Quote (yostraydog @ Aug 7 2015 01:33pm)
The truth I’ve discovered is that you don’t have to lift enormous weights to grow muscle. By using stricter form, slower negatives, and stretching between sets you can get an incredible pump in all your workouts. Numbers are an abstraction, especially to muscles. Your body doesn’t know the absolute weight of what you lift, it only recognises how heavy it feels. The secret is to make lighter weights feel heavier. – Frank Zane
muscles quantify weight in terms of motor units and frequencies, they most certainly do work in numbers, just not kilograms or pounds.
Quote (HotHamAndCarl @ Aug 18 2015 09:39am)
Before my boy balla shoves medical jargon down your throat I'll put it in lay mans terms
Muscles are elastic
Stretching them out loosens and elongates them
Heavy weights on loose muscles = snap city
im impressed carl
yes daniel static stretching is advised against, especially before activity. it doesnt reduce risk of injury at all according to the literature. all you need is a light warmup activity to increase blood flow and body temp and maybe some dynamic work if you really need it
This post was edited by cloudkicker on Aug 18 2015 09:16am