Exercise Biology Forum

There are a few studies done on experienced lifters out there, and I wonder
I wonder if someone pay attention on previous training regimes of those lifters
Does is just stimulus or “new” stimulus counts?
I mean suppose we have a group of powerlifters which almost never trains with light weights in BB style. We put them on light occlusion training regime and suddenly they grow. Now, can we jump to conclusion that this regime beneficial over traditional heavy training? No we can’t. May be it’s a novelty of training that counts
Same the opposite. We take a typical brow-training split crowd that trains by splits, each muscle once a week with ton of sets and put them on high frequent training. Will we see results?
Of cause we are. But does it proves anything?

That is a good question. But what do you mean by grow? do you mean actual muscle or water weight? A lot of the muscle growth due to light weights or pump workout is just water being pulled in which is acute.

And when you say ‘novel’, there is an actual physiological mechanism that could explain it. It could be the metabolic build up and thus recruiting type 2 fibers or/and swelling of muscle or something else.

Do we have any studies looking at trained and showing results with low weights?

I just read the Borge new article on norwegian high frequency experiment and wonder how they manage to have increases in CSA by changing the frequency only(tye volume stays the same)
The article located here
http://fitnessbloggen.no/ny-kunnskap-muskelvekst/

use google translator or learn norwegian

So, can we say that 6 times a week training beneficial for growth or those athletes use to train 3 times a week before and doubling the frequency did the trick?

Anatoly, thank you for posting the link to the article.

Perhaps using the Myo-rep method, but keeping the rep range of motion, mostly in the long length/stretch, would enhance the local metabolic stimulus. Wonder how much training frequency can be utilized with a basic Myo-rep 25 +5 program?

I’m not sure that they uses myo-reps in that study