gaining strength

[Abdullah]

my uncle says that poeple who training free exercises have long muscles and they have more strength than body builders who have short muscles. i practice body building and my uncle advised me to play the repetitions fast (and not slow) to make my muscles long to gain strength, is that right? i'm interested mainly to gain strength much more than mass which i don't care for. i read some articles about strength where they talked about long and short muscles fast twitch slow twitch and some other things but i still feel that i'm blind on how to gain strength, any one can help? thanks.

 

[Fatty4You]

I don't think you can really lengthen a muscle from doing different styles of reps. If you want to lengethen a muscle, i think all you can do for that is stretching them, but i dont know how that will help you with strength so much. Strength has more to do with cross-sectional area of the muscle, not the length.

However, with greater length, you can get through the full range of motion about a joint.

-Fatty

 

[Abdullah]

thanks for the reply, does that mean if i have bigger muscles then i'm always stronger than poeple with smaller muscles? actualy i know of 2 guys one is shorter than the other and the taller guy is mascular and the shorter guy is a little on the fatty side but when it comes to hand twisting i mean when each guy try to twist the other guy's hand, the shorter guy is much more stronger than the taller guy. that strength for the shorter guy is a freak and it is from God ( i mean that strength it is natural).

any one can provide more info? thanks.

 

[spatts]

Kuwait by way of Amsterdam?

 

[casualbb]

Actually, having shorter lifts benefits a person when lifting as the torque from the load is applied at a closer distance to the pivot. In a very simlified sense, given an equal amount of bicep muscle, the person with forearms half as short can lift twice as much.

That being said, I don't want to bad on your uncle, but I don't think he knows what he's talking about.

How much strength do you want to gain? It is possible to gain strength without muscle, but that reaches a limit quickly. There will be a point at which you MUST add muscle to continue gaining strength.

-casualbb

 

[Abdullah]

casualbb, i want freak strength. how to do so? how to strengthen and lengthen my muscle tendoms?

check

http://steige.tripod.com/strength.html

thanks for help.

 

[casualbb]

Strengthen you can do. Lengthen you cannot. There are a good many routines posted in stickies at the top of this board, I suggest you read up on them and pick one that makes sense to you.

-casualbb

 

[R CRUSHER]

don't listen to your uncle, he's stuck in the 80's ole school logic.

tendon/ligament strength is best increased with low reps (1-3), but not good for hypertrophy.

freak strength? that changes as you get stronger. what you think is freaky today won't be so freaky in a year.

 

[Abdullah]

R CRUSHER, my uncle studied master degree in sport in USA and he said what he said upon the info he got and yes he studied that master degree in the 80's. so were these studies wrong?

what do you think about this article i posted above :

http://steige.tripod.com/strength.html

casualbb, i will take a look at the stickies you mentioned.

what i'm doing now is trainingg with the most heavier weight i can tolerate and do the reps as fast as i can, so what do you tihink?

 

[Abdullah]

any one?