by ignoring your arms it will make them grow.
doing three hours on the stairmaster will make up for the McDonalds binge you had the night before.
[quote]jdrannin1 wrote:
doing three hours on the stairmaster will make up for the McDonalds binge you had the night before. [/quote]
No, that’s clearly a myth. It actually goes “Heavy box squats immediately after your McDonald’s binge will make you STRONG.”
[quote]MODOK wrote:
I believe he was referring to yesterday’s Cool Tip, in which Berardi adresses this question specifically.
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Thank you
My uncle used to believe that there was a thing called “working muscle” that you got from doing yard work or whatever, and that this was somehow different from the “lifting muscle” that you got from lifting weights. He’d say “working muscle sticks with you, but when you quit lifting weights the lifting muscle turns to fat.”
[quote]conorh wrote:
jdrannin1 wrote:
doing three hours on the stairmaster will make up for the McDonalds binge you had the night before.
No, that’s clearly a myth. It actually goes “Heavy box squats immediately after your McDonald’s binge will make you STRONG.”[/quote]
“I saw that movie (supersize me). That was bullshit. I’ve been on that diet for almost 3 years and it’s gotten me nothing but big and strong.”
~Dave Tate
Something went terribly wrong during todays workout, and now I have this strange thing sticking out of my body.
It hurts like hell, but instead of going to a doctor, I’ll ask advice on an internet forum.
[quote]Wreckless wrote:
Something went terribly wrong during todays workout, and now I have this strange thing sticking out of my body.
It hurts like hell, but instead of going to a doctor, I’ll ask advice on an internet forum.[/quote]
Finally someone’s getting smart. Where is it? How far out is it sticking? When did you first notice it? What were you doing at the time? I’m sure we can get this all figured out.
although you cannot purely isolate one area of a muscle <i.e. inner pecs> during an exercise, you can create more tension on different areas of the muscle in question with different exercises.
although i don’t know how important it is to consider <i don’t consider it at all when developing my training programs>, different ‘chest exercises’ do strain different areas of the pecs more than others. although muscles do contract as a whole, cable crossovers will create more tension on the inner chest than flat bench barbell bench press.
EMG electrodes on various areas of any given muscle will reveal differing degrees of activity between differing exercises. so although i don’t think it’s really relevant to consider this when designing a training system <for most trainees, anyways> it is untrue that you cannot emphasize certain areas of muscles with different exercises.
[quote]mazilla wrote:
by ignoring your arms it will make them grow.[/quote]
that’s right man, you gotta listen to them and talk back when they speak to you.
How about that whole “Unstable Environment Theory” that was goin’ around a while back? Some exercises included dumbbell presses and shoulder presses on a swiss ball. Sounds like a recipe for a ball-and-socket injury, rotator cuff explosion, or pec tear.
here’s another one: ‘you can only build muscle with freeweights’.
[quote]hueyOT wrote:
although you cannot purely isolate one area of a muscle <i.e. inner pecs> during an exercise, you can create more tension on different areas of the muscle in question with different exercises.[/quote]
Oh Geeeez, that’s obviously a complete crock! Who would believe that???
Thankfully I know everything about lifting weights so if I don’t agree with it everyone else must be wrong.
[quote]trap_builder wrote:
mazilla wrote:
by ignoring your arms it will make them grow.
that’s right man, you gotta listen to them and talk back when they speak to you. [/quote]
“grow meine liebchen, Grow!”
[quote]Sxio wrote:
hueyOT wrote:
although you cannot purely isolate one area of a muscle <i.e. inner pecs> during an exercise, you can create more tension on different areas of the muscle in question with different exercises.
Oh Geeeez, that’s obviously a complete crock! Who would believe that???
Thankfully I know everything about lifting weights so if I don’t agree with it everyone else must be wrong.
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what are you trying to say?
That… since I know everything (sarcasm) if I don’t agree with it, it must be wrong.
This is probably the ultimate in idiotic theories - i know all about it cos I’ve done it in some fashion for a while. I’ve met many personal trainers with this attitude.
[quote]Muppet wrote:
trap_builder wrote:
mazilla wrote:
by ignoring your arms it will make them grow.
that’s right man, you gotta listen to them and talk back when they speak to you.
“grow meine liebchen, Grow!”[/quote]
“They know you’re talking about them!”
[quote]larryb wrote:
My uncle used to believe that there was a thing called “working muscle” that you got from doing yard work or whatever, and that this was somehow different from the “lifting muscle” that you got from lifting weights. He’d say “working muscle sticks with you, but when you quit lifting weights the lifting muscle turns to fat.”[/quote]
Don’t mess with farm boys that have been throwing hay bales all day.
[quote]Muppet wrote:
trap_builder wrote:
mazilla wrote:
by ignoring your arms it will make them grow.
that’s right man, you gotta listen to them and talk back when they speak to you.
“grow meine liebchen, Grow!”[/quote]
LOL! That was a pretty stupid but funny “random acts” article thing.
[quote]hueyOT wrote:
Sxio wrote:
hueyOT wrote:
although you cannot purely isolate one area of a muscle <i.e. inner pecs> during an exercise, you can create more tension on different areas of the muscle in question with different exercises.
Oh Geeeez, that’s obviously a complete crock! Who would believe that???
Thankfully I know everything about lifting weights so if I don’t agree with it everyone else must be wrong.
what are you trying to say?[/quote]
I don’t get it either.
I agree with Huey - I’ve been thinking about this more and more (with particular attention focused on the pectorals) and I’m convinced that you can create more tension in one part of a muscle than another, given the right stimulus…
Having said that, I believe that this doesn’t apply to all muscles e.g. the biceps.