Big Muscles Are Not Functional

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Big muscles are not functional and big muscles do not translate into stronger muscles.

When you weight train you are essentially building bigger muscles, as such your muscles do not lose any of their functionality, on the contrary they are becoming stronger and so they are actually more functional. The sprinter that weight trains will always be the one to break the records (Ben Johnson)—muscles will give you that extra edge in all aspects of your life. And if you are not convinced look at the world strongest men in ESPN. That is muscular strength taken to the extreme, but it is all-functional. There is no such thing as muscle slowing you down, huge bodybuilders are known to be able to sprint and beat most athletes that don’t weight train, each unit of muscle is active and is functional, so even though you are heavier, all that weight is active and contributes to your muscular output and force. fat slows you down because it is inactive and useless when it comes to performing work. as regards to strength and muscular size, the two are directly related
Ever wondered why the 6 week program always has in small fine print ‘results not typical –results will vary’ well that should tell you that something is wrong.

So what is intensity exactly?
Intensity is simply generating the most amount of stress on a body part or muscle in the shortest period of time. Intensity is best understood by explaining its effects on muscle and its relation to muscle growth. Weight training serves as a means to an end. It merely places stress on the muscle being trained. When abnormal stress is placed on a muscle it has no choice but to respond in growth and size – this leads to more fat loss and better tone. Intensity is the amount of stress placed on a muscle. Stress indicates that unless the muscle is stressed beyond its current capacity, it has no reason to grow or change. Fact is the body hates change and will do so only if the stress is too much. The body is homeostatic in nature. It has to stay the same – in temperatures, muscle size etc – this is often in relation to its environment. E.g. Africans carry less fat because of the heat. Just as Europeans carry more body fat because of the colder temperature. Point is the body wants to stay the same. The body maintains a consistent temperature, normal enzyme level and more importantly it also maintains this consistency by limiting the amount of muscle it carries.
So how does weight training fit in?
O.k.! For muscle growth or adaptation to occur, enough stress must be placed on the muscle so that it is literally damaged on a cellular level. Intensity is a mental thing in fact. When you curl by a weight say on the bicep curl, your brain sends a signal instructing the muscles to contract, and in line with homeostasis, it instructs only enough fibers to get the job done. Here is where the gold lies. Each fiber that moves does so at 100%, no more, no less. The only problem is it instructs only the necessary fibers to get the job done. That is why lightweights and low intensity is a waste of time. Heavy high intensity body building instructs all muscle fibers to work – to get the job done. So you see it does not matter if you use machines or free weights, so long as the intensity is high, you will generate the required results. But again let me clear this up, lifting heavy weights will not do the job on its own. Lifting heavy weights with high intensity will do it! In theory, you could use lightweights to get results but that would be impractical and extremely painful. The lactic acid build up would be too intense and rep ranges would be too significantly (70 – 100 repetitions) – 99% trainers would fail mentally before their muscles reacted to the physical failure. Most lifters are guilty of picking up a weight, doing a pre-determined set of picking up a weight, doing a pre-determined set of repetitions and setting the weight down. That sort of training is no training at all – you are wasting your time and money at the gym. To capture the benefit (all or nothing philosophy) you have to lift to the point where completing another rep is physically impossible! And then beyond is the only way you grow and to do that you must have really developed mental powers because the pain often deludes you into believing that you have reached failure when you have not. I call this the “little voice” and in my book, I show you methods of eliminating it. This “little voice” is the major obstacle to progress because it is very difficult to beat. When you train beyond failure the body has to grow to adapt to the stress. It has to as a self defense mechanism even though it does not want to do it. To prevent you from doing such damage to it, it uses lactic acid build up (physical) and mental obstruction (little voice) to fool you or stop you. Your mind is the only tool you have to beat this “fooling mechanism”. Beat it and you have got a physique to be proud of in record time. The truth is very few people have the potential to achieve this intensity, very few. I have devised mental techniques that allow the average person to go beyond failure. Don’t let anyone lie to you. body building at its purest is not a sport, you can’t lift weights with a lax mental attitude – you will get no muscular results, no fat loss, and no tone. That is the singular reason why people who weight train make no progress at all. This is where the “experts” come in to make a quick buck. They introduce the “magic” weight loss pill or supplement that will make you grow and change. Fact is: even steroids require the same high intensity stimulation to get any results. It is very important to recognize that pain goes hand in hand with training intensity. The pain never gets better with time, you may grow to face it when you see the results but pain is the obstacle and you must learn to face it if you intend to change your body in record time. Let us help you face it.
What are the signs of training intensely?
Since body building or weightlifting is anaerobic in nature. It requires blood Glucose as its primary energy source. Glucose is the most important nutrient needed by your brain. No glucose means no Brain functioning and that means the end of your life.. Because High intensity body building requires 100% effort generated much more Glucose is burnt in a short period of time. This causes Glycogen Depletion. This basically occurs when the blood glycogen is eliminated from the muscle cells due to the constant force and intensity generated. The sensation you feel are deep nausea, dizzy spells and occasionally black spells or black outs and even a lack of breath. This especially occurs when you perform exercises such as the squat intensely, lifting 600lbs for 20 repetitions requires immense glucose and you can be sure that you will feel the effects of glycogen depletion. I know it sounds unsafe and scary but that is not true, the nausea you feel is backed up by feelings of strength and emotional accomplishment. It is a benchmark feeling, a feeling that essentially tells you that you have ‘flicked ‘ the growth switch. You have only to experience it once to truly understand what I say.