We keep getting this magazine “Things You Never Thought Existed” which is a catalog of weird gifts.
One of the items that keeps cropping up is a book by this Russian dude Pavel Tsatsouline called “Russian Strength Training Secrets”. He also wrote “Power to the People”.
According to the ad, it claims that he uses only two exercises, 20 minutes a day and that these exercises are better than weightlifting.
Has anyone tried his system, and what are these two miraculous exercises?
I already tried google which pulls up tons of sites, but mostly theory sites.
no, not just genetics. by training with heavy weights you achieve myofibrillar hypertrophy (strength) on the other hand by training with high repetitions you achieve sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (size) without any gain in strength.
that is a muscle fiber is a cell, it has within it the motor units (myofibrills) but they only make up part of the volume of the fiber, you can increase the volume without increasing number of motor units and vice versa.