To measure
muscle volume requires multiple measurements of ACSA along the length of the muscle.
Not exact matches
This is the one activity in a gym that
requires you to keep up on the
volume and rest patterns that come with most strength workouts and
require heavy lifting, but don't actually exhaust you to the degree that your
muscles give out.
Bulking up your body and specific
muscle groups
requires increased training
volume and close monitoring of your calorie intake.
Hyde says adding lean
muscle mass
requires increasing
volume, frequency and resistance, and decreasing rest periods:
That means you'll be able to achieve the high training
volumes required for conspicuous levels of
muscle tissue.
Because the biceps and triceps have a less overall
volume of
muscle fibers it doesn't
require as much stimulus to fatigue these
muscle groups and deplete glycogen stores.
On the other hand, high
volume, moderate intensity programs (such as a 5x10 squat or deadlift program) will cause significant gains in
muscle size due to the sheer mechanical damage of the
muscle and the
required stress response.
Doing very heavy, not your 1RM, but still one big lift and you'll get the
required volume, while you'll still be reaching
muscle fiber fatigue that's
required to maximize
muscle growth - all of this done without the joint / connective tissue and neural health drawbacks.
Pushing movements
require different
muscles than pulling movements, so by splitting it this way and training twice a week you get tons of
volume and 2 days rest before training a particular
muscle group again.
When it comes to workout out, building
muscle mass
requires workout
volume, workout intensity, and workout frequency and this workout plan has all three.
Sprint sports such as soccer, rugby, and lacrosse
require a high
volume of energy turnover and eccentric
muscle actions resulting in metabolic and mechanically induced stress.