M4:D23 (D323) Adaptation

What's on my mind today?
Adaptation in bodybuilding is an interesting and varied topic. When you lift weights your body goes through many different physiological changes. The muscle can grow bigger, more efficient, change its composition or increase its strength and speed. The type of change you get depends on the program you are following. Different training regimens effect the muscle's changes differently.

One goal I am after right now is hypertrophy (the growth of the muscle). To this end I am working on eating enough, resting enough and lifting with High Intensity Training. One interesting aspect of this is the "repetition inroad" principle.

The repetition inroad principle is the idea that a given muscle group will determine its own repetition range. No matter what you do, this cannot be changed. The body sets its own repetition limits. This is the flaw in alot of published exercise programs. They ask you to perform in a certain repetition range and alot of the time the muscle group being worked is incapable of working in that repetition range. There is no sense in pounding your body trying to get the muscle group to respond by giving you more repetitions. Instead you listen to your body and work within the repetition range it has set for itself on that muscle group.

This is part of what I always preach about listening to your body. You have to listen or you will attempt to make it do things it is not capable. of.

Today I had to do several interviews for some developer positions I am trying to fill. That's why I'm all dressed up in my picture. I also figured that I haven't shared alot about how I look when I go to meetings, etc., so I decided to share today. I am going to start sharing more and more of the environment I live in and the things I am doing. I am going to tie this all in to the release of my eBook.

Yes, the eBook is still alive and well. I simply have gone back and rewritten alot of it after spending alot of time talking to Carlos DeJesus about what is important and what should be included in that book. I am also considering writing a real (paper) book. I am currently working on creating an outline for the paper book.

Find out what I'm doing to my body!

Today I managed to improve in 13 of 17 exercises. This improvement involved either an increase in weight or repetitions. The amazing thing is that I managed to increase from the start of the week to the end of the week. I was quite pleased with the workouts this week. It just felt right.