Think Muscle Newsletter #11

April 20, 2001

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A note about "Low Carb" bars, Glycerol & the FDA by Bryan Haycock

Anyone familiar with the latest crop of low carb bars is familiar with that "bite" you get in the back of your throat as you eat it. This is caused by the glycerol they use to sweeten them with. I have no problem with this. However, did you notice how they do not include glycerol on the label? Did you know that by law they should?

Androgen receptors down regulate…Don’t they? Part 1 by Bryan Haycock MS

There is as much misinformation about steroids as there is good information had among bodybuilding enthusiasts. With steroid banter you hear all the popular terms like Deca, Test, GH, gyno, zits, raisins, "h-u-u-u-ge", roid, freak, monster, roid-rage, "I knew this guy once", etc., etc.. If by some rare chance they are smart and have been reading this or some other high quality bodybuilding site on the net, they may actually get a few details right. More often than not they know just enough to be dangerous. Fortunately steroids haven’t proven to be all that dangerous. Not only that, but most of these guys who are infatuated with steroids won’t ever use or even see them except in magazines.

Strategic Deconditioning: Priming the muscle for continued growth (From the Hypertrophy-Specific Training Series) by Bryan Haycock

While utilizing Hypertrophy-Specific Training (HST) techniques, our goal is to present the muscle with a growth promoting stimulus at the moment the muscle is physically susceptible to microtrauma. When is this exactly? Well, it is, or was, whenever you first began weight training. It may also have been after you took a long vacation or simply took a break from training for one reason or another. The point is, it is whenever the muscle has never been conditioned or when it has been allowed to decondition itself during an extended lay off. The optimum time for training is when the deconditioned muscle has retained the additional myonuclei from previous training, but has lost enough of the protective connective tissue to allow growth promoting microtrauma. HST takes into account this need to apply the growth stimulous when the muscle is most receptive. We call this Strategic Deconditioning.