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Supertraining Extract The Fundamental Principle Of Strength Training
Several centuries ago, when electricity, less still bioelectricity, was not of much scientific interest, this principle was already anticipated by Sir Isaac Newton, who wrote in his Principia Mathematica (1687) of "a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hidden in all gross bodies," and that "all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this spirit, mutually propagated along the solid filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles." In other words, if we restate the terminology of those times, we will note that the central role of the mind and nervous system in human movement was already stressed by one of science’s leading figures. In the 1930s, the New York strongman, Paul Boeckmann, stressed in his treatise, Nerve Force, the importance of the nerves in strength training, and considered nervous control, conservation of nervous energy and the ability to generate explosive force at the time of greatest need as the foundation of physical power (Paschall, 1954). He also pointed out the great importance of using regular rest periods to enhance nervous recovery. Physiology tells us that structure is determined by function, where muscle hypertrophy is an adaptive response to neuromuscular stimulation of a given minimum intensity. Thus, nervous stimulation produces two basic adaptive and interrelated effects in the body: • functional muscular action (the functional effect) • muscle hypertrophy (the structural effect). The fundamental principle of strength training, then, is that all strength increase is initiated by neuromuscular stimulation. Although hypertrophy is the long-term result of a certain regime of neuromuscular stimulation, it is not the inevitable consequence of all types of work against resistance. Two basic types of resistance training may be recognised, namely: • functional resistance training • structural resistance training. In drawing up this distinction, it should be noted that there is no such thing as purely structural training, since all training is essentially functional, which, under certain conditions, may also elicit structural changes. Moreover, the production of maximal strength depends to a great extent on the existence of an optimal degree of muscle hypertrophy. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Dr Mel Siff Author of Supertraining www.drmelsiff.com twitter.com/supertraining_1 |
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