Let me ask you this how does training explosivly not equate to more explosiveness. I mean u do the math. Have you trained explosivly before, not for bodybuilding purposes but for strength, conditioning and sports? If so you would know that it works it is that simple!!
You have your opinion and that is fine but others have theres, keep that in mind
Just to clarify, I never said that explosive lifting leads to “more” muscle fiber being available for contraction. It doesn’t work like that, and this is a whole different issue than intramuscular coordination. The reason I use explosive lifting is to develop elastic strength, also called reactive strength. This is the target of plyometrics. If more explanation is needed on this concept or on the stretch shortening cycle I’d be happy to elaborate. The argument of “if you recruited more fibers they would grow and explosive lifting would be best for hypertrophy” is not appropriate, and no one ever claimed that.
doug. first I was being told that explosive training leads to MORE fiber being recruited (spanky tut produces hypertrophy because you recruit more fibers not just cause its longer)
but doug I am looking at a bunch of stuff I got from pubmed and it does not seem to show an increase in relex contraction thru explosive training. (don’t wory I won’t type them all out but I will give the pmid# 'cause I think you can look them up that way, if you would like to, and I hope you do because I would like to know if I am missing something here) pmid:9459539 they tested fatigue and recovery in maximal vs. explosive training “in the men, the decrease in iEMG for the early contraction phase (0-100ms) dureing ESL(explosive strength loading) was greater (P<0.05) than that of MSL(maximal strength load), whereas the decrease in iEMG in the peak force phase (500-1500 ms) was similar…”
pmid:1425646 A Test of the maxmum-power stimulus theory fot strength. they had a strength trained group and a power trained group they were testing to see if strength training leads to only strength gains and if power training leads to only power gains “… both groups gained signifigantly in velocity, but not force, at maximum power. the corelation between strength and maximum were high (r=0.95-0.98,P<0.02),consistent (before and after training) and valid (gain in standard error of estimate of 6 N or 2% of strength). the evidence suggests that maximum power was the strength stimulus. the maximum-power stimulus theory may unify and simplify theories of responses and adaptation of structure and function induced by muscle.” tell me if I am missing something. peace hetyey225
Hetyey, yes, as TUT becomes longer more fibers are used, this is why higher TUTs generate more hypertrophy, due to more fibers being affected and more protein breakdown… coincidentally, this is why more sarcoplasmic hypertrophy is created than sarcomere with a longer TUT. Don’t confuse this with teaching your body to recruit as many fibers AT ONCE in order to produce more force, which is done with lower reps and more weight OR by pushing a submaximal weight as fast as you can. Just look at Olympic lifters. Some are very small guys, but they manage to clean and jerk over 400 lbs, something bodybuilders who are much bigger than they are can’t seem to do.