In the previous article of this series, Gain Weight & Muscle With High Frequency, pt. 1, I began detailing why the popular belief of only training a muscle group once a week may not be the optimum training frequency if you are after muscular size and development...not necessarily strength.
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In order to understand this concept, youll have to realize that muscle strength does not equal muscle size.
A stronger muscle is not necessarily a bigger muscle.
Thats why, again, you cant go off of studies that allegedly prove that less frequent training leads to greater gains in strength....which then most assume leads to greater gains in physical size.
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Now, going onto this article...
Another thing to consider is that most think that because your muscular strength may not fully recover its strength unless you give that body part several days of complete rest, up to a week (sometimes more), that it must also mean that your muscular size and development hasnt completed its recovery-growth cycle either.
Heres the thing, your nervous system is what controls the force signal that generates the power a muscle can exert, along with being efficient at recruiting motor units and leverage mechanics...all of which have nothing to do with a muscle becoming larger in size.
The endocrine system, on the other hand, is what controls the different hormones in your body, like testosterone, growth hormone, insulin, IGF-1, etc.
Now, the nervous system takes much longer than the endocrine system to recover.
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Unlike the nervous system, the endocrine system can recover rather quickly.
Sometimes within hours.
Now, what is more important in the building of muscle mass and gaining weight...the nervous system or the endocrine system?
By far, the endocrine system.
Its more important to have high hormone levels to build up muscle than it is to have stronger nerve signals (that are pretty much just for lifting heavier weight).
Doubtful?
Ask yourself, what is it that professional bodybuilders that take steroids inject in order to build slabs of muscle mass?
Is it nerve enhancers?
No.
Its hormones.....like testosterone, growth hormone, substances like insulin, etc......the exact hormones that the endocrine system puts out!
So, again, realize that the human physiology systems that regulate muscular gain, like the endocrine system, can recover quickly, much quicker than the nervous system.
This means that your muscle can grow in size at a faster rate than it can in strength, if you do things right.
(Seems like almost all other workout programs do things backwards...you get the strength gains first and faster than you do the size gains.)
I dont know about you, but Id rather look like I can lift 600 pounds than to be able to actually lift it, yet not look like I even workout.
Thats why you see so many individuals that theyve been weight training for years, yet how often do strangers come up to them and ask them if they workout?
Hardly ever, because the bodybuilding workout plan theyve been using may be making them stronger, but not bigger.
So, the point of this article in regards to finding the optimum training frequency is:
Even though it may take a muscle many days of recovery to be able to get stronger, it takes a very small amount of recovery time for a muscle to be able to grow, many times a day or less!
Meaning, that the optimum training frequency, if you are trying to gain weight and build muscle mass, should be more often than once a week, way more.....more on this in the next article.
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