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Elite SQUATZ Anonymous
Sup /fit/,

Was looking around on http://exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/SquatStandards.html and was curious as to how people can increase how much they lift without increasing their weight.

Like how can someone weighing 165 increase their SQUATZ from 250 to 342 without gaining more muscle. Is there any other factor besides BF% that can make up for that much weight?

/boggled
>> Anonymous
What? First you ask how someone can increase their weight lifted without gaining muscle, and then you ask some question about body fat? How the shit is that relevant?

If you're sticking with the former question, then it's the central nervous system doing its job
>> Anonymous
WAT AM I LOOKING AT
>> Anonymous
>>316236

/shrug

Wasn't sure if the standards took into account people losing BF for muscle, as they moved up in 'levels'. If you see what I'm getting at...

Any more of an explanation as to how the nervous system works to make up 92 pounds without any extra muscle?
>> Anonymous
>>316240

They aren't going to remain exactly the same. Muscle size will be gained indefinitely if you're getting stronger. The CNS responds to stress by releasing hormones which make your muscles bigger and ergo stronger. Here's a post from bodybuilding forums which might answer some questions of yours:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=109175611
>> Anonymous
>>316252

Yeah, that helps out quite a bit.

>you can put up strength without gaining any mass by training your CNS and making it more responsive so it recruits more muscle fibers per contraction.

Any truth to this? Any different kind of approach to training that I need to take if I want to gain strength and not mass?
>> Anonymous
Look up sarcoplasmic hypertrophy and myofibrillar hypertrophy, op. It will answer your question.
>> FORM follows FUNCTION Anonymous
>>316316
wow, some big words there

lets see if any one will actually do it

if strength is the 'ends', then weights are the 'means' to stimulate the CNS to achieve said ends. ANYTHING else (lower BF%, increased muscle mass, higher test/GH) are all byproducts.

realize that this is a central DOGMA change for most of you.
>> Anonymous
>>316468
>wow, some big words there

What does it matter? There aren't any other words for that. I'm not trying to sound smart on the internet. The OP is asking about training for strength versus size.
>> sasuke !h003Xy2vOk
According to that table, the most someone can squat is 600 pounds? HMM SOUNDS FISHY.

You gain weight from hypertrophy when lifting weights. How much you can lift depends on your cns and myofibrilliar hypertrophy.
>> Anonymous
>>316494
The table doesn't state the most weight possible to squat. It just shows that squatting more than 600 pounds properly demonstrates a high level of performance.
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>>316234
sure id fuck her, she looks like sarah silverman
>> Anonymous
>>316511
Have you been to your optometrist lately?
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous !ErY2TknG0w
Strength training also trains your central nervous system to be more efficient and synchronized. This can increase your strength without adding on mass.

An untrained lifter won't recruit as many muscle fibres as a trained lifter. The motor units which control fibres are also more unsynchronised which results in less power.
>> Anonymous !ErY2TknG0w
She's cute. And hot for a OL/PL
>> Anonymous
>>316706
lol, she is not an OL... at all
>> Anonymous !ErY2TknG0w
>>317038
lol, OK then.