Originally Posted by
Totaled108
Its HOW you lift, and HOW you eat. If you lift HARD (tons of weight with low reps) you'll be doing alot of micro tearing of the muscles. If you do this then eat too little, you'll over work the muscles and get injured. The muscle tissue will not fully recover because you have not provided enough nutrients to repair the damage. If, on the other hand you stick with light weights and higher reps, you'll still be working out the muscles. But the micro tearing will be at a minimum. You'll still be burning tons of calories through working the muscle, just not damaging it to the same extent, thus don't need to physically repair as much muscle tissue. Yes when you lift hard you are actually damaging muscle tissue, in a good way.
We all agree diet is a MASSIVE factor in weight loss and gain, but knowing HOW to lift to get lean/big, is important as well.
Perfect explanation!
......I know what Richard meant when he said add more weigh to the bar and you WILL get bigger". Not exact words so don't strawman me Richard!
Above explanation is what I read back in my days of pumping iron. I did the "5 sets of 10 reps" of every iron exercise possible. My muscles got hard but I was still a 190 lb skinny guy. Knowing that highreps at low weights only tore down the muscles in a small way. I decreased the reps, then added low reps at heavier weights. Then finished off with a burning exercise.
After I experimented a bit with weights, I went from 190 to 220 and I wasn't fat. My muscles were bigger and I weighed more! As soon as I started doing heavier low reps, I went from benching 220 to 330 rather quickly. It was more about knowing and figuring out how to lift than it was about taking in calories. Knowing how to work the large muscles groups heavily without overworking, then work into a finsihing exercise of the small muscle groups is the trick to gaining weight through lifting!
Went from 190 to 220. Gawd I'm getting old!(:...I was 28 in the picture!
....I was no Arnold but I think Gina is going to put me on a diet.
