Recovery

[Visaria]

And it is Visaria who is "harassing" me, with his repeated and unsubstantiated claims that 12 workouts a week are optimal for anyone who has been training for a length of time:

Harrassing...lol

You took my statement out of context. I said the more advanced you become, the more frequent u need to train. If you are elite, the optimum is 12 sessions a week. Whether or not Usain Bolt or any other elite athlete does 12 sessions I don't know.

Btw, you need to chill out, Fred. Too much of the wrong type of stress is not optimal for your muscle development.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

Harrassing...lol

fhl claimed I was "harassing" you. I just threw it back at him. No harm intended.

You took my statement out of context. I said the more advanced you become, the more frequent u need to train. If you are elite, the optimum is 12 sessions a week. Whether or not Usain Bolt or any other elite athlete does 12 sessions I don't know.

All well and good. But you have not provided any evidence of legitimate scientific research that concludes 12 sessions a week of strength training are optimal for ANYONE, be they just weekend warriors like me or world-class athletes.

Btw, you need to chill out, Fred. Too much of the wrong type of stress is not optimal...

Very true. I just don't like my well-intentioned threads to be intentionally trashed.

 

[fhl]

Is this not what I have been saying?

You've been saying that low frequency produces gains and when you use it all you get is maintenance.

Because you're so developed that it isn't physically possible to achieve further growth.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

You've been saying that low frequency produces gains and when you use it all you get is maintenance.

Because you're so developed that it isn't physically possible to achieve further growth.

...people who have been seriously working out their whole adult lives do not continue to make strength and muscular gains after 40+ years. It doesn't happen. If you actually worked out, then you would know this. But you are an ignorant thug whose posts are an assault on IQ.

Go to Bass's web site and look at the pictorial. He's in great shape. Look at his physique when he was in his 40s. Then look at his physique when he turned 60. And look at him now as he approaches 80. He has worked out for over 65 years and is a great physical specimen who has stood the test of time, to be sure. But was he getting more muscular with the passage of time after his 40s and into his 50s? No. Also, note that he was a successful competitive Olympic lifter at the state level in his younger days. Is he even stronger now? Would he still be competitive? Of course not.

So WTF is the basis for your incessant buffoonery?

All kidding aside, you are a wretched fool. Be gone.

 

[fhl]

You stupid, stupid man.

Clarence Bass is right, and he supports his assertions with well-conducted research.

But people who have been seriously working out their whole adult lives do not continue to make strength and muscular gains after 40+ years. It doesn't happen. If you actually worked out, then you would know this. But you are an ignorant thug whose posts are an assault on IQ.

Go to Bass's web site and look at the pictorial. He's in great shape. Look at his physique when he was in his 40s. Then look at his physique when he turned 60. And look at him now as he approaches 80. He has worked out for over 65 years and is a great physical specimen who has stood the test of time, to be sure. But was he getting more muscular with the passage of time after his 40s and into his 50s? No. Also, note that he was a successful competitive Olympic lifter at the state level in his younger days. Is he even stronger now? Would he still be competitive? Of course not.

So WTF is the basis for your incessant buffoonery?

All kidding aside, you are a wretched fool. Be gone.

Maintenance is not promoted in your articles.

And here's a quick google:

Age Factor Articles by Clarence Bass
www.cbass.com/agefactor.htm
Grow Or Decay, Your Choice


There you have it. From Bass himself.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

I...have never taken a break from working out.

I think you're at least as old as I am. And so, are you continually getting bigger and stronger?

If people were capable of getting stronger indefinitely, as you seem to suggest, then why do we not see competitive Olympic lifters at their peak in their 60s and beyond, outdoing their younger competitors and their own previous records? Explain that to me, would you?