So today I want to talk to you guys about two types of muscle growth that exist.
The the of muscle growth that you target in your training is going to determine is you get stronger and more explosive. Sarcomeric hyperthropy which is actually the muscle fibers getting bigger is done by putting tension on the muscles. So for example, with your bicep, if you put the right tension on your bicep the fibers actually start to think, “Hey this too heavy, this is too much tension for my muscle and they react by saying we need to be bigger, stronger muscle fibers. So this is called the super compensatory effect of the body. And when you put tension on the muscle, it gets stronger and when it gets stronger they can displace its own weight easier. It can move faster, it can move with more force and power and that is typically what we’re trying to target when we do vertical jump training or we train to be bigger, stronger, more explosive athletes.
The other type of muscle growth is called sarcoplasmic. Now what happens in sarcoplasmic is you deplete the muscle of all its fuel. Let’s say you do 200 reps of an exercise and your body’s burning. You feel the muscle burning. What’s actually happening is it’s being depleted of its fuel sources. So what the muscle does in reaction to depleting its fuel sources is it says, “Hey! We need to store more fuel, more energy in the muscle. So the muscle swells and it stores more fuel. This just enables you to do more repetitions.
So you see one type of muscle growth makes you stronger, more powerful and the other type of muscle growth actually just makes you able to do more reps to do have better anaerobic endurance.
So which type do we want for vertical jump training? We want to become stronger, more powerful. That’s why in our exercises we focus on movements that use high weight aka heavy tension and that tension allows us to become stronger and stronger.
If you’re trying just to get ripped, you know get bigger muscles, six-pack, all that kind of fun stuff, you would target both which means you would do high tension or heavy weight at the beginning of your workout and then finish your workout by doing high reps and going to failure. This will get you the most muscle, total muscle growth; some fictional, some non-function. By non-functional I mean you’re just storing more fuel in your muscles.
And so if you haven’t already, you can get started with one of our best exercises what I consider to be our best exercise. The link is above or below. We call it our best vertical jump exercise where we target the tension in the muscles that make you jump. So we target the exact joint angles of your muscles and then we help them to become stronger and stronger muscles are able to move your own body weight faster and more explosively.
So that’s kind of a short little lesson on the different types of muscular growth and why we specifically focus on higher tension exercises.
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