Ok, ok, so I know this is a day late but I was unexpectedly called last minute to work on the new “Flash Gordon” TV series yesterday. It was filming all the way out in Aldergrove and I had to fight the long weekend traffic all the way down to set. The show has been picked up for 22 episodes for the Sci-Fi Channel, which means it will probably aired on the Space Channel in Canada. Wrapped out at 4am and was in bed around 5:30-ish. Had to wake up at 10am to train for my Dragon Tiger Gate audition, which was in Chinatown at noon. Phew! I need sleep sooo bad. But here I am writing the next Friday Health Check!
Slow Lifting Doesn’t Create Enough Force, Power Or Volume
Ultraslow training involves lifting weights at very slow velocities until the muscles fail. Muscle growth requires the right combination of muscle tension, anabolic hormones, calories, amino acids and rest. Remove even one of these ingredients and muscles won’t grow as well as they should. Constant muscle tension is a prominent element in slow-velocity training, so on the surface this technique looks ideal. Slow training is extremely fatiguing and painful. Slow reps decrease muscle blood flow and prevent flushing of muscle acids and waste products, which reduce muscle tension and training gains. Researchers form the University of Connecticut concluded that very slow velocity training doesn’t trigger the necessary levels of force, power or volume to optimize muscle strength or size. Slow training may be a good variation, but shouldn’t be your primary method of training. (Journal Strength Conditioning Research, 20: 760-766, 2006)
Posted on May 19th, 2007 by Leo
Filed under: Friday Health Check
Donnie Yen is awesome but Nicholas Tse is lame. I want to punch that guy in the face for all the Ferraris he’s wrecked.
Donnie Yen is pretty much steals the movie anyways, everybody else is just dramatic inserts. Watching that guy at work is amazing, he’s so fast you have to slow everything down to catch it all.
Apparently Nicholas Tse and Stephen Fung (yeah, the other one) are apparently buddies. So I had this chick on MySpace stalking me for a little while. That was kinda hot
Wrecking Ferrari’s? Man, this guy takes crappy Asian Drivers to a whole new level!
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