9 Responses to “Road blocks to muscle growth and increased athletic performance?”

1. 66_kingz says:

   November 26, 2009 at 12:43 am  (Edit)

   some good info..im going to try it out and see what happens. thanks for the vid
2. Darryl Lardizabal says:

   November 28, 2009 at 10:58 pm  (Edit)

   Although it’s rather interesting, it seems that most of what you’re saying is common knowledge in that more protein + more volume = muscle growth. Although I may be dumbing down what you said, Is there any other take away I should be getting, that right now I am not?

   On another note, how do you spare yourself from form breakdown, doing something like German Volume Training + EDT in terms of the 4 elements of efficiency promoted by Z-Health?

   I’m assuming based on Z, you don’t care as much about the set and rep scheme, as much as total poundage lifted?

   Thanks for the video, keep them coming!
3. darius sohei says:

   November 29, 2009 at 6:52 pm  (Edit)

   good post/musing – my area of study is in nutrition, and there is good indication that live food protein is assimilated twice as much/effectively as cooked or animal protein. an example would be that if i needed 80g/day, then eating some things like spirulina & hemp i would need 40g.
   the longest lived and disease-free people like the hunza eat about half as much protein as is usually recommended by western athletic researchers, and it is all ‘alive’ or ‘bio-energetically available’.

   so if this model was combined with the tissue turnover rate stuff, it might make it even faster/better quality. brian clement of the hippocrates institute has done a lot of research on this, and the amount of time it takes each part of our body to completely turn over. the quality of our food effects how fast and of what quality our various tissues regenerate.

   food for thought
4. Landon Evans says:

   November 30, 2009 at 10:48 am  (Edit)

   Darius,

   Please provide the research you are drawing from to come up with your conclusion that live food protein is assimilated twice as much/effectively as cooked or animal protein. Not websites, but documented/published research that I could easily locate via pubmed.

   Thanks
5. Mike T Nelson says:

   November 30, 2009 at 1:23 pm  (Edit)

   Thanks for the comments Darius. Much appreciated!

   I would like to see any abstracts you have on live protein and efficiency. I have not personally seen any data published on this, but there are tons of studies I have not read. I am all for a more efficient way.

   The Hunza are very interesting and I’ve heard Randy Roach talk about them. From what I know they were great athletes and grew all their own food.

   It would make sense that the better raw materials, the faster and better we could turn over tissue (excluding of course other factors such as training, stress, etc).

   Any more info you have would be great
   thanks
   Mike T Nelson
6. Mike T Nelson says:

   November 30, 2009 at 1:24 pm  (Edit)

   Thanks for the post here Landon and I really look forward to any and all feedback you have. I want to make this the best place on the internet for cutting edge information to create elite athletes based on science.

   Rock on
   Mike T Nelson
   PS
   I owe you an email!
7. Mike T Nelson says:

   November 30, 2009 at 1:50 pm  (Edit)

   More protein (more calories) + more QUALITY volume = muscle growth

   Yes! Seems obvious doesn’t it. I would start there. To maximize volume, you must follow some biofeedback (movement, heart rate, etc) to listen to your body.

   When I do high volume (or any training) I always test every movement via range of motion testing. If a movement, say deadlifts is not showing a better range of motion (biofeedback), I will not do it. You can do high volume, but you need to work into it like all things and just do crappy reps in the name of volume. High quality work is always the most important.

   For example, for powerlifting I won’t do movement that compromise my gait / range of motion / quality of movement. This may cost me a few pounds in the here and now, but I know long term I am always moving in a forward direction. Plus my main goal is more “sport” based.

   Hope that helps a bit
   Rock on
   Mike T Nelson
8. Mike T Nelson says:

   November 30, 2009 at 1:53 pm  (Edit)

   More protein (more calories) + more QUALITY volume = muscle growth

   Yes! Seems obvious doesn’t it. I would start there. To maximize volume, you must follow some biofeedback (movement, heart rate, etc) to listen to your body.

   When I do high volume (or any training) I always test every movement via range of motion testing. If a movement, say deadlifts is not showing a better range of motion (biofeedback), I will not do it. You can do high volume, but you need to work into it like all things and just do crappy reps in the name of volume. High quality work is always the most important.

   For example, for powerlifting I won’t do movement that compromise my gait / range of motion / quality of movement. This may cost me a few pounds in the here and now, but I know long term I am always moving in a forward direction. Plus my main goal is more “sport” based.

   Hope that helps a bit
   Rock on
   Mike T Nelson
9. Mike T Nelson says:

   November 30, 2009 at 1:56 pm  (Edit)

   Yes! Try it out and keep us updated on the results for sure!

   rock on
   Mike T Nelson