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Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma

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Post by wcarron »

kurtisc wrote: post #115
wcarron wrote: post #53

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While your second sentence is definitely true, I disagree with your first. Developing muscle strength is partially caused by training your nerves to better engage your muscle fibers; however, simply adding fibers aka raw muscle mass is the other main component of gaining strength. I would argue it's the predominant factor.

Adding fibres. i.e. adding cells is hyperplasia and it's currently unknown if this occurs naturally in adult humans. Most visible growth can be attributed to hypertrophy, where the cells grow bigger.

My apologies. I was referring to "myofibrils" which are the strands within a muscle cell. So I meant to say that hypertrophy is the mechanism of growth. But you are correct, these are simply parts of a single cell and I mistakenly used hyperplasia.

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Post by 6nf »

Mirioron wrote: post #101
6nf wrote: post #40

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Yea it's not good, we want to make sports as safe as we can.

No, I mean that participating on that sport will damage your health. Think back on all the talk about TBI in football. There are plenty of rough sports out there that people have no real problems with, because we haven't figured out how exactly it causes damage to your body. Even just weightlifting on a professional level seems to harm a person's body, but it's only visible once they become older. You can't easily cl…

Yea so let's not make it even worse by allowing performance enhancing drugs. You're saying it's already dangerous so let's just push it all the way??

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Post by stefanmichael »

Shmebulock wrote: post #95

Are there any safe, easy to acquire steroids that I can use once so that I can gain the long term benefits?

if you are male you can go to a testosterone therapy clinic and essentially just say that you are tired and or depressed and get prescribed 200mg of testosterone per week

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Post by cf141q5325 »

JamesBarney wrote: post #128
cf141q5325 wrote: post #105

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>Closer to the risks of taking a medication than a street drug. Which street drugs? The comparison reminds of making the distinction between "natural" and "chemical" drugs. Sounds nice if you want to convey an image but not a sensible generalization. You will find quite a lot of street drugs that are less dangerous then some types of medication and vice versa.

Everything besides cannabis? The most prevalent street drugs besides cannabis are cocaine, heroin, ecstacy, and methamphetamine. All of those are quite a bit more dangerous than the average medicine you get prescribed by our doctor just because of addiction potential and inconsistent quality of the end product.

What is an average medication? Its an extremely broad generalization that doesnt make much sense. It includes everything from chemotherapeutic agents over Fentanyl over Aspirin to coal tablets. There are quite a few medications that are a lot more dangerous than the drugs on your list. And they are more dangerous for a reason, as they still have fewer side effects then the illness they are trying to combat.

Unless you are talking about the purity of the product, i dont see a sensible case for the comparison of street drugs with pharmaceuticals.

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Post by wmil »

jordinl wrote: post #78
55555 wrote: post #54

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lol they are illegal... they are banned for citizens by the government.

This is incorrect. What's banned (in many western countries) is distribution unless there is a medical prescription. But nothing prevents people from using them, same with other drugs like cocaine and heroine.

Possession is also illegal. At least in the US and many other countries.

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Post by wmil »

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #93
kfwhp wrote: post #86

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Which is exactly the definition of being "banned".

In my country at least I need a prescription from a doctor if I want to take antibiotics, does that mean they're banned here?

I've never heard of someone being charged with possession of antibiotics without a prescription. That happens with steroids.

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Post by norswap »

whatshisface wrote: post #17
crooked-v wrote: post #6

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Look up Emsculpt. It's a fascinating/creepy new device that artificially stimulates core muscular contractions, with visibly more exercised and defined muscles after a few sessions with no changes in lifestyle.

I use my motor neurons to electrically stimulate muscle contraction and it doesn't cost me anything. I mean come on... the wires are already hooked up right in to your brain...

The device reportedly causes 20.000 contractions in 30 minutes. And apparently, it's not only volume but also intensity that does the trick. Good luck doing this with you brain, professor.
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