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Originally Posted by Sean
True, muscle does strengthen quicker than connective tissue. However, the disparity between the two usually isn't enough to cause injury without external factors, i.e. steroids or other hormone enhancements. It just simply isn't possible naturally to gain strength in a muscle so quickly that it threatens the connective tissue. Our bodies are designed a bit better than that.
That being said, any decent progressive-overload strength program will build muscular strength at a steadily increasing rate, say 10+ lbs. per day for a total novice and 5 lbs. per week for an intermediate, and maybe even less than that for an advanced athlete close to his genetic potential. Because of the steady, relatively small increases (even for novices), the connective tissue isn't subjected to such a drastically strong muscle that it is under threat of injury. If that were the case, babies would develop tendon and ligament strains the instant they transitioned from walking to running.
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Wrong assumption.
If you'd worked Physical Therapy long enough to see the Tendon and ligament damages from -itises to ruptures, you know that our muscles do inflect damage to connective tissue. Chronicle yourself the types of injuries in a gym and you'll see the disparity of connective tissue to Skeletal muscle injuries.
I'm not going to belabor these points I continually research these facts and quit sure of what I've said.
Math seems odd. 10 lbs to a load of 200 lbs. is 5% gain, 10 lb. to 50 lb.. is 20% gain how would those muscles differ?.
I've done your math and on the program you speak of the daily gains are less than 3%.
Give me a percentage of strength gain from you system that I may compare to my system. All of my previous claims are "Minimums".
Additionally this is a "Blitz only Thread" and your comments don't apply here if you are no using it or have valid questions about it. There are plenty of places to post all of the traditional stuff.
Here is the place to talk Blitz, not measuring dicks. Use it and then talk bad about it...