Reddit reviews The New High Intensity Training: The Best Muscle-Building System You've Never Tried

This sounds very similar to a program I used to follow a few years ago.

There is a book HIT Book That goes through a routine which is 1 set per lift, to absolute muscle failure. 8 exercises. The goal is minimal rest and it can be completed in around 30 minutes. I will say that it is super hard to actually go to true muscle failure, and it is primarily focused on muscle mass.

I was in the military at the time so doing other stuff too, but I think just a program like this on its own would suffer from a serious lack of endurance.

Side note: I just grabbed a link off Amazon, so I hope thats not an issue.

EDIT: I will say that it is incredibly painful as well, but the endorphin rush is awesome.

The core technique he is advocating is based on "High Intensity Training", or "HIT". The Colorado experiment with Casey Viator is their favorite showcase. I have personally used the workouts and information in Ell Darden's book and got some good muscle gain, more than I had with other workouts.

That said, I have also been doing strength training for many years at various levels, as has the author of this article. Your results will vary based on genetics and your existing musculature.

I generally don't recommend "HIT" for newbies either. Get some experience with weight training and learn your body's limits before diving into this sort of thing; if you're not sure how to do an exercise and try to do it with high-weight/low-reps, you are just as likely to hurt yourself as build muscle.

the tl;dr version is that certain training styles get better gains with less work than others. I do high intensity training which is also similar to Vince DelMonte's No-Nonsense Muscle Building.

The main strategy is a full body workout consisting of only one set per excercise at 80% of your one rep max. The workout doesn't last more than 40 minutes on average. Every workout you do either more weight or more reps. If you don't do more reps or more weight, then you're not resting enough.

I now workout about every five days. As I get stronger, I will have to increase the time in between workouts because it will take my body longer to repair bigger muscles.

Using this system, I've seen consistent gains week to week in both size and strength. Most of my strength gains were in my legs and back, with smaller gains in other groups.

Read the book if you want to know more.

Well with lighter weights you'd get more reps in (obviously) so failure would be at a higher number (maybe 20? I don't know). The goal is to increase the intensity of the workout by using heavier weights in each set with perfect form (or as close as you can get since you probably won't know if your form is perfect if you don't have someone to workout with) so that you hit that failure somewhere at 8-12 reps (I prefer 10).
While it might seem to make more sense to use lighter weights for a longer workout, it won't give you the same results. Quicker, more intense full body workouts, that change (my workouts consist of 10-12 different routines and last around 35 minutes total with the only resting time being however long it takes me to unload and load weights) and have longer recovery in between as opposed to doing the same thing for an hour or more everyday (with legs and upper alternating) will keep your muscles from "adapting" or "getting used to" the workout you're doing and with a more intense workout, you'll get quicker results.
Here's a link to the book I used: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1594860009 (Sorry for the long link, or if the link doesn't work. I'm on Alien Blue and I'm not sure how to work it completely yet)

This is all strictly either opinion, or what I read in the book. I'm not an expert, I'm just someone who found a workout he loved and that gave quick results. Hell, I didn't even follow the book all the way. I skipped the getting lean step since I'm already on the lighter side (5' 6", 130 lbs when I started, 137 lbs now), and I didn't realize the book had a sort of "schedule" to follow for what routines to do in each 2 week set, and just did the sample one in the back of the book. I'm sure if you actually followed the routine correctly you'd get more results than what I did.

When I use Creatine, I just fill up a gallon jug with water, a cup of sugar, and a heaping spoonful of creatine monohydrate. Sip it throughout the day. You need lots of water for training, and in order for the creatine to be absorbed into your body. I got this recipe from Ellington Dardens book http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Intensity-Training-Muscle-Building/dp/1594860009

Try it out for a couple of weeks, if you don't notice results feel free to tell me to go fuck myself haha good luck