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Goosey
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Most of us seem to have a similar mix of slow and fast twitch throughout the body, and most of us seem to respond better to less time spent working out (volume) but heavier weight at a higher intensity of work to stimulate muscle growth and all things being right, full recovery takes about 48 hours.
because we all have differing ratios of slow and fast twitch, pre-fatigue is just one tool to use to optimize muscle tissue growth, which then enables strength increase.
Goosey
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That is key
Goosey
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Impossible
Darkoz
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In the real world , no hypotheticals, you can work hard some of the time, you can work long some of the time but you can't work hard and long all of the time.
Goosey
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The intensity of work in a workout that lasted an hour would not be the same as a workout that lasted 15 minutes.
it would be impossible.
intensity of work, is not the look in the face, or the concentration or what not, it's the capacity.
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.
it would be impossible.
intensity of work, is not the look in the face, or the concentration or what not, it's the capacity.
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.
Goosey
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In my books.
Darkoz
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Definitely
You can be in the gym 7 days a week but if you're not giving your muscles the required stimulus (intensity) then nothing will change.
Timeah
Captain Kunce
Yep true enough. Actually I was chatting to an older bloke in the gym down here near mums house today about how many of the young guys he sees in the gym make zero progress year to year and wonder why. He said they "simply dont work hard enough", although most are there erry day. Was a semi jacked 55 yo. Cool dude.
Tim.
Tim.
Fadi
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Darkoz is spot on. However for the sake of the less experienced members on here, I would just like to qualify what Darkoz meant by his usage of the term "intensity". When Darkoz (or any knowledgeable and experienced lifter for that matter) uses the term "intensity", they are not simply restricting this to the load on the bar no, ...you see, intensity comes in many shape and sizes. It comes in the form of less time spent recovering between sets, to an increase in repetitions and/or sets, to progressively increasing the weight on the bar. It can even come in the form of momentum elimination, ..by that I mean you consciously stop at the half way mark whilst performing a movement, instead of using a continuous and flowing motion. An example here would be the complete stop at the bottom of (say) a squat lift, where your drive out of the "hole" is done minus the "bounce".
That's all I wanted to add,. I hope you didn't mind me doing so Darkoz. Thank you Sir.
Fadi.
Goosey
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Minimizing, in fact *eliminating* momentum shouldn't be just an option but more a requirement for proper exercise in that it is a true measure of a high level of "intensity of work".
"consciously stopping " Or pausing in the contracted position and squeezing for a second is a good thing.
I think that's what fadi means, rather than "half way mark"?
"consciously stopping " Or pausing in the contracted position and squeezing for a second is a good thing.
I think that's what fadi means, rather than "half way mark"?
Goosey
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well put.
Attempt the momentarily impossible, it's that last repetition, that delivers.
recovery is also important.
Fadi
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Darkoz
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Agreed Fadi, intensity certainly isn't just about the weight on the bar
