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Enter the Nerve and Muscle Matrix If you've spent most of your lifting career doing 3 sets of 10 reps, do the opposite and you'll see astounding new gains. Here's why and how to program it. Who's In Control? One question addressed by physiologists is whether nerve controlled muscle, or muscle...

Enter the Nerve and Muscle Matrix If you've spent most of your lifting career doing 3 sets of 10 reps, do the opposite and you'll see astounding new gains. Here's why and how to program it. Who's In Control? One question addressed by physiologists is whether nerve controlled muscle, or muscle...

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW... Type I fibers are considered "endurance fibers" and not that important for muscle building, but they can and should be hypertrophied. You have the same muscle fiber distribution as most pro-bodybuilders. They just know how to hypertrophy their Type I fibers...

Muscle tissue adapts to the stresses imposed on it, both structurally and functionally. When a muscle undergoes atrophy (shrinks from disuse), fewer nuclei are available to regulate muscle proteins. In contrast, when a muscle undergoes hypertrophy there's an increase in the amount of DNA...

If you are interested in whether you should you exercise to failure of not you should read the following bodybuilding article. Picture is of Steve Reeves Exercise to Failure for Muscle Growth - Fact or Fiction By Donovan Baldwin What is exercise to failure? Well, most simply, it's doing...

Tap into your trap muscle's growth potential by learning about the different fibers the muscle is composed of and the best exercise to hit those fibers. Everyone knows how to train their traps. All you have to do is shrugs right? But, if just doing standard shrugs worked, then why do so few...

Design your workouts to suit different types of muscle requirements. The more you know about your muscles, the bigger you can build them. We train them. But how much do we know about them. And how do we know what type of muscle fibers we have in the muscle we are training; by knowing what muscle...

EVERY muscle mag that you pick up these days will have an exclusive interview with Joe or Jane Bodybuilder on their revolutionary new training program that will pack on more muscle than one knows what to do with. Get online and search “muscle building programs” and hundreds of styles and...

When you think about building muscle, what types of training come to mind? High volume, high frequency training? Drop sets, extended sets, timed sets? Extended range of motion exercises? Or intra-set stretching? Once you have a base of strength, these methods all work extraordinarily well...

Exercise to Failure for Muscle Growth - Fact or Fiction By Donovan Baldwin What is exercise to failure? Well, most simply, it's doing repetitions, often multiple sets, until you can't do any more. The muscle fails to perform. That's pretty straightforward, but, is it true? Yes and no...

You’ve no doubt seen plenty of 30-day transformation stories. If you read enough of these, you may think going from lean to muscular is quick and easy. In real life, however, muscle growth is a much slower process. So, how much muscle can you really expect to gain in a single month? “I’ve seen...

The Basics: Muscle Fiber Type and Athletic Ability Human muscle fibers can be classified into two categories. Slow-twitch (red) muscle fibers und fast-twitch (white) muscle fibers. The predominance is determined by our genetics. The ACTN3 (Alpha Actinin) gene is active only in fast-twitch...

Petrenko Andriy There's a common misconception that you're doomed to a certain muscle fiber type for life, but the opposite is true. You can get jacked or be diesel even if you have slow-twitch or fast-twitch muscle fibers right now. For the uninitiated, your muscles are made up of thousands...

Per Bernal / M+F Magazine Muscle Fibers: What’s the difference? Type I (Slow-Twitch) ROLE: Endurance-focused, slower to fatigue. Has a lot of mitochondria (the energy units of the cell); not much power. FIND IT: Muscles that work hard over long periods of time, such as postural muscles, the...

Hyperplasia vs. Hypertrophy in Skeletal Muscle Lyle McDonald I received the following question in the mailbag and, for a fairly short question I’m going to give a fairly long answer since it gives me something to write about today. Question: Does the number of fast/slow twitch muscle fiber...

Stop Ignoring Fiber By Ronal J. Amen PhD Why it matters for muscle composition. The bodybuilding community has an intense focus on macronutrients: protein for muscle, carbohydrates for gaining mass. The conversation around protein is all about isolates-vs-concentrates and quick-vs-slow...

Become A Fast Twitch Machine Saw this on another site and thought it was a good read........... Muscle typing is claimed to be overrated and less important then other factors, but I believe it is of significance for those who have everything dialed in. What I mean is, with all things...