Anabolic Continuum - Where Are You?

Have you ever wondered why some people react differently to the same workout. Some people gain more muscle than others, some seems to have greater gains in strength than others. The typical answer is simply ‘genetics’. But this is too simplistic of an answer and I think there is much more to it than this.

If you’ve been following the last two phi-life podcasts you’ve heard Brad Pilon and I talk about the anabolic continuum and the concepts of anabolic resistance and anabolic slow down.

The anabolic continuum is a range of sensitivities to weight training and anabolic signals for any given person, it ranges from highly sensitive, to resistant to complete anabolic exhaustion (where no amount of exercise seems to stimulate any growth or strength increase)

If you’re curious to find out where you are on the Anabolic Continuum we’ve got an assessment quiz you can download for free to determine where you land.

We’re also holding a live teleseminar this thurs June 10th at 9pm to explain the anabolic continuum, your score on the quiz, what it means and our new workout system that deals with Anabolic Slow Dow and restarting muscle growth for those of you who seem to have hit a big plateau in both muscle size and strength.

Go to this link to get your assessment guide and recieve the link for the teleseminar: Anabolic Assessment Guide

Posted by johnbarban in Muscle Building

Tags: anabolic continuum, anabolic slow down, Muscle Building |5 Comments

5 Responses to “Anabolic Continuum – Where Are You?”

Alex P. Says:
June 8th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
If I am stubborn enough, and I make necessary changes, I know I can add muscle most places. The outstanding exception is my chest. My chest grows painfully slowly, no matter which program I use. Meanwhile, my triceps will just blow up. I’ve gone weeks without doing any tricep specific exercise, and I will gain all my strength back within 2 or 3 workouts. Chest, I have to keep hammering away all the time. I take it that means I’m a tricep dominant upper body? How do situations like that fit into the continuum? No matter how anabolic you are, some areas will just be painfully behind the curve, due to your specific muscular configuration?
johnbarban Says:
June 8th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Alex,

That’s a good point. I think we seem to move through the anabolic continuum systemically to some degree as well as muscle group specific to another degree. We all have our better and worse muscle groups, but I also think the degree that you can force each muscle group to grow is also dependent on exercise selection and form.

Each of us will react differently to similar exercises so part of the trick is finding exercise combination’s that bring up your lagging muscle groups. Like you said, your triceps seem to grow faster than your chest, but how do you know you’re doing equally effective exercises for both. Maybe you’ve never had as good of a chest program (for your specific muscular configuration) compared to triceps (much easier to isolate and work triceps).

JB
usernametooshortnowitstoolon Says:
June 8th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
I’m in the same boat as Alex P – my triceps grow like weeds but my chest just doesn’t seem to want to grow. What’s worse is that my left pec is like TWICE as big as my right pec.

I think it’s mostly me doing my workouts wrong. I would do dumbbell presses but I feel it mostly in my arms instead of chest. Really frustrating.
bill Says:
June 20th, 2010 at 8:36 am
same thing for biceps for me. I’ll stick with a 5X5 90%weight. I’ll see my reps hit. The new 90% will change. I’ll hit the 5×5. I get maybe 1/8th inch growth. After 4 weeks, my ceps burn out. My slow twitch fibers are dominant, so I stay away from many reps. Then….My diet returns to normal. The 1.8 of an inch is gone a week later. Sh&T!
bill Says:
June 20th, 2010 at 8:37 am
that’s 90%1RM weight in my last posting

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