@princess:
i understood but it's just not true. there's absolutely
some degree of the "muscle memory" phenomena when talking about training someone to levels they were at before, but that doesn't even approach what he's asserting. He's basically saying that, given the *same* physical condition from 22 til 35, that how you were at 21 will affect whether you gain at 35. That's a silly observation/hunch that he has, that's based on either anecdotes or gut (or both), despite there being no mechanisms to explain such a phenomena (nor empirical data, nor even strong anecdotal/industry opinion, to help substantiate it). Regardless of where he got such a notion, his saying it as if it were fact(or even popular opinion) is more than enough for me to recommend staying away from him - not only is he spreading BS (or just communicating terribly), but even if he truly truly believes he's seen this in his own work, that is an indictment on his training, not his clients.
You'll lose fat / gain muscle more effectively at any given level when you're in your 20's than your 30's, but how you trained a decade ago is so close to irrelevant it may as well be worthless. I'm not saying that how you trained in the *meantime* is irrelevant, but how you trained from 20-21 has fuck-all to do with how you're responding to training at 35. Observed "muscle memory" scenarios are described in months, not a decade, and even if there were zero "muscle memory" boosts, the fact of the matter is 35y/o's (any age, really) absolutely CAN make huge gains - they're not "sort of stuck" in any sense, unless they thought they were gonna be 18 the second they touched a dumbbell. If he's finding this happens w/ a lot of his trainee's, and he's telling them that they're not getting results because *they* fucked up by not staying in shape, then...well that'd be grounds for dismissal at *any* proper establishment.
damn i can't believe that, guy actually has the nuts to tell his customers "it's too late, shoulda trained over the past decade". Out of curiousity is he a new trainer or something? I cannot fathom how someone can say shit like that w/o losing full credibility at that gym :/
Add to the first quote there are healthy and unhealthy sugars also. These have other effects as normal sugars not a energy source but micronutrient, Poly saccharides.
Regarding sodium intake try to reduce the ammount of NaCL (its almost in all foods) including the as sea salt sold salt that actually come from the land.
And replace with a wholespectrum seasalt like Celtic or Hawaiian seasalt (only exp with the former but its amazingly good tasting).
what benefit is there to that salt swapping?
and re sugars, "simple" versus "complex" will affect digestion rates, insulin levels, energy, etc. Generally speaking, simple carbs are digested very very fast (and correspondingly have a fast/strong insulin spike), while complex carbs are typically richer in fibers* and give a longer, slower insulin response(and corresponding glycogen levels)
Am unsure what you're getting at with the polysaccharides/energy thing, a digested gram of carbs' energy = 4calories no matter what and regardless of whether it's a complex carb or not (just like protein
and 7k/gram for ethanol, which is digested preferentially as the body cannot store it; and 9k/gram of fat. Oh and something to note is that the 'metabolic cost' of simply digesting some foods will strip a good deal of their calories, like even though carbs adn proteins are both 4k/gram, you get more total energy from a gram of sugar than a gram of protein, as your body uses much more energy to digesting the protein compared to fats or carbs
For bodybuilders and ppl trying to gain weight, plz understand that far too many weightgain products will have "Complex Carbs" all over the front label, despite the carb source being maltodextrin (iirc just two dextrose molecules, technically it counts as a "complex" carb although it behaves in the body like dextrose or any other 'simple' sugar/carb. It's less sweet than dextrose so useful when just trying to up the calories, but don't pay extra because you see 'complex' carbs on the front until you check to make sure it's oats or something and not malto ;P )
*=fiber is a carbohydrate, but the body cannot absorb fiber (whether soluble or insoluble). Fibrous stuff is 'complex' ("slow release", so to speak), in that the fibers slow the digestion of the digestible carbs.
otherwise I could give a shit less about a little scarring as iodine makes a good disinfectant. just don't use the salt they put on the roads for ice and you'll be alright (the additional chemicals in it burn so damn bad and caused horrible irritation).
