Re: Contraction Theory
[quote=Blindsight;63359]Well, I agree with your friend in that regardless of what angle you train the muscle at (e.g. flat vs. incline bench vs. flyes), you are contracting all the fibers in that muscle, not just the "upper ones" for inclines, etc. Some might interpret this to mean that you could just do, say, 16 sets of bench press instead of doing different pec exercises. However, I strongly disagree with this approach for several reasons.
1.) First of all, in your case, you used the example with your calves and how the way you walked on them changed their shape. Well, don't forget you dont just have a single calf muscle, you have the larger gastroc and soleus, as well as several smaller muscles in the calf. You can contract each of these different muscles to varying .........
I'm completely with you on this one. Well written.
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