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The R-Word Campaign
| 5 More Bodybuilding Myths | |
| By Derek Beech | |
| Added on 03/03/2006 | |
| Have you ever heard the stories about a "Fool's Errand"? Nearly every trade has a few of these. Years ago when I first started logging I had a crew boss (Hooktender) whom sent me all the way down a mountainside one day in order to ask the warehouseman for choker extensions (there’s no such thing) or as a teenager I once took a summer job on a cruise boat as an engineers helper. Though fun and interesting, I was quite embarrassed when I went and asked another crew member where the striped paint was located after being told to go and get it for my boss. Man, I was gullible back then. Well, bodybuilding also has a few of these gems that seem to get passed on year after year from one person to another. Unfortunately, many people believe they are true because like every great myth, there is often a small bit of truth attached. Just enough to make the myth seem plausible. But, in the end, it's still a myth and believing it will be a waste of your time. Below are five of my favorite bodybuilding myths: 1. "You need to do high reps for definition and low reps for mass." The small truth which led to this: You get better muscle definition when you burn off excess fat. Yes you do, but by just pumping away with light weights as a means of burning fat is not nearly effective as burning extra calories on a treadmill or stairclimber. You can burn more calories this way because you can just keep doing it longer and it uses more muscles at the same time than just your chest or biceps for example. The reason we lift weights is to make our muscles bigger and stronger and in order to do this the weights need to be heavy, the heavier the better. So, use a combination of cardio for muscle definition mixed with heavy weight training for mass. 2. "Yesterday was Arm Day, today is Leg Day and tomorrow is Chest Day." The small truth which led to this: Splitting your training routine will result in less of a demand on the body's ability to recover. Yes, splitting your training routine helps, but that help can still be wasted by training too often. As you become a more advanced bodybuilder you are going to have to take more time off between weight workouts in order to continue progressing. Jake Sisco of precisiontraining.com once told me to remember this: ”Every day is kidney day. Every day is pancreas day. It's not just your muscles that recover...your organs do the work of recovery and they can be overworked too. What difference does it make to your kidneys that yesterday was leg day and today is triceps day? It's all the same to your kidneys. If you want progress you need to FULLY recover before you try to stimulate more growth.” 3. "I used to train for mass but now I'm training for strength." The small truth which led to this: NONE!!! Your muscles can only do three things: they can get bigger, they can get smaller, or they can stay the same size. If you want more mass or strength then you need bigger muscles. Your muscle strength is like the strength of a wire logging cable. The bigger the diameter of the cable, along with the more wire strands within it, the more strength it has. You can measure your mass gains with a scale and a fat caliper and your strength gains by the amount of weight you can lift. 4. "If you aren't making gains training three days a week, you might need steroids." The small truth which led to this: Steroids and certain other prescription drugs do build muscle faster. But the fact is, a fixed training schedule of three days per week, or any fixed schedule for that matter, is virtually a self imposed guarantee with which you will experience staleness and plateaus in your training. In order to continually make progress your intensity has to be progressive! That's a fact! But as intensity increases, and you begin to lift more, your body needs more days to recover. Yes it is also a fact that certain prescription drugs can shorten your recovery time but SO WHAT? Let’s just skip the dangerous drugs and take an extra couple of days off instead. 5. "You need to alternate your training between high intensity and lower intensity." The small truth which led to this: High doses of drugs need to be "alternated" or "cycled" because most people can't tolerate those doses. Back in the 70's and 80’s when the Eastern Europeans were winning all of the Olympic weightlifting events, it was discovered by our coaches in the western world that those athletes trained "heavy" only part of the year. Their mistaken conclusion to this was that "cycling" training from high intensity to low intensity resulted in gold medals. What they did not realize was the fact that the drugs these other athletes were taking, were so severe to the body that they could only take them for short periods of time. Of course, during this time the athletes were stronger and won many medals. Unfortunately at this time our western world coaches did not know that these drugs were involved and began implementing a course of light vs heavy training with our athletes that, to their bewilderment, did nothing to improve the performance of our own athletes. This happened because it was the drugs which were being cycled, not the training. The fact is that muscles only get bigger and stronger as a result of progressive overload. If you reduce the overload then ZERO new muscle will be built. Training with light weights which do not challenge you really is a waste of your time and your body's resources. So when you hear these five myths in the gym, please don't go off on a Fool's Errand such as I did looking for the striped paint. Train smart and workout with high intensity using the progressive overload principle. Remember, Train Hard & Train Smart |
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