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Post by greentea on Jul 17, 2005 4:28:50 GMT -5
Theorically , Intensity is the key of growing muscle . i hear the similar sentences merely every forum . but did anyone percieve in the gym that the hardest working people are often the one's that improve the less ? likewise those training less intensively is often bigger . Comments ?
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Post by Oracle on Jul 17, 2005 4:56:20 GMT -5
there is an article at www.t-nation.com talking about the reps range and the degree of functional strength development versus muscle hypertrophy, think have a link here somewhere. ever heard of supramaximal load? it is one of the theory which advocate using 25-40% more than your 1RM and do a hold with no lockout on your joints, thus forcing your body to adapt to the stress and load. this article is also available at www.t-nation.com there.
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Post by ultimate on Jul 17, 2005 9:51:46 GMT -5
Theorically , Intensity is the key of growing muscle . i hear the similar sentences merely every forum . but did anyone percieve in the gym that the hardest working people are often the one's that improve the less ? likewise those training less intensively is often bigger . Comments ? Yes I have something to say. I find that training to failure at only the last set is better than working to failure every set. For those before last set work only to near failure (specifically, maybe one reps short of failure). It was in physiology book that muscles need not be trained to total failure to adapt, cos they always overcompensate. Something like you train to 90% failure and it will recover to 110%. Maybe is a fact that we often overtrain and tax our recovery reserve too much. Much of the better bodybuilding books like Brawn even Weider publications (books not those Champion or Pro routines) often emphasise on reducing volume and they seldom mention train to total failure as far as I can remember. However, they often warn us about overtraining.
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Post by jonathan on Jul 18, 2005 1:11:57 GMT -5
Theorically , Intensity is the key of growing muscle . i hear the similar sentences merely every forum . but did anyone percieve in the gym that the hardest working people are often the one's that improve the less ? likewise those training less intensively is often bigger . Comments ? Are they talking about intensity from lifting something really heavy or "intensity" from doing until cannot do anymore? According to Chad Waterbury, intensity (from lifting heavy) is key to strength, volume is the key to size. Want to be strong? Lift heavy. Want to be big? Lift heavy lots of times, which is of course much easier said that done. www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=547470www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;jsessionid=35F91EEC317D8FB85151957C7E9B1112.titan?id=561180 Read about 10x3 and SOB, he explains it best.
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