Thread: When does your body know its time to grow

Increase your drug usage and maybe your get results as fast as you wish.

Originally Posted by Swagger

Increase your drug usage and maybe your get results as fast as you wish.

by the looks of your profile pic the only drugs you use are laxatives twig boy.

I don't think I understand. If you wanna gain mass then you should steadily continue to increase the weights you are lifting.

Force Your Muscles to Grow

You cannot gain weight fast by asking your muscles to grow. They won't respond to hints or suggestions. Muscles will grow only when they are forced to grow.
Your body will naturally resist building muscles. Extra muscle will require extra energy and as you know from the diet pages, your body is concerned about energy supplies. The amount of muscle you have now is the amount your body has determined you need. It makes this determination based on genetics, diet and the demands placed on it by your life.
You can't change your genetics but you can increase your diet (supply the body with what it needs to put on and sustain new muscle) and through weight training you can change the demands you place on your muscles.
In other words, you have to make your body believe that it needs more muscle, that it needs to get to work on building muscles when it has the chance (while you're resting). You make the body believe this through your training (progressive overload). Then, through your diet, you must prove to it that you can consistently provide the materials it needs to build and sustain this muscle.
The body is not easily convinced of anything. You must be consistent. It is when you put together a program that accounts for all of the above that big muscle gains start occurring.

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you need to work out so hard your body understands it needs to be stronger. you need to keep at it till it knows it isn't going to change that it HAS to change to do what you consistently demand of it. you give it the fuel to build with and rest periods in which it will grow if the demand is there and is consistent. i don't think it matters a bit what order you do anything in or if you're lifting weights or carrying gay guys around on a beach. your body just has to think it's not cutting it as is, have the fuel to grow, and get good rest.

my son will be 14 in a week and he has, not exaggerating, grown over a foot in the last year and a half. he sleeps a lot and my brothers were the same way. don't underestimate the importance of rest. he also eats like two cavemen.

Your body grows in response to overload conditions. Consider the situation
where you do the same weight in the same way (reps x sets) every day.
There is no growth because none is necessary.

An alternative is where you attempt to expand more force than your body
can or is accustomed to, such as when despite all your efforts you require
a spotter to complete a last rep. In this case, your muscle gets broken
down or torn.

The growth occurs as a response of adaptation to the overload stimulus.
In order to continue growing you need to continually overcome your limits.
This adaption does not only require the overload stimulus to grow, but
actually requires rest and nutrients/water.

In answering your questions the number of sets/reps depends on the weight
and your own limits. For instance, lets consider that your bench 1 rep max
is 200 lbs. There are an infinite number of ways to achieve growth.

(1) Try 1 rep x 3-5 sets of 205 lbs (assisted)
(2) Try 3 reps x 3-5 sets of 200 lbs (assisted)
(3) Try 7 reps x 2-5 sets of 190 lbs (assisted)
(4) Try 15 reps x 2-5 sets of 175 lbs (assisted)

These numbers are hypothetical, but you want to be attempting to cross
the threshold of your limits (which can vary) and change over time as
growth happens. Generally the pattern is that the further from your 1 rep
max the more repetitions are needed to reach a sufficient stimulus.

Usually the proper stimulus is the feeling of a pump, or that your muscle
is burning.

Originally Posted by Little Wing

by the looks of your profile pic the only drugs you use are laxatives twig boy.

So being a fat hippo or lumpy meathead must be acceptable in your world.