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(edgeArchitect @ Jun. 15 2006,19:13)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">But High-Rep & Low-Rep do different things don't they?
What I've been initially aiming at was more Fast-twitch fiber Activation, which would mean more hypertrophy, OR at least a better ability for my body to partition more of the food I eat towards the muscle growth or at least "keepth"(keepability to keep what I want to keep
)! - but that's just my babbling, so if the body works differently, I'm all here to learn.
<div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Maintaining mass is much easier than building mass so to worry about 2 or 3 times a week during maintenance or cutting seems foolish to me. The elderly have the hardest time in holding onto mass and a study done in the eldery show that even training only 1 time per week retained strength and mass 1 year after a 3X week training study, using a load that represents 80% 1 RM.</div>
Yes. For me it will be at least 3 times a week. 2 times just leaves more room for beer, and I'd really like to avoid it, even tho I sometimes want to get hammered.
80% 1RM, so that does! mean that the more load the more fast twitch fibers get activated the more hypertrophy occurs, the more strength you keep, the more muscle you keep? no?
<div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">During cutting the sarcoplasm shows the fastest turnover and is far more responsive to caloric intake than fibril. So during a cut the size lost is primarily in the sarcoplasm not contractile size, this isn't to say that contractile degradation doesn't occur but it's far less than most believe, so even though you may lose lean mass most of this is coming from water compartments, glycogen, and some of the other sarcoplasmic constituents.</div>
I Agree, What would be the best way to actually keep that Sarcoplasmic content or at least water since my muscle wont be getting lots of glucogen through my diet, since i'm on a caloric deficit, or more like carb deficit, well it's 27% of my diet which is 50-70 grams a day.
<div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Cutting using weight training or aerobic exercise, a recent study done of moderately fat women, not obese just heavy, shows that
during resistance training the total calories burnt are less than
during aerobic activity but when taking EPOC into account then calories burnt
per minute of exercise is greater. So if the time is matched resistance training may be more beneficial, but since resistance training can rarely be mathced, when speaking of weekly caloric expenditure, because of fatigue and recovery aerobic activity is definately better than no activity, remember it's the total calories expended during a cut that is important. 2-3 times a week of resistance training plus a 2-3 days cardio is going to provide faster results than 2-3 days of resitance or aerobic training alone, so whatever can be maintained IMOO is what is better.</div>
Cool. What if its 5 days of resistance training and 5 minutes of *Lite Tabata as a warm-up before each session?
*not a crazy all-out Tabata, but a more lite version of it. I've noticed it kind of does the same thing as Tabata. raises and lowers my heart rate, and changes the breathing pattern a bit... a little experiment.
What do you think?</div>
In what context? ATP use? Substrates oxidation?
In the end I was commenting on ATP use and it's been shown that when using a 35% 1rm or 70% 1 rm the ATP used is the same if the amount of work is matched.
When looking at energy use during high intensity contractions I believe something in the realm of 70-80% of total energy used is through glycolytic means while the remainder is oxidative, my numbers may be off a tad as I am recalling from memory, so sure there is a difference but when looking at fat loss it's still the deficit that matters most.
Fast twitch fibers can still be activated even in low loading situations, for example very fast contractions.
To keep the sarcoplasmic size intact.............don't diet
What do I think about what? Fat loss and your adding 5 minutes of Tabata, do you really think 5 minutes is truly impacting your energy reserves that much, you might be using @ 35-50 or so kcals more than not doing Tabata
As a way to warm up the body, sure why not.
