subject: The Best Workout Routines To Stimulate Muscle Growth [print this page] Many an experts shallowly mention about the importance of a body builder doing three sets of ten repetitions, but rarely do they let us know how this combination works. The numbers are not just simply picked at random, rather there is a scientific theorem behind the workout volume and this is what this article will discuss briefly.
The core target of a three sets of ten reps workout is to recruit unit motor muscles. Essentially a human body muscle groups has contractions usually signaled by electrical signals otherwise called action potentials located in the plasma membranes constituted in each muscle fiber. These signals are transmitted from the central nervous system to the muscle fibers via transmitting nerves called neurons. The nerve cells that help innervate the muscle fibers are what we call motor neurons.
Workouts whether for biceps or triceps, ought to stimulate optimal exhaustion in the muscle fibers by maximally using the motor neurons to keep transmitting movement signal to and from the central nervous system. Ideally, research corroborated by medical reports in scientific journals in the last four years have established that ten reps repeated for three sets are the optimal stimulation that recruit new units of fiber growth. 30 reps help the motor neurons register and assign prominence to the transmission of signals from the muscle being worked out at that particular time. When the prominence is assigned and the central nervous system determines that the particular muscle potential has been taxed to exhaustion, it commissions further growth to meet the challenge.
To understand the essence of 10 reps of tri sets in simple language, we should conceive hypertrophy (muscle growth) to be stimulated by exhaustion. The growth of bigger and stronger muscles is the reaction that the body initiates to cope up with the challenge. A body builder may target bigger muscles during a workout, but the body does not know this. However what happens is that the body naturally and automatically initiates muscle growth with the single intent of rising to the challenges offered by the exercises.
These reps are the optimal workload that makes the motor neurons originating from the central nervous system CNS and spanning all over the muscle network, by dividing into infinite multiple branches. Each of the branches forms a meet with another to form a junction. The motor neuron and the muscle fibers innervated in its branches is what we call known a motor unit. This is usually the target of the 10 reps Tri-Sets.
Each muscle fiber contained within a motor unit is of a similar type with all the other fibers when it comes to speed of transmission i.e. Slow or fast twitch. It is therefore the case that, the more motor units a body builder activates always equals to amount of stimulation spread all over the muscles prompting others to grow so as to meet the optimal challenge of the greatest number of muscle fibers to grow. Ten reps for each of the three sets used in all workouts, are therefore very useful in recruit the greatest number of motor units and therefore muscle fibers.
