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The Limits of Muscle Growth

June 6, 2011 by

There are multiple factors that contribute to your ability to grow larger muscles.

Factors that can be rate limiting are:

Even the Hulk stops growing at some point.

1. Nutrition – Severe malnutrition or starvation will limit your ability to grow your  muscles to their full potential.

2. Exercise – Progressive resistance training will stimulate muscle growth beyond what your natural level of muscle mass is without working out.

3. Muscle Tissue – Your genetically predetermined muscle mass.

In most cases nutrition and exercise will not limit your ability to grow. Your genetically predetermined muscle size and tissue architecture will be the rate limiting step.

Even bodybuilders who use copious amounts of drugs eventually revert back to their predetermined genetic muscle mass limit once they stop using drugs.

It appears that the body has a very tight control on muscle mass and this would lead us to believe that it’s happening for a very good reason.

It might be that going above and beyond this limit is not a good thing for your body overall.

We propose that the golden Adonis Index ratio is likely a close estimation of what the upper limit of potential muscle mass is on any given person.

Exceeding this limit is definitely possible with drugs, but considering the strict control the body has on this limit, it might not be the healthiest thing to do.

In today’s uncensored podcast, we discuss this limits of muscle growth and why it is likely set the way it is.

John

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Juvenile vs Work Induced Muscle Growth: What is going on Inside the Muscle

May 23, 2011 by

Multiple factors influence muscle growth including your age, genetic predisposition, exercise, nutrition and drugs. This is a general list but each category has specific effects and interact with each other. Over the course of your life there are two major factors that override all others with respect to how much muscle you’ll ever build and those factors are:

JuvenilevsWorkInducedGrowth

Once you're past the age of 25 Juvenile growth is over.

1) Juvenile Muscle Growth

2) Work Induced Muscle Growth

The effects that nutrition and your specific workout pattern can have on your ability to grow muscle will change depending on the stage of muscle growth you are working within.

The changes that happen at the muscle are also different depending on your stage of life and training status/history.

In todays podcast we’ll look at what happens at the cellular level when muscles are growing in both the juvenile state and as a result of working out.

We’ll discuss something called “satellite cells” and how they might be the limiting factor to the amount of muscle you can ultimately grow and how various factors such as nutrition, age, working out, supplements and drugs can affect your satellite cells.

We’ll also discuss how your specific situation will change how effective supplements like creatine or protein can be and what the best strategies for using these might be.

John

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Genetic Potential vs Lifestyle Potential

March 21, 2011 by

“Muscle building” marketing tends to speak about ‘genetic potential’ and ways to overcome this potential (which if you stop and think about it is impossible).

Did Arnold simply have a higher genetic potential? Or did he also have a higher lifestyle potential?

It’s also largely irrelevant because it’s not your genetic potential that limits you but rather your lifestyle potential.

Lifestyle factors are almost always the rate limiting step to your ability to grow bigger muscles and get really lean.

The confusion for most men comes when they set their body image ideal goal/target based on a model, athlete, celebrity or bodybuilding who is living a much different life than they.

You simply cannot know what the lifestyle of your model image really is…you’ll never know how much rest, stress, drugs, supplements, and training they really do unless you lived with them.

This is another reason why you cannot compare yourself to anyone else besides you.

In today’s podcast we talk about the blurry line between genetic and lifestyle potential and why the images of most athletes, celebrities, and fitness and bodybuilding models must be taken with a grain of salt because of the unknown lifestyle factors that come into play.

You likely have the same ‘genetic’ potential as all of your image model ideals, but you probably don’t have the same ‘lifestyle’ potential.

Note: Posing tutorial video will be up wed next week.

John

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Inflammation Theory of Muscle Growth

March 14, 2011 by

Believe it or not we still don’t really know how muscles grow. The scientific literature provides multiple lines of evidence that all contribute to our understanding but we still don’t have definite cause and effect proof of the exact reason of how we grow and why that grow is limited.

 

Inflammation Theory of Muscle Growth

Your ability to grow muscles is both dependent and blocked by inflammation

We know that you have to do some sort of resistance training on an regular basis to stimulate muscle growth, and we know that age, intensity and diet (to some degree) have an influence. And finally we know there is a big difference in the amount of muscle you can grow when using anabolic steroids.

Given all of these facts we are proposing a new theory that chronic inflammation is the rate limiting step in muscle growth.

Brad Pilon has recently put together a body of research that supports the inflammation theory of muscle growth and it explains why:

Bulking up to gain muscle might actually have the reverse effect and ruin your chance to build muscle. This also explains why guys on steroids can have success ‘bulking up’ on massive calories and gain muscle, while a non-user will just create massive inflammation and thus destroy any chance of muscle growth.

The chronic north american lifestyle disorders may all be contributing to a lack of progress in your muscle gaining efforts.

The best way to gain muscle is to stay lean year round and avoid overeating or any fat gain.

This is definitely an eye opener, but if you stop and really listen to what is being said in today’s podcast most of the points likely fit with what you’ve observed in yourself and in other people around the gym.

You can also watch a presentation on the inflammation theory of muscle growth at this website:

Inflammation Theory of Muscle Growth

John

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How Big Can Your Muscles Grow

March 7, 2011 by

Creating your best looking physique requires two things:

1) Low bodyfat  &  2) Well Developed Muscles

Most of us can't workout at work like Ron Burgundy Does!

 

Lower bodyfat levels are a matter of diet and to some degree genetics, but todays post is about the second issue, developing muscle.

The muscle size that you can eventually develop is based on many factors including:

Genetic starting point – Somatotype

Durability – How resistant you are to injury

Emotional Disposition – How easily you become stressed and anxious

Mental Focus – How much and how long you can focus on your workouts and your intensity level in the gym

Available Time – How much time you have available to dedicate to training

Rest and Recuperation – The time and ability you have to rest, recover from your workouts and unwind from the other stresses in your life

Other Lifestyle Factors – There are a number of other factors that get in the way of your training including work responsibilities, traveling, family responsibilities, school, social events etc.

In today’s podcast we’ll discuss the rate limiting steps that are determining how big you can grow your muscles.

In most cases the amount of muscle you can ever develop is not limited by your genetics but rather by your lifestyle.

John

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Protein Synthesis and Muscle Growth

August 16, 2010 by

Many muscle building supplements market the concept of increasing ‘protein synthesis’. The assumption is that protein synthesis = muscle growth.

This is half right.

For a muscle to grow larger two things have to happen

1) An increase in protein synthesis (anabolism)

2) A decrease in protein breakdown (catabolism)

Regular weight training workouts can stimulate and net increase in protein synthesis and some research labs are measuring exactly what happens in your muscles after a workout.

In todays  audio lesson I interview a friend of mine Dave Gunderman who is doing his research on the protein synthetic effect of working out.

Dave will walk you through what it’s like to be in one of these studies, the basics of muscle protein synthesis and the type of workouts  that he suggests are best for maximizing protein synthesis.

John

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