Chipperoo, It may have been partly due to me not using enough weight and also because I didn't take a break before going into it. I think the almost 2 week break is what really hurt the most. Now that I'm into my second day it's not as bad, though I'm not sure I'm going to hit my maxes yet. We'll see.

As for the number of sets. I pretty much stayed with the example on the HST site, but added the extra set for the squats as I like squats. All the others pretty much make sense to me. The 1 set of dips is following a chest press. And the shoulder exercises make sense for 1 set as I don't want to over train here because I've hurt myself before.