Interview from the Land Down Under
11/06/1415:43
I participated in an interview with Christian Marchegiani from Sydney, Australia. First of all, I would like to thank all of the people from Australia and abroad that like our page. This truly humbles me. Australia is a country I have always wanted to visit. Thanks again and thank you, Christian for giving me the opportunity to participate in the interview.
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Comments
More on Inroad, Muscle Fatigue
07/31/1423:05
Doug,
“The inroad theory is just that...a theory.”
Honestly, I am not sure we can call the concept of inroad a theory, perhaps a hypothesis. As you know in science, "theory" is a strong word and requires much supporting experimental evidence. I am not knocking you for this. I really can't remember who's brain-child the concept of "inroad" can be attributed, probably either Ken, Darden, or Arthur. I know it is in the SuperSlow manual and logically makes sense. However, it is not compatible with the experimental evidence. Briefly, the concept of inroad is based upon a momentary decrease in strength - such that (as I remember) training with 80% of one's 1 RM would lead to a 20% inroad. As I stated before, this concept is too simplistic and not indicative of what is occurring physiologically at the cellular level when you apply a stimulus and cut the sucker open to see what happened.
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“The inroad theory is just that...a theory.”
Honestly, I am not sure we can call the concept of inroad a theory, perhaps a hypothesis. As you know in science, "theory" is a strong word and requires much supporting experimental evidence. I am not knocking you for this. I really can't remember who's brain-child the concept of "inroad" can be attributed, probably either Ken, Darden, or Arthur. I know it is in the SuperSlow manual and logically makes sense. However, it is not compatible with the experimental evidence. Briefly, the concept of inroad is based upon a momentary decrease in strength - such that (as I remember) training with 80% of one's 1 RM would lead to a 20% inroad. As I stated before, this concept is too simplistic and not indicative of what is occurring physiologically at the cellular level when you apply a stimulus and cut the sucker open to see what happened.
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Inflammation, Recovery, Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy
07/18/1422:47
Doug and said:
“I am not sure what to make of the study from the article about it. With 36 subjects total, it is unlikely to have enough statistical power to reach any conclusions. Their conclusion seems counter-intuitive to me. I will try to get the full text article to review.
Doug McGuff”
Doug,
I read the full text of the study when it was first published some time ago, although I can’t seem to find it at the moment (I have 3000+ studies on my hard drive). Strictly from my recollection, I was skeptical of the results immediately. Not only was it contradictory to almost all of the previously published data, but the delta between the control group and treatments groups were huge (60% greater CSA increase in the treatment groups). I’m not sure we would see such a difference with anabolic steroids and untrained subjects over that short of a time period. Read More...
“I am not sure what to make of the study from the article about it. With 36 subjects total, it is unlikely to have enough statistical power to reach any conclusions. Their conclusion seems counter-intuitive to me. I will try to get the full text article to review.
Doug McGuff”
Doug,
I read the full text of the study when it was first published some time ago, although I can’t seem to find it at the moment (I have 3000+ studies on my hard drive). Strictly from my recollection, I was skeptical of the results immediately. Not only was it contradictory to almost all of the previously published data, but the delta between the control group and treatments groups were huge (60% greater CSA increase in the treatment groups). I’m not sure we would see such a difference with anabolic steroids and untrained subjects over that short of a time period. Read More...
Sleep, Recovery, and Protein Synthesis
07/18/1422:27
Sandro,
“I would like ask you some things about recovery:process of compensation and after supercompensation occour only when we sleep(maybe at fast rate) or even during the day?”
To answer this question completely would require major speculation on my part. As a responsible scientist, I try not to speculate very often. However, protein turnover is elevated during sleep. Also, when a muscle is working, it stops recovering / growing.
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“I would like ask you some things about recovery:process of compensation and after supercompensation occour only when we sleep(maybe at fast rate) or even during the day?”
To answer this question completely would require major speculation on my part. As a responsible scientist, I try not to speculate very often. However, protein turnover is elevated during sleep. Also, when a muscle is working, it stops recovering / growing.
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Age as a Factor in Recovery from Exercise
07/18/1422:17
Joe,
“How age-dependent is this? Given the huge difference in other areas of healing depending on how old you are, it seems that muscle healing would vary similarly. I could imagine that a healthy 18 year old would be able to repair much more muscle in far less time than a healthy 50 year old. This might lead to the discrepancies in different studies on recovery time (between 2 days and more than 14 days).”
Yes, age does make difference in the requisite time to recover from exercise induced microtrauma (although, I think most of the variability is more related to genotype). In animal models, older rats showed a reduced up-regulated expression of IGF-1 splice variants when compared to younger animals. However, expression was still increased almost 3-fold over untrained conditions.
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“How age-dependent is this? Given the huge difference in other areas of healing depending on how old you are, it seems that muscle healing would vary similarly. I could imagine that a healthy 18 year old would be able to repair much more muscle in far less time than a healthy 50 year old. This might lead to the discrepancies in different studies on recovery time (between 2 days and more than 14 days).”
Yes, age does make difference in the requisite time to recover from exercise induced microtrauma (although, I think most of the variability is more related to genotype). In animal models, older rats showed a reduced up-regulated expression of IGF-1 splice variants when compared to younger animals. However, expression was still increased almost 3-fold over untrained conditions.
See the following: Read More...
Interleukin-15 Genotype, Random Writings
07/18/1419:53
Well.. This is my first blog post to the new Exercise Science, LLC website. I will be posting more of my random writings from around the web on various subjects.
The first concerns the Interluekin-15 genotype and how it affects strength vs. muscle mass gains in response to a resistance program. This was originally posted in the bodybyscience.net discussion blog in response to a question.
Suresh,
“…is there any correlation as to how much strength gains(percentage gains) does it take to say gain a pound of muscle ie. have you observed any rough relationship that it takes roughly X percentage gains in strength to put a pound of muscle.” Read More...
The first concerns the Interluekin-15 genotype and how it affects strength vs. muscle mass gains in response to a resistance program. This was originally posted in the bodybyscience.net discussion blog in response to a question.
Suresh,
“…is there any correlation as to how much strength gains(percentage gains) does it take to say gain a pound of muscle ie. have you observed any rough relationship that it takes roughly X percentage gains in strength to put a pound of muscle.” Read More...
