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[TheOak84]

lets say theres 2 people, eating 3500-4000 cals a week, 40/40/20 - P/C/F. one trains each muscle every 7 days, with lots of volume. one does a dc/hst type work out, each muscle gets worked every 48 hrs.

which person would pack on more muscle? or, would they grow at the same rate? or does it still depend on genetics? but lets assume they have moderate genetics, or a lil above normal, like most peeps on this site..

 

[casualbb]

They would each gain a similar amount of weight, but for the dc/hst person more of it would be muscle and less fat.

 

[TheOak84]

would the person whp trained ever 48 hrs 'look' better? id think they have more conditioned muscles, and maybe a 'harder' look... it just makes sense, no?

 

[wnt2bBeast]

They would each gain a similar amount of weight, but for the dc/hst person more of it would be muscle and less fat.

why is that????????

 

[casualbb]

would the person whp trained ever 48 hrs 'look' better? id think they have more conditioned muscles, and maybe a 'harder' look... it just makes sense, no?

I think they'd only look better to the extent that they'd be leaner and more muscular. I don't know if there would be vascularity or noticeable hardening like you'd get with roids.

why is that????????

Muscles only grow for 2 days in response to training. When you work a muscle once a week, for 5 days of the week it's not really growing. So when you're eating a bulking diet, only 1 or at best 2 muscle groups are needing energy at one time, so there's a higher chance your calorie surplus will be stored as fat.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

Muscles only grow for 2 days in response to training. When you work a muscle once a week, for 5 days of the week it's not really growing. So when you're eating a bulking diet, only 1 or at best 2 muscle groups are needing energy at one time, so there's a higher chance your calorie surplus will be stored as fat.

cant imagine it is that linear, you have any research on that?

 

[Tom Treutlein]

The entire HST website has a huge archive or articles. It's all been done in the lab before.

 

[casualbb]

6)MacDougall JD, Gibala MJ, Tarnopolsky MA, MacDonald JR, Interisano SA, Yarasheski KE. The time course for elevated muscle protein synthesis following heavy resistance exercise. Can J Appl Physiol. 1995 Dec;20(4):480-6.
7)Phillips, S. M., K. D. Tipton, A. Aarsland, S. E. Wolf, and R. R. Wolfe. Mixed muscle protein synthesis and breakdown after resistance exercise in humans. Am. J. Physiol. 273 (Endocrinol. Metab. 36): E99-E107, 1997

Both studies determined that after training there is a time period where protein synthesis is higher than protein degradation, ie there is net muscle accrued. This peaks at about 24 hours, falls off a lot by 36 hours, and is gone by 48 hours. Hence HST's 3x/week frequency, it's to be in a state of growth as much as possible. You could grow even more with 6x/week frequency as long as you could keep from getting too tired.