Friends, today I want to talk about 3 things no one tells you about muscle gain.
Hello warriors, today I want to talk about three things that nobody tells you when you start training. Or rather also when you've been training for a while or even years - without knowing these things you can get a lot of unnecessary frustration. Even here and from now on I am going to talk exclusively about my own experience and you can agree or disagree with what I say, but I feel that it is only my own experience that counts.
So friends, to start talking about the first thing - about a month ago I got the results of the DNA test I did. And one day I'll do a separate video on all the results you can get, but today I'd like to focus on the muscle part.
A DNA test can reveal the amount and proportion of slow twitch and fast twitch fibres that we can develop. In other words, genetically it is already pre-written what we are going to look like. Whether we will use all this potential or not is another question, but we will certainly not be able to jump over our own head, as they say.
Genetics defines to a large extent the appearance of our muscles because depending on how much of one type or the other you have you can have more bulky or less bulky muscles. Already as you can imagine - having more fast twitch fibres and their higher percentage in a certain muscle group - can give you that bigger appearance. That's why you can have a better predisposition for one sport or another and you can already know that as soon as you are born.
And why I say all this - is because so much information and so many people focus on how to increase your muscle. But really within 5 years or so you will be reaching almost your full potential. If you train in a super-optimised way, you might get there sooner, if you train in a way that is not so optimised for hypertrophy or you are not so consistent, it might take you longer. But you will hardly ever go beyond that mark, as the amount of fibres and their proportion is genetically determined, as I said.
In fact, I know several athletes who have been doing it for 10 years and can weigh the same 70 or 72 kg without any change in weight. These people have a lot of training knowledge, they train like beasts, they have incredible consistency and they have incredible skills. Their muscles are bulky because they are using them, but in many, many years they have not gained weight or developed new fibres.
And I personally, when I started the channel, I had been training for about 15 years. At the beginning obviously with less constancy because I was a kid and then gradually with more constancy and knowledge. But when I started the channel when I was 30 years old, I was probably already at my limit.
Some of you may take it as "not having the knowledge of how to train better in order to keep growing". However, actually at a certain point I was training with 100kg dips, 60 or 70kg pull-ups and reps, taking care of my diet and nutrition. And despite having done so many super heavy workouts - I stayed more or less the same as I was in my 30s.
So why do I say all this, my friends. You're going to have a lot more peace of mind accepting your body the way it is because you may already be very close to your potential. Having so much information about muscle growth, you can constantly be thinking that you're doing something wrong, that you're in despair. But really our bodies are not designed to grow endlessly. And you have to accept that from a certain point you will be training to maintain so to speak.
The biggest gains in gains will be seen by beginners who have been training for less than 5 years. In fact, in the first 1, 2 or even 3 years you see so much gain and pretty much anything works. Really in the first year of training you can just look at the weight and your muscles will start to grow.
Obviously, this is an exaggeration, but it's just to make you understand that in the beginning practically everything will work and you will see results. But from now on you will have to understand that you are the way you are, so that you can continue to train accepting the way you are and not have the frustration that you are doing something wrong just because your muscles are not growing.
And it's already different, - it's working out for the love of working out, not because you're desperate to change your body for some reasons.
But here it is important that we talk about the second thing, because this very thing can create a lot of confusion. And this thing is the fluctuations in our muscle volume and mass of our body.
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