The Anabolic Continuum
Posted by PhilifeMay 26
Responders or Non-Responders?
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Research on muscle building report a wide range of responders. There are those who gain virtually no muscle or strength, and there are those who have very impressive gains. If the weight training program was the same then the people doing the training must be different.
The response you will get from a weight training program is dependent upon your anabolic sensitivity. A number of factors go into assessing your anabolic sensitivity including age, training status, type of training, genetic predisposition, somatotype.
All of these factors collectively come together as a way of explaining where you land on the Anabolic Continuum.
In today’s lesson we’ll discuss what a confounding variable is, and explain that one of the biggest confounding variables in muscle building research is the anabolic sensitivity of each subject. Until researchers start categorizing where their subjects are on the Anabolic Continuum they will continue to have inconclusive results.
John
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Comment by Robert on May 28, 2010 at 1:22 am
That intro on confounding variables was spot on. Thank you for clarifying that for people. The more that know, the better. If you can, please facilitate that concept over more than just this intro. That is, help people to understand how to apply that idea and not to just know it. Many people agree and claim to understand that concept when I discuss it with them, but they have a difficult time applying it when they read media headlines and hear claims made by people. As I obviously am not on this podcast, I can’t do it. So, please, please help the listeners to be able to apply that knowledge and critical thinking in this, and all areas of their life, area.
Comment by chrisr14 on May 28, 2010 at 3:35 am
Very exciting stuff. If I understand correctly, you’re NOT saying that there are some people who just don’t respond to resistance training. It’s just that people need to identify where they are on the continuum and train in an appropriate manner to keep moving along?
I volunteer myself to be a guinea pig.