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I am 57 year old male. Last year in January of 2012, I was suffering from my bladder not emptying fully. I could not sleep for more than an hour before waking up with a deep numb pain in my lower abdomen. It took two months for my pcp(family doctor)to figure out I needed a sonogram after many other tests. I then had to wait another month to see a urologist. I had a cystoscopy(?)done. In so many words he said my bladder was "shot". And he said that after having to wait so long did more damage and stretched my bladder. At first I was on a permanent catheter and urine bag. Then I was allowed to intermittent catheter.
Even though this was much better than having a tube up my phallus constantly and could still have sex AND EJACULATE, it seemed i had irritation all the time in my phallus(penis). I felt desperate and called an out of town University Hospital's urology department. They asked which doctor I wanted to be seen by. However my desperation overtook me and I said please give me the soonest available appointment with any urologist. note: don't do this, you will probably get a doctor who is not getting that much "business" and that could be he/she is not competent.
In a week I was seen. I saw a young doctor who barely gave me the time of day. And he was very irritable, overachieving and just really nasty. However again my anxiety and suffering overcame me and when he suggested a turp procedure i jumped at it. He told me nothing about any termporary or permanent pros and cons. He said he was confident that my problem would be cured or alleviated by the turp. Most of all, HE NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT PERMANENT RETROGRADE EJACULATION PRIOR. After the treatment I was urinating like a donkey for the summer of 2012. However in four weeks after surgery my first sex since prior to the turp, My orgasm since and to this day is not only dry but feels like nothing, just going through the motions.
I am so tense now, i feel like hell. My dry orgasms give me no relief from sexual tension. I don't even want to hear the word sex. But I still am not internally sterile so sooner or later you need some sexual relief. But I won't even make love to my left or right hand. Quite frankly, I don't want to live anymore.
A doctor replied on another website said there are reconstructive surgeries. However I doubt these are available but only to those who are wealthy and are probably inconsistent.
What ever happened to the Hippocratic Oath "first do no harm". And anyway I have to self catheter again. My current urologist says I probably never had an enlarged prostate to begin with and that turp destroys that part of the anatomy that allows semen to come out of your penis instead of now going into your bladder.
please help!
As far as medical priorities, proper urination is a medical necessity. Sexual gratification doesn't rank on the scale at all.
Sexual health is important for SOME people's emotional well-being, and not for others.
Ejaculation is not required for sexual function unless you are trying to have children, and even then there are ways around it. So, from a purely medical perspective, there is no medical "need" to ejaculate to be healthy, and therefore it is not considered a medical concern.
Whether you agree with the perspective that urination and ejaculation are FAR from equal or not is not in question. The medical community has a fixed opinion on this at present, and urination wins 100% of the time over ejaculatory function. That may be disappointing to many, but it is the state of medicine today.
If you wish to make an issue about your specific circumstances, that will be up to you and your attorney and what you can convince a court to believe. It will however be an uphill battle, and there were likely waivers you signed before the procedure that reviewed risks such as you have experienced.
Good luck.
As for how you feel today, please seek care from a psychologist to address your feelings about your situation.
No, there's likely no going back after this procedure, no reconstruction. More surgery would be more trauma.
by fellow turp victim treadwellfra
This is not a political forum. This is a layman's forum for basic medical information. There are support groups for men after TURP, as it does dramatically change things. If you're so upset, seek some legal relief.
Sex is not the most important thing in life for everyone, even if it may be one of the top things you define as important. Recreational sex is a luxury. It's unfortunate that you suffer from a very active libido and only find sexual satisfaction from normal ejaculation.
I'm glad your UTIs have stopped and you're receiving a better level of care now. Talk to some of the men who have had TURP procedures and you'll find much more useful advice about how to cope after the fact than you will here on WebMD.
You have two options: either file a lawsuit claiming there was no disclosure made and that malpractice occurred, or just be unhappy. There is no warning to be issued here, because it is an entirely he-said-she-said situation here until complete evidence is provided.
I'm sorry your experience did not turn out the way you wanted, but it as equally reasonable to believe that your situation is FAR more complex than described as it is to believe your doctor was in error.
If you are unwilling to sue the doctor, it tends to lean belief towards a position where you have no standing to do so. If you did, then there is no reason not to pursue that course. Get a legal opinion, it will be worth it. And if you have a good case, maybe money can buy you a different kind of happiness.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to diminish your suffering, but if there was wrongful action here, the only sensible course is to exercise the law. No one is trawling WebMD looking for warnings. Once you have won your case, you can publish all the information about what was found to be fact and help to stop a repeat.
I can also go to my urologist now with much more information and believe me he doesn't know what to say because he told me that he doesn't believe in the medication for BHP. But why does he believe the research that found no sexual problems after TURP and not the research that have good results for the use of medicine for BHP
They also know that men don't talk about these things with each other and that is why they could do the operation for so long and pretend that everybody is happy. Now with the internet they realise that at least 30% of sexually active men are not happy at all with there quality of live after the TURP.
Some urologists have been written about silent sufferers and a considerable concern about sexual problems after TURP long ago but all the other urologists enjoyed making money and they were cutting out prostates for fun while nobody listened. Thank goodness for forums like this one and believe me this is not the only one.
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With a total of 77 missed field goals, 91 rebounds and 53 turnovers, Missouri Southern and Nebraska-Kearney obviously sputtered on offense.
But the Lopers perfectly executed two back-door cuts for easy baskets and a four-point lead in overtime and knocked off the Lions 67-60 Saturday afternoon in the Leggett & Platt Athletic Center.
The Lions trailed 55-50 in the last two minutes, but two Shatara Stone free throws and a jumper in the lane by Erin Rice — MSSU's first field goal in 71⁄2 minutes — sliced the deficit to one point with 28 seconds left.
Nebraska-Kearney's Ivy Jones, who led all scorers with 18 points, made 1-of-2 free throws for a two-point lead with 13 seconds left. After a timeout, the Lions first went for the win, but Rice's 3-pointer from the right wing pinballed out. Dominique Mosley, however, grabbed the rebound and scored just before the buzzer to force overtime.
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``True, and I'm not defending the bosses,'' he said. ``They ought to be dropped out the window without a parachute. But if the American car industry slips away like the Conestoga wagon, we're going to be a second-rate country in my lifetime.''
``Could happen by next year,'' I said.
``It's an outrage,'' he said. ``This whole bailout's an outrage.''
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``It amounts to class warfare,'' said Uncle Chet. ``They're doing everything they can to save executives and to stick it to labor. Want to know if your company will get a bailout? Well, if you're blue collar and unionized, forget it. But if you're white collar and snap your fingers for the secretary, you're probably all set.''
``Well, I read somewhere that our auto workers are paid something like $72 an hour, and Toyota's a lot less,'' said Hon. ``So, the theory goes, GM can never compete because its labor is so expensive.''
``That's misleading `Romney spin,''' said Uncle Chet. ``GM spends about $72 an hour per employee, but a lot of that goes to health insurance. Actually, Toyota's wages are about the same as Ford's and GM's in this country. But most of Toyota's employees are in Japan, which has universal health care, so companies, like Toyota, aren't being fleeced by insurers to the same extent.''
``Back to the insurers, are you?'' I said.
``They're at the root of our decay.''
``But you have to admit, Toyota makes a pretty good product,'' I said.
``Agreed, although American cars have been catching up,'' he said. ``And if the government invests in Ford and GM, we ought to have some say-so in what they produce. They ought to operate in the national interest, even the global interest, by making efficient, durable, green products that anyone can be proud to own.''
``How about Chrysler?''
``I'm not sure about Chrysler,'' said Uncle Chet. ``They're privately held, and unless they want to go public _ unless we get seats at the board and a better look inside _ I think I'd let them go the way of the DeSoto.''
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Body "types" suited for bodybuilding, weight lifting, and powerlifting are much more distinct than people realize. However each can use a viable Hybrid form of training, borrowing from each other to enhance any of the goals relevant to each pursuit. So of course bodybuilders still squat etc, as do weightlifters and powerlifters. But the mode of training would be better determined by the body type of the trainee and the specific goals. The one dimensional strength first approach tends to negate the individuality which also requires evaluation. The bone structure of the weight lifter is easy to separate from that of the powerlifter, and both are distinct again from that of the bodybuilder. By example, a wide hip structure denotes a better base of power for weightlifters and powerlifters, usually allowing for greater strength expression for them in say, the squat. But the narrow waist and hips of the bodybuilder would not give him the same power base from which to develop raw max low rep strength.
When I dropped the weight and increased the reps and sets for more time under tension, my legs exploded in growth. This led to the above conclusion as well. Not only are some rep ranges better for specific effect, but I was never going to be low rep strong(by powerlifting standards) in the squat, because I had a very small waist and narrow hips. And this led to another conclusion. The training methods of low rep strength for someone who already has the wide hips for that power base only further enhances that effect. In other words, show me someone who regularly squats more than twice their bodyweight in training for very low reps, and Ill show you a lack of results in terms of development and big hips and a wide waist (except genetic freaks and steroid abusers of course).
So while strength athletes and athletes of all kinds may indeed implement the same types of moves or exercises, doing so with the same mentality in terms of max strength, while having different goals, and different body types, is an obvious mistake. We see in the real world of training for development that the max strength approach is not appropriate and may indeed be applicable only to those people born with a certain genetic profile. However, the research also bears out the fact that while training for max strength may not yield much development for us regular folk; training for development does indeed lead eventually to increased max strength improvement.
It seems, in fact, that how much you lift is not nearly as important as how hard you lift. The heavier is better argument is actually a myth that prevents many of us from getting results in terms of physique enhancements. Researcher Atha, in 1981 concluded from a review of research, from these studies, one begins to believe that the importance of load magnitude may have been exaggerated.
And in 1995, David Behms research was more direct. His research article Neuromuscular Implications and Applications of Resistance Training came to the following sound conclusion so important to those of you interested in developing a better physique: Maximum strength training methods with their high intensity resistance but low volume of work do NOT elicit substantial muscle hypertrophy. His research some 10 years later served to reinforce this conclusion as well.
Now if you think you are doing something right because you do more sets with low reps, and lots of weight, this is still a mistake. Your 10 sets of 3, is still only 30 reps, just like 3 sets of 10. As Behm further concludes, Therefore a higher volume of work, (greater than 6 reps, with multiple sets) [emphasis and references are his] is needed to ensure a critical concentration of intracellular amino acids to stimulate protein synthesis (Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 1995: p271) (see also Tesch and Larson, Muscle Hypertrophy in Bodybuilders 1982; and Tesch, in Komi 1992).
I like to use the example of Tom Platz and "Dr. Squat" Fred Hatfield. Tom Platz had the first set of truly freaky legs at the Olympia level. Fred Hatfield was the first man to ever squat 1,000 lbs. Fred Hatfields legs development couldnt win a local bodybuilding contest at the time. And Tom Platz was never, ever going to be able to squat 1,000 lbs. Clearly a contradiction of prevailing theory. See Tom used squats for leg training, Fred trained for squat limit strength of 1RM. (Toms focus was to train the muscles, not the movement; Fred trained for the execution of the movement solely.) And the funny thing here is that Fred Hatfield himself, at the time said, there is never a reason to do single rep 1RM lifts in training. He also said, the legs are relatively inactive in the Powerlifting squat. Now coming from the first man to squat 1,000 lbs, Fred truly understood the principles at work. If anyone would ever have a paradigm blindness toward limit strength training expression, it should have been Fred. But he understood the principles on a deeper level. And these statements are correct for 90% of trainees, 90% of the time. And as a coach, that 90 percentile is my wheelhouse for application.
So how is this confusion possible when so many of you are told to train to get strong with low reps, and development will come? Well the answer lies in a misapplication of what is known as the size principle of muscle recruitment.
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Very interesting Allen, considering the beliefs nearly everyone around here holds! Are you saying that you wouldnt recommend a program like starting strength for most people then?
While I do agree with what you wrote on the flip side its also a personal preference on how you like to train as well. Sure some of us may grow in size at a faster pace if we trained this way, but alot of us are just average guys who will never step on a stage and just prefer to lift heavier weights as we enjoy the challenge of beating our own previous PR's on different lifts ( not just the big 3 ).
Success is achieved by doing a little more than you thought you could, and a lot more than anyone else.
Interesting read. I agree with you that some guys are built for strength and others are not. Some are built to look impressive with a little bit of added muscle, while others take a great deal more to look decent. I do believe that everybody should train for getting stronger no matter the rep range. I believe that's what most people are talking about when they say, "Just get stronger." It's not the use of low rep ranges, rather the application of adding weight.
I think people need look no further than the progress being made by some of the guys using HCT-12. It uses a moderate amount of sets and reps with a focus on added resistance over time. The same can be said for the guys using Starting Strength. Of course I am talking about beginners and low intermediates. Once a foundation has been built, the lifters can start using more complex routines with better results. That is after a good base strength has been built, their diets have become a habit, and they have increased their work capacity.
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This wasn't meant to tell people that training this way is best just optimal if physique development is their goal. If u enjoy training just to get stronger then you should. You should always do what you enjoy. Training the way described is just what is needed when development is main goal.
You should always use challenging weights regardless of rep scheme. You should strive to work harder and apply more intensity not just focus on adding more weight. When you train for development strength will come.
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Allen I have a couple questions if you dont mind ( I also just read your article An Intelligent Approach to Building a Big, Strong Chest ).
I prefer to lift heavier ( as already stated ) in the 6-10 rep range, however I do have shoulder issues that prevent me from going anywhere near heavy in any pressing movements ( I also make sure not to put any more stress on shoulders by not lowering the weights below 90 degree or flaring my elbows out to far, only using db etc.. ).
I reread what you wrote again and started to wonder maybe since I cannot lift heavy with my pushing muscles maybe some volume may work ( I can still train back and legs heavy so that will keep me happy ) in this case ( I realize strength gains will be slower but they will still be there ).
The only real question I really have is do you ramp up the weight on each set, or do you do straight sets with the same weight?
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Allen, I'm confused because you don't specify your definition for 'low reps' and 'training for strength' nor do you specify what you mean by 'training this way' (what you think is the optimal way for training for physique development).
I'm aware of your's and Scott Abel's methods and although shrouded in terms like 'surfing the strength curve', 'innervation training' and 'workout density' etc it all makes sense when you scratch the surface and ultimately (because rest times can't be decreased infinitely - all sets would roll into one and the load would have to be drastically reduced - reps can't be increased infinitely either, again load would be tiny) getting stronger is the only open ended measure there is.
But strength and getting stronger do not have to mean low reps (5 and under) and limit strength (1RM). It can mean, improving by a rep (or more) on the same load (whether that be from 3 to 4 reps or an increase from 12 to 14 reps), or increasing the load in any rep range.
I understand Scott's principles, they mirror my own and before you reply it'd be cool if you could read my article outlining not my principles but those that govern growth in everybody. Then you'll be perfectly clear about my standpoint and then hopefully we can get to a good discussion -
Great post to get a good discussion going Allen.
I'm only really starting to come to terms with the fact that I'm not well suited to lifting in the low rep ranges.
For a start, I just seem to have a hard time gaining strength period, which leads me to believe I'm just not well suited to strength work. And secondly I really care more about look than numbers. Having said that, I still like to focus on progression and getting stronger.
ALL of my injuries have been picked up from going too heavy or training in low rep ranges and it;s affected my training massively.
As Daniel said though, it depends on what you mean as low reps... I think 6-8 could work for me if it;s cycled and I don;lt push things TOO hard, but for example 3-4 is just gonna cause me issues and won't be in line with my goals of hypertrophy.
The key thing I would want to point out is that everyone should TRY some different things. If you keep getting injured lifting around the 6 rep range and aren;t seeing decent improvements in size, why not try 10 for a while and focus really in on form over weight/low reps?
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Funny how you mention wide hips, I was talking about this in my picture thread yesterday. I have a very wide hip structure my pant size stayed the same all the way from 165-200lbs. Great for squats my best lift, but not very good for aesthetics. I also remember reading about why dorian yates saying he didn't squat because of his tiny waist and hips.
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Allen, I find your posts really interesting and I think I have a lot to learn from your years of experience but I'm confused by your stance here. You are saying this kind of training works for 90% of people, 90% of the time when a cursory look around any gym shows it clearly doesn't.
There are countless stories from people on WBB or any other message board who did standard 3x12 routines, concentrated on mentally working the muscle, did isolation work, focussed on increasing volume, avoided squats because they were convinced they weren't necessary... and got precisely nowhere. Then someone taught them the importance of gaining strength, the importance of squatting, they did a 5x5/SS variant and they improved more in three months than three years.
I've seen it myself. I've seen it in others. Anybody can see that in any gym they go to. It seems that far from the 90/90 thing the only people who find this training optimal are the mesomorphic types who respond to almost anything they do in the gym. I though the skinny ectomorphs normally respond to low volume strength training in the big lifts around the 4-8 rep range, or roughly what Daniel says in his article.
If you say your approach works even for the weak skinny types then great. But why is that? Does this approach need a coach? Is that what makes the difference? And if that is what makes a difference, then seeing how that's a luxury most of us don't have, wouldn't we be better off doing it the most efficient way (getting progressively stronger) after all?
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It depends on the prgram. Mostly I listen to my body and as long as I'm in the pre-determined rep range I will stick with that weight unless its to light and could have done more. If I was doing 10-12 reps and got 12 but could have done 15 then I would definitley increase.
I also do weight constants where I use the same weight for all sets on something like 5 x 5. It all depends on context of the program.
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This is where focusing on the muscle and not the movement comes into play to get the most out of the exercise. As we know alot of individuals focus more on lifting the weight from point A to B instead of focusing keeping the tension in the targeted area. Doing so results in less recruitment of the targetd muscle making the exercise not as effective to induce growth. Once they start focusing on training this way then when they do increase the weight the stress will stay on the targeted muscle. Thats why I say train for development and strength will come.
I definitley think we agree on a majority of principles but just see them slightly differently.
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Actually based on that response it seems to me we agree on everything for the most part. Which doesn't actually surprise me I was just never clear on your specifics! Thanks for clearing it up.
I agree whole heartedly with thisand I actually touch on it in my article, however as you say I come at it from another angle - appropriate exercise selection. Not everyone is built equally and whilst a pressing movement will target the pressing muscles (your flat db press eg) for some it'll disproportionately stress the anterior delts, or the triceps over the chest, so at some point simply getting better (stronger) in that exercise is not going to do anything for proportional chest development. and so it is with squats etc.Now this is talking about only development mainly, if someone is lifting a challenging weight on flat DB press and is placing a majority of the stress on the pectoralis then they decide to go up, but then they end up using more back, shoulders, and triceps to get the weight up it takes the stress away from the targeted muscle thus taking away from the set and breakdown or the muscle.
This is where focusing on the muscle and not the movement comes into play to get the most out of the exercise. As we know alot of individuals focus more on lifting the weight from point A to B instead of focusing keeping the tension in the targeted area. Doing so results in less recruitment of the targetd muscle making the exercise not as effective to induce growth.
What is important is that the Size Principle of Motor Unit Recruitment (motor units control muscle action) states that motor units are recruited in an orderly manner from the smaller lower threshold fatigue resistant fibers (like the ones that allow me to type this) to the larger higher threshold quick-to-fatigue motor units that we associate with Type 2 muscle fiber employed to gain strength and build muscle. Now the one element that is specified about the Size Principle is that recruitment is dependent on the degree of efforts demanded. This is what I call intensity, and this is where the common mistake seems to be made in the strength industry. Unfortunately in our industry people tend to filter this principle through musculoskeletal aspects of strength. This can lead to faulty conclusions. The Size Principle of neurophysiology is a neural event; not a muscular one. And this is where all the mistakes about heavy is better training come from. It also leads to the illusion that lighter means easier and heavier means harder; both of which are relative and not absolute, and, more importantly just as often not true at all.
The Size Principle is quite clear that it is maximal or near maximal efforts which recruit the higher threshold motor units. The mistake occurs among strength researchers who make the error of equating tissue-intensity in muscle and low-rep strength as the same thing. And this is not what the size principle dictates. So if we follow the incorrect logic in strengthdom, the experts note that since near maximal efforts appear at the last few reps of a set, then maximum resistance is all that is needed for maximum fiber recruitment. Hence the theory, train with heavy low rep external resistance and size and development will follow. This seems logical on the surface. But like many theories logic is not always correct.
If you bench press, say, 200 lbs for 10 reps; for you, the set may not get difficult till about (for example) rep number 7. The strength theorists want to believe that any stimulus up to that point is irrelevant so why not just employ heavier resistance from the beginning? But heres the point. During that set of 10 the force of contraction does not change. And the resistance through the whole set remains 200 lbs. So the trainee is not lifting more as the set continues because that 200 lbs resistance stays constant. But motor unit activity increases; and this is a learned adaptive response of applied intensity that is missed by those who view the size principle by filtering it through very one-dimensional perceptions of strength. This element is addressed in the neural response know as Total Activation Potential (TAP). And like many concepts, while it cannot be measured it can certainly be observed. It is indeed progression in terms of the neural component.
The fact that is missed here is that recruitment of higher threshold motor units is a developed and refined skill, not an absolute. Doing low rep, high external resistance training before this skill is developed is illogical. And we can see the obviousness of this in other examples.
Training Efficiency Percentage (TEP), as discussed in my article, is defined as the number or percentage of reps in a given set that elicit an adaptive response. If you observe a very advanced trainee and an intermediate trainee perform a set of 10 you'll notice a difference in how the muscle fatigues. As stated above, for the average person, doing a set of 10, may not show difficulty in performance of that set until the last few reps. But in the advanced trainee, you'll notice the first and last rep appear to be of equal intensity. In other words, there is a greater TEP in the advanced trainee than there is in the intermediate lifter; for the beginning or intermediate lifter difficulty only comes near the end of a set. This is a learned response/adaptation sequence that takes place over time. Or to put it another way: learning to recruit larger motor units for strength performance is a skill set developed and refined over time. Advising someone to train very low reps with a lot of external resistance is a mistake because their systems, nervous systems have not adapted to that level of quick and sustained motor unit recruitment.
It is a misinterpretation of the Size Principle to advise that low rep, high resistance training is superior. And it is a mistake because the assumption combines perceptions of strength into an equation that is neural, not muscular.
And there are neural principles at work here, which supersede the musculoskeletal strength principles. For instance, Total Activation Potential (TAP) mentioned above and Maximum Voluntary Neural Activation (MVNA) are neural events going on in the adaptation of the trainee to training stimulus over time.
It is not maximum or near maximum externally applied resistance that yields the best results for development, but rather maximum or near maximum internally focused efforts that matter most ( biofeedback).
So its not about lifting more it is about lifting better. The mind muscle connection is at the heart of the notion that the muscles work the weights; the weights dont work the muscles. . It goes beyond being macho and training your ego to being mature and accomplishing a training goal.
We also need to get away from using the genetic elite representatives of any sport as the model for how to for the genetically average individual. I know what that is like because I was genetically average and buying into the load emphasis got me nowhere like when I competed in powerlifting for 3 years. But now I have exceeded my expectations for my own development, as well as all my clients, by applying the size principle in this fashion.
Great discussion thus far!
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I think most people make the mistake of trying to lift the weight rather then focuse on exercising the muscle they want to work. Obviously this depends on your goal, and if you are training for strength this doesn't hold as true as opposed to specific muscle developement and hypertrophy, but is still applicable in my opinion.
For example if it's their "chest day" and they are doing bench presses, they are really focused on putting up a big number weight wise. They want to hit a new PR and when you are trying to hit a PR or are lifting really heavy you are going to be putting more emphasis on getting the weight up over completely working the muscle in question and keeping the load on that muscle wanting worked versus the other 5 or so muscles helping.
Which might be fine, but if your goal is for developing the muscle in question, then it would serve you better to take weight out of the picture. Forget about hitting that PR, or even what weight you are using. Just focus on making sure you are hitting as many fibers as possible for that muscle (with an appropriate weight), not on whatever other muscles are trying to help you with said lift.
Obviously if your not into working individual body parts, or you dig complex movements because of time requirements or the "getting more bang for you buck" I imagine this might not be appropriate advice. I still think most people would be better served taking the amount of weight they are lifting out of the picture and just focusing on really working the muscles in question.
The problem is this goes against what most people are thinking, which is "I have to put more weight on the bar and lift big" and in doing so I think sometimes the muscles they really wanted to work don't get fatigued as well as they should because the work is split up amongst other contributing muscles while trying to put up the "big weight" So all the muscles helping on that lift might get worked, but not nearly on the level of what you would want for maximum growth.
I take it you're expanding on your first post with this new one? Not directing it at anyone in particular?
I get where you're going with this, internal vs external cues, MVC, and all that and again for the most part agree, but I think your lexicon of training terms vs mine is going to confuse a lot of people! And that ties in with my only real criticism i.e. your accumulated knowledge is quite difficult to decipher, so some of the valid messages you put across are lost, couched as they are in obscure terminology.
I have no doubt whatsoever that were I to put my training in your hands I'd progress as well, maybe better (being coached is a worthwhile experience for anyone), because fundamentally we know the same stuff. But I think anyone reading this would only really get what you're saying by experiencing your guidance first hand.
You make a good point here -
But what do you do when that rep range/weight get's easier? You can't focus more, the weight still needs to go up i.e. you got stronger.Which might be fine, but if your goal is for developing the muscle in question, then it would serve you better to take weight out of the picture. Forget about hitting that PR, or even what weight you are using. Just focus on making sure you are hitting as many fibers as possible for that muscle (with an appropriate weight), not on whatever other muscles are trying to help you with said lift.
Interesting discussion. I don't disagree with anything Allen has said if you are training for purely for bodybuilding purposes. The problem I see is that "focusing on the muscle" and "mind-muscle connection" principles are very rarely applied correctly to actually yield any significant results. There are multitudes of people out there in gyms trying to train this way and getting absolutely nowhere. I don't know if it's lack of coaching or poor understanding or what, but alot of this seems to get lost going from theoretical to application.
I also find that many people training like this stay in a very narrow rep range (8-15 reps) and never venture out of that range. On the other hand, every powerlifter I've ever seen does some training in nearly every rep range (1-20+) and many have development that the average person would kill for. Most average trainees seem to train for both size and strength, so a balanced approach with some strength work and some hypertrophy seems to make sense for most people.
I'll throw one word into the discussion here..."Cycles."
If you take your typical cycle, a lifter will start out with a lower percentage of his RM. At that lower percentage the lifter will be hitting his reps with ease. This has the benefit of allowing him/her to work on correct form and keep the movements very strict. It also allows the lifter to get a running start at the heavier weights by getting the muscles used to the exercise and increasing demands.
As the cycle progresses, the lifter will be using a higher percentage of their RM. This would put him/her in that range that Allen is talking about where the target muscle is the prime mover. It is also the type of lifting that Daniel recomends by leaving a couple of reps in the tank. This has been shown to be the best growth phase of the cycle.
As the cycle starts to wind down, the lifter is using a high percentage of his/her RM. This is the time to break those PRs and realize your best strength gains. Yes, you will be using looser form and recruiting more "helping" muscle groups to get the lift. But the strength gained from this part of the cycle will help tremendously when you start your new cycle. You will now be using more weight on that middle portion of the next cycle where the "mind-muscle" connection is at its greatest.
I'm sorry I don't sound as intelectual as Allen and Daniel, I speak pretty plain
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All this rhetoric and jargon confuses the newer lifters this site attracts. You can put a dress on a pig, but it's still a pig. KISS. Work to get stronger in a specific rep range(s), use compound movements as the basis of your routine, choose accessory lifts intelligently, if you want to gain weight eat more, and lose weight eat less
If you are ready to compete at a body building level and are starting out, hire someone like Allen to help you. If you are lifting for yourself to get bigger, of another reason, don't sweat the small stuff.
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Nice writeup!
I personally have no clue what type I am....all I know is that I find it very hard to increase my max squat, and when I do higher volume, lower weight squat sessions I FEEL as if I have been more productive overall - both in terms of getting stronger and in building my legs.
I think that learning your body really comes through experience aka "time under the bar". Overtime, if you stick with the weightlifing lifestyle, you kinda just figure out what works for you based on your goals.
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The rep range I work in as well as all clients regardless of sport is 5-30 reps. I completely agree you need to surf the strength curve for optimal results but when your goal is size then you just stay on one end of the curve more than the other. I have my bodybuilders do structural training programs where the emphasis is strength and power and this helps prime the nervous system more when we go back to more purely hypertrophy based programs. I am definitely not saying you should train in one rep range all the time, but I never have any athlete go below 4 reps minimum, even purley strength athletes.
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JIRA is a web application that requires an application server. However, this requirement differs based on the type of JIRA distribution you intend to install:
- 'Recommended' JIRA distributions (installed using 'Windows Installer', 'Linux Installer' or from an 'Archive File') are pre-configured with Apache Tomcat, which is a stable, lightweight and fast-performing application server. (There is no need to install a separate application server if you intend to install one of these recommended JIRA distributions.)
- The JIRA WAR distribution can be installed into an application server (supported by Atlassian), provided this application server is compatible with your operating system and Java platform. You must manually configure your JIRA WAR installation to operate with an existing application server installation.
4. Database
JIRA requires a relational database to store its issue data. JIRA supports most popular relational database servers, so we suggest using the one that you are most comfortable with administering. JIRA ships pre-configured with the HSQLDB database, which is suitable for evaluation purposes only, since HSQLDB is prone to database corruption.
Hence, if you intend to use JIRA in a production environment, we strongly recommend that you connect JIRA to an enterprise database (supported by Atlassian).
5. Notes
- Virus checking software are a common cause of performance problems. In particular, Symantec must be uninstalled from the server that you want to install JIRA on, as it is known to dramatically reduces JIRA performance (even stopping the services does not prevent it from slowing JIRA down).
For more information, see this knowledge base article: Crashes and Performance Issues Troubleshooting
JIRA Server Hardware Recommendations
JIRA Server Hardware Recommendation for Evaluation
During evaluation, JIRA will run well on any reasonably fast workstation computer (eg. something purchased within the last two years). Memory requirements depend on how many projects and issues you will store, but 300MB – 1GB (of Java heap size) is enough for most evaluation purposes.
There are two ways to evaluate JIRA:
- Start immediately with JIRA Cloud and then migrate to a local production server later, or simply continue to use JIRA Cloud.
- Install JIRA Server on a local computer and then migrate this to a production server later.
JIRA Server Hardware Recommendation for Production
The hardware required to run JIRA in production depends on a number of different JIRA configurations (eg. projects, issues, custom fields, permissions, etc) as well as the maximum number of concurrent requests that the system will experience during peak hours. Here are some general guide lines:
- For a small number of projects (10-20) with 1,000 to 5,000 issues in total and about 100-200 users, a recent server (multicore CPU) with 2 GB of available RAM and a reasonably fast hard drive (7200rpm or faster) should cater for your needs.
- For a greater number of issues adding more memory will help. We have reports that having 2GB of RAM to JIRA is sufficient for instances with around 200,000 issues. If in doubt, allocate more memory than you think you need.
- If your system will experience a large number of concurrent requests, running JIRA on a multicore CPU machine will increase the concurrency of processing the requests and therefore speed up the response time for your users.
- For reference we have a server that has a 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz (16 logical cores) with 32GB of RAM. This server runs Apache, various monitoring systems, and two JIRA instances:
Please note that performance heavily depends on your dimensions and your usage pattern, much more than what is simply covered here. Therefore we have written a guide on the different methods you can use to scale JIRA in your environment.
A quick note that your JIRA database's size is predominantly dominated by these three large tables: change items, comments and issues stored in your JIRA instance. Also, the type of custom fields and the values they hold may also increase the size of your JIRA database, eg. a free text custom field that is on every issue with grow the database size if the value of that field is large.
Please Note: JIRA requires access to a local disk for certain functionality. If JIRA does not have read and write access to a local disk, searching and saving/accessing attachments will not work.
While some of our customers run JIRA on SPARC-based hardware, Atlassian only officially supports JIRA running on x86 hardware and 64-bit derivatives of x86 hardware.
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Atlassian, are you planning on addressing the scalability of Jira? As an administrator of a Jira instance with around 100k issues, I am very concerned about the possibility of splitting a Jira instance in the future. I don't think it is a good solution and would hope that work is being done to address this issue.
I see you do not support Jira on Mac. We run an all-mac shop. Any plans of supporting Jira on macs in the future?
I am pretty sure Jira runs on Mac.
We've removed that video.
Mac OS X is not a supported operating system for the JIRA server because Oracle JDK and JRE (formerly Sun JDK and JRE), which are the only supported Java platforms for JIRA, are not available for this operating system. Mac OS X is packaged with a JDK optimised for its hardware. More details here:
Now that Oracle does have a version of the JDK available for OS X, will Atlassian support deployments on OS X?
It's a funny thing. We all know that JIRA works on OSX because that's what it is mostly developed on. But since almost no-one uses OSX servers for their company there is not much to be gained (in my opinion) spending the testing time that would be needed for it. I run JIRA every day on OSX with no platform-related issues.
Hi Werner,
I have checked with our product managers and can confirm that Atlassian does not plan on supporting deployments on OS X. As Matt as suggested in his comment above, JIRA may run on an OS X server, however we do not test against it and do not fix bugs related to it.
Kind Regards,
What support and implications are there when running it in a VM environment?
You can find more information here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Running+JIRA+in+a+Virtualised+Environment
Very interesting to observe that the access to this page was restricted!?
That sounds like a bug because it didn't used to be.
Hi Sorin,
The page that Christina referred to has been deprecated in favour of this one: Virtualizing JIRA (JIRA on VMware). I had a deprecation notice on the old page for a little while and recently restricted it. It will be deleted soon as it is out of date.
Apologies for the confusion.
Kind Regards,
Can we run JIRA on multiple application servers? The previous SME set us up with a warm standby. I am hoping he just didn't investigate this, as it seems really surprising that a mission-critical, database-backed web application couldn't be scaled properly.
How well does JIRA/JAVA take advantage of multi-core processors? If I have a choice of a 4-core 3.2 GHz machine, or a 6-core 3.0 GHz machine, what will make our large JIRA instance run faster? The raw CPU speed, or the greater number of cores?
JIRA is generally not cpu-bound so it may not make much of a difference either way. You could look at getting the cheapest option out of those and then spend the difference on extra RAM and/or SSDs.
Although there is a benefit to getting lots of cores and then using NUMA settings for GC. Also your DB might benefit, assuming it's running on the same box.
From Re: ScreenshotApplet throws ClassNotFoundException (com.atlassian.jira.screenshot.applet.ScreenshotApplet.class) it appears that the version of Java on the client side has to be before Java 7 for the screenshot application to work.
It would be nice to mention that JIRA requires a mail server (either local or remote) to process the email notifications properly. Comments from the Using Gmail as a JIRA Mail Server article are quite helpful as an entry point to this topic.
'300MB – 1GB' for evaluation is... outdated at the least! I could not get JIRA running with 1GB of memory, and it doesn't even pass along the Java memory error on launch.
Looks like I'm not the only one:
"...fresh install of JIRA 5.5.1 takes between 2.1 and 2.3 GB of RAM, with 0 issues and standard plugin set."
I'm not sure what the point is of a 32-bit installation, if JIRA needs more than 1.2 GB of memory!
Hope this saves someone else the hour I have lost trying out JIRA.
We are planning to have 500 projects and 2 Lakh issues in total. What would be the database size needed for this in production?
Can you run install JIRA and Crucible on the same server?
Does JIRA support 64-bit Oracle 11g database?
Hopefully JIRA supports ARM-processors one day....


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Gammons quotes Rangers official: 'We got Upton'
MLB Network's Peter Gammons was present and recently tweeted about some of the "fun" surrounding the endless trade rumors about Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton:
If you don't believe the multi-team Upton trade talk, Wednesday night a Rangers official called an Astros officisl and said, "we got Upton."— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) December 7, 2012
Upton has been part of trade rumors for the last three offseasons, and his name has been one of the most talked about at this year's gathering.
Obviously nothing is official at this point and Gammons' tweet could indicate just how close the trade was to going down before the plug was pulled. It could also indicate that the deal is close to consummation.
Thursday, talk of complicated three and four-team deals surfaced with Upton being one of the centerpieces for potential swaps. Other teams that have been rumored in such deals are the Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Indians, and of course, the Texas Rangers.
Based on Gammons' tweet, Friday could be an interesting day on the Upton front.
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The family of Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung wants to make sure her legacy lives on at Naugatuck High School.
The family is organizing a scholarship fund that will be given annually to at least one NHS senior.
"Our family has decided the scholarship fund will be for an NHS student pursuing a career in education, a student who has a deep passion for inspiring the love and learning in children," said Hochsprung's daughter, Erica Lafferty.
Hochsprung, a 1983 NHS graduate, was shot and killed while trying to protect children in her school during Friday's massacre that claimed the life of 20 children and six woman at the elementary school. The shooter also killed his mother and himself.
Several people have referred to Hochsprung as a hero for trying to take down the gunman, which she reportedly did only after telling others to hide in her office.
The scholarship fund is being administered by the Waterbury Teachers Federal Credit Union. The credit union has a link to the scholarship fund, which says:
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PINSON — After a big win in the Bob Jones Invitational at Madison over the weekend, Corner softball coach Aaron James wasn't liking what he was seeing early in his team's game at Pinson Valley on Tuesday.
"We're in zombie mode right now," he quipped.
The Yellow Jackets soon came to life, though, as they defeated the Indians 8-3.
After being shut out in the top of the first, Corner scored at least one run in every inning afterward, while Pinson struggled to bring runners home despite numerous scoring chances.
First baseman Madison McCormack took a 3-1 pitch over the left field fence for a lead-off home run in the third inning. She had earlier scored the Jackets' first run when Cheyenne Bryant hit a popup that was misplayed by the Indians infield, and she also forced home a run when she drew a bases-loaded walk in the seventh.
Corner posted two more runs in the fourth on a bases-loaded hit batsman, followed by a sacrifice fly by Morgan Daniel.
Taylor Sloan was 3-for-5 plus a walk, as was McCormack, who drove in four runs for the day.
Pitcher Jenna Trimm drove in the Indians' first run with a single in the fifth; she was 3-for-4 at the plate. Makayla Ewers had a two-run double in the seventh and was 2-for-3 overall.
Corner was playing without several starters, including pitcher/infielder Jordan Entrekin, because of a conflict with an academic event.
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Figuratively speaking it should have been a pretty good year. I was a junior in high school, and I could see light at the end of the tunnel. Graduation — and that long-awaited step into adulthood — was just a little over a year away.
I enjoyed high school, but the long school bus ride each morning from Anawalt to Welch was particularly grueling. Mom had me up by 5 a.m. each morning in order to promptly catch a school bus at 6:30 a.m. If I wasn't at the bottom of the gravel road waiting in advance of 6:30 a.m., I would risk missing the school bus. And I seem to remember that our school bus driver back in the day didn't spend a lot of time waiting on tardy students. He would honk the horn at least once to remind those of us who were late running down the at times snow-covered gravel and dirt roadway that he was waiting on us. I don't think I ever missed the bus — but not getting to the bottom of the hill in time to catch my morning ride was still always a great concern.
Once on board we could expect plenty of stops — a couple in Anawalt, down at Spencer Curve, a stop or two in Pageton as well as Gary. We normally wouldn't get to the top of the mountain until 7:30 a.m. or so, and the school day itself didn't start until 8 a.m. The first thing you would see was the big water tower with the flashing red light on top emerging from the clouds. I guess there was a reason why they called it Mount View — short I suppose for mountainous view. And the long ride up the mountain was a spectacular sight to see at times, particularly during periods of heavy fog. When it snowed, the trip was even more interesting. I often wondered if our school bus would slide off one of the narrow, mountainous curves. Thankfully it never did.
Although we were very young at the time, the early morning hours were still kind of difficult on the students. By the time the bus ride home was underway many of us were taking a well deserved nap. But I realized at the time that I was nearing the end of my high school journey. Mount View High School was great and all, but the thought of college and adulthood was even more enticing. But there would be a few difficult bumps along the road before reaching my senior year in high school.
The year was 1987, and it was not a particularly good year for me or my family. My father passed away of a heart attack while shoveling a large amount of snow at his mother's house up in the Ashland area of McDowell County during a big snowstorm. And my beloved uncle Raymond also died the same year — also of an apparent heart attack. I also caught the chicken pox — a terrible experience at that — and ended up missing almost an entire week of school as a result. The same year also was my first accident. I was just a passenger, but I busted a windshield with my head after Mom and I skidded on ice along U.S. Route 52. It was a year of bad luck, and family tragedies.
When 1988 finally arrived, it was certainly welcomed and long overdue. The senior year came and went seemingly in a flash. Before long I was taking the long march down the aisle at the National Guard Armory in Welch in order to accept my high school diploma. The big night ended with a great meal at the Sterling Drive-In. Back in the day there was no such thing as a project graduation. We didn't have a McDonald's or a Walmart for that matter either. But that was fine. The Sterling Drive-In was the place to go back then — as it still is today. Yet my educational journey would continue. I never doubted that I would go to college, and that was Mom's plan all along. The interest I had developed in journalism while working for the high school newspaper made a degree in communications an obvious choice to pursue when it came time to relocate from Anawalt to Athens.
Concord College — now Concord University — was an exciting new beginning. But I was still a McDowell County boy at heart. And while the temptation to spend my weekends on campus were great, I still normally found myself traveling back home on weekends to McDowell County. Those were among the greatest of days — despite the challenges of 1987.
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---- — MT. VERNON — A free school supply and underwear giveaway will be hosted by Hope Ministries on Saturday.
"It's our annual back-to-school giveaway," said Hope Stuckey of Hope Ministries. "It will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the shelter, 1515 S. 14th St."
Hope Ministries has been hosting the school supply giveaway for at least 10 years, and will also be giving out under garments to those students in need as well, Stuckey said.
"We give them enough to get ready for the first day of school," Stuckey said. "They get supplies, clean socks and underwear."
Although there are several back-to-school supply efforts underway in the county, Stuckey said there is still need in the community.
"Everyone doesn't go to the other ones or get everything they need," Stuckey said. "We are trying to get kids the additional supplies they need."
Supplies will be provided to students of any age, and children must be present to receive the items.
The supplies which will be given away are donated to Hope Ministries by community members.
Stuckey said donations are still being accepted for Saturday's event, and any donations which may come in too late for Saturday will be stored and used at the Christmas giveaway the ministry hosts or at the back-to-school giveaway next year.
Additional information about the event or donation needs is available by calling 315-5941. Donations will also be collected at the shelter, located at 1515 S. 14th St., Mt. Vernon.


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