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Weight training is as much neurological stimulation as it is muscular. In fact, most of the fast gains a new lifter makes are due to learning to recruit motor u
by User23 7y ago
Weight training is as much neurological stimulation as it is muscular. In fact, most of the fast gains a new lifter makes are due to learning to recruit motor units, which is to say training the nervous system. As any long time lifter can tell you, putting on muscle mass naturally takes a long time. The question is does stimulating motor neurons have knock on effects for the rest of the CNS? It's plausible that it does, but with some brief searching I'm not finding any compelling research that it does or doesn't.
- rofo1 7y ago> As any long time lifter can tell you, putting on muscle mass naturally takes a long time. I don't agree with this. It's generally easy and straightforward to put mass fast: do hypertrophy, sleep 8+ hours a day, eat 2g protein per kg of body weight. That's all it takes. You'll see results very quickly, even with subpar training. Learning new motor patterns (especially firing many muscles/full body at once), improving tendon strength, potentially increasing muscle density, improving physical awareness (say, handstand, or anything inverted, or anything with balance, or splits/pancake/perfect shoulder mobility), cardiovascular fitness - all extremely difficult to achieve (compared to just getting muscle mass).