Creatine and martial arts?

[Aodhan]

Hmm, i've never heard of this slow twitch / fast twitch reference to muscle-types. Can you elaborate?

Muscles are made up of two types of fibers, type I and type II.

Type I - Slow twitch - Characterized by slow contraction times (Relatively speaking), and high resistance to fatigue. They also generally have lower creatine reserves.

Type II - Fast Twitch - Characterized by fast contraction times, and low resistance to fatigue. These are further divided into two types, FTA or IIA, and FTB or IIB. IIA are kind of "transition", and are between IIB and I fibers. Moderate resistance to fatigue. These are the fibers used in things like 400 yd sprints, etc. IIB have the lowest resistance to fatigue, these are the ones used in things like short sprints, shot puts, very short explosive type movements.

Aodhan

[Goju_boi]

so people that lift weights should lift bothheavy and light no stop this effect?

[glockmeister]

Lifting lighter weights with more reps tends to work your fast twitch fibers. However, It has been known that lifting heavy weight not only targets the slow but also fast twitch simultainiously. so you tend to work both by lifting heavier weights whereas, lifting lighter only tends to work the fast twitch fibers

[Goju_boi]

yeah but these people have been saying that lifting heavy makes you slower,that's why I'm asking if evening it out with light weight sessions can evn it out?

[Aodhan]

yeah but these people have been saying that lifting heavy makes you slower,that's why I'm asking if evening it out with light weight sessions can evn it out?

Not if you are doing just as much training in the dojang with sparring, drills, etc. If ALL you are doing is weightlifting, then using light weight/explosive drills will help train the fast twitch. If you are doing regular dojang training, I wouldn't worry about it so much.

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Aodhan

[Goju_boi]

oh ok,so martial arts helps take away that negative effect?

[White Warlock]

thank you for the information.

[CagedWarrior]

oh ok,so martial arts helps take away that negative effect?

Training for speed takes away the "negative effect." That means shadowboxing, using a speed bag, or whatever. It usually doesn't mean lifting light, although I hear some people will lift a light weight very fast to train their muscles for speed. Personally I don't think that would work very well.

[Goju_boi]

well light weught are more of an endurance thing.