Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Attention to detail
greetings good people...and the rest of you who showed up. Today I just wanted to say a couple of things about reps. I had an epiphany the other day. Its pretty simple when you break it down. You skeleton is encased within your muscles. Muscle contractions cause your skeletal system to move. If you want to cause a change or an effect in a certain area, figure out how the arrange your body in a manner that the muscles in that area contract. Repeat that process repeatedly and you'll get to be more efficient in that movement. You'll became more efficient in the movement because it will me easier for you. Why? Because you've programmed the muscles to recognize the movement, also because the muscles that have been repeatedly performing the movement have gotten stronger. If those muscles have gotten stronger then, a number of thing may have occurred. A the muscle group has gotten bigger, B the muscles are more dense, more muscle tissue packed in, or C they have gotten leaner, so they're operating more efficiently without the excess fat that they've been carrying around, or D a little of all three. This mainly depends on your diet and the resistance your applying.
It all really boils down to the reps though. The little brush strokes that make a master piece special. A workout is just a series of sets and reps rearranged to achieve an effect on the body. These little soldiers are all very important, to the greater cause. You aim should be to try and completely contract the muscle, be efficient at firing as many of the muscle fibers as possible, and making them work through the negative portion of the rep. To a certain degree. Based on the different loads, the negative maybe a slightly slower decent then if you would just drop it. If your conscious of it, and you start to get to know your body when you lift, you'll recognize the difference. You never know which rep is going to be the growth rep. You probably never knew such a thing existed...but it does, so now keep your eye out for it, an now I can't predict where it resides either, I know it lives between 10 and 40 and it feels like a little explosion went off..actually like a bang snap, and you instantly know you'll be better because of it. It starts with attention to detail from the first rep to the last though. I have a couple of videos on my face book page, check them out, might give you a little more insight in to where I'm coming from. Thanks for your time, an give it a try one day... and close your eyes. Feel whats going on.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Super Stack
Recently in an article posted on Muscular Development online magazine, there was a discussion on the fat reduction benefits of caffeine. They also mentioned the best ways to maximize the benefits, and listed green tea as one of the best stacks for it's use in fat loss. Now to me this was not breaking news material. It was a friendly reminder though, because although I probably worked out at least eight times last week, and rode at the very least 80 miles last week, I've probably only taken my caffeine green tea supplement about four times. Yes the supplement I have is called caffeine plus. The plus is the green tea extract. So reading the article just made put that habit in the post workout whey protein shake category, meaning the religious category. It's like putting on my gloves and wrist wraps before I train. Meaning if I got um, there as integral to the process as working out. I like to start the day with the caffeine plus, we'll call it. Sometimes I have two separate products. Nothing fancy either. One day my wrestling coach had a long morning before practice, and I asked him if he wanted some caffeine. He asked me what kind meaning in what. I responded just caffeine as I grinned and pulled out a bottle with big bold letters that said caffeine on the side. Besides the lipolysis benefits, which means utilizing fat for energy, it also grants you instant focus in most all situations you can feel the benefits moments after consumption. I work nights as well so I gave the disclaimer, most cases. There were a few instances went I was training for a fight, that after three training sessions and an hour into a four hour shift, a little caffeine goes a little way. So anyway, that what I have to say about Caffeine plus and to hear what the experts have to say copy this link and check it out. Remember its the little details that make a lasting piece of fine art.
http://www.musculardevelopment.com/content/view/1860/51/
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