It honestly sounds crazy to me to increase the mitochondria in fast twitch fibers (I didn't even know they had much, if any, mitochondria in them... not that it would matter since they aren't fueled by them anyways no?).
Type 2a are fast-oxidative fibers. These are also known as "Intermediate fibers". I'm aware these are the ones that can be converted either way.Look up the different types of fast twitch muscle fibers. Type IIa have high mitochondrial density and can be trained aerobically.
...I can't find anything on the guy...
We're living in the age of internet, smartphones etc. where everyone can find almost any info he/she wants within a matter of seconds while sitting on the toilette. Also the interest in all things fitness is at an all time high.There is a plenty, just learn Russian.
e.g.: Селуянов, Виктор Николаевич — Википедия
We're living in the age of internet, smartphones etc. where everyone can find almost any info he/she wants within a matter of seconds while sitting on the toilette. Also the interest in all things fitness is at an all time high.
I still can't get my head around the fact that there's still things like that russian research that is unknown everywhere except for russia, because noone translated it...
Pavels methods produce results, but you have to be honest that all that "secret soviet" stuff seems like a gimmick he pulls out of his butt for marketing reasons and so that noone can say he's wrong, because beside him nobody in the western world knows this research exists or has access to it.
Apparantly it's true, but again it's hard to believe in todays world.
It's kind of odd, right?On the other hand, I agree that Pavel does not want to lose his 'exclusivity' in combining know how+russian.
True.Well, there are thousands of (non-english) scientific articles published every week or so. I am not sure whether there exists a person that get paid just to translate them.
I speak Russian and have read a lot of Seluyanov's writings. His theory is somewhat oversimplified and mechanistic - there is no endurance, there are only heart volume and mitochondrias. If heart has enough hypertrophy and can pump enough oxygen to muscles, then you don't need LISS training, you only need mitochondrias/myofibrils in muscles, which are developed through many sets to failure and long rests between sets or through interval training like hill sprints with long rests. In theory an athlete with biggest heart/most mitochondrias will alway win. He came up with his theory in the 90s as an opposite against "Train hard, train a lot and push harder to win" mentality, that was popular and that destroyed many young athletes. It was important for that time. But maybe there are many more factors (endocrinal, neurological, psychological, technical) that play a role and this explains why there are no competitive endurance athlets like cyclists/skiers/swimmers that train in Seluyanov's way, they all train in a way that should destroy all their mitochondrias if Seluyanov is right. In reality they are succesfull and get better.
For hypertrophy his approach sounds like tradional bodybuilding training, except for the long rests.
Fast twitch fibers - 70%-85% RM, 5-10 sets to failure,7-10 days rest, 5-10m rest between sets
Slow twitch fibers - 30-50% RM, 3-5 superseries, superserie is 3x(30s work / 30s rest) to failure in last set,3-5 days rest, 5-10m rest between sets, partial reps - moving without stopping
This method is used by some competitive powerlifters and is very effective.
Ok, I'm tired of this confusion. @aciampa just settle it for me. Is Power training like S&S actually building mitochondria onto the fast twitch muscle fibers? Have you looked at the claims by Selouyanov (I can't find anything on the guy)? It honestly sounds crazy to me to increase the mitochondria in fast twitch fibers (I didn't even know they had much, if any, mitochondria in them... not that it would matter since they aren't fueled by them anyways no?).
The link is three posts above you. At the end of my post.