RESISTANCE TRAINING

Advanced Concepts

Volume 1 3FTJTUance TrainingManual

An essential guide for weight and resistance training for sports and fitness

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Written by: Mark P. Kelly, PhD Scott Skinner, RD Ron J. Clark, President & CEO Charles DeFrancessco Frank Campitelli, BS NFPT - SPECIALIST Recommended Reading – NFPT Manual, as well as the Sports Nutrition Manual & Training Manual for the best possible holistic education experience.

Section 1: General & Resistance Avoiding the Pump ...... 49 Considerations ...... 6 Between Set Recovery Considerations . . . 50 & Those at Risk ...... 8 The Perfect Circuit Routine ...... 51 The Importance of Water ...... 9 Muscle Endurance ...... 53 Cardiac Response to Eating and Periodization or Holistics ...... 54 Exercise...... 12 How Negative Repetitions Work ...... 55 Eating Around Resistance Exercise ...... 12 Continuous Tension ...... 57 Aging and Resistance Exercise ...... 13 More on Flexibility, Stability, Why Muscles Atrophy ...... 14 and Core ...... 60 Different Energy Pathways ...... 15 General Metabolic Considerations ...... 61 Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load .....16 The Metabolic Continuum ...... 61 Post Workout Force Feeding ...... 17 Invisible Overweight Condition ...... 62 Weight Training & Aerobic What High Protein Diet is Safe? ...... 65 Enhancement ...... 20 Minor Injury Treatment ...... 21 Section 4: The Beginner ...... 68 The Value of Intensity & the Beginner . . . 68 Section 2: Effecting Growth from Establishing a Baseline ...... 72 the Inside Out ...... 24 Weight Training = Weight Gaining ...... 74 The Muscle Cell ...... 24 Mitochondrial Re-Education ...... 75 Structure and Function . . 26 Cardiac & Smooth Muscle Tissue ...... 29 Section 5: Antagonistic Multi Set Training 76 Muscle Size and Strength Increase ...... 30 Extended Rest & Lactic Acid Removal . . 77 Controlling Failure for Size and Incorporating Antagonistic Training ....78 Strength ...... 33 Overtraining and Resistance Exercise ....34 Section 6: Metabolism of Fat for Determining Your Genetic Limitations . . . 35 Muscle Gains ...... 79 Ever Heard of Collateral Damage? ...... 37 Nutrition & Resistance Athletes ...... 79 Body Tissue Protein Requirements ...... 38 Weight Training as a Fat Loss Tool .....80 Body Tissue Energy Production ...... 39 Turning Fat into Muscle? ...... 81 Amino Acids - Cellular Uptake ...... 40 Is Fat Friend or Foe? ...... 82 The Role of Fat ...... 83 Section 3: Basic Training Methodologies .42 The Role Fatty Acids Play in Application of Resistance Exercise Carbohydrate Loading ...... 84 Principles ...... 42 Resistance Exercise and Contractile Section 7: A Few Athletic Failure...... 43 Considerations ...... 85 Resistance Exercise & Weight More on “Fat Release Refusal” ...... 85 Management ...... 44 Sports Conditioning ...... 87 Overload Training Principle ...... 45 Intro to Specificity Training ...... 87 The Pump ...... 48 Specificity Training ...... 89 Muscle Endurance & Athletic Events ....90 Section 9: Bodybuilding Competition ...121 Stretching & Massage as a Recovery Intensity or Insanity ...... 121 Tool ...... 91 Bodybuilders Are Insulin Dependant . . . 123 Cross Training & Enhancing Sports Skills for the Athlete ...... 95 Understanding the Physiology of Bodybuilding and Athletic Section 8: Miscellaneous Limitations ...... 126 Considerations ...... 101 Muscle Fiber & Motor Unit Spot Reduction is Physiological Impossibility ...... 101 Composition...... 126 Squat to Define Your Abs ...... 102 Bodybuilding Contest Preparation .....128 Training to Extreme… Good or Bad? . . . 103 NFPT Contest Preparation Method ....129 Machines -vs- Free Weights ...... 106 Other Contest Preparation Weights & Lower-Body Training ...... 107 Considerations ...... 132 Resistance Exercise Tips ...... 107 Effects of Anabolic Steroids ...... 133 Body Fat Testing ...... 110 NFPT Charts & Tables...... 135 Fitness Training Q and A ...... 111 Are Aerobics Bad for Big Guys? ...... 117 GLOSSARY ...... 137 Aerobics, Metabolism and Extramuscular Fat Loss? ...... 118 “Par-Q & You” Form...... 141 Any number of books today can Preface & effec-tively educate on the rudimentary approach to resistance Introduction training but none offer the insight provided by the National Federation of Professional Trainers. This manual is Welcome to one of the most unique beyond the scope of those resources and valuable approaches to learning and is meant to complement them in advanced education in the area of resis- an effort to produce the best and most tance training as it relates to health, fit- advanced resistance training profes- ness, and sports. Be prepared for an sional possible. 8IFO ZPV UBLF UIF “inside out” approach to the study of resistance training. 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Preface and Introduction SECTION I

General Health and Resistance Exercise Considerations

General Resistance Exercise Advice Who Should Establish a Goal of General Fitness? If you are looking for a self-improvement exercise program, and you are a non-athlete, chances are you fall into one of three categories. First, you may be over-weight. If this is the case, fat loss may be your goal of choice. If you are under-weight, weight gain may be your goal of choice. Finally, if you are not grossly over, or under weight, and as stated earlier, you are a non-athlete then general fitness will quite likely be your goal of choice.

General Health and Resistance Exercise Considerations What is General Fitness? week). If one were forced to choose All forms of exercise have value. The between fast-paced resistance exercise question is, finding the exercise that will and low-level aerobics for general fitness, give you the results you want and need. fast paced resistance exercise should be General fitness is a compromise, of sorts, the activity of choice. between aerobic activity and resistance Setting up a Resistance Program activity. Ideally, the optimum general fit- for General Fitness ness exercise program will include the When you choose to establish a gen- best of both these worlds. eral fitness routine based around resis- The proper resistance exercise routine tance exercise, incorporate the following can cause not only an increase in muscle concepts. tissue, but a cardio affect as well. This Use a 2-day split routine. This is to simply means that while you are condi- say you should do half your muscle tioning the muscles by weight training, groups on day #1, then the other half of you can condition the cardiorespiratory your muscle groups on day #2, and then systems by shortening the rest periods rest or perform aerobics on day #3. In between the you perform. While layman terms, the major muscle groups this is true, it should also be considered to be considered in creating these rou- that during resistance exercise, regardless tines are the chest, back, triceps, biceps, of the shorter rest periods, there is little shoulders, trapezius, hamstrings, glutes in the way of improved “fatty acid oxida- and quadriceps (perform exercises for tion”. This simply means that the mus- abdominals, forearms, and calves ran- cle’s uptake of fat and oxygen during the domly as desired). performance of this fast paced resistance Stay in the area of 12-15 repetitions activity is not significantly enhanced. per set, to unassisted failure. This will The term “general fitness” implies provide for some lean weight increase, low-to-moderate intensity of effort, muscle energy increase, and with reduced which is correct. To increase the intensity between set recovery, some cardio as of effort in general fitness training, is to well. Your performing in the 12-15 repe- change your goal altogether. Whenever tition range represents the necessary com- intensity of effort is great, there is a promise between heavy and light train- degree of adaptation undergone by the ing, and will enable you to more quickly body. This type of adaptation is desirable reach your general fitness goals. to the “incremental” athlete, or to those If the cardio affect is desirable, remem- interested in conditioning themselves for ber to take shorter rest periods between a higher level of fitness or some sort of sets. Your recovery heart rate should be sport (there is an entire section devoted somewhere around 115 BPM. This is to to sports conditioning later in this say that your heart rate, after a set, needs manual). to come down to approximately 115 Generally speaking, for our purposes BPM before you continue with your next here, general fitness can best be achieved set. Keep in mind that the faster you train through a combination of fast-paced the more repetitions you will drop in each resistance exercise, and the performance following set. This is especially true in of low intensity, long duration, steady the beginner. With time, you will reach a state aerobic activity (70% of maximum point where you are losing fewer and heart rate maintained for about 20-30 fewer repetitions. Wastes accumulate in minutes per session, with sessions per- the muscles during sets in this repetition formed no more often than 3-4 times per range, while at the same time blood

General Health and Resistance Exercise Considerations