08-18-2018, 12:16 AM
Hey Bud!
OK, settling into this now - listening to the podcast in the background.
This idea of taking time off, or rather reducing training frequency, to by resensitizing has been put forth in a recent article digging into frequency of training: 1. Dankel SJ, Mattocks KT, Jessee MB, Buckner SL, Mouser JG, Counts BR, Laurentino GC, and Loenneke JP. Frequency: The Overlooked Resistance Training Variable for Inducing Muscle Hypertrophy? Sports Med 47: 799-805, 2017.
They mention this study, using an animal model of muscle growth (compensatory hypertrophy) where they delineate some of the "molecular brakes" that restraint muscle growth slow muscle growth
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.11...00674.2013
So, there's definitely something to this, IMO, in that we want to maintain novelty of stimulus and having a period of no training, or training less frequently, can do this.
This brings up a few points in my mind:
• The Ogasawara study is a nice one, but the larger question is whether, when one reaches muscle size far beyond the untrained constitutive level (coming nearer one's "genetic ceiling"), do the brakes stay on such that there is no longer a more rapid gain in strength and size. Note that the overall gains in strength and size were the same in both groups in that study.
So, by analogy, are comparing two runners here; One who keep running vs. one who sprints and then slows down to recover and can then sprint again, but never ends up getting ahead (in the long run) of the runner who just runs continuously.
• The other possibility here is that, as with an Intensive Cruise, the decrease in training load (volume) and frequency, may accomplish this re-sensitizing, while also accomplishing a rebounding of strength (and size if one's eating well enough), getting the best of both worlds to some degree (meaning there is some desensitizing without a detraining effect, but instead there's an improvement in performance / loading capacity that is superimposed upon the resensitization, if it occurs, that comes with the IC type deload.)
-S
OK, settling into this now - listening to the podcast in the background.
This idea of taking time off, or rather reducing training frequency, to by resensitizing has been put forth in a recent article digging into frequency of training: 1. Dankel SJ, Mattocks KT, Jessee MB, Buckner SL, Mouser JG, Counts BR, Laurentino GC, and Loenneke JP. Frequency: The Overlooked Resistance Training Variable for Inducing Muscle Hypertrophy? Sports Med 47: 799-805, 2017.
They mention this study, using an animal model of muscle growth (compensatory hypertrophy) where they delineate some of the "molecular brakes" that restraint muscle growth slow muscle growth
https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.11...00674.2013
So, there's definitely something to this, IMO, in that we want to maintain novelty of stimulus and having a period of no training, or training less frequently, can do this.
This brings up a few points in my mind:
• The Ogasawara study is a nice one, but the larger question is whether, when one reaches muscle size far beyond the untrained constitutive level (coming nearer one's "genetic ceiling"), do the brakes stay on such that there is no longer a more rapid gain in strength and size. Note that the overall gains in strength and size were the same in both groups in that study.
So, by analogy, are comparing two runners here; One who keep running vs. one who sprints and then slows down to recover and can then sprint again, but never ends up getting ahead (in the long run) of the runner who just runs continuously.
• The other possibility here is that, as with an Intensive Cruise, the decrease in training load (volume) and frequency, may accomplish this re-sensitizing, while also accomplishing a rebounding of strength (and size if one's eating well enough), getting the best of both worlds to some degree (meaning there is some desensitizing without a detraining effect, but instead there's an improvement in performance / loading capacity that is superimposed upon the resensitization, if it occurs, that comes with the IC type deload.)
-S
-Scott
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