Goosey
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I did a workout last night that had me lying on the floor
It got me thinking how many weight training workout I'd done over the years.
I'd estimated that I'd done approximately 30,000.
If I'd had progress with every workout I would be literally as big as an elephant and as strong and maybe as dumb.
One thing that or two things that I often think about is; the intensity of work versus form of the exercise.
And also got me thinking about LMD and his dead-lifting issues
Which is more important?
Both are of high importance, but if I really think about it, of all the people I've seen train and people I've worked with and helped I'd have to say that between the ages of 15 to 40 intensity of WORK should be the focus, as a person in their younger years are a bit more resilient to a break down in form towards the end of a set to achieve muscular fatigue as to maintain a focus on their intensity.
To me, exercise is brief and infrequent, but intense and irregular.
Maximum efforts should be made against an unmoving resistance – in every set of almost every exercise; but only after the maximum possible number of full movements have been performed, when the muscles are so exhausted from the immediately preceding repetitions that they are momentarily incapable of moving the resistance – in spite of a one-hundred percent (100%) effort. Then – and only then – should such maximum efforts be made; and they should be made because – without them – it is literally impossible to induce maximum growth stimulation. It is simply impossible to build muscular size or strength by performing that which you are already capable of easily doing; you must constantly attempt the momentarily impossible, and such attempts should involve maximum possible efforts – but only after the muscles have been properly "warmed-up", and only after they have been worked to the point of momentary exhaustion immediately before the maximum possible effort leading to a failure is attempted.
40 and over I think a focus must be made of ensuring correct form used while maintaining a high level of intensity.
As someone once said; Practice makes perfect; as long as you practice perfectly.* Practicing mistakes makes for perfect mistakes.
It got me thinking how many weight training workout I'd done over the years.
I'd estimated that I'd done approximately 30,000.
If I'd had progress with every workout I would be literally as big as an elephant and as strong and maybe as dumb.
One thing that or two things that I often think about is; the intensity of work versus form of the exercise.
And also got me thinking about LMD and his dead-lifting issues
Which is more important?
Both are of high importance, but if I really think about it, of all the people I've seen train and people I've worked with and helped I'd have to say that between the ages of 15 to 40 intensity of WORK should be the focus, as a person in their younger years are a bit more resilient to a break down in form towards the end of a set to achieve muscular fatigue as to maintain a focus on their intensity.
To me, exercise is brief and infrequent, but intense and irregular.
Maximum efforts should be made against an unmoving resistance – in every set of almost every exercise; but only after the maximum possible number of full movements have been performed, when the muscles are so exhausted from the immediately preceding repetitions that they are momentarily incapable of moving the resistance – in spite of a one-hundred percent (100%) effort. Then – and only then – should such maximum efforts be made; and they should be made because – without them – it is literally impossible to induce maximum growth stimulation. It is simply impossible to build muscular size or strength by performing that which you are already capable of easily doing; you must constantly attempt the momentarily impossible, and such attempts should involve maximum possible efforts – but only after the muscles have been properly "warmed-up", and only after they have been worked to the point of momentary exhaustion immediately before the maximum possible effort leading to a failure is attempted.
40 and over I think a focus must be made of ensuring correct form used while maintaining a high level of intensity.
As someone once said; Practice makes perfect; as long as you practice perfectly.* Practicing mistakes makes for perfect mistakes.
