This allowed him to recruit a greater amount
of different muscle fibers and stimulate muscle growth that couldn't be achieved by using the same weight for a same number of sets.
My physiological explanation is a bit different — I suggest it is
because different muscle fibers are being trained at the varying power outputs required by the three workouts.
Different rep ranges
target different muscle fibers, or components of the muscle tissue, so training in one rep range for too long will only limit your growth.
If you want to keep on building muscle at a relatively steady rate, you could benefit from varying the rep tempo every 4 - 6 weeks in order to
recruit different muscle fiber types.
Based on this, by making sure you vary as many training elements as possible at adequate time intervals (the golden rule is every 4 - 6 weeks), you can incorporate both ends of the neural - metabolic continuum and train as many
different muscle fibers as possible, which will lead to better results than you can imagine.
«These moves vary the walking pattern your body has grown accustomed to, so you
engage different muscle fibers,» says Joy Prouty, veteran Florida - based trainer and American College of Sports Medicine — certified health - fitness director.
The good news is that all exercises can be adapted to
ensure different muscle fibers are targeted — for example, a low pull row will hit the lower section of the rhombs better, while a high pull row will emphasize the traps and upper rhombs.
Aiming to improve your physique this information becomes very valuable, it enables to choose the optimum training (training types, their balance, the specific range of reps and rest trying to
affect different muscle fibers, unique exercises to work the particular muscle groups etc.) and diet plans (adjusting energy intake, nutrients etc.).
Either way, shifts in muscle fiber type are unlikely to explain any eccentric - specific strength gains, as the force production associated
with different muscle fiber types is not thought to be contraction mode - specific.
The rep and set scheme change every three weeks and each time you to this you will be stimulating, hitting, and
targetting different muscle fibers and achieving different goals, from strength to hypertrophy (muscle builidng).
Overall, this finding suggests that for training all regions of the gluteus maximus adequately, strategies that are appropriate for a range
of different muscle fiber types may be required.
But if after completing that set, you strip the weight down, you get to
recruit different muscle fibers and that will lead to growth that couldn't be obtained if you were to stick with the original weight.
The reason for this is that compound exercises target a number of large muscle groups, resulting with the recruitment of
many different muscle fibers, compared to isolation exercises that are designed to target specific small muscle groups.
THIS version of the Triple Add Set uses changes in range of motion of an exercise instead of changes in resistance, in order to target
those different muscle fiber types.
I also like to train with multiple rep ranges to stimulate
the different muscle fibers in your body.
Like we have different muscles to do different things, we have
different muscle fibers to do different things.