when a MU receives a signal to turn on, it contracts with full force. Without such a signal, it is off.
Before I started to use ACIT, I used to perform conventional sets on the leg press machine. I am quite flexible and like to bring the weight all the way down and then up just shy of lock-up, so with an extended range like this, I was never able to use a monstrous amount of weight. Right before I started to use ACIT, I was doing 9 to 10 reps with 430 lbs on the leg press. Since I love to blast legs with intensity-extending techniques, I would then either ask a partner, or when no one was around to help, jump up and strip some weight to reduce the load. I would unusually drop the weight to 340 or so and immediately perform 10 or so more repetitions. Even when I would push myself as hard as I possibly could with the 430 and had partner to strip some weight off so that the drop would occur ASAP and would give me basically no time to rest, I would still be able to use at least 310-320 lbs for another 10 or even more reps.
Now let’s see what happens with ACIT. First of all, I can only use 250 lbs when totally fresh. I am still going all the way down but never locking out on top. All I am doing is simply squeezing the legs as hard as possible on the way down (it helps to visualize the pros who first shake their legs left and right to make them vibrate like a bowl of pudding and then suddenly flex them during the Mr. Olympia). With 250 the set starts relatively easy, but becomes surprisingly more difficult as the blood is trapped and lactic acid builds up. By the 8th rep it still feels like I could do another 6 or 7 repetitions, but then in a matter of seconds things start to shut down. It is a feeling like nothing else I have ever experienced and must be felt to be appreciated. By the 9th rep I am wondering what the hell happened that made the exercise so difficult all of a sudden and by the 10th rep I am screaming because the weight feels like a thousand pounds. If I am particularly well rested I get half-way up on the 11th rep, but usually I fail by 10 (though I am getting stronger and expect to be able to complete 12 reps with this weight soon, then I will up the weight). Here is the interesting part. I then jump up and drop the weight to do a few more reps. When I first tried this, I was under the mistaken impression that I only needed to drop the weight by around the same 25% or so as I used to with a set of regular leg presses (from 430 to 310-320). So I simply reduced the weight to 180 lbs. When I got under the machine, I was able to get only one rep. During the next leg workout, I reduced the weight to 120 but was able to do 2 reps this time. Just guess how much weight I settled on after much experimentation. I am now dropping the weight from 250 to 45 lbs. Yes, that’s not a misprint; I must go from 250 lbs to 45 lbs, i.e. one single disc on one side and nothing else on the other side of the leg press machine. I am neither joking here nor taking my workouts easy. When I properly flex the quads during the negative portion of the rep, after just one single set of only 10 repetitions, my legs are finished. There is only enough power left in them to barely lift 45 lbs (by the way I am unable to even complete 10 reps with the empty machine + 45 lbs, all I can get out is around 6 reps). In fact, the drop set is basically a meaningless attempt and, recently, I have eliminated it completely. It is very obvious that one single set of 10 reps wipes out almost the entire power of my legs. That is the kind of incredible inroading I am talking about.
Let’s take a moment to compare this kind of inroading to what can be achieved with conventional means. As I pointed out, after completing a set of regular leg presses with 430 lbs, I still have enough power to immediately perform another set with 310-320 lbs. Just for the sake of experimentation, I have recently attempted to weaken my quads (without resorting to ACIT) to the point where I could only press 45 lbs on the leg press machine. I performed a set of conventional leg presses with 430 lbs, dropped the weight to 320 did another 9 reps, dropped to weight to 180 and performed another set, managing to get around 9 more repetitions. As you can imagine, my pulse rate was through the roof and I was in tremendous pain at this stage. Still, without taking a break, I started to do vertical jumps. I was simply too tired to do proper jumps but continued to jump as high as I possibly could for as many times as possible. Honestly I was unable to keep count. When I was no longer able to keep jumping, I immediately got into the leg press machine which I loaded with 45 lbs and started pressing. Although I was about to die at this stage, the weight didn’t feel that heavy and I pressed it up 12 times at which point I terminated the experiment as I had already found the answer I was looking for. At this point, my hands were shaking, my breathing and pulse were perhaps at dangerously high levels and I am sure my blood pressure had peaked several times over the last three minutes. Still, I was unable to achieve the kind of inroading for my legs that I can with just one single set of ACIT-style presses.
Body a écrit:Comment tu fais pour faire ta négative si tu contractes pas tes muscles?
Vincent a écrit: aahhahha Plasma t'as un énorme déficit de force et grop pump avec ton ECCTREME ?
Alban a écrit:Je crois que Darrel et sa bande de comparses sont l'équivalent dans le domaine du training de la plupart des gens que je vois et qui veulent perdre du poids : il veulent des résultats sans faire d'efforts. Alors il se concentrent sur la pillule miracle qui peut peut-être optimiser un paramètre dérisoire, en laissant de côté le plus important.
C'est pourtant pas compliqué, pour prendre du muscle on sait empiriquement ce qui marche : il n'y a qu'à aller voir le training log de Fabrice, Jérôme, Gros, et j'en oublie tout plein des gars comme ça qui s'entraînent et qui mangent sérieusement.
Bouhahahahha ! d'un autre côté, le HV ça marche pas non plus pour ça"Experiments with a cock ring have led certain individuals to comment that it doesn't work on your dick."
Dans un milieu non androgénisé, la GH n'a aucune effet, aucun sur la croissance musculaire.
Okay, explique moi la théorie de la déplétion d'énergie? Ca active quel récépteur ? Ca transcrit quoi?
Ce que je dis, c'est que t'explique rien.
You see, exercise is a strain on the body, and if the strain is severe enough, it does cause damage and inflammation. Cortisol is a natural hormonal response… a chemical that is released to barricade the inflamed area and to ‘eat away’ at the inflamed and damaged tissue… to clear the damage out of the body. Without enough recovery, the myelin sheaths and associated muscle fibers cannot repair and will continue to be catabolized, and the intensity of muscular contractions reduces and is of a lesser quality. If continued in this direction, ‘localized overtraining’ can result eventually in ‘generalized overtraining’ (which then affects our endocrine and nervous systems to a greater extent), whereby you feel lethargic, may have disturbed sleep patterns, and feel disinclined to exercise altogether. The latter aspect certainly is true as you begin to lose strength because the nervous system simply cannot communicate properly with the muscles. It also is possible that the ‘day after’ inflammation produced from intense exercise contributes further to internal pressure to produce electrical/chemical ‘interference’ communication between nerves and muscles.
La protéine mTOR contrôle diverses étapes impliquées dans la synthèse des protéines via la modulation d’effecteurs proximaux.
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