[quote author="davan" date="1258591837"]Therefore, adding muscle to your triceps via extension will likely lead to improvements in the bench press IF you combine the new muscle with associated movements.
But thats what I did and my bench didn’t go up.[/quote] Then your program sucked.
[quote author="davan" date="1258591837"][quote]It will necessitate non-contractile hypertrophy
That is simply not true at all. There CAN be non-contractile hypertrophy, but it is not necessary or even necessary likely when looking at a holistic program that is combining many elements, along with manipulating diet and other factors to keep this from happening. [/quote]
Nothing to do with that. More reps and volume= increased glycogen storage, capillary proliferation, nutrient delivery systems, mitochondrial hypertrophy.[/quote] Can you please explain what mitochondrial hypertrophy is? We’re talking very modest differences in total volume and most of what you said here doesn’t make sense either way.
[quote author="davan" date="1258591837"]A person with more LBM is almost always going to be stronger and the reason why elite powerlifters are strong in a general sense is in large part because of the muscle mass they have and how that muscle mass is distributed (please see the triceps/back/etc. of dieted down HW and SHW PLers). This has little to do with the % they lifted at and much to do with the muscle mass they have.
You’ve obviously never seen a skinny dude destroy a big guy or are in denial. It is like watching poetry in motion. [/quote] Show me someone who has distinctly less LBM in the muscles in question for a given exercise (ie triceps, pecs, shoulders for bench press) and is significantly stronger than someone with more LBM in those areas.
[quote author="davan" date="1258591837"][quote]All athletes have a transfer period, not just the ones who lift over 85%. Doesn’t have anything to do with being strong.
This response doesn’t even make sense to what I said, but you’re right about it not having anything to do with being strong because the improvements are not associated with any transferable strength gains.[/quote]
You tried using it to prove neural efficiency isn’t transferable, but you forgot the ones who don’t lift over 85% still undergo this adaptation stage. So what’s your excuse for their contractile non-transferability?[/quote]
I didn’t forget and the point was to show that simply training neural efficiency isn’t transferable, while overall changes in muscle protein content and other qualities that are general for ALL resistance training are transferable.