Hello, Sarn here!

I went down into a book shoppe called "DYMOCKS" in Wellington, because I know
that they have a great sports books section, and I managed to pick up an
interesting book written by two authors, one of the was a descendant of Mike
Mentzer called "John Little".

Now, this bloke, well, he seems of above average intelligence, and he wrote
about an interesting method of training that he had been working on since the
year 1984, called "Max contraction" training.

I was, actually impressed with this, as I was with Stewart McRoberts book BRAWN,
but there are some things about this which puzzle and perplex me.

Mr.Little gives a method of training called the "Omega Set", and I supposse that
this is sacred, so I should call it the "OMEGA set".

With this "OMEGA set" training, you hold the heaviest weight possible, for
1---->6 seconds, until failure, and then you get a couple of partners to catch
it, and to return it to full contraction, after a breif rest.

What I can't seem to understand, it HOW a fully contracted muscle would
"translate" to a fuller range of motion.

Mr.Little tells me/us that the "OMEGA set", it a primary way to stimulate fast
twitch fibers, but I was under the impression that there were actually only two
ways to do this, with:

a)Light weights lifter explosively (but of course, controlled),

and....

b)Heavy weights lifter slowly, (with, of course, the intent to move them fast).

So, supposedly, if I used ONLY the lower half of the range of motion, with
light-and-explosive weights, or ONLY the lower half of the range of motion with
heavy and slow weights, then this would NOT stimulate fast fiber.

So, the more muscle fiber, AND the more fast muscle fiber I stimulate is related
to how close to max contraction I am lifting, AND how heavy a load I am using.

What about light-and-explosive weights at or near max contraction?

So, we then, thus have THREE things;

1.Load, 2.Lifting speed, 3.Proportion of max contraction in a lift, and a
combination of these things to stimulate fast (or slow fiber)?

Yes?

Thus, the heavier the load, the closer to max contraction, and the faster the
lift, the more fast fiber I'd be stimulateing?

Right?

I look foward to further thoughts on this matter...

------Sarn.

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