Quote (SKCRaynor @ Jul 30 2013 03:44am)
Quite frankly, you can't have pure sarcoplasmic without sarcomeric. Basically imagine this:
In order to increase the volume of your muscles without gaining strength (pure volume) you would focus on muscle failure with less resistance. In order to increase the density of your muscles, and thereby gaining strength, you would focus on muscle failure with high resistance.
The key here is that failure needs to occur - and thus lots of reps, forced reps, concentrated reps, negatives, breakdowns, etc.
In order, however, for sarcoplasmic hypertrophy to occur, one must already be in a position to gain strength through cellular expansion and general density. This means, if you do 50,000 reps of 1 pound curls, vs 1,000 reps of 50 lb curls - the 1,000 reps of 50 lb curls would GREATLY increase muscle volume and density, whereas the 50,000 reps of 1 lb curls would have little to no effect on overall muscle volume.
I hope I'm making myself clear, its very late and I'm awfully tired.
Yes, kind of, don't worry. So a nice rep scheme to aim for if I wanted sarcomertic hypertrophy primarily I'd have to go for, say, 6-8 reps out of which 2 would be done forced, post failure? For example.
Also what's a hood average to have on forced reps? When I trained with failure years ago I used to add around 2 reps post failure always. Should I do more?
Thanks again
