Re: lifting question

Curt wrote:

On Jul 29, 12:32 pm, Tom Anderson <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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i plan my rests as being three minutes. However, once i've
factored in the time it takes to get into position, pick the
weights up, take a deep breath,


ogle some bunnies,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

adjust my trousers, etc, it's probably a leetle bit more.

heh :p

Well, if there's an "ogle some bunnies" factor then I'll have to
recalculate my rest periods.

I'm appropriate in every way and would never speak of women in less
than an entirely chivalrous manner,

You just wrote that you don't get any. Sorry. ;-)

however there are these two OTHER
guys - dare I say PIGS - in the gym who are constantly ogling the
bunnies. Again, not me and no one I know, but these two OTHER guys
were overheard having the following conversation:

Pig 1: (pointing at target bunny) "Would you do her?"
Pig 2: "Man, I'm an old guy. My standards aren't like yours. I'd bend
any woman in this gym over."

Some men, I tell you. It's just so disrespectul. Tut tut.

What is so disrespectful? Wanting to have sex with a pretty woman? Damn
you guys, you are totally pussified over there.

Just lifting things,on a very regular basis, with progressive
overload is all that that is required for most.

And X2 on that sentiment as well.

Yup. This is what i've always done, and i've got bigger and
stronger doing it.

X3, too. Stronger equals bigger.

As long as you make a silent assumption that your training protocol doesn't
change. But you could get stronger while getting smaller. Actually every
strength athlete peeking before a competition while making weight managed
to do it once or twice. Or you could get bigger while losing strength.
All it takes is to make appropriate change to the way you train.

It's all relative though. Some
lifters are naturally stronger to begin. The stronger = bigger holds
true across these differences or variable strength levels from lifter
to lifter, I believe. In other words, a guy who is benching 115 will
be bigger once he's lifting 145 just as the guy who jumps from 315 to
405. Their size may not increase at the same rate, but each will be
bigger once their stronger.

Well, Jason wrote that he doubled his bench without getting visibly bigger.
I believe him.

Greater strength comes before size, right, Tom?

But as Jason Carlton seems to demonstrate there might be some
"saturation point" (for lack of a better - or accurate - word) so that
even if he has doubled his weight lifted he might not grow. Perhaps he
needs to triple his strength (or double plus .000001%) to have that
corresponding size increase kick in.

Do you try to write that sooner or later he will "inevitably" become twice
bigger? If so, I strongly doubt it.

But he could get a bit (maybe substantially) bigger rather easily now. All
it would take would be to switch back to his old protocol. Though he
would gain size while losing strength, I'm afraid. ;-)

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Andrzej Rosa
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