What you probably should know about Muscle "Fiber Types" (with some historical context).

A little info, including historical context, about muscle fiber types.

[@darrencolt5955]

Hey, you young bodybuilders out there - If you hope to be a top level competitor, you've got to understand that great bodys are built by our brains. You need a supreme education in the science of exercise physiology to reach your ultimate genetic limits. How can you get 100% out of your training if you don't have a plan and a total knowledge of how YOUR body functions? Most of you don't even keep a trainng log . Almost no one considers weight training to be a competitive sport. It most certainly is! Every time you step into a gym, your competing with your last workout. So unless you possess total recall, you've got to have a training log. So here we have Scott Stevenson. Scott is the best in the business - a born educator. Trying his best to turn you into muscle gods - through the education you absolutely MUST have to succeed in bodybuilding. But look at this video! Only 2000 views in two years - because you're off, wasting your time looking at Jon Skywalkers videos. Jon Skywalker gets 350,000 views in 6 months. Scott Stevenson is an undisputed genius in the science of weight training - But poor little Jon Skywalker possesses an IQ that's somewhere under 10 - and has nothing - absolutely nothing to teach you or enrich your lives in any way! I think I've made my point! If you want to get big - get serious - Get the education you absolutely need. Now pay attention! Scott has written two incredible books on bodybuilding: "Fortitude Training" and "Being Your Own Strength Coach" - two books that you MUST HAVE in your BB library! Wishing you all the best of luck!

[@darrencolt5955]

Scott: I want to thank you so much for the videos you are producing. The tragedy of my life is that I went through college from 1965 - 1972 (I am now a very young looking 72 year old bodybuilder.) I would have majored in exercise physiology but the fitness industry and any means of employment in that field simply didn't exist back then. So I pursued my "second interest" and obtained a masters degree in film production instead. Nevertheless , I never gave up my passion for bodybuilding, and since 1980 have been using my skills as an engineer and inventor to literally re-invent weight training technology. At first I identified everything that was mechanically wrong with free weights and existing exercise machines and proceeded to develop totally new types of exercise equipment that encorporated dramatically improved new types of resistance mechanisms. The work I have done is absolutely revolutionary and unlike anything you have ever seen. So you see, even without a formal education I became one of the top "Hypertrophy Researchers". All of my work will be ready for marketing in about a year. Scott, Do you read your "comments"? I sure hope so. I'd like to talk to you about the dramatic progress I've made in exercise equipment technology. Could you give me an Email address where I might reach you? I guarantee that what I have to tell you will leave you totally excited about the future of bodybuilding. Incidentally, Who needs to go to college anymore? I'm getting my long overdue Phd by watching the hundreds of highly technical "exercise videos" on the internet - like yours. Best of luck to you. -- Friend and fellow bodybuilder - Darren Colt {Director: Tandex Research Laboratories - Chicago) ([e-mail])

[@ELjs8]

What is it that you are working on?

[@darrencolt5955]

@@ELjs8 Jordan: I have developed a line of variable resistance exercise equipment that uses neither cams nore levers . Both of these systems have severe mechanical limitatations. I have developed a resistance mechanism that is SELECTIVE - in other words you can program the correct resistance curve for any exercise - all off of one machine. For instance, I have developed a cable crossover machine that has a total free weight feel and is also a low enertia device - which allows you to perform ballistic (high speed) exercise movements which are not possible with any other type of equipment. I consider free weights and other existing exercise machines to be only 50% to 60% efficient. My equipment is 90% efficient - which permits faster and greater degrees of muscle growth. Right now I am building the prototype for what I believe will be the first practical and affordable "heavy" eccentric training machine. Next year I will be building the first variable resistance, 45 degree plate loading leg press machine.Imagine doing 2000 pound leg presses on your first try! I train on my own equipment and am getting incredible results - even though I'm a very old guy! Gained 25 pounds of solid muscle in the last 12 months!

[@ELjs8]

darren colt hope to see that come to all gyms soon

[@curtisfunctionalhealthcoach]

I don't understand how you only have 1,600 subscribers, this video only has 1,700 views and 55 likes, yet all some female has to do is show her butt and her subscribers will be at 1 million, sad world we live in. Such appreciated knowledge and information, much respect for you.

[@scottwstevenson]

Thanks, Curtis! Are you saying I need to show a little ass during my vid's?... LOL ;) Seriously, it's a matter of marketing, TBH - specifically me not making that an absolute focus in the way many others do. I'm gradually building some momentum, though. :) (Maybe an informational vid on glute anatomy with living models to demonstrate?... :) )

[@aaronwilson9763]

This video is 4+ years old...but the information from it is wonderful and easy to digest (all things considered). Question: CREATINE...do you know of the impact of creatine with the different types of muscle fibers (type I, type IIa, and type IIx)? Thanks for sharing your knowledge and keeping this video posted for all these years!

[@scottwstevenson]

You're welcome, Aaron! This is a nice one to have out as a reference of sorts - and thanks for the reminder that I've got this video up. (I had forgotten.) As far as creatine and the difference fiber types, I would expect that there might be a preferential effect on Type II fiber hypertrophy, going just by the fact the these fibers have a greater creatine content and vegetarians (who experience the greatest effects from Cr supplementation) have demonstrated Type II specific effects in at least one study that I know of... paulogentil.com/pdf/Effect%20of%20Creatine%20and%20Weight%20Training%20on%20Muscle%20Creatine%20and%20Performance%20in%20Vegetarians.pdf

[@aaronwilson9763]

@@scottwstevenson Thanks for the journal article.

[@scottwstevenson]

@@aaronwilson9763 You got it!!!

[@matt_the_trainer]

Interesting vid! I was wandering what your opinion would be on the relationship between the fibre 'types' and their potential for growth for Naturals? Of course the relevance of 'types' might be ambiguous - but considering the differences in force output, fatigue nature and speed - there should be a 'sweet spot' for say the amount of Time Under Tension one should aim for and or/ the Tempo + No. of reps. Does you opinion differ from the normal 8-12 rep range x 2 second eccentric, 2 second concentric tempo?