Categories of Weight Training: Part 7
Now depending on what kind of things you read, maximal strength training goes under a variety of different names including maximum effort (ME) work, maximum weights methods, maximum strength training or even neural training. While there are probably minor differences in the definitions of all of these terms, for all practical purposes they refer to the same basic concept.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 6
Ok, time to wrap up. On Tuesday, in Categories of Weight Training: Part 5 I clarified some things regarding volume and then looked briefly at the issue of both training frequency and a bit at exercise selection. Today I really want to wrap-up on hypertrophy so I can talk about maximum strength next week (and then hopefully have a good race report the week after that). Today is going to be sort of a grab-bag of topics, some of which will hopefully answer some of the questions I’ve seen in teh comments, some of which will probably leave you with more questions than answers.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 5
Forging ahead. On Friday in Categories of Weight Training: Part 4, I continued with the discussion of hypertrophy by addressing the issue of volume. In that article, looking at a recent review paper, I threw out a value of 30-60 repetitions as giving the apparently maximal growth response. Before I get to more issues, I need to clarify a couple of things about Part 4. After that I’ll address training frequency and exercise selection and save all of the ancillary topics for the wrap-up of this topic on Friday.
Categories of Weight Training Part 4
As I discussed in that article, due to the variety of pathways involved in stimulating growth (which may act independently or interact somehow) combined with the potential for different “types” of growth and the further potential of fiber type specific growth, you tend to see the widest range of intensities being at least potentially useful for stimulating at least some kind of muscle growth.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 3
Today I want to use that as background to talk about hypertrophy training in more practical terms. Today I want to make some more general comments and then talk about intensity/rep range as a loading parameter. I’ll talk about other issues in a later part of the article I’d note that some of what I want to talk about has been discussed in other articles on the main site and, when appropriate, I’ll link out to those articles rather than repeat myself here.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 2
Of course, the explicit goal of this type of training is building bigger muscles although there may be a variety of reasons most wish to achieve this goal. One would be to provide a base for increased strength or power performance since larger muscles are potentially stronger muscle. Athletes, depending on the specifics of their sport, might wish to actively increase muscle mass to increase their potential performance capacities.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 1
What I want to look at over these articles is various ‘categories’ or ‘types’ of weight training, focusing on those of the most relevance to folks wanting to change body composition. That is, I’m not going to talk about things like power training or things aimed more at performance.
