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Think Muscle Newsletter #20May 31, 2002 Message from The Editor in Chief:Hello all! We have so much great info in this issue! Lyle McDonald has just released his new book and we've got an exclusive sneak peek! The Blond Bomber Dave Draper has just released a great new book that you'll definitely want to check out, and there is a new newsletter coming out that reviews all the latest research on muscle growth and supplementation. Lyle McDonald is a former Mesomorphosis feature writer and the author of "The Ketogenic Diet: A Complete Guide fro the Dieter and Practitioner". His *NEW* book "Bromocriptine: A Special Report" is now available exclusively at www.QFAC.com . We are please to give you a special introduction to the book. Lyle once again, shows us that the weight loss industry is at least a decade behind the science. Spring has finally sprung over hear in the Americas and tan lines are just around the bend. Or is your bend more of a bulge? If so, you should surf over to www.DaveDraper.com and check out Dave's new book, "Your Body Revival". It's a great book written for those who want to lose weight, but have tried and failed. It doesn't matter if you are a little or a lot overweight, this book speaks to you. Basic information you need to hear regularly, odd information you might not have heard before, considered or applied, and encouragement you never get enough of is elegantly bound in the pages. Motivation comes abundantly in the form of heartening real-life vignettes as well as some mild karate chops. It's classic Draper. The interest in HST and HSN has been so overwhelming that we have decided to create an additional newsletter focused on the research fueling the progression of training techniques and supplementation. It's a free newsletter of course provided as a service for our readers. It is called the Hypertrophy-Specific Report and you can sign up to receive it on ThinkMuscle. Just click the 'Sign up" button on the pop-up window or use the Sign Up button on the home page and put a check in the Hypertrophy-Specific Report box. You can also sign up from the HST website. Just click the big ThinkMuscle button on the HSN home page. HSN is giving away cash! That's right, the HS:Street Team is now forming. What is the Hypertrophy-Specific Street Team? The HS:Street Team is a way for me to give back to those who, out of the generosity of their hearts, have supported me by spreading the word about ThinkMuscle, HST, and now HSN. Those who become members of the HS:Street Team, will receive any number of gifts and special values (yes, even cash!) for their efforts to spread the word about HSN/HST. Sign up for the HS:Street Team where you sign up for the Newsletters, or simply click HERE. Good news for those of you who have been asking for wider availability of HSN pre and post workout proteins. They will soon be available at Netrition. They are also currently available to Canadian readers at Renegade Nutrition and for our Japanese readers at Body Plus. If you are a distributor or retail owner and would like to carry HSN products, please send an email to sales@hypertrophy-specific.com and we'll hook you up. Until next time, -bryan Bromocriptine: A Special Reportby Lyle McDonald Your body hates you. It's become one of my more common catch-phrases and I am quite serious about it. Actually, that sentence has it backwards. Your body loves you and wants to keep you alive; what it thinks is the right thing to do to keep you alive is generally contrary to your goals of less weight/fat and more muscle. Let me shorten the problem even more: dieting sucks. That's the real issue and topic of this book. Anyone who's tried to lose weight/fat (there is a difference) and failed, knows this to be true. Gaining weight is pretty easy for most folks, just eat and enjoy. Losing it is the real hassle. Sure, a genetically lucky few can do it without much effort but they aren't the ones reading this book. There are good biological reasons for this discrepancy that you'll learn about in the next chapter. I'm fascinated with dieting and fat loss. I have been since the start of my career. It's the psychological profile that comes along with being a former fat kid. I've done/read most of the diets out there, tried all of the supplements, even a couple of the drugs. All this was in the quest to be lean and stay there. "Why?", you ask. I'll be honest: I want to fix myself. It's the same reason that nutcases become psychologists and fat girls become dietitians. They want to fix themselves, too. It's a common affliction. My friend Bryan Haycock, who has always wanted to be huge, has dedicated most of his time to studying muscular growth physiology for the same reason. He wants to be huge, so he researches muscle growth; I want to be lean so I research fat loss. He and I make a very good team, especially when you throw in our endocrinology-obsessed buddy, Elzi Volk. The three of us have most of it covered. Full text: Fiber Types, Training, and HypertrophyFrom the Hypertrophy-Specific Training series.by Bryan Haycock The issue of fiber type that continues to resurface in the discussion of different training methods. Some people insist that in order grow to get maximum growth, muscles must be trained according to fiber "types". A look at what determines a fiber's "type" should help clear up the issue and help you make a decision as to its relevance to training specifically for muscle growth. Full text: Reader Q&Aby Bryan Haycock Question: I have read between your reports on the stimulus for hypertrophy as it relates to rest periods as well as Superslow's Ken Hutching's and must say I am confused. At this time I am of phase 3 of the HST program (5 reps) and enjoying it, however if Ken has a point it would really suit my life style, so I was willing to try Superslow and see what comes of it. You Bryan, give all the research sources so you must be on the right track and as a scientist I respect that, however I'd like to know what should I use, and here there should be a rule or an absolute, is it 36 - 48 hrs. or 7 days, as I was thinking I was going to use somewher in between by training twice a week and then seeing what I get out of it? However I prefer to have the best info and use it as I have found out that it works best to use what really has been proven. Can you elaborate on this one Bryan? Full text: Protein, Part 3 - Individual Amino Acid Requirementsby Lyle McDonald, CSCS Section 6: Determining AA requirements Most methods of rating protein for adults are based on the assumption that the majority of incoming AAs are being used primarily for maintenance of existing tissue, not growth of new tissue. Obviously this assumption is incorrect for bodybuilders who are trying to synthesize new tissue, making most measures of protein quality (which are aimed at determining maintenance protein requirements) fairly irrelevant. This raises several important questions. First and foremost, are there any differences in the AA profile required by bodybuilders than by sedentary individuals? A second, and related question, is whether it is sufficient for bodybuilders to simply consume more of the same AA profile which is required by sedentary individuals or should the additional protein have a different AA profile? Unfortunately, both of these questions require examination of the changes in AA metabolism that occur during weight training, and very few studies are available. While numerous studies have examined the effects of endurance training and other forms of stress such as surgical trauma on AA metabolism, these models are inappropriate to apply directly to bodybuilding. Full text: |
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