Its remarkable how much similarity we have. I had no upper body strength, much less abs. And it wasnt until I started training them that I could play lead trumpet or run faster. Strange.
Anyway. What I found in working the upper body was that you have to work separate parts on separate days, AND you have to feed the weary muscles protein right after you work them.
I was futile a while back. Seems as how if you deplete your plasma amino acids (first twenty minutes after fatigure, mostly) you're gettign those aminos from the liver, and OTHER MUSCLES. Bleah. Better to saturate the importers with plasma nutrients. No sense robbing one muscle for another. Its a zero sum economy of growth food.
I couldnt make much progress until I realized this. It was totally futile to work too many groups all at once onthe same day. Better to do one hard day of arms and chest, and let those groups eat plasma nutrients, than to do modest damage to too many groups, and have nothing for the myocytes to eat and grow with. My recovery was way fast when I started with the protein supplement, even up to about 120g a day. Pro lifters suck up a gram per pound, but I cant see that as doing anything but giving you uric acid stones from having a stupid nitrogen balance.
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Date: 2003-07-08 02:49 pm (UTC)Anyway. What I found in working the upper body was that you have to work separate parts on separate days, AND you have to feed the weary muscles protein right after you work them.
I was futile a while back. Seems as how if you deplete your plasma amino acids (first twenty minutes after fatigure, mostly) you're gettign those aminos from the liver, and OTHER MUSCLES. Bleah. Better to saturate the importers with plasma nutrients. No sense robbing one muscle for another. Its a zero sum economy of growth food.
I couldnt make much progress until I realized this. It was totally futile to work too many groups all at once onthe same day. Better to do one hard day of arms and chest, and let those groups eat plasma nutrients, than to do modest damage to too many groups, and have nothing for the myocytes to eat and grow with. My recovery was way fast when I started with the protein supplement, even up to about 120g a day. Pro lifters suck up a gram per pound, but I cant see that as doing anything but giving you uric acid stones from having a stupid nitrogen balance.
Just comments and biochemistry...