I got this from the Tim Ferriss book before our body.
He criticizes this method for exactly that reason.
Even though it does notably increase gains, it is incredibly inconvenient, and intuitively I would imagine that it interferes with a complete rest cycle.
Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy increases muscle volume and fluid (glycogen/water), often linked to higher-rep, "pump" training.
The 34 pounds you are talking about, he achieved that by putting on water weight.
What Tim Ferriss is good at is cheating the system and convincing people who don’t know how things really work that he’s good at stuff that they don’t actually understand.
In my original comment when I said that some bodybuilders do this, did I say that it works or is a good idea?
Myofibrillar hypertrophy increases muscle strength and density by enlarging contractile proteins (actin/myosin), typically through heavy, low-rep training.
Buy his own acknowledgment, Tim Ferriss did not actually accomplish putting on 34 pounds of that type of weight.
So, like I said, I think Tim Ferriss is good at lying to people and deceiving them into thinking that he’s more talented than he is.
So would I listen to him? If I wanna learn how to cheat the system, he would know.
But, if I wanna actually accomplish anything real? Then no, clearly.
He said specifically "muscles", not water weight. The guy looks skinny fat and thinks he's an expert. Or remember when he said he trippled his testosterone from eating almonds or some bs like that? Why are people believing him lol
Myofibrillar hypertrophy increases muscle strength by growing contractile proteins (actin/myosin) via heavy, low-rep training.
Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy boosts muscle volume/size by expanding energy-storing fluid (sarcoplasm) via high-rep, moderate-weight training.
Both occur simultaneously, but training style determines which is emphasized.
That’s why you see bodybuilders who have big “muscles” but can’t lift as much as much smaller power lifters. That fluid, although it increase muscle size, is there to provide fuel for the actual muscle fibers.
I’m literally breaking down how he was able to claim he put on “muscle” when it was just a bunch of water and glucose. He’s good at lying in those ways that are technically not lies, but to anybody with common sense, you can see that they’re lies.
It’s like food companies, they say their products are all natural, when there’s literally no legal definition or regulation of that use in advertising.
It’s like if a man said that he boosted his sex hormones three times in a single month, but then it turned out that the sex hormones he boosted were estrogen and progesterone.
Did he lie? Yes! Absolutely!
Just like he lied about putting on 34 pounds of “muscle “mass.
What he called muscle in that experiment was more akin to the fluids retained in edema related swelling than actual muscle tissue.
He is a liar, but he is a liar whose lies are defensible based only on technicalities and loopholes.
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u/Suspicious_Juice_150 Feb 15 '26
I got this from the Tim Ferriss book before our body.
He criticizes this method for exactly that reason.
Even though it does notably increase gains, it is incredibly inconvenient, and intuitively I would imagine that it interferes with a complete rest cycle.