Sprinters vs. Marathoners
First off, I want you to look around the next time you’re in the weight room. Go look at all the people who are lifting weights. I bet some of them are not very muscular. Does this allow me to conclude that “Weight training doesn’t build muscles”"? Of course not, that would be moronic. What it means is that there are other factors (e.g. how they are training and their diet) that are interacting with the weight training.
Pole Vaulting for a Hot Body
Training like a pole vaulter won’t make you look like the girl above and the idea that 400m guys are lean because they interval train is simply, completely, utterly wrong anyhow. Most of the training for the 400m is low intensity aerobic work, the speed work that is done has nothing in common with the types of interval training being advocated by the folks claiming that 400m runners are lean because of intervals.
Endurance Training and Obesity: Effect on Substrate Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity.
As a bit of introduction, it’s recently come to light that one major cause of insulin resistance in obesity has to do with the accumulation of fat within skeletal muscle. Referred to as intramuscular triglyceride (IMTG), fat stored within skeletal muscle appears to play a big role in how well (or poorly) the muscle can utilize glucose and respond to insulin. I’d note that it’s a touch more complicated than that for reasons I don’t want to get into.
Dante Trudell’s DC Training – Product Review
In A Look at Some Popular Hypertrophy Programs, I made mention of something called Doggcrapp (DC) training in terms of being one of several excellent approaches to hypertrophy training. The brainchild of Dante Trudell (who uses the screen name Doggcrapp, hence the name), DC represents an excellent synthesis of a lot of very good ideas applied to bodybuilding.
