Fiber twitch muscles

[TheFng]

Maybe, but the point is you can do something about your muscle fibers. Train explosively and you will develop your fast twitch fibers. I think that is a given.

 

[ZZuluZ]

Yup.

Even if you're slow twitch it may be better to exploit your fast twitch fibers (with low reps and explosiveness) because they have a bigger potential for growth.

-Zulu

 

[Prometheus]

Interesting thread guys, and thanks for posting the article links.

 

[brianmincher]

I find this thread and debate very interesting. It reminds me that there is a rep calculator over at huskerpower.com, and I have for some time thought that the calculator was off, at least for me. It must be set up for someone with average fast and slow twitch ratios. For example last night for my max effort movement I repped out with 225, and did 17 reps. I knew this was pretty pitiful, but went to the rep calculator just to see what it thought.

According to huskerpower I have about a 330 bench. Well that is all well and good, except for the fact that I went well above that this past Saturday for warmups before my bench meet. So I know for an absolute fact that this rep calculator is grossly off, at least for me.

In order for the rep calculator to give me credit for a weight that I have done in training, raw, and not going to 100 percent, I would have to have done 225 like 25 or 26 times. I know for certain that I could not get close to that even if I trained for reps. Note that I have not done more than 3 reps with a barbell on the bench in over 7 months.

I don't think I could get more than 3 or 4 reps with 80 percent of my max. I may try that for a max effort exercise after my next meet and see for sure.

Good thread.

B

 

[Deciever]

suprisingly those rep calculators are usually dead on with my max

 

[Deciever]

actually if that one at husker power is right then i should be benching 203 lbs! 140*15.. i hope thats right wheni test on monday

 

[brianmincher]

but like discussed in this thread, if your ratios are higher or lower than normal, the calculator will be off. If the calculator is right on, then you probably have the average ratio of fast to slow twitch. If the calculator calculates too high of a max, then you probably have more slow twitch, and if it calculates too low of a max then you probably have more fast twitch.

B

 

[Deciever]

its weird, my 15 rep max is 140, my 10 rep max is 145-150.. both both numbers come out with a projected max in the same range.. so im assuming im average

 

[Cubanito17]

I got alot of feedback from this thread it's great... I'll know what I am exactly next thursday for a max effort I'm going to do 185 til failure and see how many I get then check the 1RM calculator and see where I stand.

BRAIN one thing can you do 330 without a shirt. I'm wondering I'm not putting you down or anything but the thing is with the 1RM calc's I don't think they work on shirt weights.

 

[Deciever]

http://www.geocities.com/busyboy24/repmax.html another one rep max calculator