Recent content by Jeff1

I'm not really trying to fit intensity into a nice neat physiological package. I do understand that it is mostly a utilitarian measurement so we can calculate workload and the demands of our training. Makes perfect sense to me in that respect. I was just curious as to what energy systems are...

Thanks Madcow, I don't think Rate Coding is what I'm looking for though. As you said, most fibres are recruited immediately with even a weight of medium intensity, and rate coding is simply the frequency at which they're firing. Fibres can hit their limit at any point on the fatigue curve...

Majutsu, Thanks for the reply. I can assure you that I no longer think that hypertrophy is reducable to a single variable. In other words, intensity alone doesn't equal hyptertrophy, which is the screwed up pseudo-scientific hypothesis that HIT puts forward. I guess that's what happens when...

Madcow, Thanks for the reply. I understand the benifits of using %1RM in terms of prescribing training and planning progress, and I'm more than aware of the ridiculousness of the HIT Model (was a HITer for 7 years and the backlash is already a year in the making). I wasn't aware that the...

Thanks for the interesting reply Majutsu. I gave up on HIT in May of last year, and since then I've done my share of re-learning. I have defintately come to the conclusion that HIT has far more wrong with it that it does right. From subjectivism, as you pointed out, to contradicting the Stress...

lol....Hi, my name is Jeff and I'm a recovering HITaholic. I do understand the three variables under the Stress Model, those being intensity, volume, and frequency, and do understand how they interact and how we calculate them to get the "magnitude of demands" of a training protocol (ie: work...

Hi Everyone, New poster here. I've had a membership here for a long time but have never posted. I have a question and was wondering if someone could help me out. I understand that in exercise science, we measure "intensity" differently in the context of aerobic and anaerobic exercise. They...