Re: Noise, Number, Correlations, and Mistakes 5

On Mar 4, 9:18 am, Chris Malcolm <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
trigonometry1...@xxxxxxxxx | <trigonometry1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am going to up the bet on exercise with more
weight lifting and try to hold the running steady
which when I feel like it a already proceed with
near optimal effort. I'll be chasing muscle mass
for a 62 year old man. I need to work the core
muscles as well.

This 67 year old man a few years ago consulted a couple of doctors
(one a sports doc) about exercise for gaining muscle mass. I was told
the best I could do wrt muscle mass was to slow down the rate I was
losing it.

I discovered that if I did the kind of exercises they recommended I
got fitter and stronger, but didn't put on any muscle mass at all. I
experimented and found an optimal exercise regime for gaining muscle
mass for me: 3 sessions a day of repping <10 times to failure 5 days a
week. It worked extremely well -- so well that I seriously strained
some ligaments which took 6 months to heal. From which I learned that
you shouldn't gain muscle mass faster than you can gain ligament
strength, which is naturally slower.

I should also point out two important caveats: that kind of exercise
regime is considered worse than useless, leading to poor if any gains
at all by some trainers, and by others is considered much too
dangerous for most people to try, especially old people. That probably
explains why so little research has been done into that kind of
regime. It does work extremely well indeed for gaining muscle mass via
gaining strength for *me*. YMMV.

Note too that a lot of exercise research considers gaining muscle mass
as an end in itself, regardless of strength. Since it's possible to
gain muscle mass without gaining corresponding strength, this has led
to exercise regimes which make you look stronger than you are --
cosmetic muscles. I'm not interested in cosmetic muscles.

--
Chris Malcolm

Your comment on ligaments 'sounds' right. I recall reaching the 4
minute mile
back in the day. Being greedy, I wanted faster. So I changed my stride
and I
was faster briefly. I was trying to run on my fore feet. It took
several months
to recover, the whole calves were in real pain. I suspect had I slowly
build up to
this it should have been doable.

Disasters and the thin thread of life...........................Trig
.

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