The more effective you train, the less recovery you'll need. There are ways to train and improve one’s performance without too much muscle damage.
Long inter-set rest periods with your bodyweight movements
& various forms of isometrics
are options.
Alexander Zass was not the only person past or present who has mentioned this ability to train and improve off of less-than-ideal food amounts/quality.
The ways we are advocated to train by the mainstream cause so much fatigue and soreness that all their solutions become a necessity. I like mixing protein powder with a fruit smoothie like the next guy but the better we can refine the stimulus for growth the less we’ll need to spend our devalued currency on something at GNC.
I don’t mean to idolize the past…too much. Heck if I had taken a time machine to back then and walked up to one of them they might have said something unpleasant…
…but from what I’ve read most of the better one’s had a simple approach most of which I’ve adopted over the past few years and received benefits from. They’re not as big as your average fitness influencer these days but they were certainly healthier. Some of their strength feats have yet to be repeated and their strength and athleticism went hand in hand.
I’m a little skeptical of our fitness improvements over the last century as most of them can be due to external improvements in the environments we compete/practice in or the stuff that’s on our bodies. If there’s something internal that can be improved the solution is to reach for some chemical to put inside the body. Heck maybe down the road they’ll advocate nanotech for physical improvements…
I’m more of an improving the internal in a natural way kind of guy. I believe these folks from the past gave us a decent starting point. There is more to the human body than what we’ve been told.
Thank you for listening and I hope yall have a good weekend.
Take care and Merry Christmas!!!!
Someone - “Whew… we got through an entire post without a quote from Maxick, Monte, or Court Saldo.”
Me -
Strenuous muscular work does not build muscle. If it did, the hardest workers, particularly those who start in childhood, would be the biggest and strongest people. But the reverse is actually the case, because strenuous training and hard labour actually break down the muscular tissue.
We know that there are the rare cases of men who are able to train strenuously and show good physical development. But such persons are possessed of extraordinary powers of recuperation and they would get better results from more scientific methods of training. Some men are vitally strong enough to withstand several years of hard wear and tear on the organs, and it is these rare cases that are held up by advocates of strenuous training as proof of the efficacy of such training.
However, few people have the time or inclination for such unnatural methods, and it has been proven that by reasonable methods everyone is able to gain and maintain their full potentialities in health, strength and muscular development. I use the word maintain because only when a natural method is used can the training be continued throughout life. - Court Saldo
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