The Muscle Factor Model (Read 3142 times)

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Like a monkey humping a football here.

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"trying to figure out what is different here? Seems like pretty logical conclusions, nothing earthshaking."

Chris_So_Cal, Pick up any exercise physiology & training book and it should include accepted training principles. One of those training principles is the overload principle (or the progressive overload principle, depending on which term the author prefers). The overload principle generally says something along the lines of this - in order to cause a muscle to adapt you have to overload that muscle. Keep overloading the muscle over time (i.e. progressive overload) and the muscle will continue to adapt up to its genetic limits. As you say - pretty logical, nothing earthshaking. So, what's different in the muscle factor model? 1 very crucial point. You do NOT overload a muscle. You overload individual muscle fibers within a muscle. That one distinction is both new and extremely significant, IMHO. Akin to the difference between bomb and atomic bomb. Or VO2 and VO2max. Or even Lactate and Lactate threshold (for those who still believe in lactate threshold). Exercise physiology has not previously said that we overload individual muscle fibers. It teaches we overload a muscle (i.e. a whole muscle, like your bicep or your hamstring). IMO the understanding that it is individual muscle fibers and not whole muscles that are overloaded is extremely significant, will become a foundational teaching of exercise physiology, and will provide answers to many previously unanswered physiological and training questions.

Are you home now, Trent? How was the run?

The problem with this is stupidly obvious. You are running a RACE three days a week. What do you think 5-7 miles at 10k pace actually is? A 10k RACE. 25 miles at marathon pace? How is that different than running a full marathon at marathon pace? Its not. Find me anyone who can run 3 all-out races a week, and let me be their coach and sponsor, Ill be a millionaire.

Ryan, I learned on cable news that if you let the other guy set the terms of the conversation, you've already lost.