Resistance training, what comes first, the muscle or the heart?

What must be trained first, the muscle or the heart?

The eternal question of What came before, the chicken or the egg? It can carry over into training, what to train first, the muscle or the heart?

Our collaborator Rebook Performance, tells us in this article how to train correctly in endurance sports.

All the most common recommendations to start the season have always been start with low intensity workouts and perform different activities than usual to create aerobic base

Options Muscle training for endurance sports

These recommendations are clearly positioned in begin training by giving work to the heart (cardiovascular system) and is what many of us We have made every season start for many years.

The heart is also a muscle, but it works due to the demand of others. If they do not require a large amount of blood, it does not need to develop.

To improve performance, the skeletal muscle must be worked in a demanding way, so that capillaries are created and so we can use all the necessary nutrients.

The circulatory system will not develop if there is no prior muscular demand.

It is as if we compare the refueling of our car or that of a Formula 1. Our hose (capillaries) will need several minutes to fill the tank, it does not need a large pump that drives a lot of gasoline and at high speed, but the Formula 1 pump in a few seconds has filled the engine with nutrients so that you can use them.

To understand it better yet, eThe trained heart of a great cyclist or runner are quite similar, but their muscles are different.

A good cyclist should be able to run on foot just like a good runner, cardiovascularly they can be almost identical.

But in reality this does not happen or at least not at the expected level. The best cyclist in the world capable of moving more than 6w / kg in a port, will never win a marathon, he will not even be able to run for a long time at less than 3: 15min / km.

To get it you will need to develop your specific musculature for a long time. Muscularly he is not efficient in that task.

The heart pumps a lot of blood, but the muscle is not able to use those nutrients.

The same goes for a rower who wants to be a swimmer or a cross-country skier who wants to be a cyclist. The heart may be nonspecific and will adequately perform the function of pumping blood, but the musculature is complex and very specific.

The muscle develops according to the demand that is demanded and gradually generates its own adaptations requesting the help of other organs (including the cardiovascular) in order to fulfill its mission.

In order to squeeze all the nutrients that come through the capillaries it is necessary to have a large amount of enzymes and above all some mitochondria very efficient (the real secret of performance).

MUSCLE TRAINING OPTIONS FOR RESISTANCE SPORTS

  • High intensity training (HIIT) combined with resistance: Sustained speed (sprints of 30sg or more) combined with resistance training produces an additional stimulus in trained athletes (study)
  • Aerobic training of low or moderate intensity with Superimposed electro-stimulation (study, study)
  • Strength training: The biggest muscle activator is strength training especially with high intensity exercises, 70-80% 1 RM (study)
  • Strength training with superimposed electro-stimulation: the same strength training has additional advantages if electro-stimulation is also applied during the exercise (study)

If you want to improve your performance first demand your muscles, these will be responsible later that the circulatory system can be developed without losing time and without limitations.

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