Natty on Pennies

[Voxel]

@danteism

I remember one summer when I trained with a friend of mine who is a type 3 in the neurotyping system (that’s a key here, he has extremely low capacity to recover from volume, intensity and frequency)

I remember you calling yourself out as a 1b but I think grinding reps is more 1a for what it’s worth. Also, I imagine you’d be fun to workout with!

@danteism

We would do front squat and deadlift maxes every morning and then go back in the evening to do high volume bodybuilding work with a 3-way split. That wasn’t light either, I recall doing a 13 rep set with 170 lbs on the smith squat after doing leg presses and leg extensions as a superset.

Epic summer!

@danteism

Up until now I’ve been doing 30-45 set training sessions on a 3 on 1 off scheme so I figured I’ll just drop the volume a bit while bringing the intensity up a notch. Started off by doing four days in a row (today was the last one). Tomorrow I’ll do a recovery sessions (or neural charge if we want to call it that) and then I’ll go for six hard sessions in a row.

Not that your suggestion was bad, it’s just that I don’t like explosive training all that much. I did, however include acceleration work with lighter weights in the program. You see, I train for bodybuilding first and foremost, and with explosive training there is a rather high chance of you doing the work with the wrong muscles. But with acceleration training you can (and should) begin every rep rather slow to get the intended muscles to fire. When that’s done you begin to accelerate and at the top just contract violently. Feels pretty good

Fair point, do what you like!

I remember CT writing in a different topic,

@Christian_Thibaudeau

Net muscle gain in the difference between protein synthesis and degradation.

With low reps you might not stimulate as much protein synthesis per session but if you train a muscle more frequently you have more episodes of protein synthesis and if you minimize cortisol production you get a greater net muscle gain.

and I guess you simply don’t produce much cortisol which is why you can train the way you do, grow, and thrive.

@danteism

Also, thanks for the suggestions, it’s always nice to get an outsiders view of things.

One of the values of these forums I guess.