To understand how the principle of overload is first necessary to understand the mechanism of super compensation quote so that the body protects the area is under constant friction and pressure not only noticing, but also developing a thicker skin and stronger for that area is not damaged again, the thick, tough skin is what we call corn, then the greater is the stimulus applied, the greater the reaction of the body (super compensation) and consequently the greater the callus produced.
In physical training nature super compensate caused stress giving muscle bulk and strength, however, that overcompensation occurs when the body is subjected to an effort which is not used and that fact regularly will make that body “wake up” the muscle fibers that were not being used before, to then give more thick and resistant.
This is the principle of overload, if you’re always stressing the muscles they are more familiar and thus will react to the muscles giving more support to this growing effort.
- Then, if you are lifting 80kg in the press for example, after a time the body will get used to the stress and will not be taken as more muscle gain that had been given and not let this happen should be increased some of the burden by forcing the muscles to experience this new stimulus, and they give back this adaptation to a higher volume over time.
- But not only the continuous increase of stress will not cause the practitioner to stay indefinitely growing stronger as it could have injuries or overtraining is the biggest enemy of the athlete who trains hard and this the time where the concept of per iodization enters, because it allows alternate periods of high and low intensity so that the muscles never accommodate.
The metabolic stress and tension:
The increase in contractile protein synthesis stimulated by strength training promotes increased size and number of myofibrils per muscle fiber and this will be given the name of myofibrillar hypertrophy and stimulation that can lead to tension overload adaptation would related to the high level of stress imposed on the muscle due to heavy weight to be defeated.
- On the strength exercises bigger the load, the greater the tension overload.
- Large tensile overloads occur when performing low reps in a short time of execution of each set of an exercise.
- On the other hand, the metabolic overload the muscle cells leads to increased stress biochemist, for the longest time to execute a series, but in return with a smaller number of load tensions overload.
This metabolic overload contributes to increased muscle size through increased energy substrates located in the sarcoplasm: super compensation and increased glycogen stores, an adaptive response to increased intake of this substance highly hydrated.
The other mechanism is extracellular and consists of the increased vascularity of muscle tissue, and it can be called sarcoplasmic hypertrophy metabolic overload, characterized by the high number of repetitions and prolonged time of execution of each set of an exercise.
To conclude we mention that the metabolic stress is inversely proportional to the tension overload and vice versa, oppositional relationship between volume and intensity, both contribute to increased muscle volume, however, by different mechanisms and the only point of union between the two would probably be more efficient stimulation in normal muscle hypertrophy and power training.
In the gym should take into account the biotype of each, their main goal and what level of training, this information can assist in the implementation of the surge at the right time of periodization of training, it is worth mentioning biological individuality because each person has a physiological reaction odd about an overload applied.
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