Can contracting your muscles randomly during the day actually build muscles?
>>77331180Yes.
>>77331180No.
>>77331180maybe
>>77331180I don’t know
>>77331180I know
>>77331180Can you repeat the question?
Fucking reddit thread
>>77331180Weight training is just a way to get you to contract your muscles as hard as possible. Arguably if you could exactly control how hard you contract, you could put on muscle without weights. This is the thesis behind Maxalding. Atlas' dynamic tension is a similar thesis. Though both of these have the problem you could've guessed that you have no control about how hard you contract. As hard as possible, or at least what you subjectively perceive as such, maybe be nowhere near total contraction intensity. You might only be flexing at half force. You need an external and constant source of resistance to build muscle which is why generally either standard weight training with free weights and machines. You can force your muscles to contract as hard as possible consistently.
Someone will post it on reddit
>>77331180Curiously, yes. Applying constant tension on the muscles can make them grow. The tricky part becomes then 'how much progressive overload can you output?'
>>77331180Idk but I remember watching a video about jackie chan's routine and he would often flex his muscles as hard as possible after he was done with a workout. He was a skinny cunt so maybe his opinion is not the best
>>77331218bruce lee* it's easy to get them yellow fellas mixed up
>>77331180Jokes aside, yes, you are exercising strain, but its not comparable to weight lifting.Dont forget you build muscle the closer you are to failure, which is really hard to achieve without any actual (weight) resistance.If you wanna build muscle while doing stuff randomly throughout the day, I would instead try to do isometrics.>lift your computer desk (just like 1 cm) off the ground with one arm>holding a filled water bottle for like 10 minutes on a mid bicep curl position>Walking on your tiptoes to engage calves>trying to "ghost sit" while you are hovering over the chair in a sitting position to basically do a long unmoving squatThey are still not comparable to weight lifting but its the best close thing. You wont get swole doing them but it keeps the muscles semi active for a bit.The struggle with these is to not look like a retard sperg if you are in a place with other people like an office.
>>77331215>progressive overloadThe problem with progressive overload is that people tend to think of it in terms of powerlifting, that you have to put 5 lbs on the bar next session and move the weight up 5 times. It's fine for powerlifting training where you start up with a deload and build up to a max 1RM at the end of the cycle, hopeful with an increase in PR. But for general strength training, that is basic hypertrophy training for the purpose of making sure your muscles gain the tissue necessary to contribute to skill-independent strength, it's detrimental. It's better to just train consistently and only add weight when it feels like its too easy or you have to do way too many reps. Making the logbook the goal is a mistake since it leads to people trying to move the weight in whatever means possible, bouncing off the floor during deads. Twisting, arching, and so on during BP. Not pausing for a second at the bottom of a squat and compromising form. Sure you get the weight up. But you deload the muscles you want to train. Whereas sticking to a weight and making sure your form is adequate to load the muscles you want to train will yield results in the long term. As long the sets are hard and you consistently get a significant decrease in rep speed at the last rep and increase weight when you're doing to many reps, the logbook doesn't matter. Even though Tom Platz was mostly training with no more than 3-4pl8s, for 20+ reps, he still built the biggest and probably the best quads to this day just doing reps with perfect form.
>>77331245You are right but most people are shit at judging "easy" the same way most people cannot properly go to failure. It is definitely possible, and most Mr Olympias have that instinct naturally, but the common man does not.This is why having a plan is often better for them because it forces them to load a specific weight until they can't do it anymore.
>>77331262>Yeah bro you have to take every single set to total failure. If you aren't passing out at least twice per session you're a pussy and will never make gains. It has nothing to do with the PEDs I'm gaslighting you with, but everything to do with (You)r level of intensity. Buy my routineYou faggots have been so heavily psyopped by shitfluencers and roidtrannies it's unreal. Meanwhile you can and will make solid gains doing 6RPE with 4+ RIR.
>>77331277>eww going to failure is icky despite being>you can make """""solid gains""""" without it insteadlmao
>>77331180Not sure about building muscle but if you have a "posing routine" that you do regularly you can maintain a pretty decent amount of muscle, even if you don't lift for a while.
>>77331299>the reason you don't look like generic shitfluencer roidtranny #5983 is because... you dont try hard enough! yeah, thats it!I mog you btw
>>77331418i lost
Look up "myotonia congenita".
>>77331180I have a disease called Myotonia Congenita which is delayed muscle relaxation, meaning my muscles are contracted basically all the time.As result yes, I get muscles passively. Ever since a child people would always ask me if I lift even though I never did. I get muscles especially in the neck and calves which are hard to train otherwise.Pic related is what it looks like. The legs are very impressive, the upper body not so much other than the neck
>>77331484>nuclear physicists when the court divides their assets
>>77331639no fucking way you have MC, that's a 1 in 300k genetic lottery. it's my fucking dream to have this condition FUCK
>>77331245looks like some kind of cancer
>>77331180Randomly flexing or tensing your muscles throughout the day can improve your muscle tone and mind-muscle connection, but it will not build significant muscle mass (hypertrophy). True muscle growth requires progressive overload—consistently challenging your muscles with increasingly heavier weights or resistance over time.
>>77331212>maybe be nowhere near total contraction intensitymaybe for some people with a weak cns when i do that shit i hurt myself
>>77331180Not necessarily. Flexing does activate your glycogen receptors but not nearly as effectively as actual exercise. However, flexing hard after a set does, in fact, accelerate muscle growth (with an appropriate diet, of course).
Yes, my forearms blew up from just reflexively clenching my fists whenever a woman starts talking within earshot.
>>77331642>it's my fucking dream to have this conditionTrust me you don't want to have this.
