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I had a thread on a week or 2 ago about the people telling me not to lift heavy and I finally got the email he sent, here it is. I had a manly cry over this it seriously pissed me off.
"Let's clear up the articles, they're right but not for a weight lifter of your age as you are growing and heavy load exercises will have negative effects upon your growth, imparticularly your bones. Also, the articles don't go into enough physiology to explain why. So I'll explain below!
There are a few reasons for it. As mentioned in the previous email you will basically (and simply) stunt your growth; remember i was saying about Osteoblast cells and Blone platelet cells? That's the first and probably most serious reason as weight training is meant to improve your general health and fitness, not make you into a dwarf. Limiting your capability in this respect is refering to your bone length (and particularly its lifting heavy loads effect upon your stride length).
Secondly, limiting your bone length will have adverse effects upon your muscle fibre length. The longer your muscle fibers, the more actin and myosin can have contact (this is what causes your muscles to actually contract and shorten, the more space there is, the more these can interact, therefore the quicker you can shorten the fibre, therefore the faster you can contract a muscle, therefore the fasted you can move a limb). That's put VERY simply.
Thirdly, yes there is only a limited amount that your body, muscles and central nervous system can respond to Certain training stimuli, not ALL training stimuli. This is called Accomodation, and put simply your body gets used to the training stimulus (e.g. bench pressing) and therefore your body wont respond to it after a few days with a raised biochemical state: this is the REST YOU NEED, your body will raise your biochemical internal state while you rest, its called the training effect. But if you keep using the same exercise techniques, your body will get used to it and you wont be able to progress in that particular exercise.
HOWEVER, that doesnt mean your body can't progress at all, there are several things you can do! Firstly, you can increase the volume of your exercise i.e. increase your sets. And/or you can increase the load i.e. increase the amount of weight you have on the bar. Finally, if you find after this you aren't able to increase your performance, you tweak the exercise a bit. E.g. if you are doing a barbell bench press, change the exercise to work the same muscle group but change the technique. Change the exercise to a dumbell bench press or pec fly.
Fourthly, this is all relevant to limiting your capabilities as if you start lifting a heavy load to early, your body will accommodate to THAT particular training stimulus. And as you get older you will find it difficult to progress and peak as you have already used that particular progression i.e. lifiing heavy loads."
your thoughts again on this assault of lifting heavy at a young age
"Let's clear up the articles, they're right but not for a weight lifter of your age as you are growing and heavy load exercises will have negative effects upon your growth, imparticularly your bones. Also, the articles don't go into enough physiology to explain why. So I'll explain below!
There are a few reasons for it. As mentioned in the previous email you will basically (and simply) stunt your growth; remember i was saying about Osteoblast cells and Blone platelet cells? That's the first and probably most serious reason as weight training is meant to improve your general health and fitness, not make you into a dwarf. Limiting your capability in this respect is refering to your bone length (and particularly its lifting heavy loads effect upon your stride length).
Secondly, limiting your bone length will have adverse effects upon your muscle fibre length. The longer your muscle fibers, the more actin and myosin can have contact (this is what causes your muscles to actually contract and shorten, the more space there is, the more these can interact, therefore the quicker you can shorten the fibre, therefore the faster you can contract a muscle, therefore the fasted you can move a limb). That's put VERY simply.
Thirdly, yes there is only a limited amount that your body, muscles and central nervous system can respond to Certain training stimuli, not ALL training stimuli. This is called Accomodation, and put simply your body gets used to the training stimulus (e.g. bench pressing) and therefore your body wont respond to it after a few days with a raised biochemical state: this is the REST YOU NEED, your body will raise your biochemical internal state while you rest, its called the training effect. But if you keep using the same exercise techniques, your body will get used to it and you wont be able to progress in that particular exercise.
HOWEVER, that doesnt mean your body can't progress at all, there are several things you can do! Firstly, you can increase the volume of your exercise i.e. increase your sets. And/or you can increase the load i.e. increase the amount of weight you have on the bar. Finally, if you find after this you aren't able to increase your performance, you tweak the exercise a bit. E.g. if you are doing a barbell bench press, change the exercise to work the same muscle group but change the technique. Change the exercise to a dumbell bench press or pec fly.
Fourthly, this is all relevant to limiting your capabilities as if you start lifting a heavy load to early, your body will accommodate to THAT particular training stimulus. And as you get older you will find it difficult to progress and peak as you have already used that particular progression i.e. lifiing heavy loads."
your thoughts again on this assault of lifting heavy at a young age
