Actually, come to think of it, isn’t it REQUIRED that you read academic materials, NOT to get an edge, but to pass exams and projects in your major and become a competent exercise physiologist one day?
I’m confused now. OR it could just be that you’re a freshman and you haven’t taken one class for your major yet.
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
Actually, come to think of it, isn’t it REQUIRED that you read academic materials, NOT to get an edge, but to pass exams and projects in your major and become a competent exercise physiologist one day?
I’m confused now. OR it could just be that you’re a freshman and you haven’t taken one class for your major yet. [/quote]
Just a bunch of health and wellness type classes. Introductory biology, nutrition and so on.
Just go to the school’s library and ask the librarians to help you out with the search engines for the library and how to search the library. If your school offers nutrition and exercise science courses, they probably have online subscriptions to respective academic journals.
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
Hello, and thanks, Roybot. How are you? You ever get my PM?
Akram, I don’t think I’m an unhelpful prick. But I understand if you took my post the wrong way. So I apologize.
Here’s why I think you, and a whole slew of people running around this forum ARE lost. Successful bodybuilders and strength athletes, unless they actually work in an academic and/or clinical setting in nutrition and exercise physiology (eg, Lonnie Lowery), seldom, if ever, look at studies like this. Although some top bodybuilders are cerebral (eg, Dorian Yates), I doubt they ever bother with this stuff. You’d be far better off with referring to CT’s articles on program design for bodybuilders than looking at studies like this. I think his articles series titled “How to Design a Damn Good Program” and an article titled “Your Training Roadmap” (I think that’s the name) are all that one needs to design their own routine for bodybuilding.
Most bodybuilders do the same shit as one another with little differences suited to their needs. It’s all the same shit:
Days per week: 4 to 5
Number of exercises for large muscle groups: 2 compound, 1 to 2 isolation
Number of exercises for small muscle groups: 1 to 2 compound, 1 to 2 isolation
Sets: 1 to 4 main sets, depending on how they train
Reps: 6 to 15
Type of split: up to the individual
THAT’S IT!
Granted, more competent guys use exercises that “agree” with their bodies or give them the best results. But I’ve never ever seen a successful bodybuilder do anything different than this. That’s why quibbling over the interpretation of academic exercise physiology studies is ALMOST useless. If you want to do it because you just like reading that stuff, that’s fine. Go ahead.
I have a pending MS (one more course to go) in nutrition with an exercise physiology concentration. The courses on exercise deal more with sports nutrition and weight control rather than the sort of academic stuff you’ve pointed us to here. However, I still have never bothered looking at an exercise study for reassurance that a particular exercise will be effective for me. I think it’s safe to say that the bigger guys on here haven’t either.
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GREAT POST. This is it in a nutshell.
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
Hello, and thanks, Roybot. How are you? You ever get my PM?
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Hi Bricknyce,
Sorry, I didn’t get your PM - I had PMs switched off because the last couple of people that tried to contact me were trolls. I find trolls as entertaining as the next person, but trolling via PM is just flat-out weird. I’ve got PMs enabled now so feel free to drop me a line.
Roybot.