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"Muscle Confusion"

wtf? is that a real term? does it work? what does /fit/ think?
>> Anonymous
Bump, I'm curious too!
>> Anonymous
IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
>> Anonymous
It's when your penis suddenly turns inwards.
>> Anonymous
It's a fancy word for something that already exists: working different areas out.
>> Anonymous
Ok, listen up OP.

It is basically constantly doing different workouts to make it so your body doesnt adapt to a specific workout. This is because if you constantly do the same workout your body adapts and thus gives you less gains, hence trying to confuse the muscle.
>> Anonymous
>>386134
but wouldnt it basically work the same muscle even if its a different work out? ie pull ups and curls both target biceps
>> Anonymous
Its about different things. If you do 12 bicep curls over and over as training, you will adapt. Doing 12 one session, 8 at a heavier weight the next, and 20 at a lighter one helps "confuse" the muscles. Shocking new growth.
>> Anonymous
It's the Principle of Muscle Confusion. Your muscles accommodate to a specific type of stress ("habituate" or "plateau") when you continually apply the same stress to your muscles over time, so you must vary exercises, sets, reps and weight to avoid accommodation.
>> Anonymous
>>386143

It's actually your brain that's adapting. You've learned to do the exercise at a specific weight so efficiently that it's no longer causing the kind of damage that leads to muscle growth. By changing exercise you can hopefully stimulate more rapid growth, then by the time you go back to the old exercise you'll be doing it at a higher weight, which is sufficiently different from the lower weight (in terms of what the brain has to do for fine control of the muscles) to allow growth on that exercise again.
>> Anonymous
shit... i've been working out wrong then..
>> Anonymous
It's all complete bullshit.

It's for people that don't understand PROGRESSION. Both how the fuck to do it, and what the fuck it looks like.

Lift big, eat big. Simple words. Very difficult TO DO. And most of you aren't. Nor can you.

"Muscle Confusion" is a masking attempt so wankers can avoid understanding that they are not progressing. Why? Because they cant compare workout to workout anymore. Because they don't understand how to lift more. Because they aren't wiling to put the effort in. Because it *hurts*.

Fuck muscle confusion. And fuck the stupid bandwagon it came in on.
>> Anonymous
>>386302

Yeah, fuck science.

Cool story bro
>> Anonymous
>>386302

Boy, you best be trollin'.

You can make gains without any kind of muscle confusion, but they'll be slower and plateus will be both more common and more difficult to break through.

Maybe you've gotten the wrong impression. 'Muscle confusion' doesn't consist of making up a new routine every day. You can switch up between two programs every month, you can choose to alter your program only when you plateu or start seeing abnormally slow gains, you can take one day a month off as a shock day, ect. It doesn't fuck up your normal progression, at least if you're any good at making/using proper routines, and it'll keep you progressing at an optimal rate.

Your body adapts. That's what it does. It's been demonstrated time and again - Weider's Principle of Muscle Confusion, Wolff's Law, ect. You make your gains by placing demands on your body that it's not used to. If you lift a lot of heavy shit your body will produce more muscle so that lifting heavy shit is easier. If you do the exact same thing every day your body will adapt and make it easier and easier and more and more natural until you're unable to make any further gains. Every time we take a step it's as if we're doing a one-legged calf raiser of our bodyweight, yet when we actually do our calf raisers we don't need to use >2x our bodyweight to make any progress. Why? Because it's different. Maybe only slightly different, but different enough that it warrants the creation of new muscle. The same holds true for every other muscle in your body.

Don't just assume that because your body is slower to adapt than most that muscle confusion is bullshit. Everyone's body is different.
>> Anonymous
>>386302
thats wut im talkin bout
different reps with different weights? wtf? u're still working out the same muscle bro
>> Anonymous
>>386396
thx brah
>> Anonymous
>>386400

http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/ChangeWtEx.html

It's not a fad, otherwise the exrx.net guy wouldn't have such a hard-on for it.