Building Muscle Just Got “Easier” (SCIENCE EXPLAINS)

When it comes to building muscle, there are many things that people tell you are most responsible but you are about to learn the real secret to putting on muscle over the long haul. There are no shortcuts however. Good old fashioned hard work is going to be necessary, and in the case of this video’s

what’s up guys jef Cavalier aex. com so if you want to build muscle you’re going to have to use lightweights promise you and I’m going to prove that to you here today with the use of a couple muscle markers and some first grade drawing skills and a third grade knowledge of farming and I apologize ahead of time like I said third grade is about where I’m topped out in farming and there’s a lot of people that know a lot more than me but I will parallel the two so you understand exactly how to build muscle and why those lightweights are needed and what this here is is my farm okay and on top of our farm we have all the different crops that are growing okay well if we were going to apply this to the gym this would represent your muscle and these inside would represent your muscle fibers now who’s responsible for growing the crops we’re going to put a farmer down here it’s about the best of my drawing skills like I said that farmer though has a lot to do on this land if he’s going to take care of all these crops he’s got a lot of responsibilities and the idea is he may not be able to be able to serve all those crops and that farm may not Thrive well how does that apply to you and your muscles the size of your muscles is determined by the number of myonuclei which is the farmers in this case that can attend to that muscle that is trying to serve or grow so what that looks like is if we can’t have enough myonuclei or in this case Farmers to serve this land well then you better get a smaller piece of land because on this small piece of land this farmer could feasibly be able to take care of all these crops and make sure that they get everything that they need to thrive well again our muscles work in very much the same way it will only grow as big as it has the resources to be able to service the size of that muscle so what do we do when we’re talking about building muscle well there’s three things we can do to actually build the size of a muscle three the first one we know is Progressive overload okay and we know that this comes in the gym in the form of adding weight to the bar or additional repetitions to the exercises that already performing but some type of overload to create growth well back up here on the farm what is our opportunity to overload well it’s easy we can actually just get more Farmers right pay for a couple extra guys to come and help out so that they can actually Now cover more ground be responsible for different areas of the crops okay fine however there’s a limitation as we know to Progressive overload the first when it comes to the gym is that we just can’t keep adding weight to the bar we’ve all experienced it that overhead press that you’re just dying to put an extra 5 lbs on just doesn’t happen you get stuck there for a while or the squat you’re trying to get to move up by about 20 pounds just doesn’t happen you get stuck there so what happens then you kind of hit a wall well what happens here well some Farmers actually adopt a method of farming where they call it monocropping where they just keep raising the same crops in one area over time all the time all the time but what that does is it introduces sort of a degradation to the soil that doesn’t make it conducive to Growing other things right you get so good at one thing but nothing else you also introduce opportunistic weeds and pests that actually come in and infest the soil here that again makes it more challenging to in the long run the big picture not just a short period of time but the big picture produce a hell of a lot of crops so what do we need to do we need to do something called crop rotation where we put a few different crops in here at one time of the year we cycle them out bring a couple different crops in a different type of crop and then another one what that does is it broadens the soil capabilities to be adaptive to more things to be able to still be stimulated over and over again well in the gym that’s the introduction of other exercises those specialty exercises the ones that are meant to address the weak links that are undermining your ability to actually progress in those big lists right now so working on those triceps or the upper chest for the overhead press or maybe even just low back strength right weakness somewhere in the rear delts that will allow you to actually start to push more but that takes time and it’s going to take time to build up the ability to go back and progressively add more weight just like it’s going to take time to earn more money to hire another farmer it doesn’t you just can’t keep continuing to go into the well looking to hire more Farmers when we don’t have any money left so what do we have next well the next one we know is my favorite it’s eccentric overload okay and to me what this really breaks down into are two really necessary components when we’re talking about building muscle probably the two most important and that is tension plus stretch or even just the active elongation the the elongating of a muscle with tension and the nice thing is the tension that’s required here is not the absolute levels of tension that are required for Progressive overload or in the bigger sense that we know it to be in terms of strength training these can be more moderate tension but still enough combine with stretch that provide that overload and stimulus for growth up here though to me again the two necessary things we’re talking about are sun and Rain which I probably should have done in my blue marker sun and rain right what and Sun are going to help a crop grow but guess what happens when you do too much of one thing because we need the perfect balance to make those crops grow perfectly if I have let’s say some sun for a day or two or three it’s probably great but two weeks or three weeks or three months we have a drought and with that we have some shitty crops that aren’t going to grow very well and that’s a problem and it’s the same thing when we head into the gym and we continue to just do these techniques and you’ve probably been told to do a lot of these techniques of late right stretch stretch everything’s stretched stretch and tension it’s a good technique but with it come some repercussions mostly decreased training frequency because the likely increased muscle soreness you’re going to get from this this is a greater insult to your muscle than even some of the overload training the progressive overload and strength training that might be a neurological impact that you have to recover from but this is an actual physical mechanical breakdown of the muscle tissue that you’re going to have to plan in extra recovery time for if you want to be able to train and with that extra recovery time is going to be likely a decreased training frequency which could lead to fewer balance of muscle protein synthesis growth now you could experience a phase of doing this right that you’re going to move away from but what are you moving towards because again if we’re already stuck in terms of our overload or we’re in the process of working on getting through that by specializing in some of those different exercises it leaves us only one place and this is why we all need to do this and that is we need to go to the place of using light weights and higher reps and I say the higher reps because you need to take these workouts to a point of absolute failure for these to be productive the research shows you need to be able to push yourself Beyond what’s comfortable take any given set you might do for 20 25 repetitions I’m not talking about the repetitions where it’s burning I’m talking about where you can