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- Dec 19, 2008
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I guess those 1 set exercises have really have not benefited me much from a muscular endurance point of view!! Actually I thought I was in pretty decent shape!!!! I mean I can run the mile in under 8 minutes (better than 90% of my students and jump rope 3 minutes non stop (better than 95% of my students) so this is a reall eye opener!! ...I mean I look like I am in shape. I'm not this big gutted beer belly PE teacher in their 40's. I am pretty muscular (not as lean as you)....but I mean I look like I lift. I am 5'8" 185 with about 18% bodyfat and I realize I am now where near as strong and lean as I used to be when I was in my 20's but I didn't realize how out of shape my muscles were in. So for you to say that I am out of shape that's a little slap in the face!!!!! And exactly what I needed!!! I''m still a lttle shocked even as I am typing! What amazed me, being the first week, I used what I thought was very light weight for the first set. I wanted to make sure I could get through all 3 sets because I have'nt done giant sets for a long time. I wasn't fatigued at all with the 1st sets on any of the exercises because they are much lighter( half the weight that I normally workout with was my guide.. ie dumbell press 80's for 10-12 reps is what I usually do but 1 set only). Then "wham" I hit the wall quickly going into the 2nd set and the 3rd sets forget it on most! What an eye opener. But to be honest, I actually thought this was normal because I was looking to get stronger and bigger not using whimpy light weights trying to get 50 reps in with giant sets. I mean my first impression with your workouts was a workout for string bean long distance runners. So this is what is interesting to me, my whole life I have read and been told that if you want big strong muscles diet and pounding heavier weight would achieve the results and to heck with light wimpy sets of 25 reps. I have always beeen told that was a waste of time because the body responds by stimulating it to lift heavy not light. As I said before even if this is not the best method of getting bigger and stronger ( I still question if this is the best way????) I don't care....I want to get in better shape for golf especially getting more flexible. So this is going to be interesting. I'm going to stick with it and as hard as it is for me to hear that I have to go the beginner route I guess I really need to!!!
Thanks for the quick reply!
Imagine if you were a yankee fan what i'd say!
all kidding aside, patronizing another person always leads to a worse situation, i like to deal with the truth. can you do 25 reps 3 times round with the same weight? that would show me a person with endurance. when i said out of shape and (i have a very precise definition to inshape) , i didnt imply weak or strong, rather out of the ability to deliver oxygen to the area. and i base "in shape" on the ability of a persons heart n lung capacity first not strength. believe me after you get thru this endurance aspect your strength will go thru the roof. your in need to recruit and therefore develop new fibers to get thru the 2nd and 3rd rounds.
a few caveats that have to be considered.
you dont improve your weaknesses by working on your strengths.
in weight training failure is winning. cause only thru failure does your body have the stimulus to grow bigger and better to accommodate the stress. this principle is true with HIT also but its also true with your cardiovascular system. this is where i believe people have missed the correlation of building muscles with the cardiovascular system. The limiting factor to muscle is oxygen. you need o2!!! so if you were to build the endurance first, the muscles wouldnt fail as soon.
" I have always beeen told that was a waste of time because the body responds by stimulating it to lift heavy not light"
your right in this but only as it pertains to muscle strength!!! but your issue is that this didnt improve your ability to deliver o2 to the area. make sense?
if we change the discussion to what is the best way to get bigger and stronger - it requires keeping a person in a constant anabolic rather than catabolic state utilizing food, supplements, sleep. training only provides a stimulus to create a catabolic state necessary to signal the repair process. you get bigger and stronger outside the gym not inside. the best type of training to get that end product is one that continually changes.
the body adapts quite quickly, you must stay ahead of that adaptation by constantly switching up all of the variables - different machines, different angles, different exercises, different rep schemes, different paces, different gym, etc etc etc all matter.
i utilize everything i know as a tool to create a certain effect with the body. ill go in and do heavy days, heavy/light days, high rep days, high rep heavy weight days. high volume, low volume. its like a mad mathematician with a slide ruler - you have so many variables, and the multiplication of within these variables create an exponential explosion of routines.
whatever it take to put the body under duress. if your not pushing your body - be it endurance, muscular, or mentally based, your not improving.
best
Michael