What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
Have you ever noticed that you can bounce back from a lay-off, whether it be from being
sick, maybe injured, maybe just taking some time away from the gym, maybe you got demotivated
and lazy.
The fact of the matter is you're able to bounce back because of something called muscle memory
and see your gains come back a lot faster than when you built them up in the first place.
That has everything to do with my four dots.
Let me explain what I'm talking about.
So I have a yard here, and I have four dogs.
I talked about them before.
Four black labs, and they like to run, and I've got to make sure that I keep my eyes
on them because if I don’t, one can get away from me, as I've had happen to me yesterday.
Now, here's the fact of the matter: if they stay over here – one dog, two dogs, three
dogs, four dogs – and I stay over here, I can watch them really easily.
I can keep my eye on all of them.
No one's getting away from me.
So I have two options now to make sure that I can do that.
I can either fence off the yard now and just make sure that I never have to worry about
that, and they don’t get a chance to cover any more ground, or I cannot worry about putting
a fence up and I can get another me.
I can get somebody that can come and help me to watch this half and they can now expand
the amount of ground that these guys could cover.
So, I can get someone like Jessie to do this, right?
Jessie's not editing videos, he's working on this.
The fact of the matter is: our muscles operate the same way.
Come on, sweat for me baby.
There we go.
So the muscles operate in the same way.
We have a muscle fiber.
The muscle fiber covers a certain amount of ground.
Attached to the muscle fibers are satellite cells, okay?
These aren't dogs.
They're satellite cells and they donate something called a myonuclei, which is going to allow
this cell to become larger.
It's brought upon by stress.
So you're rally just bringing in this myonuclei, which is brought upon by stress.
So training hard, changing up your workouts, making sur that all those stressors that create
muscle growth and damage in the first place are there.
So now we have this.
Ultimately, though as the muscle fiber gets bigger, as the yard gets bigger, these four
myonuclei cannot regulate that size of that muscle fiber anymore.
They reach a maximum limit.
It gets to the maximum limit.
It's called the myonuclei domain.
At that point you have only one option: to get bigger.
The muscles won't grow any bigger than that.
The only option is to bring in more.
So if I had two more, well now all of a sudden the fiber can get bigger so that now those
six can oversee that entire size of that muscle fiber.
All right, now here's the cool part about what happens here.
When we talk about muscle memory, when we lose muscle size – because we do.
You've seen it.
You've experienced it.
you get sick, you get smaller.
I lost, like, 12lbs the last time I had the flu.
Your muscle fibers might get smaller because metabolically it's sort of a waste to have
them be really big and demanding if you're not using them.
But you won't lose the myonuclei that you had added and accrued from your hard training
and stress.
So now, this has the capacity to be this, but they're just not being used at the moment.
So it's gotten smaller, but as soon as you start training again, this can bounce back
to this size much, much quicker.
The same way that if I had Jessie, and it rained for five days in a row, I wouldn't
fire his ass.
I'd keep him around and have him to edit the videos.
Right?
Because Jessie's a good kid.
So what we do is, we have Jessie to be able to do that, and as soon as it stops raining,
the dogs want to go back outside and run again, he's there and he's able to do that and they
don’t have any restrictions on the amount of ground that they can cover, or the amount
of ground that your muscles can cover.
Okay, so now what does this mean?
Especially as New Year's comes around the corner here, it means everything.
Number one: we have a lot of different categories of people.
If you're somebody that's never trained at all before, you don't have the accumulation
of these sitting around.
However, it's pretty damned easy to get them because everything is a stress.
Everything you do.
Lifting, bending over to tie your shoes is like a squat, for crying out loud.
You start seeing size gains in your legs because you're doing something you've never done before.
So your ability to start building up the myonuclei is actually really easy for you.
You don't have something that the guys that are more experienced deal with.
That is that we continually overcome that repeated balance of exercise phenomenon.
The fact that we keep doing the same thing over and over again, and it gets harder and
harder to stretch the muscle out.
So that's the first thing.
So if you've never done anything before you should be excited about New Year's, getting
ready to head out there and start training.
The next category is the guy who maybe trained in the past, but hasn't trained in a long
time.
Life got in the way.
Something got in the way of him actually training, and now he needs to get back into it.
Well, good!
Maybe your muscles have gotten smaller because you haven't used them, but you still have
the results of your hard work.
Likely, the myonuclei are still there in place so that you're going to be able to bounce
back and see results a lot faster than you maybe thought.
So you should be encouraged by that.
And for the other guys, the guys that have been banging away at it time, and time again.
Year after year.
Never miss an off day.
Never doing – guys, understand that you're not going to lose your gains, okay?
It takes a long time to lose these guys, right?
They all stay in place here.
It's a long time.
So if you're feeling a little bit burned out take a little time off to recharge yourself
so you can get ready and excited about the New Year so you can start attacking your workouts
with a new amount of energy.
All right, guys.
So that's it.
Hopefully this little refresher on muscle memory is encouraging above all else.
Why?
Because you've got no excuses.
It's time to hit the gym, not matter what stage of the game you're in, and get yourself
in line for some new gains.
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All right, guys.
I'll be back here again soon.
See ya!