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- From: curt@access.digex.com (curt williams)
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- Subject: Re: MOTHER PICKS UP CAR
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 01:43:44 GMT
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- >As muscle fiber groups are conditioned, your nervous system adapts to
- >the work by firing up additional muscle fibers. This seems to explain
- >rapid strength increases during the first few months of weight
- >training.
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- That all depends on how you measure the strength gain. If strength gain
- is measured by the ability to handle more weight for an exercise, I'd
- believe it is more likely resulting from learning technique-- that is
- learning how to lift and balance the weight. This, of course, is not a
- valid measure of gained strength. The only way (at least that I am aware
- of) to really measure strength gain is to completely isolate a muscle, and
- pull [in strict form] against some accurate measuring device.
-