Im writting to you because I believe that all the information about training is usefull.
Ok, at first, lets begin with the exercises I have some questions and ideas.
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about the cable preacher curl, I find it kinda difficult to do because the preacher bank of my gym is far away from the pulley. I was figuring if the
preacher curl machine is the same I mean, in fiber stimulation as the cable preacher curl because I pretend that youve made this new exercise for the people
that dont have access to the machine, is this correct? Also I have an idea about your curl, the funtion of the biceps is to supinate the hand right? then
wouldnt it be better to do a curl with a cable that we could do all the biceps moviment? I mean, supinating all when fully contracted and pronete all when
fully stired? By doing this probably more fibers would be involved. Id like to call it the Noronha Curl. (LOL
). Another exercise question, if I do triceps in the machine of "french triceps" will it be the same as the McManus Pushdown? because it keeps the contration in
the peak point as your exercise.
Ive been searching for some time now about the eccentric fase of the moviment, It seens that it promotes more anabolism than concentric, It has been used in
the "colorado experiment" of Arthur Jones with great sucess. Wouldnt it be better to do the concentric fase as fast as we can and focus more on the eccentric
fase? Id say like an accentuated negative exercise. I´ll index some articles about the subject.
Before find your book and website I was training with composed exercise and was aganish isolation ones, but I do agree you have a good point about the
stimulation, althought I havent found studies about the hormone response after exercises with some isolation exercises, so I think were kinda walking without
a floor in this area, do you have articles that talk about it?
About the peak of overcompensation I think that you should only recomend the measurement of the muscle not the weight of the subject, because the weight
varies too much, I mean, clothes, water, food and all variables like this. And I think that the size of the muscle will be a better choice for the
overcompensation point. Still about this, lets say before the training I have 34cm of arm, one day after 35, more one 35,5, more one 35 again. Then I should
train on the day that I have 35,5 right? I was just wondering because I am not too sure about this. (of course I have to have a previous measurement of how
many days Ill have my overcompensation point, otherwise I wouldnt be able to tell when Im going to have it).
Ive read about hyperplasia, theres some studies that say that with a hyperstention of the muscle it seens to happen. What do you think about?
In the TA 3.0 you dont talk about the number of reps in the squats, should we use just the normal range of 60-90 seconds?
About also the overcompensation point, I think that it shouldnt be the same for all the group of muscles, because of the size, how should we manage that?
About Nutrition
I think thats the most difficult part of all training its difficult to eat right with a so budy life. I was wondering why Arthur Jones has made some
affirmations about increasing size without getting a better nutrition. Do you have some idea? I remember reading he says that he could get some pounds of
muscle doing 3 meals a day without increasing the food intake.
About the post workout nutition: I think that you should recomend a carb+protein. Physiologically (see the medicine of sport secction of Guyton and Hall
Physiology for more information) carbs after workout and until 48-72hours after the exercise improve a lot the time of recuperation of the muscles and the
glicogen in the cells, with other words, I think that you can make improve the weights faster with a better recuperation and look better in size because of
the glicogen.
And what about the nutrition while on the gym? I like to use simple carbs + protein, it seens that I dont get tired too soon, and also seens to improve
recuperation and prevents my own protein to be brake while lifting too much. I also think that if insulin gets greater if the carb intake is raised it may be
usefull, insulin is the most anabolic hormone -even better than GH or Testosterone).
About protein intake, I think that it may be to much the 1,7grams per kg or 2grains. I think that because if you think about a pregnant women the protein
intake just goes to 25% of all the diet, I mean, if theres a baby growing inside her, and making all those protein synthesis with only this protein intake,
our body shouldnt need so much protein to do our muscle sythesis. Also think about children with the pathology called Kwashiorkor the acute treatment of 1-
1,5gram per kg day, then 4-6g per kg until the week 6 of tratment, I mean they are almost dieing because of denutrition. Do we need so much protein? I use to
think that the percentage that we have in the maternal milk must be the better for all muscle grow...
Suplements: I also like Leticin witch is an aminoac that seens to improve protein synthesis when put togueder with carbs (when protein has some good amount
of leticin). The ion magnese seens to be effective too for recovering because of its mythcondrial use, so as zinc. And the vitamins of the B complex
(speciallity Folate) seens to improve a lot the sythsis of protein (back in the years 50 the bodybuilders used to use a lot of complex B vitamins as their
"steroids".
What do you think about all this???
Thats all, for time,
I hope you answer, I think that if we work togueder we can make better than alone.
Cya
Bernardo Noronha from Brazil.
if you dont understand some points, just mail me back. My english isnt all that good. And maybe I am using words that dont exist, LOL! xD
here download some studies that Ive found about eccentric training and myostastin gene:
http://www.4shared.com/document/-dQGRcG ... atina.html
