[quote]Chris Arp wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Chris Arp wrote:
What about all the little weaklings that do not do super slow reps. Do the little lifters doing fast reps invalidate fast reps? Hell no!
The big huge muscular veiny people validate faster reps. This isn’t about the little people. I know they want equality like the rest of us, but when it comes to what is actually working out there and what isn’t, if you can’t point to anyone who went from small to “fucking Huge” doing super slow reps, then it loses ground as far as how effective it is, especially if all of those huge bastards in the corner all got huge by lifting a lot faster.
Since when is finding the most efficient way to be “extreme” based on those without the capability to ever get there?
here is something to think about. Maybe it’s a psychogical thing. Are Mesomorphs more apt to train in a certain style and ectomorphs in another. Type A personalities are more apt to do fast reps possibly.
Something else to ponder. If we take 20 untrained individuals in a gym, we train 10 using slow negatives and 10 using fast negatives. But we stack the deck. We test vertical jump and divide them by body type. We train all the mesomorphs that have the highest vertical jumps with slow negatives and the low vertical jump and ectomorph group using fast reps. With your line of thinking the fast rep group will see better gains. But, with my line of thinking the genetic superior group would blow the fast rep group away. And if you flipped it the opposite would be true. So Genetics is the #1 determining factor of superior gains not reps speed. [/quote]
Who has said any different? Do you think Olympic hopefuls are based on those with the least apparent genetic ability? There is a reason those with the least genetics are weeded out at such a young age. Therefore, all of the principals we now hold up as being the way to train Olympic weight lifters efficiently is based on those with the genetic ability that outshined their peers.
I know that personal trainers lose business by pointing that out immediately, but all of the scientific jargon in the world isn’t going to make some guy with the least genetic potential into one of the elite in a given activity.
Logically, if my goal is to be one of the biggest or strongest, I shouldn’t give a flying shit about what genetically inferior people have to do to see any progress at all. I should be looking to the people who got big, not the ones who haven’t been able to no matter what.
Of those, I can then determine what works better. The only ones who keep throwing in the genetic misfits are politically correct coddlers and personal trainers who need the business.
Bottom line, if I want to get big, I look to the big guys. I don’t look to the little guys. Isn’t that just plain old common sense?
If not, it should be.