Can I work out my white muscle tissue every day.?

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Complicate question, simple answer, hard to follow.

Very generally, I will try to explain using a scenario: Performing the Dumbbell Curl for 3 set of 10 rep. with 1min rest in between sets.

1. When you are using a weight that is about 30% of your 1-rep max and you continuously perform every rep as fast as you could. The velocity of each force generated is the primary source of power that brings the weight up. While little or no force is used to prevent the weight from falling too fast. The fast twitch fiber kicks in when you start the lift and fall back to its relaxed position once the weight reach the top. You are then primarily using your fast twitch fibers in your bicep muscles to perform the exercise.

2. Using the same weight, this time you perform each rep using a 3 second count during each lift and lower cycle. Force is slowly accumulated by the slow-twitch fiber which are fired up and locked into positions at every point of the lifting and lowering to prevent the weight from felling at every point of each rep.

What you see here is an example of how the different muscle fiber types are recruited to perform different functions that your brain signal tells them. What will happen then is that your muscle type composition may change depending of which type of exercise you choose. However, at this weight no matter how much you train, there simply isn't much muscle hypertrophy induced to enable noticeable growth (overall size). I don't think that’s what you want.

Then you might think that by using a heavier weight, say at 60% 1-rep max and you perform the lift part as fast as you can and does a 3 second count as you lower. That should induce enough muscle hypertrophy and at the same time train the fast twitch muscle fiber. Well, that will go only as far as your thoughts.

As far as muscle hypertrophy is concerned, whether you train fast or slow-twitch fiber, it will not happen as long as there is already sufficient fiber to be recruited to perform that exercise.

What then? There are two important points in spell out above that will answers your questions.

1. Whether it is fast or slow-twitch muscle fiber, they are recruited by the brain signal that you consciously sent to your muscle for the way they are recruited. When you want to move something fast, more fast-twitch are recruited, when you want them to move slow more slow-twitch fiber are recruited. The weight in question relegated to a secondary factor.

2. Muscle hypertrophy is induced only when there is a systematic overload presented on the muscle. How? We all know is to use heavier and heavier weight progressively and sensibly. The adaptation nature of our body will than call for muscle hypertrophy to occur so that it can deal with the heavier weight the next time without inducing so much stress on the system causing a overload situation.

Thus, the way to train fast-twitch muscle fiber and at the same time induce muscle hypertrophy is to use heavy weights at closer to 90% of 1-rep max accompanied by the intention to recruited as mush fast-twitch fiber as possible during the lift cycle of any exercise. That is to say, example your 1-rep max is a 50lbs dumbbell in the above exercise, so you would use a 40-45lbs to perform the exercise. As you prepare to lift the dumbbell, you consciously try to lift the dumbbell as fast as you can, however you will be forced to lift slowly no matter how hard you try due to the heavy weight.

This is hard for me to explain and really beyond me but I’ll try. Between here and the 2nd scenario above is that of intend which makes all the difference. Fast-twitch fiber will mostly be recruited during the lift, but at the top range of each of the power stroke produced by opposing protein that tries to latch on to each other inside the fiber, they will not be able to complete its cycle and lock into its position, the fast twitch fiber are not allow to return to its relaxed position to get really for the next power stroke. Thus, more fast twitch fiber are similarly recruited to lift the weight, that is if you did not give up half way, though it would appears that the weight is almost stationary. Result, overload on the system taxing the recruitment of fast-twitch fibers. There. Get the idea? There actually are more things involved inside the muscle as a whole as to how the fiber work interactively, but that I say is beyond me.

Generally, if my memory did not fail me, that is how it works. Most of the info above are from a research article I read up sometime ago from the Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness magazine which tries to address a similar question plus more from other research article. All of those findings were based on real human subjects testing. Hence I will not claim any credit here nor fake to know it all. If you want a better understanding and unequivocal opinion, I suggest you look it up in the library. However, I believe that the science here is still new so be prepare to see different views by different professionals. Bottom line, stay in touch with the scientific community and use discretion.

On a personal note, any attempt to train with ultra fast rep as advocated by some(even professionals) to train fast-twitch fibers should be handled cautiously as the risk associated are high and the result as you can see are not guaranteed.

Train Hard but Train Smart And Train Safely.

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Do you actually Know the difference between your red and white fiber muscles. Anyway don't you mean fast twich and slow twich muscle fibers? As far as fast and slow twich muscle you work them both either way though you can work one mare than the other I read. Its sounds really complicated man.

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