Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "How the Body Builds Incredible Strength Without Getting Bigger" video.

  1. Male gymnasts have wicked biceps and shoulders. They're also 5'5 but they do have a lot of hypertrophy.
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  2. Survivorship bias. Skinny dudes quit earlier while big dudes toughen it out until retirement.
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  3. No. A really jacked person exercises in a way that stimulates a growth response. Growing physically larger will continuously require you to lift heavier and heavier because your body will stop responding to stimulus if you don't lift heavy. There's a reason weightlifting has weight categories. Because more muscle mass helps lifting heavier weights.
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  4. This is just strength gains, or purely neurological gains.
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  5. It's like Pilates and more like Major ripping the turret of the mecha at the end of Ghost in The Shell. It's more about wondering what's the absolute physical maximum value of mass you could ask your body to lift for just two seconds and you'll get your next three days off to rest. Try to hold that weight for longer and it's gonna pull you down or fall on you. Like lifting a corner off a car to save a child under it type of stuff. Pilates you can just hold a pose for a minute.
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  6. Eventually it will stop triggering the growth response.
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  7. Force moves mass. Strength training increases the force recuited out of muscle tissue without increasing mass. I can bench 1.5x my own weight, which means I can move more mass than I have.
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  8. Depends on the sport and even the position one plays. An entire NFL team can't be built like linemen. If the weight training regimen to maintain a certain size gets in the way of other goals, it should be relegated to injury prevention and other benefits instead of hypertrophy.
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  9. That's an endurance lift, not a strength lift. Strength is measured by your 1RM or "one rep max". Your ability for muscles to delay the onset of fatigue and do more reps does not mean you can recruit more peak strength.
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  10. You don't need to actually lift your 1RM, there's equations with pretty good predictions. If you can do X for 3 reps then you can do Y for 1RM.
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