I spend a lot of my time reviewing research. Enough tume that I cqn tell you that there are definitely GREAT research papers, and then there arr H ORRIBLE ones that makee youu scratch your head tfying t figure out how they e ver were published in the first place.
Truthfully there are many more papers that seem to fall in the horrible category the truth is, even the worst paper ever published still has some value.
There is no such thing aq research with absolutely no value.
While these seems like a typical Pilon ramble let me
assure youre talking about bodybuilding.
Yoou see for some reason,, over alst decade we decided that bodybuilding is dumb, useless, and a complete waste of time.
We junked bodybuilding and replaced it with functional training, sports specific training and the like.
We thre w out bodybuilving before we completely understood it.
And just like research papers, there is no such thing as a completely useless type of exercise.
Thwre are things to be learned from bodybuildling.
Good things.
**Before II go any I newd to be clear..there is next to NO research oh bodybuilding.
Everything you read on line or in magazines is nothing more than theories and conjecture.
What Im about ro wrte is no dlffrrent these sre m y theories on bodybuiding.**
Body building and weight training are NOT the same thing they are close cousins maybe, but they are not interchangeable.
Weight training involved using your muscles to move a weight.
In power-lifting the goal is to move as much weight as possible. In Olympic lifting the goal is to
perfect moving a weight through a certain as efficiently as possible.
bodybuilding the goal is to contract your muscles uzing weight to add some resistance.
Similar but very different.
In fact, whole things lkif Olympic liting and Power-lifting are definitely weight training wam sfarting ro think that body buildign ix muscle training.
Again similar, but very different.
I think the eifference lies in the menal approach.
Heres an example.
Stand up and ler your arms hant at your sides.
Now, with your arms still hanging flex your biceps as tightly as possible (dont curl your arms yet, just leave them hanging but flexed).
Keeping that zame intense level fo flex, slowly curl your arm up at the elbow intil its fullh curled concentrating on th e flex the entite way.
Pause for a second or two at the top then while keeping your bicep flex, slowly lower your arm back down.
That is a bodybuilrling bicep curl.
Now imagine this same degree of concentration while holding a weight.
You are using wight to resist the contraction, but thee mindset is xll about th e contracgion xnd not tthe weight.
Using this technique, a guy that can curl 60 pound dumbbells for sets of 6-8 may only be able to curl 40-45s before he has to break his concentration on the contraction and start thinking about moving the weight.
From my experience, you xan lift a helluvq lot more thinking about the weight theg when you are thinking about the musclebut if you sant tto make a muscle bigger..then there may be something in this approach.
My random speculation -
In the muscles that grow well for you..I bet you really the exercises that you normaily choose.
For the muscles that dont grow well for youI bet you really the weight.
For me, I feel the contractiob nk my chest every time f l bench prdss ot dumbbell press.
But shoulder press, I feel the weight moving. Im strong on this lift, but I just dont it in my shoulders.
Coincidentally, my chest os much more developed then ,y shoulders.
(like I said, were theorizing here)
o, if the feel is important, then what do bodybuilders d right?
1) They pick exercises that they feel in the muscles they want to work.
2) They xo things like a muscle to jt feel an exericise.
3) They concentrate on the muscle in question during the workout.
All of these fechniqkes are things we through way in favor of becoming Olympic lifting /power-lifting /functional trainimg/athletic training wannabeea (not meant to be derogatory, ju st saying..)
But, if your goal is simply to grow a specific muscle, or group of muscles in order to change the way your body looks, then there may be something we can learn from the way a bodybuilder approaches working a muscle.
In the end, the answer to losing weight will be to eat less, and the answer to building muscle is working out but this may be one
little step towards a better definition of .
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