Ok, so I heard this old wife tale from my dad ..... What he said is if you work out with your own body weight (push ups, pull ups ..etc) it makes your muscles harder ..if thats the right word .. and if u use more then your body weight it is like a flabby muscle ...IMO I cant tell the difference ..I used to do alot of push ups then recently started weight trainings....anybody know?
Muscle density...
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Completely untrue...why would that even sound remotely possible?
LOL - yeah I heard some stories like that when I started lifting. With some people, the moment you lift a dumbbell your a no-good meat-head steroid using bodybuilder.
My dad once told me that building muscle requires the same hormone as keeping your brain alive, and buy lifting weights your killing your brain!
People think that lifting weights makes you take steroids, in the same way they think that going to a party means your taking drugs. So your dad thinks he is doing the right thing buy warning you away from lifting. Print out some info or buy a book for him to read if he is really that bothered.
Eatting healthy, cardio and weight training are the 3 best things you can do for your body. Tell your dad to go punch the biggest guy in the gym and tell you that his muscles are flabby!
My dad once told me that building muscle requires the same hormone as keeping your brain alive, and buy lifting weights your killing your brain!
People think that lifting weights makes you take steroids, in the same way they think that going to a party means your taking drugs. So your dad thinks he is doing the right thing buy warning you away from lifting. Print out some info or buy a book for him to read if he is really that bothered.
Eatting healthy, cardio and weight training are the 3 best things you can do for your body. Tell your dad to go punch the biggest guy in the gym and tell you that his muscles are flabby!
The reason for that is about the difference in muscle fibre you target during a good bw regime where you'd probably be more inclined to do more reps and work on speed and endurance as opposed to to heavy max lift resistance where all you're doing is pumping your same size muscle full of blood ..
even when those fibres repair .. because they need more complex carb to repair.. all you get is big empty muscle that also is likely to impair your rom... nOt ideally functional.. I am fml.. 42/5 kgs most days and through some unavoidable priority cash grab stack.. am lifting 20/30/40/81 kgs over and ooover and over..and over .. through most my days. big does nOt = pound for pound strength...nOr optimum function. google some shots of past and current strong men. . heck!.. google Chuck Norris if you like.
remember that most bio-available protein + non - grained carb = fluid and organ balance + pack / grains + clear glyc fulids and 'heartier" textured proteins = build. .. just don't forget to poop and stretch regularly.
cheers
Blooming lotus.
even when those fibres repair .. because they need more complex carb to repair.. all you get is big empty muscle that also is likely to impair your rom... nOt ideally functional.. I am fml.. 42/5 kgs most days and through some unavoidable priority cash grab stack.. am lifting 20/30/40/81 kgs over and ooover and over..and over .. through most my days. big does nOt = pound for pound strength...nOr optimum function. google some shots of past and current strong men
. . heck!.. google Chuck Norris if you like.remember that most bio-available protein + non - grained carb = fluid and organ balance + pack / grains + clear glyc fulids and 'heartier" textured proteins = build. .. just don't forget to poop and stretch regularly
.cheers
Blooming lotus.
Ive been thinking about it and heres what I got
:when you work with your own body , the excercises take time to really build mass, (as per using weights)and so the muscle fibers may become more compact , therefore making your muscles stronger then using weights density is probably the wrong word Theres a kid at my school and he aint that much into weights and I talked to him(hes not that big or big at all)
he benches 220 but then again does around 400 push-ups a day he definently doesnt look like he can bench 220(max)...but it does make sense to me ...im no scientist
:when you work with your own body , the excercises take time to really build mass, (as per using weights)and so the muscle fibers may become more compact , therefore making your muscles stronger then using weights density is probably the wrong word
Theres a kid at my school and he aint that much into weights and I talked to him(hes not that big or big at all)he benches 220 but then again does around 400 push-ups a day he definently doesnt look like he can bench 220(max)...but it does make sense to me ...im no scientist
No AF1. .. Iii'm talking about how you best feed and fuel your output pending your needs ... what fibres in ratio to what activity to what goal needs what fuel.. thaats why we go to school... for evver and evvvver and ever and ... go back and read it again! .
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There's two ways muscle grows (from what I can recall): the fiber gets thicker or it get more numerous. This applies to type II fiber as that is the one with the most growth potential.
The only way to make that happen is to continuously give it a load that recruits it. Since body weight is for the most part static, eventually you'll stop recruiting type II and start using type I.