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Muscle DevelopmentMuscle development---do you need maximum intensity to achieve it?Muscle development –we all want it ! and how do we achieve it? Do we lift weights and at what intensity? Intensity do doubt is the key to great muscle development What is intensity? Does intensity have anything to do with the amounts of weights used? Yes it does! But this does not mean we cannot stimulate muscle growth with the use of lightweights! When it comes to muscle development you will need to train to failure ! Muscle failure is marked by the inability to sustain a give level of intensity but it is independent of the load used! You can still train intensely with a lightweight! It is just so much longer! Will failure with lightweights have a greater impact on muscle growth than using maximum weights or weight sin the 80-90% of your 1MR percentage? To illustrate this point lets look at sprinters, sprinters tend to have big legs but until recently they did not train to failure. Sprinters often subject their muscles to sub maximal loads and ye they still have big thighs! In this case they produce big muscles at a low rate of intensity! But get this, as big as the legs of a skater are! They are not likely to get it any bigger than they already have it! Unless they start using maximum loads and trai9nin to failure with them! With low intensity work you are likely to get as big as your genes will allow you to get! But you wont get any bigger than that. To force muscle growth you need 1. Maximum intensity 2. High overload The final point that is common to both the sprinter who uses low intensity training and say some one who uses heavy high intensity training is permanence training… Which I discuss in my book! Permamance training is the principle that dictates muscle growth! And yet no one knows off it or discusses it…and yet it alone is responsible for generating all the weight gain results you desire click the link below to read more! |