Training and Hypertrophy - Gain Size!
- Thread starter Blizz
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No offense to you Blizz, but I think the article pretty much sucked!
I really don't think muscle fibre type distribution makes a lot of difference to how you train for hypertrophy. That's not what research suggests.
Law 1 - bunkum
Law 2 - what? - change the form of stress? Stress often implies fatigue. Strain on muscle tissue is what we are after for hypertrophy. Whether a muscle grows bigger and stronger or not depends on the resistance the body has built up to the load being used (RBE). If a load doesn't cause microtrauma it doesn't matter if it's 'heavy', it isn't going to trigger growth.
Law 3 - OK sort of - but you could use the same loads for several workouts and still get a growth response until the body has built up a resistance to that load (RBE again).
Law 4 - OK
Law 5 - OK
Law 6 - same as law 4
Law 7 - what?
The paragraph on how much weight and how many reps is pretty much bunkum too. No mention of strain, TUT or overcoming RBE.
All the 'principles' stuff reads like a pile of !%$* from Weider! Some of the ideas are OK but the reasoning is pretty dire.
The diet stuff about having to have lots of meals to get in the required amount of protein is outdated too.
Blizz: please read the FAQs here. There's a ton of much more useful info in the FAQs that will help you with your training if hypertrophy is what you want. The writer of that Iron Mag article is really not up to speed on the best way to train for hypertrophy. Sure, the info isn't all 'wrong' but it is laid out in a way that is confusing at best.
Hey, just my 2¢.
I really don't think muscle fibre type distribution makes a lot of difference to how you train for hypertrophy. That's not what research suggests.
Law 1 - bunkum
Law 2 - what? - change the form of stress? Stress often implies fatigue. Strain on muscle tissue is what we are after for hypertrophy. Whether a muscle grows bigger and stronger or not depends on the resistance the body has built up to the load being used (RBE). If a load doesn't cause microtrauma it doesn't matter if it's 'heavy', it isn't going to trigger growth.
Law 3 - OK sort of - but you could use the same loads for several workouts and still get a growth response until the body has built up a resistance to that load (RBE again).
Law 4 - OK
Law 5 - OK
Law 6 - same as law 4
Law 7 - what?
The paragraph on how much weight and how many reps is pretty much bunkum too. No mention of strain, TUT or overcoming RBE.
All the 'principles' stuff reads like a pile of !%$* from Weider! Some of the ideas are OK but the reasoning is pretty dire.
The diet stuff about having to have lots of meals to get in the required amount of protein is outdated too.
Blizz: please read the FAQs here. There's a ton of much more useful info in the FAQs that will help you with your training if hypertrophy is what you want. The writer of that Iron Mag article is really not up to speed on the best way to train for hypertrophy. Sure, the info isn't all 'wrong' but it is laid out in a way that is confusing at best.
Hey, just my 2¢.
QuantumPositron
New Member
Law 7 sounds similar to Seyle's (sp?) stress model. Like phrenology and somatypes, it was interesting in its day but not directly applicable to bodybuilding. Bryan talks about the stress model in his commentary on HIT, elsewhere on this site.