go down low again the next phase. I've actually found that I've increased the amout of weight that I can lift for all of my excercises. Though perhaps I might be able to do this with a different excercise plan, but it seemed to me I was hitting a plateau with my workout before and I also seemed to be more apt to injury doing what I was doing before.
Also with regards to muscle adaptation, I can tell you from what I've experienced in HST thus far my muscles don't appear to be adapting to anything. In fact I just did day 5 of the 10 rep phase and I am sore as all get out. And I have one more tomorrow at my 10 rep maxes. Then I start working up to my 5 rep maxes next week. Perhaps I will hit a plateau, I don't know since I just started it.
Also as far as only bulking on high weight low rep I'm not sure that I agree, though I bet I'm wrong. I thought that muscle increased in size due to needing to adapt to a given stress on the muscle. Perhaps though at the beginning of each phase the adaptation isn't much, or perhaps do to the low weights at the beginning of each phase the muscle adapts to working less and thus each day adding more increases the stress more to cause the muscles to adapt. I have no idea. I can only take people at what they say since I haven't found what works for me yet.
It would be interesting to see what the results for a heavy body builder here would be sticking to the 6 weeks of building up to their 15, 10 and 5 rep maxes.
Thanks for the discussion, I'm always a skeptic of most things new, but I also like playing the devils advocate to see the reasoning behind other people thoughts. Helps me to learn.
Mike
PS. Don't laugh at the weights.
But here's the plan I'm doing right now in the 10 rep phase.
Current Workout Phase
PPS. One other note, I wouldn't consider myself a body builder, though I'm trying to put on some mass I don't intend to add much more than 10 to 15 lbs of muscle mass. (But then perhaps most people start out with that and end up wanting more and more.) I just want to be more lean and have better definition than I do now.