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"The only way to confuse your muscles, is to go to the gym, and not hit chest or bis."

"Kali is an expert on street workouts, because in prison, he had two choices: Lift, or Die. The hardest choice you ever had to make was Dom, or Tony, and you chose both."

Resistance training to momentary muscular failure improves cardiovascular fitness in humans.

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Abstract:

Steele J, Fisher J, McGuff D, Bruce-Low S, Smith D. Resistance Training to Momentary Muscular Failure Improves Cardiovascular Fitness in Humans: A Review of Acute Physiological Responses and Chronic Physiological Adaptations. JEPonline 2012;15(3):53-80.

Research demonstrates resistance training produces significant improvement in cardiovascular fitness (VO2 max, economy of movement). To date no review article has considered the underlying physiological mechanisms that might support such improvements. This article is a comprehensive, systematic narrative review of the literature surrounding the area of resistance training, cardiovascular fitness and the acute responses and chronic adaptations it produces. The primary concern with existing research is the lack of clarity and inappropriate quantification of resistance training intensity. Thus, an important consideration of this review is the effect of intensity. The acute metabolic and molecular responses to resistance training to momentary muscular failure do not differ from that of traditional endurance training. Myocardial function appears to be maintained, perhaps enhanced, in acute response to high intensity resistance training, and contraction intensity appears to mediate the acute vascular response to resistance training. The results of chronic physiological adaptations demonstrate that resistance training to momentary muscular failure produces a number of physiological adaptations, which may facilitate the observed improvements in cardiovascular fitness. The adaptations may include an increase in mitochondrial enzymes, mitochondrial proliferation, phenotypic conversion from type IIx towards type IIa muscle fibers, and vascular remodeling (including capillarization). Resistance training to momentary muscular failure causes sufficient acute stimuli to produce chronic physiological adaptations that enhance cardiovascular fitness. This review appears to be the first to present this conclusion and, therefore, it may help stimulate a changing paradigm addressing the misnomer of ‘cardiovascular’ exercise as being determined by modality.

Link to Author’s blog: James Steele

I knew it! I fucking knew it! I’ve been saying it for YEARS and finally I have found scientific proof that you NEVER HAVE TO DO CARDIO AGAIN. And this is science bitches. Not fake science. Not shit I make up. Not hyperbolic assertions. Real fuckin’ science.

This article was published in the Official Research Journal of the American Society of Exercise Physiologists. Everybody who works there has a PhD. I counted 19 members on the review board for this publication, plus an Editor-in-Chief. If you count the five authors of the scientific paper, you are brought to a grand total of 25 PhDs that approved of this research that says, and I paraphrase: “weightlifting alone will improve your cardiovascular fitness."

Therefore, one can conclude that traditional “Cardio" exercises are for the uneducated - science says so.

-Tony “I Told You So" Muscoli

For those of you who don’t know Dom Mazzetti, he and I had had a little riff last year when he made his video "Dom Mazzetti vs. Meatheads" - and by riff, I mean I wrote a blog post about the video.

Since then, Dom has launched a new YouTube channel called BroScienceLife, and it would have been the first YouTube channel I’ve ever subscribed to, if I knew how to subscribe to a YouTube channel. I laugh out loud at least once during each of his videos.

What is Bro Science? was the first video posted to this channel, and it sets the stage nicely for future videos from “The Dom."

Dom Mazzetti & Tony Muscoli

I’d like to think that Dom and Tony where childhood friends. Growing up in Brooklyn, they used to hang out in the Gold’s Gym parking lot together, shooting paper clips at people running by and shouting “cardio loser!"

Eventually Dom went away to acting school, and Tony stayed in Brooklyn to attend SUNY, but they kept in touch. Dom became a YouTube sensation, while Tony struggled to write posts for a blog with 6 followers. Tony developed a supplement problem that lead to bouts of Pre-workout Induced Insomnia and a horrifying case of Bull Testicles.

Then, Tony’s modest, yet loyal following decided to help. They wrote to Tony’s old friend Dom and said,

Dear Dom,
Have you ever considered inviting Tony Two Scoops onto your show? He really needs your help right now. He has developed a crippling supplement addiction and is taking upwards of 10 scoops a day - I can’t even count how many pills! The roid rage is unbearable, his blog posts are starting to be affected. I think having him on your show would help him get back on track.

Yours Hugely,
A Concerned Two Scooper

You guys see what I am trying to do here? Copy and paste that letter into an email to Dom, or Tweet @DomMazzetti, or whatever you kids do these days. Help your Uncle Tony out.

-Tony “Two Scoops" Get Huge