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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Philip Thrift wrote:
> Do you get the same degree of pump in all the muscles in a
> single-session whole-body as if you just concentrated on one part that
> session? I don't.
I have no way to quantify "degree of pump," nor am I even sure
that I know what it is. Is it just that *feeling* that one has
after a workout? Then I'd have to say that it depends on the
workout. Some leave me feeling more "pumped" than others. But I
don't know what that feeling has to do with muscle gain, loss, or
retention, which I *can* quantify.
> >The fact is, I haven't lost muscle in years, even
> >with occasional lapses of no strength training at all. So, loss
> >of LBM is not an issue;
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> That is very odd.
I don't see why it's odd. There seems to be a growing body of
literature suggesting that occasional high-intensity stimulation
of muscles is enough to produce an adaptation response, which
will build muscle in an untrained person, and should suffice to
maintain it. My workouts are definitely high-intensity. Every
muscle group gets pushed to complete failure. And I am
definitely not losing LBM.
> I am marginally building muscle or maybe rebuilding muscle; maybe that's
> enough. I would have a problem bench pressing Monday and doing
> something like racketball the next - I would think my muscles would
> shrink.
Why would racketball cause your muscles to shrink? I don't
follow this at all.
On the face of it, it seems to me that if I am working out in
such a way that my main concern when I'm not working out is to
minimize my activity levels to keep my muscles from shrinking,
then something is wrong. I may be wrong, but I like to think
that strength training would make me *more* capable of engaging
in and benefiting from other forms of exercise, not less so.
Todd Moody
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