Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...

Son Goku

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My bad breh..i meant muscle confusion
Same answer. That’s not really a thing.

Not even trying to be a jerk. It’s not a real concept.
I stumbled across a old Arnold documentary from the 70's and he briefly mentioned it.
What makes you think you need to this?


Curious about this as well. We still tryna confuse muscles? To what end, and why? How? :dwillhuh:

I was under the impression that muscles only 'understood' tension requirements that were placed on them. :ld:
 

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:unimpressed: I've seen this before. Still not something that has been scientifically proven. How can you objectively measure shock? What he described doesn't really sound like shock to me, but simply not doing the same damn workout with the same weight continuously.


I would have thought that block programming, autoregulation, progressive overload, etc. would be enough to "shock" the muscle but Arnold is the GOAT so :yeshrug:.
 

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:unimpressed: I've seen this before. Still not something that has been scientifically proven. How can you objectively measure shock? What he described doesn't really sound like shock to me, but simply not doing the same damn workout with the same weight continuously.


I would have thought that block programming, autoregulation, progressive overload, etc. would be enough to "shock" the muscle but Arnold is the GOAT so :yeshrug:.
You also have to account for the fact he did it as a living as opposed to a a casual lifter.
 
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