wow!
Would you apply this logic (spreading volume over different days) to a lifting phase where hypertrophy was your main goal or then would you be more inclined to increase volume in one training session where as you mentioned the chemical stress would be higher?
Would be interested to hear how you program to bring up the components of strength.
Hi mate.
Correct, more stress in a single session would be better for hypertrophy.
As for components of strength, there are many, but the main ones:
Start strength: the ability to turn an amount of fibres on in an instant.
Explosive strength: the ability to keep start strength on, and further recruit more and more (not to be confused with power; power is work/time).
Your 1RM is predominantly start strength recruitment plus explosive strength recruitment (and plus or minus some bits from other mechanisms such as spindle effect, Golgi inhibition etc).
Itās VERY common to see people training components incorrectly. An example would be failing deadlifts at lockoutā¦
So they go practice locking out.
In essence, they failed lockout because they decelerated (is good start strength but failed to recruit more fibre).
By rack pulling from lockout position, they are further increasing start strength and not really fixing the true weakness. They should be using bands.
Naturally, there is muscle bias (eg triceps at lockout on bench Vs pec/delt at bottom of bench), but this is almost irrelevant. The people that fail lockout on bench press can always lockout from pins more than they failed with in the same positionā¦ Proving they donāt have weak tricepsā¦ Just poor explosive strength but good start strength.
I might not explain it well, only using my phone but can explain more in depth when at pc.
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interesting stuff. thanks for sharing dude.