Isometrics & Flexing

[Soshyopathe]

I recently re-read Arnold's Encyclopedia. He recommends flexing your targetted muscle between sets and after the workout. Does this train your muscles to look hard even when you aren't flexing?

Also, the pictures in that book are freakish, and the muscles are very detailed. I looked at a Bruce Lee pic recently, and he was of course chiseled. I know these guys have around 4% body fat, and that's why they're so ripped.

However, it looks like their skin is actually rock hard. Not the muscle, the skin.
Is that just a side effect of having low body fat, or is it isometrics or what?

 

[xyzzy]

I have many books on Bruce Lee, and throughout them there are quotes like "if you gripped Bruce's forearm it was like grabbing hold of a baseball bat". And during Enter the Dragon, a woman wanted to feel his bicep and she said "it's like feeling warm marble"

Even Schwarzenegger was quoted to saying that Bruce Lee had the lowest bodyfat of any athlete around.

From what Ive read Lee was obsessive in his training, and to venture a guess, his muscles were probably toned (in the sense of the word where part of the muscles are contracted, part are relaxed) all the time, and being ripped as he was, is as close to feeling the muscle as youll get.


[This message has been edited by xyzzy (edited 12-07-2002).]

 

[Viroid]

Originally posted by Soshyopathe:
I looked at a Bruce Lee pic recently, and he was of course chiseled. I know these guys have around 4% body fat, and that's why they're so ripped.

Interesting things ive read about Bruce Lee:

-He never lost an arm wrestling match.

-He would sit on his couch with a dumbell constantly doing wrist curls.

-He once crushed an un-opened can of soda with his bare hands. I guess back then the cans were made out of tin, but its still quite a feat.


Is that just a side effect of having low body fat, or is it isometrics or what?

Isometrics are used by bodybuilders for increased muscle control and endurance. BBer's need muscle control and endurance for when they are on stage with constantly tensed muscles under hot lights in a dehydrated state


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[Soshyopathe]

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