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Right where the biceps muscle connects to my forearm

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From the beginning. I started training a little while ago do

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    Thnx, Mr. Neuromuscular surgeon person.

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    9 10

    Ok Best of Luck to You!!

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    9 10

    Well then who am I to deny you my interesting sence of humour. Bare with me here. I agree with you when you say I can easily damage something when training in this manner. What I don’t agree with is when you say I WILL do more damage then good. I see this as a small setback, I pushed to hard because I was in a rush. I think that for this type of training you have to have some basis of muscle strength before you can start going in full (pushing and pulling the weights as fast as possible). You can’t dismiss my method of training while it is still in it’s testing fase. Allright, let me see if I can explain to you why I do this type of training. Keep in mind that this training is to help me develop what I need to defend myself in battle. Most people, when it comes to selfdefence believe in pure strength. While I believe in speed, strength, agility and good technique. All these features can be achieved with martial arts. But weight training helps you build your muscles faster and better (if done right). So this is how it will advance, My strength will keep growing, but I won’t turn into an overgrown baffoon. I won’t loose my agility, won’t loose speed, I will only gain strength.

    Imagine, when I start dong 50 kilo’s bench press 50 – 100 reps. By the time I reach that weight I will have stronger muscles, stronger tendons and then I will be able to do those reps faster like I wan’t to. Can you imagine how strong your muscles will be at that point, you could probably pick someone up and throw them a few meters from where they were standing (but I won’t do that ofcourse, only in selfdefense, hehe). Do you understand were i’m going with this? Right now i’m doing fast reps with light weight, but when i can do these same reps with 50 kilo’s or so (or even more later on), damn.

    Allright one more example that this can work. When your a baby you learn how to walk on your legs, and later on you will use this technique (walking) very often, so you muscles will adapt and grow strong, this is why leg muscles are naturally stronger then arm muscles. But I’ll bet that if you learn how to walk on your arms from birth, the same way you learn how to walk on your legs, the muscles in your arms will grow just as strong as the muscles in your legs. Sounds logical right? It’s all about giving your body enough time and care to adjust to the training properly. So that’s why I’m going to start my training again as soon as i’m better. Only this time I’ll go slower.

    The Darkchild.

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    Well fair enough – they are your arms!! you can do what you want with them!! I understand the principle – working to maximal effort will increase optimal speed and function of fast twitch muscle fibres thus translating into more explosive power on the sports field. That said – do you really think so many reps are necessary to achieve what you are looking for? Surely you agree you are likely to do more damage than good? I’m looking forward to reading the reply – I like your sense of humour!!

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    Oh yee of little faith. You can turn your body into whatever you wish, as long as you do it responsibly and in this case with patience. I just over did it, I rushed my body into doing something for wich I wasen’t yet strong enough to do. This is an experiment i’m ingaging in. 50 – 100 reps, can increase speed, it can give you the strength of a huge bodybuilder whilst being normally postured. You immedeatly asume that I’m doing something wich is not wise. You should keep an open mind, I’m only trying to make sure that I don’t loose my agility and don’t grow into a big baffoon.

    Oh and thnx foor the post, your such a nice person.

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    Hi Darkchild

    Just so you don’t feel so bad, here’s a reply…ARE YOU MAD!!! 50 – 100 reps?! WHY? plyometric training relates to bounding and high velocity exercise such as weighing ball throwing and catching and jumping – this uses eccentric and concentric muscle contraction – sprinters for example use this technique to increase sprinting speed and develop quickness. This would be functional movements encorporating many muscles – the leg muscles and the gluteals for example – what you are doing is placing great stress on your biceps and you won’t achieve anything – except may a ruptured tendon. The combination of high reps and speed is not advisable. Remember, the muscle fibres of the arms are largely of the fast twitch variety and will thus fatigue quickly. You say you cannot straighten the arm the day following training – when soft tissue is injured, it shortens as it heals – shortening of tissue is also a protective reaction to injury – the pain and stretch receptors of the biceps tendon are trying to tell you something. One more thing – we produce lactic acid for some particular reasons – this is the body’s way of telling us to stop and not continue doing something which will cause serious or permanent injury. Only take good advice – ignore the bad

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    Damn this is one helpfull forum. What commitment, what helpfullnes. It’s simply to much for me to handle. I mean i’ve only been waiting for 4 days only to recieve no replies what so ever. Absolutely great forum. I think i’m gonna cry…. uhuuu uhuu uhuuuuu uhuuuuuuu…. snif…

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