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 EntheogenicPeace
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 Re: Can pot make it harder to gain muscle?  [Re: dshow]
#14421175 - 05/08/11 08:58 PM (2 years, 10 days ago) |
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I guess it depends how you define the term. I'm not suggesting that using pot before exercising to keep fat down isn't possible, but the Q was specifically about gaining muscle, which is much harder to do... especially beyond a certain point. To do the latter requires incredibly intensity when lifting. Some of the ppl were saying that plateaus aren't even real, so I question their knowledge of lifting to gain muscle, which if you don't write down every set & rep then you really don't know... unless you measure the circumference of several points on your body at regular intervals.
When you first start lifting/don't have a lot of muscle mass, you gain fairly easily for the first year or two, but after that it becomes more difficult. So it's easy to fall into a lifting routine that's pretty predictable, such as repeating a cycle every two or four weeks. If it's working why change it? However at some point, you are more or less unable to keep progressing at the rate you had been (i.e say 4-5 sets of 8-12 reps increasing by a certain weight each time or every other time you do that particular exercise... at some point increase the weight the same increments but reps fall off severely.)
So if you've really never hit a plateau, then either you have excellent intuition (i.e. 'I've been doing this cycle for a year or two with great results, but I know that now is the right time to switch bc if I try to keep it up any longer my performance will fall) or your not really lifting w/sufficient intensity to gain (i.e. keep down myostatin & keep up testosterone.) So when the same ppl who tell me plateaus aren't real also say they lift blazed, then yeah, statistics dictate that I be very skeptical as to whether or not they lift as needed to really gain muscle, as was the original Q.
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