Case
01 Dec 2004, 07:10 PM
By the way, what makes legs stronger lifting 20times x10 pounds or 10times x20 pounds (never mind the numbers, this is just an example) Basically I'm just wondering if muscles have a kind of a memory, ex. when legs seem to be strong but were built with small weights, is that worse than the same looking legs but built with heavier weights. :cool:
Im sure sum peeps will disagree with this, but IMO working out is mostly a means to an end, and that end is primarily that u'll improve at whatever u train. The major difference between small weights/high reps and high weights/small reps is that with the former u'll be better at, well, small weights and high reps, and vice-a-versa.
There's a whole bunch of ex.phys science about typeI and typeII muscle fibres, and there is such a thing as muscle memory (when the body gains a "kinesthetic feel" for doing a particular movement, it finds it easier to do it, ie why "u never forget how to ride a bike", but initially have difficulty learning how), so in my opinion there is nothing gonna make ur kick harder than, well cracking a ball into an empty net/against a wall.
Yes, all exercise is gonna be good, but soccer is such an incorporation of speed/strength/power/agility that theres no reason to concentrate solely on one form of muscle training. Too much heavy weights (ie "bodybuilding) will make strong slow muscles that'll kick like a mule, but u'll have lost the ball by the time u swing ur leg, but thats no reason not to give heavy weights a few sessions here and there.
So anyway, if any1 bothered reading this far, my legs were freak-big when I was like 11, purely from running around all day playing football everywhere I could, but that was kinda it and they sorta stayed the same size since then, to the point now they kinda scrawny but nothing but muscle. When I trained as a lifeguard the coach mocked me when he found out I was the only soccer player on the course, as apparently we develop leg muscles in a way that REALLY hinders swimming (dense muscle with small surface area = sinking), and also I've been told that my back problems (pain in lower lumbar muscles) can be attributed to overly tight hip and glute muscles from kicking strength in soccer!
Wow, haven't we all learned summit! There will be a test!
And I also was hoping to be 1st to do a joke about the "middle stump"!
P.S, any1 sayin all female soccer players are ruff, clearly hasn't been following the Women's u-19 world champs! 18yr old swedish women running in shorts=ratings (plus they better than the Man U Vs Arsenal carling cup game!)
Im sure sum peeps will disagree with this, but IMO working out is mostly a means to an end, and that end is primarily that u'll improve at whatever u train. The major difference between small weights/high reps and high weights/small reps is that with the former u'll be better at, well, small weights and high reps, and vice-a-versa.
There's a whole bunch of ex.phys science about typeI and typeII muscle fibres, and there is such a thing as muscle memory (when the body gains a "kinesthetic feel" for doing a particular movement, it finds it easier to do it, ie why "u never forget how to ride a bike", but initially have difficulty learning how), so in my opinion there is nothing gonna make ur kick harder than, well cracking a ball into an empty net/against a wall.
Yes, all exercise is gonna be good, but soccer is such an incorporation of speed/strength/power/agility that theres no reason to concentrate solely on one form of muscle training. Too much heavy weights (ie "bodybuilding) will make strong slow muscles that'll kick like a mule, but u'll have lost the ball by the time u swing ur leg, but thats no reason not to give heavy weights a few sessions here and there.
So anyway, if any1 bothered reading this far, my legs were freak-big when I was like 11, purely from running around all day playing football everywhere I could, but that was kinda it and they sorta stayed the same size since then, to the point now they kinda scrawny but nothing but muscle. When I trained as a lifeguard the coach mocked me when he found out I was the only soccer player on the course, as apparently we develop leg muscles in a way that REALLY hinders swimming (dense muscle with small surface area = sinking), and also I've been told that my back problems (pain in lower lumbar muscles) can be attributed to overly tight hip and glute muscles from kicking strength in soccer!
Wow, haven't we all learned summit! There will be a test!
And I also was hoping to be 1st to do a joke about the "middle stump"!
P.S, any1 sayin all female soccer players are ruff, clearly hasn't been following the Women's u-19 world champs! 18yr old swedish women running in shorts=ratings (plus they better than the Man U Vs Arsenal carling cup game!)