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maybe it's a homeostatic thingie - when bulking, perhaps your body is overcompesating a bit by releasing lots of insulin, resulting in lowered blood sugar during certain periods...

i get this at night after my "4th feed" (i sound like a frickin gremlin lol) - i eat 5 meals day i think it's more to do with my sleep pattern than the diet ... but u say it happens everytime u get hungry - perhaps you're hypoglycaemic... but then u'd perk up instantly - or maybe...

I'd be interested to see an answer to this question

thx for reply - makes sense.

i guess the muscle memory is a consolation prize :) but i was just guessing - maybe it's like scar tissue or something - maybe by increasing muscle mass you are altering the blueprint of your structure - but from what you've said it seems like these blueprints slowly revert back to a...

After stopping training, will I fall back to a level of muscularity and development identical to one where I had never weight trained? Surely some of the muscularity remains - doesn't it? Genes are more malleable than we think from what i understand; therefore isn't it plausible that a...

I'm 26 years old, new to weight lifting, and enjoy the benefits of it, aesthetics being one of the major ones. I would like to keep gaining for another few years - i think by then i'll be quite satisfied with my physique - and i realize i'll have to eat a hell of a lot to get there. As it is...

determined by the adaptation to the individual's maximum weight loads. You can't determine the level of deconditioning - but you know that the longer you wait, the more you decondition. There is nothing self serving about these statements - you're asking for a formula that does not exist...

What about spillover effect, or androgen receptor activity? - i'm stabbing in dark here, someone help me out. Basically what i'm getting at - could stimulating say a large group of stabilizers perhaps effect a "leakage" of sorts? Maybe enhance the "satellite cell donation&quot...

Ok, I'm in agreement - but don't underestimate real life functionality transferrence. For instance, I worked as a truck stacker for a while, where I'd stack 50 pound boxes into 15 foot high trailers that were 40 feet deep. On a good day I'd stack 2 or 3 trucks. I'm betting I'd be more...

I'm with Calkid on this one - and it's just common sense - doing squats on a Smith machine will yield qualitativley different results from doing them barbell style. I'm not talking about magnitude of hypertrophy - i'm saying "balance skills" associated with a barbell squat will be...

thanks for the reply edizu - appreciate the time you went into that post. first: the statistics - i'm not arguing that at all - but it has nothing to do with the issue of the veracity of being able to visually discern a 15 percent growth. In other words, i agree with both you and Aaron on it...

I think we're talking on different wavelengths here - (i think) I'm only taking one of Bryan's claims to task - let's assume that we were in the future and we just had incredibly advanced technology that allowed us to measure with precision, a fifteen percent increase in muscular fibre size...

regardless of whether we can measure it accurately, i still find it implausible that a 15 percent increase in muscle fibre (i'm assuming we're talking diameter of cross section) is indiscernible to the human eye. Mind you, i'm could well be wrong - but from a logical plausibility point of...

I'm not questioning the efficacy of training on immediate hypertrophy - i'm questioning Bryan's claim about the 15 percent increase in muscle fibre size not being discernible save for under a microsope

Can you elaborate a bit on this? I can see how if one fibre grows 15 percent, it'll be hard to see without a microscope, but if all the fibres comprising a muscle grow by 15 percent, then wouldn't be noticeable?

I lean forward and go all the way down, but i'm sure to be very careful at the bottom of the motion so as not to stress my shoulder joints. However this might not be a good idea (going all the way) - i've done 6 months of 5 RM to failure without problems tho. (When i quit HIT i was at...

excellent point flow - never thought about that before. Just goes to show - things are a lot more complicated and less dichotomous than they seem to be on the surface.

thanks for the reply chuck - just a quick thing tho - i don't think chins vs pulldowns is a valid analogy between pushups and benching - the reason being it's pulling motions vs pushing motions. When you're pushing a free weight against gravity (with arms for example) - as the motion proceeds...

Like I said, I'm not planning on doing these - was just a curious thought... however, as i said, they'd be safer than barbell presses if you could sort out the belt stress issue, since you wouldn't have a weight bearing down on you - though dumbells are safer than barbells in that a spotter...