Hyperplasia = More Fibers
Published: Tue, 06/05/12
The Mad Scientist Nick Nilsson just shared this tip with me.
I'm obsessed with muscle fiber research so I devoured this
and now I'm passing it on to you.....
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Mass Building Tip: Hyperplasia = More Fibers
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Hyperplasia.
It's the splitting of individual muscle fibers into new muscle
fibers. And more fibers means more potential muscle growth.
It's the "Holy Grail" of muscle building...while nobody has yet
proven it happens in humans (it's been proven to happen in
other animals when placed under extreme conditions), nobody
has ever proven that it DOESN'T happen in humans.
If we use building a house as an analogy, it's like chopping
your building materials in half and having them magically grow
back to their original size.
And more materials means you can build a bigger house (body).
Here's the deal, though...like I mentioned above, nobody has
ever proven that this sort of thing happens in humans, primarily
proving it would be tremendously difficult.
You have to subject the body to a specific training stimulus
intense and long enough in duration to cause the fibers to split
(in animal studies, this was placing stretch-overload on the
target muscle for long periods)...
...THEN you have to actually physically COUNT the fibers to
see if there are more than when you started.
Tough to do with the tens of thousands of muscle fibers in a
human muscle...and the subject basically has to have the
muscle completely sliced in half in order to do it accurately,
so you can see why there isn't a big line-up of volunteers.
If you COULD induce hyperplasia in a human being, it would
mean instantly greater muscle-building potential.
One of the reasons some people can just look at a weight
and get bigger is the same reason some people have to train
like animals and have a perfect diet in order to see any results
at all...it comes down to that basic math.
The more muscle fibers you have, the more overall muscle
mass you can build. Simple as that.
Now, even though the evidence isn't clear in humans, don't
write it off just yet...
With the right training, I believe you CAN achieve muscle
cell hyperplasia.
I'm not going to tell you that it'll be easy...you'll have to hit the
muscles EXTREMELY HARD to get fibers to split. Most programs
don't even come close to achieving this threshold of volume,
intensity and tension because, quite simply, they CAN'T.
In my research in looking at the training protocols the scientists
used to achieve hyperplasia in animals, I STRONGLY believe
there IS a training technique that can do it in humans...
And I believe I know what it is...
Let me tell you right now, if you LOVE hard training, you are
going to LOVE this training technique...it allows you to train
at high intensity AND with high volume...a rare combination
that most programs have to stay FAR away from.
I call this technique Stretch Exercise Overload (SEO) and it'll
have you doing 300+ sets of a stretch-focused exercise over
one of the most intense 5-day training periods of your life.
And I'm not trying to scare you...I just want to be honest with
you. This training will absolutely push you to your limits.
THIS is the level of volume, intensity and tension I believe you
need to induce hyperplasia in humans.
It's the splitting of individual muscle fibers into new muscle
fibers. And more fibers means more potential muscle growth.
It's the "Holy Grail" of muscle building...while nobody has yet
proven it happens in humans (it's been proven to happen in
other animals when placed under extreme conditions), nobody
has ever proven that it DOESN'T happen in humans.
If we use building a house as an analogy, it's like chopping
your building materials in half and having them magically grow
back to their original size.
And more materials means you can build a bigger house (body).
Here's the deal, though...like I mentioned above, nobody has
ever proven that this sort of thing happens in humans, primarily
proving it would be tremendously difficult.
You have to subject the body to a specific training stimulus
intense and long enough in duration to cause the fibers to split
(in animal studies, this was placing stretch-overload on the
target muscle for long periods)...
...THEN you have to actually physically COUNT the fibers to
see if there are more than when you started.
Tough to do with the tens of thousands of muscle fibers in a
human muscle...and the subject basically has to have the
muscle completely sliced in half in order to do it accurately,
so you can see why there isn't a big line-up of volunteers.
If you COULD induce hyperplasia in a human being, it would
mean instantly greater muscle-building potential.
One of the reasons some people can just look at a weight
and get bigger is the same reason some people have to train
like animals and have a perfect diet in order to see any results
at all...it comes down to that basic math.
The more muscle fibers you have, the more overall muscle
mass you can build. Simple as that.
Now, even though the evidence isn't clear in humans, don't
write it off just yet...
With the right training, I believe you CAN achieve muscle
cell hyperplasia.
I'm not going to tell you that it'll be easy...you'll have to hit the
muscles EXTREMELY HARD to get fibers to split. Most programs
don't even come close to achieving this threshold of volume,
intensity and tension because, quite simply, they CAN'T.
In my research in looking at the training protocols the scientists
used to achieve hyperplasia in animals, I STRONGLY believe
there IS a training technique that can do it in humans...
And I believe I know what it is...
Let me tell you right now, if you LOVE hard training, you are
going to LOVE this training technique...it allows you to train
at high intensity AND with high volume...a rare combination
that most programs have to stay FAR away from.
I call this technique Stretch Exercise Overload (SEO) and it'll
have you doing 300+ sets of a stretch-focused exercise over
one of the most intense 5-day training periods of your life.
And I'm not trying to scare you...I just want to be honest with
you. This training will absolutely push you to your limits.
THIS is the level of volume, intensity and tension I believe you
need to induce hyperplasia in humans.
Keep training hard (real hard),
Mike
LeanHybridMuscle.com
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