6 Bodybuilding Lies Crippling Your Progress

Discussion in 'Health and Fitness' started by Frederick Foresight, Mar 18, 2022.

  1. I agree with most of what you have written, but I don't see why time under load at ~45 seconds should be optimal. Why would it be better than, say, 30 seconds or even 90, if failure is reached at the end of a set properly performed?

    https://www.cbass.com/CarpinelliNoNonsense.htm

    https://www.researchgate.net/public...nce_to_support_recommended_training_protocols

    https://www.cbass.com/Carpinelli.htm
     
    #11     Mar 21, 2022
  2. DTB2

    DTB2

    athleanX.com

    This guy knows a ton about targeting muscles, safe exercises etc. He espouses it on one of his video, not as dogma but just matter of fact.
     
    #12     Mar 21, 2022
  3. Based on?
     
    #13     Mar 22, 2022
  4. DTB2

    DTB2

    #14     Mar 22, 2022
  5. Sounds reasonable, but I don't think there is sufficient evidence to support it. As it happens, my sets are at least 45 seconds to failure, so I know how arduous they can be. But the guy recommends explosive lifts? That's using momentum and is a form of cheating for someone who wishes to employ maximum intensity. You don't need to move explosively to activate fast twitch motor units.

    In addition to the links I posted earlier in this thread, Carpinelli also concluded the following in his last paper:

    Time under Tension Section Summary: The significant implication of this section is that there is no resistance training study to support the superiority or inferiority of any specific TUT for stimulating hypertrophy.

    https://www.researchgate.net/public...OR_MUSCLE_HYPERTROPHY_IN_EXPERIENCED_TRAINEES

    I have seen a number of the AthleanX guy's videos. Jeff Cavaliere produces A LOT of content for a subject that, in the end, should be relatively basic and straightforward. But business is business.

    I'm reminded of something I read and posted a few years ago, written by Richard Winett, a lifelong fitness enthusiast and exercise researcher:

    "The irony is that through all my training incarnations, I had about the same lean body mass. The only thing required to capitalize on my best assets was to just watch my diet a bit more."
     
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    #15     Mar 23, 2022
  6. In his own words:



    But beware:
    So if Dorian Yates was training as a young man with superior genetics and with the aid of drugs 4 times a week, 45 minutes per workout, using HIT principles, then I would think that people with more average genetics and without chemical assistance would do well to train less often and with lower volume. That's my take, anyway.
     
    #16     Mar 23, 2022
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  7. Nobert

    Nobert

    On the Joe Rogan podcast he said 3 times, probably, he had the upper body in mind.

    Thanks anyway, got a free moment & some sup, will watch it right now.
     
    #17     Mar 23, 2022
  8. #18     Mar 23, 2022
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  9. Nobert

    Nobert

    That's me, basically, in the red t-shirt, in that vid, that you shared, behind him talking, thus, it's very believable.
     
    #19     Mar 23, 2022
  10. It beckoned again. sisyphus.gif
     
    #20     May 4, 2022