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Here is more proof that the way to build muscle is to train to be slow and weak. Imagine if this cyclist reduced his weights by 90% and slowed down his cycling by 99%, like all the bodybuilding gurus say. He could build up these toothpick legs to something really ‘healthy’.
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However, for sprint cycling, he needs toothpick legs because muscle mass makes you slow; as demonstrated in this video. And it makes sense. The human body is biologically programmed to construct new contractile muscle for only one purpose: Instagram follows. Instagram is obviously essential to the survival of the species.
Some athletes – like this cyclist – were willing to sacrifice muscle mass and Instagram follows for performance. So he got strong and skinny, which are interconnected qualities.
To exert more power and force, you obviously need LESS power-generating tissue. If you don’t understand this, you are not woke. This is why the wokest bodybuilders promote light weights and slooooow training. In other words, they promote training to be the weakest, slowest, worst athlete you can possibly be, in order to appear powerful and superhuman… for the Gram.
Getting huge is like changing gender: you need to ‘identify’ as being strong. You need to use your imagination and brainwash youself by constantly repeating asinine cliches like “the muscle doesnt know how much weight you are lifting” and “if you go too heavy then you use every other muscle except the primary muscle responsible for the movement”.
You need to pretend that light weights are really hard and you are a stunning and brave hero who is really training SOOOOO hard.
Lift slowly, like a geriatric cripple, because all the studies on geriatric cripples showed they grew muscle with light weights lifted slowly, and therefore everyone should train like a geriatric cripple in order to become a huge bodybuilder.
Avoid truth and reality at all costs because truth and reality are dangerous misinformation.
Train woke: lift less, gain more…. and take lots of hormones to turn your delusions into reality with no concern for the inevitable regret of your future failure.
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So you stupidly thought Tom Platz combined extraordinary genetics with extraordinary structure/leverages and legendary training intensity to develop the most uniquely incredible legs in bodybuilding history? Well, social media scientism is here to tell you that your beliefs are ignorant, transphobic and wrong.
The secret to having legs exactly like Tom Platz is… … placing your feet shoulder width apart when you squat! Here is the video.
I know. It is crazy. But look closely and you will notice that Tom did actually squat with his feet next to each other, at about the natural, shoulder-width that feet tend to naturally fall. Nobody has ever tried something this radical.
Bodybuilders have tried squatting with one foot on the floor, and one on the ceiling. One foot on the bar and the other foot on their head. One foot in the change room and one foot in their car. But Tom invented an entirely new way to squat: with his feet shoulder width apart. If only we knew, then everybody could have the most uniquely muscular thighs in history.
A meta-analysis of the 54 leading fictional studies confirm that this works because the 117.36mm separation between the midpoint of the thighs causes a resonance in the gravitational field the thighs exert on one another, which causes the testes to release 85% more testosterone; especially in women and heavy steroid users.
But there are 2 more critical aspects to the Platz squat.
The first is that Tom squatted with a very upright torso. This had nothing to do with Tom’s structure making this squat style natural and comfortable. No! It was a conscious, artistic, patented design choice Tom made to invent an all new way of crouching. The fact that 90% of people do not have a structure suited to squatting this way is irrelevant. Squatting in the manner that best suits your skeleton is wrong.
Finally is the rep speed. Tom always performed a 3-second negative phase on each rep. Just watch the videos. Those descents are 3 seconds just as sure as my little finger is what 6 inches really looks like.
Tom is such an incredible master of the perfect 3 second eccentric rep that he can finish 2 complete reps during a single 3-second descent. He does it so naturally that it looks like a regular, normal speed rep.
Being a reel, this video lacks the time to explain the science. And to grow muscle, obviously it is essential to understand the science, for the same reason that you could not possibly drive a car unless you understand the science of microprocessor-controlled direct-injection internal combustion engines.
It appears to us that Tom Platz is doing squats at the same speed, or faster, than we would do ourselves. But, the photons in the atoms making up the contractile proteins in Tom’s legs are quantum entangled with photons travelling near the speed of light toward the Andromeda galaxy. So when Tom does a normal one second squat, with a half-second descent, the entangled photons also experience the half-second descent. But those photons experiencing a half-second elapsing of time at near light-speed results in the photons here on earth experiencing a 3 second descent, ‘cos Einstein and relativity and stuff. That’s how Tom was able to do normal-speed squats that take over 3 seconds, while only taking about a second.
The bottom line is, unlike the thousands of bodybuilders who have tried and failed to build legs like Tom Platz in the past 50 years, you actually CAN do it. All you need to do is:
- squat with your feet shoulder width apart
- have your femurs surgically shortened to match the proportions of Tom, so you can squat with the same torso angle
- get the photons in your legs quantum entangled with photons travelling close to the speed of light toward Andromeda, so your squat tempo is slower than it actually is
Alternatively, you could just train your squat with similarly legendary intensity and focus as Tom, to get your squat performances up to 500lb for 23 reps and over 700lb for reps, using the technique that suits your structure, including the foot width most comfortable and efficient for you. Your legs might not look like Toms; but they will be the most incredible, world class legs your genetics are capable of.
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CrowdStrike, a US “cybersecurity” company dedicated to protecting against cyber-warfare – and central to the monolithic fraud which claimed “Russia hacked the 2016 election” (whatever that means?) – just bricked millions of computers around the world, in a claimed accident so disastrous, and so widespread in the havoc it wreaked, that no cyber warfare attack could compare.From hospitals, airlines, banks and emergency services, to government agencies and businesses of every size, thousands of organisations around the world have been forced to suspend operations.
Fortunately, the corrupted software from the corrupt company (CrowdStrike) only installed itself on Microsoft Windows-based machines. Windows is the famously unreliable, insecure and vulnerable operating system that ostensibly needs CrowdStrikes unreliable software for “protection” from malicious attacks; attacks that could only do a fraction of the damage that CrowdStrike’s incompetence achieved unintentionally.
Windows is the most famous product of Microsoft; the corrupt company famously found guilty of monopolistic practices by the same Government that pays them tens of billions of dollars every year. Microsoft’s incompetence is not restricted to Windows unreliability and insecurity. For example, the US Military agreed to give Microsoft $22Bn for AR headsets which soldiers complained were so useless as to be life-threateningly dangerous. Microsoft is also currently making news for a new Windows feature that secretly takes screenshots of the user’s computer every few seconds and is criticised by security experts as one of the most astoundingly ignorant security vulnerabilities they have ever seen.
Microsoft founder, Bill Gates – the monopolist who reinvented himself as a so-called “philanthropist”, and curiously manages to make more money by ostensibly giving it away than can be achieved by any other legal investment – has been pushing for the World to become completely dependent on Microsoft and the Windows-based machines that just screwed everyone who depended on them. Gates has been sponsoring the push for the elimination of physical cash and identification; the same physical cash and identification that has been essential to many businesses crippled by the failure of their unreliable Windows machines, caused by the corrupted CrowdStrike software, which was installed because Windows is so unreliable. Despite this, Gates wants even more of the most critical infrastructure on earth to be totally reliant on his famously unreliable Microsoft Windows-based system, for all transactions, healthcare and identification; a business model otherwise known as a ‘monopoly’.
Ironically, the “evil Russians” that CrowdStrike falsely accused of truthfully revealing the corruption in the US Democratic party, were not affected by CrowdStrikes incompetence. The corrupt and incompetent US Democrat Government unwittingly protected Russia by imposing sanctions which disallowed Russia from using CrowdStrike’s corrupted software. These were the same incompetently engineered sanctions which have unintentionally sent Europe into recession, cratered trade in the US dollar, and boosted Russia’s economy to 4th largest in the World (according to the World Bank). The only people in Russia who were horribly affected were non-Russian travellers whose planes were forced to stop in Russia, and could not pay for alternative flights, nor local accommodation, because of the sanctions.
Currently, the media reports that it is a misinformation conspiracy theory that Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Bill Gates, the US Government and US Democrat Party are all corrupt, incompetent and leading the world to serious disaster. This weekend, the world experienced a serious disaster caused by the corruption and incompetence of Microsoft, CrowdStrike, the US Government and US Democrat Party, proving once again that, when the media calls something misinformation or a conspiracy theory, you’d best prepare for it to happen soon.
For anybody still affected by the corrupt software update, users are reporting that rebooting your machine 15 times in a row should solve the problem. Regardless of whether this absurd solution works or not, it would behoove everyone to consider how much we want our lives, and the Worlds critical infrastructure, to depend on machines that are programmed and controlled by corrupt, incompetent companies, in fascistic relationships with corrupt, incompetent governments, that can be remotely exploited at any time, whether by malice or incompetence?
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Lying about PED use is a fascinating sociological issue. Athletes and celebrities do not actually lie about PED use because they are bad people wanting to hide their cheating. Far from it. They are compelled to lie because the question itself is completely dishonest. The question is asking them if they comply with the politically correct “narrative” about PEDs. The narrative about PEDs, like all popular, politically correct narratives, is a giant, steaming pile of lies. Every part of it is as utterly dishonest as the current narratives about certain wars, certain sexual deviances, certain environmental issues and certain presidents.
Being asked the question about PED use is to be dragged into the narrative lie. There is no option but to lie in response. To speak against the narrative with the truth is far worse than lying. There is no explaining or justifying PED use with facts and truth. Telling the truth will get you ostracised from society, as we saw happen to talented medical professionals who spoke the truth about a certain medical narrative from a couple of years ago.
Behind closed doors, among other athletes and celebrities, everybody talks openly about PED use. Everybody involved knows that everybody does it. It is the same everywhere in the world. It is so widespread and common as to be as integral to sport and physique development as training and diet. In these circles, people typically do not lie about the fact they use. Doing so would be seen as offensive and suspicious.
Lying about PED use to a mainstream audience, though, is like putting the right emoji flag in your social media profile each month. Its a virtue signal. Everybody knows its BS; but it’s BS you are expected to say to show you have “done the right thing” and sold your soul to be included in western neo-liberal society.
When an athlete or celebrity publicly lies about their PED use to the general public, what option do they have? Tell the truth and be needlessly demonised by a lying, malicious, politicised media machine? What for? Nobody wants the truth. Sports fans want to believe their idols are “clean”, ‘cos the narrative says that’s good. And parents don’t want their kids knowing that movie stars are all snorting coke off hookers bums every day, they check in and out of rehab like it is a gas station, or that they use PEDs, cos the narrative says those things are all moral equivalents.
But mostly, the political monsters behind the war against PEDs want their BS narrative supported. By weaponising a core element of elite level sport and physical development, any publicly influential athlete or celebrity who might cause any sort of political embarrassment can immediately be discredited by the “shocking” discovery of PED use (and the cliched sexual assault allegation from 20 years ago that coincidentally appears at the same time).
The war against PEDs is very obviously not about safety, health, morality, legality or fairness. It’s political. It’s about power and control over celebrities who powerfully influence public opinion. Lying about PED use is how the game is played. So when I see a top level athlete or high profile celebrity lie, I understand completely. They aren’t lying to those of us who know the truth. They are lying to the liars who lied to everybody else. The issue is not the celebrity’s lie; the issue is the sad state of the mainstream media and the political system maintaining another BS narrative.
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Do not be fooled by the photo above of Kai Greene incline pressing 220kg. Kai Greene is NOT a weightlifter. He is a bodybuilder. See, bodybuilders lift ever increasing weights over time, for hypertrophy. Whereas weightlifters lift ever increasing weights over time, and hypertrophy is incidental. Obviously, they are completely unrelated activities. Watch Kai’s explanation here…As Kai explains, bodybuilders are concerned with making their muscles CONTRACT. This is VERY difficult to achieve. Muscles causing movement by contracting is not something that happens naturally or thoughtlessly. It is very rare for it to ever happen in nature; except always, in every living mammal, even asleep, including babies still in their mothers womb. But aside from every mammal, always, without conscious awareness, muscle contractions are very rare, complicated and involving. Muscles just keep wanting to run off and do all those other things that muscles do, aside from contracting. This is why the only successful bodybuilders are the most deeply intelligent, thoughtful, self-reflective, spiritual beings you will ever meet. That’s what it takes to make muscles contract. But you probably don’t understand because you are not as intelligent as the typical bodybuilder.
Weightlifters, by contrast, don’t even think about their muscles contracting. As a result, weightlifters lift weights without using their muscles at all! Instead, weightlifters use all the other kinetic abilities humans are imbued with to cause movement, aside from muscular contraction. As a result of weightlifters only lifting weights – instead of contracting their muscles to lift weights – they do not look big, like bodybuilders.
Bodybuilders often look hugely muscular, despite not being extraordinarily large or strong people. This is absolutely NOT because their sport literally awards the person who imparts the greatest illusion of being more massively muscular than they actually are. No. It is because the most powerful adaptive stimulus for a human to transform into a huge, hulking, muscular beast, is to train like a geriatric cripple rehabilitating from severe neuromuscular disease, while fantasising that half-assed, BS, light-weight muscle-flexing is really hard.
Champion powerlifters and weightlifters, on the other hand, can be disproportionately small and un-muscular for their incredible strength. This is absolutely NOT because their sport is literally based on awarding the smallest person with disproportionately incredible strength. No. It is because weightlifters don’t train like they are geriatric cripples trying to rehabilitate from severe neuromuscular disease.
It is also important to recognise that the physiques displayed by champion bodybuilders and powerlifters/weightlifters are 100% a function of their training, and not of any genetic factors. For example, short limbs and wide hips do not create favourable leverages for powerlifting; powerlifting training shortens your limbs, widens your hips. Similarly, wide clavicles, narrow hips, perfect muscle attachments and a height approaching 4-foot does not provide a good platform for bodybuilding; being a low-IQ, delusional narcissist, who trains like a rehabilitating geriatric cripple, makes you short with wide shoulders and a tiny waist.
So the lesson from Kai is clear: If weightlifters started focusing on their muscles lifting the weight – instead of using all the other attributes humans use to cause physical movement – they would restructure their entire skeleton and muscle attachments and sprout a muscular physique exactly like Kai’s. All it takes is a little imagination…. or a LOT of imagination… and not much thought.
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New Fitness Tech company, SiBio, wants to sell you a seat on the idiot train to Assclownsville. Their new KS1 gizmo is set to be 2024’s answer to posing in the doggie position in the middle of the gym floor in see-through wedgie-tights, “activating” your glutes.The KS1 is a stabby-needle gizmo that you stick in your tricep, to wirelessly connect your body to an App! I know you just want them to take your money now; but there’s even more to the story.
When the gizmo stabbing your arm is not giving you infections, it’s legit science-ing like Dr Gates. Using a complex new Artificial Intelligence – that proprietarily bypasses all intelligence – the App takes the sciences from the gizmo to tell you the levels of ketones in your blood. Yeah, it’s fully science. You can use the App to impress your friends. Or you can really get your nerd on and use the Ketone measurements to make REALLY stupid decisions about your diet. That’s what SiBio wants you to do.
SiBio knows that diabetics have a legitimate use for knowing their ketone levels; ‘cos ketoacidosis and death and stuff. That is why they absolutely do not market it to diabetics. SiBio markets the KS1 to people on ketogenic diets for fat loss, who do not have diabetes; or brains.
I know what you are thinking. You think people on ketogenic diets do not need to know their ketone levels. They only need to know their bodyfat levels; and whether they feel fantastic or terrible. But you are wrong. You see, the KS1 cannot measure your bodyfat or energy. And if it did, you might actually discover whether it is accurate or not. That’s why SiBio wants you to focus obsessively on your apparent ketone levels, irrespective of whether your diet is working to achieve your bodyfat goals or not.
So, if you are on a zero carb diet, losing fat rapidly, have heaps of energy, are maintaining or building muscle, BUT the KS1 app says you are not burning ketones, then you get off that diet before you realise that it’s doing everything you want it to. You need to stop losing fat and feeling great and get those ketones burning in the app instead. Stop measuring your bodyfat percentage. Its the ketones that matter, dammit.
if you are on a zero carb diet, losing fat rapidly, have heaps of energy, are maintaining or building muscle, BUT the KS1 app says you are not burning ketones, then you get off that diet before you realise that it’s doing everything you want it to.
Similarly, if you are on a no-carb diet, failing to get leaner, feeling like garbage, and going backward in your training, BUT the KS1 says you are burning ketones all the time, then party on! Keep doing what you are doing. You might never achieve your fat loss goals. But you can smile at the KS1 congratulations messages on your phone, while you drool in your semi-conscious hypoglycemic funk.
So, if you are the sort of person who knows that you are superior to successful people because you trust “the science”, then SiBio has the a new idiot-badge for you. Even better than an emoji flag in your social media bio, you literally wear the SiBio KS1 on your sleeve to show everyone that you support the latest ‘thing’.
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Imagine, if you can, the Australian government weaponising an engineered health crisis to rob citizens of their freedoms and destroy businesses. Now imagine the public fully supporting the governments grotesque overreach.Imagine the public fully engaging in parroting the absurd pseudoscientific propaganda. They even pimp the dubious chemical cocktail disingenuously offered to solve the crisis by the same people who sponsored the problem.
You may be shocked to learn this did actually happen, several years before the Covid scamdemic. The health scare in question was the skin cancer epidemic ostensibly caused by commercial sunbed operators.
What Crisis?You probably barely remember the crisis because, well, who really cares about sunbeds? The typical attitude of most Australians was that people who used sunbeds were narcissists; screw them! But the solarium ban seemed to open pandoras box. Australia’s famous sense of humour soured. Australians started calling for more and more activities to be restricted and regulated. The government eagerly obliged, increasing it’s rate of law making by almost 30%.
The propaganda formula for selling the solarium ban was an early prototype of the formula we saw employed for Covid. It also showcased the components used in the great climate sham and many of the other liberty-leeching cons being perpetrated by Governments around the world.
Step 1: Lie RepeatedlyLike covid and climate change, the propaganda began with nonsensical, reality-bending lies. “Tanned skin is damaged skin”. “A tan does not protect from the sun”. Prior to this, a tan was known to be a natural adaptive process that protected skin from burning in the sun. Sun damaged skin was not golden brown; it was red and blistered. Suddenly, what people had been known for millennia was said to be wrong; like not being sick suddenly meaning you were seriously sick.
Step 2: Lie with StatisticsNext came the hysterical fear porn based on largely irrelevant, cherry-picked statistics. “Two of every three Australians are expected to develop skin cancer”. “More than 1200 Australians will die of melanoma this year”. Conveniently omitted from the discussion, however, was that only 0.5% of Australians used solariums. Obviously, 130,000 people using sunbeds cannot significant contribute to 15,000,000 people developing cancer. So the relevant statistic was redacted; just as it was omitted that 99.7% of people who caught Covid had mild to no symptoms.
Step 3: Lie with Ludicrous Case-StudiesThen came the extraordinarily abnormal, non-representative case studies. In the case of the solarium ban, one 26 year old girl died of melanoma. Without any evidence, she claimed her cancer was caused by just 20 solarium visits. 1200 other Australians died of melanoma that year. None mentioned using a solarium. 130,000 other Australians used solariums without dying of Melanoma. Yet this one girl was plastered all over the TV, internet, radio and newspapers as the ostensible proof of the danger of solariums.
Step 4: Lie with “Trust the Science”Next were the disparate snippets of pseudoscience, claimed to be actual, valid science. No study actually showed that solariums cause skin cancer or that skin cancer rates were higher in solarium users. No study showed that illegalising commercial solarium businesses, while allowing citizens to buy and use the solariums from the closed businesses, would reduce skin cancer. The Queensland legislation even acknowledged that the sun was the primary risk factor, and the sun was not being banned.
There is a wealth of science suggesting a strong link between skin cancer and a dietary imbalance of essential fatty acids (EFA’s). The average Australian diet features this imbalance. The average Australian diet is also directly responsible for epidemic levels of heart disease and diabetes, costing billions of dollars in healthcare and lost productivity. Any serious discussion about public health, including skin cancer, could not ignore Australia’s appalling nutrition. But, like covid, there was no place for any discussion that contradicted the predetermined course of action.
Step 5: Sell the SnakeoilFinally, just like covid, the solarium ban featured a product so awful it needed a government sponsored con to sell. Fake tan was the solarium ban’s equivalent of the covid vaccine, and the climate con’s carbon credits. In virtually every story covering the solarium ban was the sales pitch for the ‘safe and effective’ fake tanning products that would ‘save lives’ from the dangers of sunshine and solariums. It was as blatant as it was shameless.
The Predictable ResultNow that almost a decade has passed, we can fairly assess the Government’s success in reducing skin cancer by banning solariums. More Australians are now diagnosed with skin cancer than before, the rate of skin cancer has increased and more die of melanoma. In other words, the Government failed as dismally as basic logic and math predicted. The forcible closing of over 400 small businesses, the dozens of prosecutions, the thousands of hours and tens of millions of dollars spent on propaganda and legislation all achieved absolutely nothing. Nothing except the pointless erosion of freedoms of citizens.
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Many people have heard me rant about personal trainer insurance and the professional association I created called Recomp. But few people know that it was all in response to being sued myself and having my insurer refuse to cover me. I went through an absolute hell that I would not wish on anyone. So here […]
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An insurance company recently emailed me a proposal in which the insurance agent’s signature included his “he/him/his” personal pronouns. That inclusion filled me with such distrust and disdain that I will reject the proposal, regardless of how competitive it is. Introduction Insurance is serious business to me. My business has been sued and my insurer […]
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Right now we are 3-4 months out from the major competitive Bodybuilding season. So all over the country guys and girls are training hard to look as bodybuilder-esque as possible by October. And as you would expect, that means they are all reducing their weight-training loads and doing lots of running and cycling training. Of […]
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There has been a lot of discussion on the interwebs lately (2023) regarding the terms ‘cis’ and ‘trans’. For some reason, most of the debate is extremely emotionally charged, with an alarming absence of facts, reason or logic. It should not be emotional. ‘Cis’ and ‘Trans’ are actually very simple chemistry terms. The most common […]
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It is true that hard, effective, progressive weight training may result in muscle damage. But that doesn’t mean that achieving muscle damage by any means makes what you did effective and progressive ‘training’. Unfortunately, some academics have invented this flawed, ignorant theory, resulting in more misdirection of weight trainers. Hard, effective training also results in […]
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‘Wokeness’ is characterised by proclaiming that lunatic absurdities are valid realities. Specifically, wokeness endorses deranged delusions; such as claiming dudes can get pregnant by putting on a dress and lipstick, or you can build massive, hulking muscularity by pretending that light weights are heavy. Yet, despite the obvious insanity of woke claims, somehow, some people […]
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Some very smart scientists have described the stimulation of muscle growth to be a function of ‘time under tension’. This phrase has understandably gained enormous popularity in the worlds of bodybuilding and fitness. Unfortunately scientific concepts gaining popularity in bodybuilding and fitness is a bit like knives gaining popularity in a children’s playground. You know they aren’t going to be used for the purpose they were intended!In the case of ‘time under tension’, the term ‘time’ is the only word fitness professionals and bodybuilders seem to understand. They say that ‘time under tension’ means to lift lighter weights, slowly. It does not! They presume that ‘Tension‘ means any magnitude of ‘tension’. It does not! They seem to think ‘Tension‘ is another ambiguous, meaningless term like ‘fitness’; an amorphous quality with no measure or agreed definition. It is not!
‘Tension‘ does have a definition. A very clear definition. It is a measure of force. It is a term used in Physics to describe a particular type of force. It even has a unit of measure: the Newton (or equivalent).
Newton Forces – including Tension – are calculated with the equation: Mass x Acceleration.
In terms of weight training, the mass is what we refer to as the ‘weight’, obviously. Acceleration is the rate of change of speed of the weight (against gravity).
In the most simple terms: maximum muscular tension is created by lifting as HEAVY a weight as possible, as FAST as possible.
‘time under tension’ is the scientists way of saying that power-bodybuilders had it right all along. Very heavy weights lifted explosively for multiple reps and sets
The ‘Time under tension’ concept says:
hypertrophy stimulation = time x mass x acceleration.
Clearly the idea is to lift as much weight as possible, as acceleratively as possible for as long as possible. The time aspect is increased by doing multiple sets and reps; NOT reducing the other 2 factors in the equation!
Reducing either weight or acceleration reduces force (tension). Reducing BOTH weight and acceleration reduces tension exponentially! Exponentially reducing tension to achieve a fractional increase in time is exactly what the ‘time under tension’ concept says NOT to do in your training!
Basically, ‘time under tension’ is the scientists way of saying that power-bodybuilders had it right all along. Very heavy weights lifted explosively for multiple reps and sets is the key to maximum hypertrophy.
‘Time under tension’ confirms that all these new-age, wimpy-bodybuilders and fitness-saps are wrong, as we all knew. All that poetic, namby-pamby bodybuilder prose about needing to reduce the weight and lift slowly to ‘feel the muscle’ is nonsense! Hypertrophy requires tension which is a tangible, measurable quality! Tension is weight and acceleration, literally! Pretending and lying to yourself that a light weight is heavy by lifting it slowly doesn’t create tension. It exponentially REDUCES tension! And, according to the ‘time under tension’ concept, that exponentially reduces hypertrophy stimulation!
Lighter weights and slower lifting is, by every definition and measure, the most inefficient and ineffective way to train. And thats what ‘time under tension’ really says.
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For years now, public gyms have been becoming more and more difficult to train effectively in. Here are the top 5 problems with public gyms and the reasons why they exist:1. Anti-training agendaThe cynical business model behind big public gyms is to achieve an ~85% NON-attendance rate! They want people signing up but not turning up! So they target their product at people who do not want their product.
People who do not want gyms like happy, friendly, colourful places where everybody smiles and nobody sweats. They want Wiggles-land. Take the kids once per year and pat yourself on the back.
So most gyms are now like Wiggles-land. There are primary school jungle gyms (TRX), silliness inspired by carnival rides (Spin classes), wiggles dancing (Zumba) and then a whole bunch of redundant rehabilitation junk stolen from physiotherapists (core stability, treadmills and ‘functional’ training).
The great thing about TRX, Zumba, treadmills, core stability and functional training is its such a useless waste of time that nobody sane can be bothered doing it very long. So they quickly join the 85% non-attendance group.
Wiggles-land is no place for serious people wanting to do serious workouts! It scares the non-attendees away before they’ve had time to pay for the membership they don’t want! So strict policies exist to ensure gyms stay Wiggles-friendly: no grunting, no dropping weights, no deadlifts etc etc.
Bottom line: don’t go to Wiggles-land if you don’t want to jiggle like a Wiggle! 2. Insufficient & inadequate equipmentMost public gyms operate with 2000 to 5000 members. Even with 85% of members never using the facilities, there are still hundreds of people who do! And it seems there is always a stream of them who want to use the exact piece of equipment you were planning to use on any given day! Its not Murphy’s Law, however. Its good business.
Public gyms make money off memberships (and Personal Trainer rent). Their interests are best served by providing the least equipment necessary to get your membership fee. People who train seriously wear out the equipment and cost more than members who don’t train. They also scare away prospective non-attendee members. So gyms have a vested interest in you being unable to train properly.
Most public gyms have just one or two of everything. It’s enough to fill a space and say “yes, we have that”. But it’s never remotely enough for you to do a planned workout on a weeknight. Personal Trainers are taught NEVER to plan client workouts because planned workouts are expected to be impossible in Public Gyms.
For serious body recomposition workouts where the weights are planned, public gyms become even more inadequate. The weights needed just aren’t available even if you can get the equipment. Especially for leg presses! It’s not about being so strong you need lots of weight. The majority of public gyms literally have fewer pairs of 20kg plates than they have plate-loaded machines! 3. Ignorant and Inconsiderate membersGym etiquette of old is dead. Its now a feudal system. There are simply too many people fighting for too few resources.
Indisputably, the biggest problem is the brain-dead Instagram/Tik-Tok culture of proudly conspicuous narcissism… and ass exercises. Public gyms have shifted from places to train or exercise to low-rent film production sets for talentless and uninteresting cretins and whores, tied up in rehabilitation bands, dry-humping their air to flex their asses. If the lack of equipment was not a big enough problem, now every piece of equipment is being used by an ass-clown to do some utterly retarded and completely worthless ass exercise… while filming themselves. Do not dare interrupt these wannabe porn-stars during their ‘James Cameron’ ass-training movie scene or you risk being cast as the villain in full diva temper tantrum; and the other 300 Instawhores in the gym will all treat you as though you are the problem. It is literally like being in a zombie apocalypse; except the zombies are all dressed like whores and are obsessed with asses instead of brains.
Coupled with the obsessive narcissism of banal social media content production is the ignorant attitude toward effective training. New-age gym members have been completely brainwashed by the fitness-mediocrity-machine. They believe heavy deadlifts are dangerous but sloppy Crossfit olympic lifts are brilliant. They think leaning into your dumbbell curls is dangerous, but swinging a kettlebell around is awesome. They think full-depth barbell squats are worthless, but balancing on a swissball is beneficial. The harder and more effectively you train, the more criticism you will get. Especially if you are a woman (unless you are a bloke who lies that he is a woman. Then you are a hero).
If you do a personal best lift in a public gym, do not expect praise or congratulations. Do not even expect to be ignored. Expect abuse! Members will suddenly become pop-chiropractic experts with fierce concern for your safety; including the bodybuilders and powerlifters (though, not the older ones who remember what hard training looks like). It’s like living inside social media: anything you do that’s better than average will get massive jeers and criticism. 4. Personal Trainer VulturesThis is an extension of Point 3 above. The really ignorant, incompetent Personal Trainers seem compelled to criticise any person training effectively. They don’t realise that they are only qualified to help unfit people return to the sad state of physical mediocrity that is ‘fitness’! They don’t realise their ignorant advice is utterly incorrect for people who have a modicum of athleticism. Training for ‘fitness’ is, at best, be a waste of time. At worst it reduces an athlete back to physical mediocrity! Either way Personal Trainers are not qualified to comment on effective training. Unfortunately it’s the stupid ones who do not know what effective training is who seem most compelled to impose their ignorance on good trainers. And they are doubly attracted to harassing women! 5. Lady GagaOn the rare occasion you will arrive at a public gym when its near empty. It feels like Christmas morning when you discover you have instant access to the equipment you want to use AND you can access the weights you need AND there are no idiot personal trainers to harass you. But just as you get to your work set… Lady Gaga comes on the radio. Or Beyonce. Or some other hideous pop trash, generated by a computer and lip-synced by a satanic whore, that manages to be so aggravatingly bad it can penetrate the deepest focus. Its like being Rick-Rolled except its not funny. Its like your molester Uncle turning up to Christmas just before you open the big present.
You can never find music to please all the people all the time. But the music at public gyms always has a way of being so rotten bad it gets in the way of your training.
My SolutionA decade ago I created Recomp HQ with the intention of demonstrating a viable solution all these problems. We had 2 separate, fully equipped gyms in the one space. One gym was for our Coaches working with clients. The other gym was exclusively for clients on our programs, who we had already taught how to train properly. So the few other people that might be in the gym at the same time were all serious trainers, training the same way, with the same mindset.
At Recomp HQ there was more of the equipment you need than any big-box gym. There were more plates and dumbbells available than several big-box gyms. And because it was the Recomp Series equipment I designed, it was better, stronger and heavier than anything at any public gym.
We had B&O speaker systems to which you could stream your choice of music… unless you wanted Lady Gaga or Beyonce! It was literally written into the contract that if you played trashy pop-music you lost access to the gym.
The business model was solid too. The business was based on a premium service that was supported by premium facility; not the other way around. Our clients paid much more than a gym membership, but received much, MUCH more in return: properly bespoke diets and training programs to achieve their specific body composition goals. We regularly measured their body composition to make adjustments to their diet and program, to stay on course. If they needed to be taught how to achieve maximal performances, safely and consistently, we offered that service. If they knew how to train, they were given the ultimate environment and encouragement to do it. There were no scams. We were not pushing supplements. We were not even pushing Coaching. If you did not want our services, we told you not to buy them. But if you did, there was nothing that compared.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of opening the gym in the Communist State of Victoria, Australia. Early on I was told, to my face, explicitly, by a Government officer that “we crush dreams around here”. As the result of government fuckery, Recomp HQ was among my proudest achievements and greatest regrets. The business worked; but in terms of being a proof-of-concept, it mostly succeeded in proving to NEVER open ANY type of small business in Victoria. Then Covid happened to underscore that point, in case anyone was left in any doubt. But that’s another story.
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Muscle fibre type is yet another irrelevant academic construct which has been blown out of all proportion. It has even become the basis of some ridiculous training protocol recommendations. The truth about muscle fibre types is not hidden and not complicated; but it seems to have been completely overlooked. So I try to explain it in simple terms to show how irrelevant it is.The post The Truth About Muscle Fibre Types appeared first on DamonHayhow.com.
DEXA is the gold-standard of body composition analysis; but only when NOT using the NHANES calibration which crudely increases bodybuilder’s bodyfat by around 5-percentage points; or even more if you are really big and really lean!
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In 1918, Hungarian weightlifter, Laszlo Fekete, slept overnight at the event hall for the National Championships, was woken by his coach just in time for his opening lift, leapt out of bed, and set a world record in the snatch that still stands to this day. That incredible story is, of course, a ridiculous lie […]
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QUESTION: What do you think about peptides like GHRP6, Ipamorelin, CJC-1295 etc? I hear they are as good as taking Growth Hormone? Are they safe? The first person who raved about GHRP6 to me claimed to have put on 5kg of pure muscle in just a few weeks from it. He told me it was […]
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Cosmopolitan magazine recently published this article announcing “plus-size model”, Tess Holiday, as being “Strong, Fit and 300lb”.
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Many lifters and coaches diagnose weight-training problems as being caused by weight, and therefore the solution being to reduce the weight. I see it differently. In this episode of the Damon Hayhow Podcast, I analyse this question.
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Since the invention of pizza, man has debated the virtues of the clean versus dirty bulk up diet. As with everything in bodybuilding, this question has turned into an ideological religious war with each side defending their position with the strongest form of argument: personal abuse and threats of violence. In this episode of the […]
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I want to wish everyone a happy new year. I really do WISH for 2021 to be better for everyone than the cluster-fuck of 2020, in the same way I wish you might unexpectedly inherit a billion dollars in gold bullion. Unfortunately, neither is realistically going happen.
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Just when you thought the politico-legal destruction of the gym market had ended, ambulance-chasing scumbags at Maurice Blackburn strike with a $550K personal injury win for a lady who picked up a 25kg weight wrongly. https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/sydney-gym-ordered-to-pay-550k-after-mum-injures-back-picking-up-weights/news-story/0bc1aba8d9f898cee209006f62bdf27d A more accurate description of what really happened: a lady picks up a 25kg weight wrongly, puts her back […]
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My latest podcast: Sports Nutrition Supplements that “work”. Yes, the title is pure click-bait. But that is appropriate for a class of garbage, snake-oil products that set the standards for overpromising and underdelivering. What I have to say is not your typical biochemistry scientism waffle. This is a real world discussion about a half-dozen supplements […]
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Is news.com.au correct that gyms are unlikely to reopen until September? No. Gyms are not only unlikely to reopen in September; many gyms will never reopen. Most will definitely not be reopening under their current ownership, if at all. (Note: blog is not sarcastic. The Covid19 insanity has long passed the point of making jokes about […]
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There are a number of ridiculous conspiracy theories that the Covid19 pandemic is not an extinction-level plague that is going to kill absolutely everybody in the world; or even as many people as a regular flu. These theories are obviously preposterous because the media says so; and the media always tells the truth. The facts speak for themselves. And the fact is that most of your friends are already dead and you have already probably died of Covid19 at least a few times because it is sooooo deadly (assuming that you and your friends, like most of my readers, live in New York or Northern Italy, are over 70 years of age, with seriously compromised lungs and are about to die of at least 1 deadly disease).
Many of the conspiracy theories are based on the true, but weak argument that millions are, in fact, not dying, or even getting sick; and most of the people who are dying were already dying.
The fact is, ‘experts’ say that the pandemic could get worse, it might get worse and we do not know if it will not get worse. This is irrefutable proof that it is MUCH worse than reality proves that it is; and you should panic. Panic big! The media is helpfully reminding us, daily, that reality should never be considered; especially not when it contradicts the proclamations of ‘experts’. It is true that those “experts” have never made a correct forecast, ever, and the original doomsday “expert” forecaster, Neil Ferguson – the guy who said “2.2million Americans will die” and possibly the most astoundingly wrong forecaster in human history – reduced his forecasts by over 95%, and then to barely over 1% of his original guess. But the media says they are “experts” and that they are recommending that we all should panic and expect to die. So, what else can we do? Think for ourselves and consider the blatantly obvious? Obviously not!
One conspiracy theory says the virus is being blamed for the global financial system collapsing, in an attempt to hide the fact that it had been collapsing anyway, and the only thing holding it up was fraud and central bank money printing.
It is true that, even before the business shut downs began, the central banks started handing unprecedented quantities of money to the banks, over and above the money they had already been printing to buy stocks and corporate bonds to goose the stock markets for the past 10 years. It is also true that those insane quantities of money grew exponentially within just days. It is also true that other deeply questionable and suspicious policies were instituted that make absolutely no sense in the context (and timing) of the economic damage from the virus; such as US banks needing ZERO reserves, mates of the US Fed having access to 0% loans that do not need to be paid back if their gambling bets lose, and the US Fed buying corporate bonds and even ETFs. But we are all too stupid to understand math and history, so best we just trust the ‘experts’. Expert economists and bankers always know the best thing for society, as proven in 2008.
Believe strongly that Covid19 is more deadly than anything we have ever seen, even though it is killing fewer people than things like the regular flu, diarrhoea, child birth, drownings, smoking, alcohol, starvation and 1000 other things nobody ever gives a thought to
But the ridiculous conspiracy theory continues that this engineered crisis is somehow going to be used for an attempted global coup to completely transform our world. This is based on the UN policy document titled: “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development“, that most of our governments signed on to. Talk about a crazy conspiracy with zero evidence. A policy manifesto that governments have signed onto is clearly not describing policies that our governments have signed onto. Saying otherwise is a crazy conspiracy theory. The UN manifesto to transform the world cannot be a conspiracy because the document is publicly available on the UN website. Anybody can read it. Nobody will; but they could. So you should ignore it because, well, nobody reads that stuff. We are all too stupid to understand. So best we let experts give us the redacted and whitewashed version, with pictures of rainbows and bunny rabbits.
The fact is, in a few months – 6 or so, apparently (or until people start to get really angry and realise they have been lied to constantly and imprisoned for a sham) – everybody will just go back to work like nothing happened. It will be like the day after a long weekend. The meltdown in the banks will just magically disappear. All the newly unemployed people with zero savings or credit left, will go on a big shopping spree. All the small businesses that had previously been struggling to stay afloat will immediately resume selling to all their old customers (and a convenient wave of rich leprechauns who will appear out of nowhere) and gleefully start paying back all their new debt, with the money they do not have. The Government debts that just multiplied to impossible, unserviceable levels, will just magically get paid down, without any tax increases at all and despite government tax revenue being almost eliminated and government outgoings increasing dramatically. And the property bubble will go back to inflating from its irrational and unsustainable peak – particularly commercial property – based on all the confident people with all their positive income prospects wanting to get maximal mortgages for their ultra-secure futures. It’ll be awesome. Do not think in terms of mathematics and logic. Modern Monetary Theory, voodoo, pixie dust and magical unicorns have got this covered.
Finally, there is no sign that the UN has any interest in starting to push for more control of the world and global economy, and distributing more of a global currency, exactly as outlined in their agenda for 2030. Nothing except their ‘Transforming our World’ manifesto, and this speech by the UN, where they say they want all countries to start contributing 10% of global GDP to them, so they can “manage” the global coronavirus response including sending SDRs (aka global money) to “needy” countries. But other than the UN saying they want more control of the world and global economy, there is no proof they want more control of the world and global economy.
Remember, just stay scared and panic. Stay absolutely focused on irrelevant technicalities about this flu; like how it is really not, technically, influenza A, and blah blah enzymes blah protein rna synthesising blah blah complicated biochemical stuff you do not understand and makes no difference. Believe strongly that Covid19 is more deadly than anything we have ever seen, even though it is killing fewer people than things like the regular flu, diarrhoea, child birth, drownings, smoking, alcohol, starvation and 1000 other things nobody ever gives a thought to, and our hospital systems never seemed to have difficulty managing. The total eradication of civil liberties, normal human interactions, constitutional rights – basically everything our forefathers fought and died for – is totally proportionate and logical to this ‘crisis’. Remember its a crisis. It is a pandemic, which means it is bad (just do not look up the word ‘pandemic’ in the dictionary! If you do, you risk reducing your panicking when you discover that a ‘pandemic’ does not need to be serious or deadly at all; it just means lots of people get it). Keep listening to the news for facts you know are not true, and to keep your focus off the controlled demolition of the global economy, and your future. Everything will be just fine if you trust your Government and the banks. They care.
Whatever you do, do NOT listen to braindead, tin-foil hat conspiracy theory nutters who say Covid19 is not killing everyone in the world just because it is not. Ignore anyone who correctly points out that the response is going to lead to exponentially more deaths and destruction of civil liberty, societal stability, suicide rates, crime rates and more. Be careful of the 1 or 2 nutter-nobodies who never had anything of value to say such as:
former British Supreme Court Justice, Lord Sumption
Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics
Reporter Peter Hitchens
these 12 top Professors and Doctors
and these 10 more
and a wide range of people who know a con when they see one, and know when the system is playing them; such as Robert Kiyosaki, Gerard Celente, Jordan Belfort, James Corbett and many more…
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I just want to wish everybody goodbye. The police were not ordered to lock us all up at gunpoint soon enough to save us from the deadly virus that gives virtually no symptoms in the vast majority of normal people. So now, because you, your children, your friends and everybody around you is over 70 years old, with compromised lungs, and at least 1 deadly disease, we are all going to die.
The death rate from Corona doubled in the last week, to make the current year death toll higher than almost every other cause of death, except for almost every other cause of death, including the seasonal flu (still 3x more this year).
Academic scientists, who are much smarter than you or i, have devised complicated models to show that, because corona deaths doubled last week, they will keep doubling every week, until we all are dead. So the human race will be extinct in 4 months. Do not believe in conspiracy theories debunking these models with logic and facts. Academic models have a 100% track record of always being correct in theory.
WHO scientists have now discovered that, just before we catch Corona, it (the virus) will make us 70-90 years old, sick with cancer, heart disease, diabetes and/or lung disease. Then the Corona virus infects us and we die. The statistics prove it. This is what is meant when people keep telling you ‘we have never seen anything like this before’.
Ignoring the fact that virtually every normal functioning person barely registers a symptom from Corona, with only 4 months til human extinction, we must act fast. The only solution, obviously, is more armed police on the streets to harass people from being out in the sun. It’s true the sun kills the virus. But bullets kill people. So people need to get out of the sun when seen by police with guns and bullets. The police will let you out in winter, when flu viruses never spread.
We need to die for the same reason the governments killed all the jobs and small businesses: there might be a temporary shortage of respirators.
The other solution is more fines, financial ruination, infinite money printing and, most of all, massive endless bank bailouts backed by taxpayers. Taxpayers are immune to Corona because they need to live to pay interest and tax. Of course, Corona did kill all the jobs and businesses. But that problem will be solved by the unemployed killing themselves, or each other, for the guilt and shame of not being able to work to pay tax and interest.
It was completely unforeseeable that a deadly plague would force central banks to endlessly and covertly create monstrous quantities of currency for years, and turn the entire global financial system into a cesspool of mathematically unsustainable Ponzi schemes that started to collapse late last year and now need exponentially greater fraud and corruption to continue. Nobody could have seen that happening. But now that plague has arrived and is killing everybody (except for the vast, vast, vast majority of the worlds population), all we can do is lock ourselves in the bank’s homes (oh yeah, you just lost your house; didn’t you hear?) and wait to die.
You are going to die. We are all going to die. We need to die for the same reason the governments killed all the jobs and small businesses: there might be a temporary shortage of respirators. Respirators are like conflict diamonds. You can’t just make them. You need to exploit thousands of people and destroy their livelihoods forever to get them. That is why the governments have destroyed everything, and caused decades of misery, homelessness and unemployment for millions of people. For respirators. It was the only logical thing they could do to have enough respirators.
Remember: Be safe (or the cops will shoot you). Keep your distance (or the cops will shoot you). Use more hand sanitizer; or your neighbour will tell on you (like a good Nazi) so the cops shoot you. Do not look into what is going on with the banks and financial system. Just join Centrelink and get in more debt. Do it for the respirators; and to save the old people that destroyed Gretas future and made the world end in 12 years.
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