People dont seem to understand what causes growth. The stimulus repsonsible for increasing size and strenght is the last rep of a set carried to failure. If you can do 9 reps you must agree the next you need to do 10 right. You wont grow by doing 1,2,3 or 8 or even reps. if you do 9 reps again all your doing is contracting the same muscle cells you did the previous workout. YOU DONT STIMULATE GROWTH BY DOING A SECOND SET . YOU ONLY GROW ON ANY WORKOUT WHEN THEIR IS PROGRESSIVE RESISTANCE AND TO DO THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO A 10TH REP
** Nobody knows the best way or how hypertrophy is produced, it just happens. Are you saying by doing the last rep in the workout you are going to give the proper stimuli to produce growth? Are you doing 9 reps with one weight then 10 reps the next workout with the same weight? Thats a very very small progression! Why not drop weight and do 12 reps? or why not add weight and do 6 reps? or better yet why not do another set or a pyramid set? Again, your theory SUCKS!!
example- you do one rep and your body contracts a certain number of muslce cells. After each rep your body has to contract more and more muscle cells and when you get to the 9th rep your body will contract the exact same muscle cells it did the last time you did 9 reps and THE ONLY WAY TO CONTRACT NEW MUSCLE CELLS WHICH IS NEEDED IN ORDER TO GROW YOU NEED TO DO A 10 REP.
** you saying that by doing one contraction that you arnt contracting the same number of fibers in the next several reps?
IF YOU DID A SECOND SET OF 9 ALL YOU DO IS CONTRACT THE SAME MUSCLE CELLS. SOME SAY YOU CONTRACT NEW MUSCLE CELLS IN ORDER TO DO THE SET AND ITS NOT TRUE.
** Care to show me some EMG studies to back up your comment? According to your theory you do nothing but recruite the same fibers over and over again, and the max number of fibers in the muscle. Which isnt possible, because no single movement will fatigue all fibers. Im sure you know the 3 fibers, Ia, IIA, and IIX. You will never tap into all the Ia fibers due to the fact they are so resistance to faituge and high at ATP. The IIA and IIX on the other hand do get recruited and fired but your not placing enough tension, or load on them to do anything but have them change iso forms and act like a hybrid fiber of Ia. Again i bet you dont know what im talking about because you dont seem to have a understanding of science.
PEOPLE THAN SAY , WHY DID I GROW DOING MY 4 SETS OF 8
because you did the same thing that people that do one set do. the guy doing 4 by 8 did do one set but 3 unneccesary sets . plus when your brain knows it is going to do more than one set, something deep down inside of you holds back and that is why some can do the same weight again and the same number of reps. Also remember if you did doa second set and you didnt even match the same number of reps you actually contracted less muscle than the previous set and by doing this set you made a deeper hole causing it to take you longer to recover than it does someone doing a second set.
** Actually by taking a rest and then adding weight you increase the tension which recruites more fibers to contract to manuoover the load. Again, your theory SUCKS! And shut up already with your HOLE theory, it sucks!
For the guys and gals doing multiple sets and train in consecutive days- if 3 sets is good , then why not a 4th set. if it was sets that cause growth , that would not mean, but have to mean that one more set would be even better.
Remember weightlifiting is anerobic, not aerobic. People are using aerobic energy to do sets and then wander why they dont grow.My workout that i did and what i do now in the next post.
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