culdeus
Footballguy
@ctsu
I would read up on the science here: http://www.brianmac.co.uk/energy.htm
When training your body to take higher load at low reps you are not adding much mass (unless a complete novice lifter). You are instead activating the ATP-CP pathways that basically allow your body to use the muscle you already did have, but never used more effectively.
This is why you usually (for various reasons, many of them based in broscience) you see bodybuilders looking for mass training high reps varied weight in hypertrophy and power lifters training high weight low reps. Most of what you "train" in power lifting is your brain. Basically convincing it that you actually can, under stress lift something over your head relatively equal to your own body weight.
I would read up on the science here: http://www.brianmac.co.uk/energy.htm
When training your body to take higher load at low reps you are not adding much mass (unless a complete novice lifter). You are instead activating the ATP-CP pathways that basically allow your body to use the muscle you already did have, but never used more effectively.
This is why you usually (for various reasons, many of them based in broscience) you see bodybuilders looking for mass training high reps varied weight in hypertrophy and power lifters training high weight low reps. Most of what you "train" in power lifting is your brain. Basically convincing it that you actually can, under stress lift something over your head relatively equal to your own body weight.