Quote (tommyd323 @ Apr 20 2014 11:30pm)
I feel like that idea of hypertrophy is working the muscle until it like explodes though

But let's be honest, does the body count your reps? Can it tell? Or is it just the right amount of work the muscle does? And the strength gains connected with lower reps is more due to neural adaptation and the less mass associated with it is because you aren't working the muscle as much (small amount of sets for low reps 3x5 compared to hypertrophys 5 sets of 12.)
your body simply responds to absolute volumes of work. the more work you do the greater the net flux through metabolic pathways and ultimately the greater the load on the cellular environment. the further you push your body from homeostasis (within reason) the more likely you are to challenge adaptive mechanisms such as hypertrophy, enzymatic production, energy stores etc
high resistance, low volume scenarios are not supreme challenges to metabolic homeostasis imo.
Quote (KCCO @ Apr 22 2014 04:16pm)
Just a simple question;
I've always heard that your body cannot burn trans fatty acids and that they stay in your body forever. I haven ever pursued any sort of research or proof of this claim.
Can any of you shed some light on the truth of this subject?
Thanks
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/34/10/2307.full.pdf+htmlreferences several studies that trans isomers are oxidized at similar or slightly slower rates than cis isomers of fatty acids, so no what you heard is not true but may stem from evidence suggesting that trans isomers may linger in tissue lipids slightly longer than cis isomers. essentially the body has methods for dealing with dietary trans isomers of fatty acids, and evidence suggests that in proper ratios dietary transfats are not harmful
This post was edited by cloudkicker on Apr 22 2014 04:07pm