Muscle will only responds in advanced
trainers or athletes with resistance. If the muscle is not
presented with new challenges ( resistance ) it has no reason to
adapt and grow. Your body has no reason to change( body ) composition ( burn fat, build lean muscle tissue ).
With H.I.G.T (high intensity group training) the basis is to stimulate new muscle
development by recruiting type two fibers, red also known as fast twitch muscle fibers. Fibers that will only come into play when the muscle becomes over loaded. I like to call these fibers the lazy muscle fiber, you red or fast twitch fibers. H.I.G.T does this in two ways. When you have taxed your muscle lets say with a set of dumbbell presses, most of the work was done with type one fibers,white, slow twitch...little to none of your type two "RED" muscle fibers came into play. This has been studied & proven by science, zeroed and molded into perfection by me.
By immediately moving from one multi joint exercise (exercises that recruit the most muscle fibers to perform the movement, IE: squats, dead lifts, rows, etc..) to the next, up to four different exercises for different body parts in a set, type
one fibers have become overworked and force type two fibers to come & assist, thus causing maximum damage and with proper nutrition & rest larger stronger muscle tissue. With consistency, change in overall body composition
The second way is with intensity, in my routine I achieve this with little to no rest between sets, all as I am increasing the weights on each set. Crazy? Not realy over time you adapt and can still increase the amount of weight you lift, it's just hard as hell to do and takes an open mind and thinking outside the box. So stick it out.
The body will respond two ways training this way. First, you will burn loads of calories and force the most important muscle in your body to work overtime. Your heart! Pretty much eliminating the need to do boring types of cardio to strip away fat and shed water. Secondly, with little to no rest you fatigue your type one fibers much faster than traditional one set and rest old school training. Thus conditioning your body to recruit faster, type two fibers. The muscle building lean for life, ripped as a Mother F@#!*! Type two ,fast twitch fiber!
My H.I.G.T training will keep you lean & muscular for life, not to mention it is challenging and fun to do, in time of course. At first you will be sending me hate mail.
Richard Seymour