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bulk D-Bal have an aversion to high reps and to any form of weight training perceived to be not geared to huge gains in size and strength. Back in the day I myself was guilty of this mentality. I can remember when asked by an endurance athlete, why I wanted big thick muscles and wouldn't they slow me down if I had to run away. My response was that I wouldn't have to run away because my defense was my size and strength. He just looked at me and wheeled on his heels and walked away shaking his head.
The reason I bring this memory up is the fact that the brief exchange we had stuck with me for years. When a usually insignificant brief blip like this occurs in the normal course of one's life it is forgotten soon after it is over, but the fact that it sticks in our mind points to it being the catalysis to an epiphany, something that hits you at a deeper level, laying open and revealing something of importance even if at the moment you do not fully grasp all the ramifications inherent with it.
This was the case with high rep training, it floated around in my subconscious, surfacing occasionally as I searched for alternate training approaches to compliment my bodybuilding workouts to further improve my physique.
As you reach the upper limits of physique development you arrive at a stage at which you can turn on and channel 100% intensity into any exercise you are doing, like flipping a switch. While this is a good thing, it also has a direct effect on how much work you can give to a muscle group.
What I mean by this is as your intensity increases and the efficiency at which you can reach and stimulate all the available muscle fibers of a given muscle group necessitates the need for a reduction in the amount of work given to the muscle, that being the amount of workouts, exercises, and sets done in a week so as not to overwhelm the muscle and cause over training, halt size and strength gains and even cause muscle size and strength loss because the muscle cannot recover because of too much stress, too often.
The reason I bring this memory up is the fact that the brief exchange we had stuck with me for years. When a usually insignificant brief blip like this occurs in the normal course of one's life it is forgotten soon after it is over, but the fact that it sticks in our mind points to it being the catalysis to an epiphany, something that hits you at a deeper level, laying open and revealing something of importance even if at the moment you do not fully grasp all the ramifications inherent with it.
This was the case with high rep training, it floated around in my subconscious, surfacing occasionally as I searched for alternate training approaches to compliment my bodybuilding workouts to further improve my physique.
As you reach the upper limits of physique development you arrive at a stage at which you can turn on and channel 100% intensity into any exercise you are doing, like flipping a switch. While this is a good thing, it also has a direct effect on how much work you can give to a muscle group.
What I mean by this is as your intensity increases and the efficiency at which you can reach and stimulate all the available muscle fibers of a given muscle group necessitates the need for a reduction in the amount of work given to the muscle, that being the amount of workouts, exercises, and sets done in a week so as not to overwhelm the muscle and cause over training, halt size and strength gains and even cause muscle size and strength loss because the muscle cannot recover because of too much stress, too often.
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