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To: marcher who wrote (87678)	12/29/2000 11:45:11 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Marc, MD was a great magazine when Grimek was editor, so you ought to read the book, "Muscletown, U.S.A.," for the scandal side of MD and the Hoffman gang at York. Darden did write for MD and may still do so. He wrote the original Nautilus books, which were revolutionary in their day. The new buzz term is "time under tension," or TUTs. What it says is that reps and sets do not matter as much as the time the muscle stays under maximum tension. I tend to think that any rep/set system is doable as long as you are constantly adding resistance while maintaining super strict form. That last bit is one you will see abused at every gym in the country and even in instructional programs on tv or on tape. I saw a piece the other day showing a couple of "tough cops" working out, and the way they did curls was laughable. It looked more like a reverse power clean with the lower back and traps getting a lot more work than the biceps and the forearms. Of course, they could handle a lot more weight for the cameras, but anyone who knew anything about lifting knew they were faking it.