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Old 09-12-2010, 08:19 PM   #2317
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Originally Posted by DaFonz View Post
Depends on what you're after - do you want the puffy look of body builders or do you want dense muscle?

Doing what you're doing will give you a pump and make your arm muscles bigger no doubt, but it's likely to be more sarcroplasmic hypertrophy (defined as your muscles getting bigger without more strength gains due to increased size of muscle cells) than myofibrillar (you get greater strength due to denser muscles, but the size of muscle won't grow as much).

That's my long winded way of saying body builder (sarcroplasmic) or brad pitt in fight club (myofibrillar)?
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