ENTERING THE PSYCHO BLAST GENERATION
Superman and the creator of the world famous Nautilus machines hold a common bond for me. In the early 1970's having dinner in Deland, Florida with Nautilus entrepreneur Arthur Jones, I made two vital errors in discussion and Jones proceeded to tear my head off.
First, lacking an adequate knowledge of physiology being only a hack muscle magazine writer of dubious talent than - I noted muscles get stronger because their cells reproduce making them bigger.
Jones who was beginning his manufacture and marketing blitz campaign for early prototypes of today's Nautilus, which were to maximize muscle contraction potential and range of movement, attacked me verbally like one of his pet crocodiles ... yes, muscle fibers I know now, do not reproduce one from another like Eve biblically being cleaved from Adam ... maybe.
According to 'Exercise Physiology' by McArdle and Katch (published by Lea and Febiger 1981):
"Researchers have reported that some muscle fibers from trained animals undergo a process of longitudinal splitting. In such cases, the split fibers become two individual daughter cells through a process of lateral budding."
According to this research the problem is applying such findings to humans with regard to their biochemical and physiological capabilities The information goes further to state:
"Even if these findings are replicated in well controlled human studies (and even if the response is a positive adjustment), the greatest contribution to muscular hypertrophy (growth) with overload training (weight or resistance training) is made by the increase in size of existing individual muscle cells. (Muscles as we know them on the common consciousness viewing level are made up of individual strands or fibers and packaged in bundles). "
Increasing the size of existing fibers is of course the name of the game. However, belaboring a point, old theories never die, they just return in cycles to be proven almost correct.The aforementioned 'splitting process is technically known as 'hyperplasia'
Second point of discussion with Jones at the aforementioned time was, what made the 'comic book hero' Superman tick. My conception allied the idea, his atomic structure was denser, or his atoms were packed closer together. If this was so why could not weight trainers develop limitless strength over a given period of time?
Jones felt you couldn't alter the space between atoms to make them come closer ... no argument here. But according to the laws of Quantum Physics, the sub-atomic world of particle physics is one based on probabilities with no definite laws for definite energy relationships. This in some ways allows access to so called other dimensions.
Some physicists believe we will at a future time be able to tap this 'time and space' energy form relationship with our minds and make it usable. The masters of yoga and meditation claim to have been doing this already for thousands of years.
This approach has been known by many names in many cultures. Best known terminologies are. . . 'Cosmic Consciousness', 'The Force', and other various metaphysical beliefs from early and current eastern religion which allege to tap the sub-atomic higher world dimensional portals using meditation.
According to physicist Fred Alan Wolf in his book 'Star Wave. Mind Consciousness and Quantum Physics': "If you think, you experience time. If you feel, you experience energy. If you intuit, you experience wavelength. If you sense, you experience space".
And so then, how far are we as humans away from being 'superpersons '? Only the thought processes to find the means are lacking.
Physically however, it has to be done with muscle and the biornechanics available at the moment. Those biomechanics are the'thing' however made of'mind stuff'. Limits are those put upon ourselves by experience and non-conditioning.
Conditioning is not only based on biomechanical training, but learning to control the mechanical methods themselves, which have a base in motivation alone.
Concentration on the act of muscle contraction against whatever the stress involved holds the key to the process. At the heart of concentration however is another element. That of motivation which programs all ideas, needs, and energy flows.
Simply put, first comes the idea, then the act of actual performance, then the dedication to reach the maximum of that performance. Lack of maximum performance shatters no new boundaries and fathers no future messiahs.
Concentration is a meta-physical bridge between the mind, brain, and physical biochemistry.
In the words of John C. Lilly M.D.: "in the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experiential and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind there are no limits."
Building muscle with all its fitness and strength related properties therefore remains in the hands of the method's user. This contemporarily resembles a realm of ideas, theories, numbers, measurements, and personal imagery tied like a 'Gordian knot' about a maze of barbells, dumbbells, and ominous looking machines which resemble structures derived from a medieval torture chamber with an Art Deco style flare. All forms presently in the last 40 to 50 years were consolidated by commercial interest wizards versed in the timeless use of 'hucksterism'.
Buckminster Fuller once wrote: "Man is designed to be a comprehensivist". . . which says so much for the idea of methods. But another gentleman generations before saw a slightly different clarity of organic bio-man . . "Man is a rope connecting animal and superman-a rope over a precipice.. . What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal"-Nietzsche.
Regardless of high minded references, only one idiom holds true in human economics of energy: "You get what you pay for'. The only acceptable currency of exchange for building muscle tissue is 'sweat' with a payback of power and resulting physical impressiveness for those under the influence of the most accurate 'wizard of muscling up huckstering'.
. . . "and by the seventh workout the coach had created a 'superman' from the flesh of the foul beast and he rested saying: 'Thank God, the damn method worked"'... Denie
What is muscle?
In our frame of reference, the muscle being dealt with is skeletal muscle as opposed to the other human muscle tissues called smooth (internal involuntary) and cardiac which is a mixture of smooth and skeletal (voluntary: termed striated because of dark and light areas seen in the fibers through a microscope under examination).
To review for a moment: Skeletal muscle is a specific tissue which moves the body about by exerting a pulling pressure generally against and upon the bone super supportive frame work.
Skeletal muscle tissues range in size and shape to accommodate the particular purpose they perform, as leverage systems of the bones in length and range of motion the muscles move.
The 434 skeletal voluntary muscles (regulated on the micro level by 1823 genes) produce movement by contracting or shortening their length inward toward center from each end where they attach to a bone, or bones, anchoring point by a tendon connective tissues.
Developing muscles to greater size visually does not necessarily mean working all of them individually since the key sets interlock one with the other as groups.
The origin of the word muscle is from the 'Latin' word 'mus' which means mouse. The ancients believed the wriggling of muscles under the skin resembled mouse-like movements. Little did they realize because neither the term or the technology has been invented yet - that what they were looking at was an organic micro-energy generator system.
For two million years or more while humanity was reaching its present level of consciousness or was grasping for it. Muscles in visual prominence well delineated, or larded with tat which add a massive bulk, have had a distinction. They were considered a badge of survival tooling and mobility while carrying a separate connotation in their brutality. . . 'the mark of the beast.'
But today in the beginning of the 21st Century a transition is taking place in conceptual viewing integrity since society has civilized most of man's beast potential. Muscles have found an evolutionary pivot point toward symbolically being considered a sign of constructive health and organic fitness modulating drives and expression into proper recreational channels. Flesh has gone the way of the sport.
Muscles which receive their stimulation for movement from the body's central nervous system via the brain and a myriad of thought processes, can perform feats of prodigious speed and power for their size and weight in potential - often being able to support or move 1000 times their own volume.
Bernstein, the father of biomechanics described the entire integral human neuromuscular system in these terms:
"As in the orchestra, each instrument plays its individual score, so in the act of walking, each joint reproduces its own curve of movements and each center of gravity is sequence of accelerations; each muscle produces its melody of efforts, full with regular changing stable details. And in like manner, the whole of this ensemble acts in unison with a single and complete rhythm, fusing the whole enormous complexity into a clear and harmonic simplicity. The consolidator and manager of the complex entity, the conductor and at the same time composer of the analyzed score, is of course the central nervous system".
Even on the most rudimentary level strong muscles are necessary for a healthy life. Perhaps the question 'What is muscle7should be rephrased. . . "Why muscle?"
In 1926 an early pioneer of the current 'Bodybuilding' then known as the Physical Culture movement expounded on 'why', though the methods of the period were stunted compared to today's technology. Earle Liederman stated it soberly and straight in these no nonsense terms:
"Every man should be able to save his own life. He should be able to swim far enough, run fast enough and long enough to save his life in case of an emergency and necessity. He also should be able to chin himself a reasonable number of times, as well as to dip a number of times, and he should be able to jump a reasonable height and distance".
In the time period that was written, women stayed at home. If Mr. Liederman were alive today - he would of course include the ladies of our liberated generation. Since he isn't they'll no doubt handle this themselves.
On philosophical grounds extending into a metaphysical relationship - muscle may be an extension of the mind as a transmutation of energy. Therefore muscle structures create a higher form of physical reality because of how they extend human potential giving the life force a broader base of expression in the environment.
The act of consciously building muscle at present, far from the unconscious beasts of the past, could be tantamount to a futuristic religious constructive ritual showing respect for the life force itself.
It's certainly not an exaggeration to speculate here muscle, as a form of matter, or living tissue is really a transcendental conversion of mind power itself, using environmental elements from mind core consciousness to muscle core activation. Only, the viewpoint has never been stated until now.
This we shall call . . . 'The Genesis Matrix'of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, helium and neon.
Conscious systemized development of muscle as opposed to reactionary unconscious development removed humanity from the jungles to a place of sublime art and expanding spiritual potential ... a new form of reality, which I call 'bioconsciousness', the supreme form of life control.
Unnoticed till this writing is the fact that muscle contraction against a training resistance is the highest form of physical meditational energy use connecting mind to body. That is to say, when muscles are isolated against the proper formula of resistance to permit correct movement range and action.
Much like yogic philosophy the body can then tap into the mind's metaphysical access to limitless cosmic energy. To some this may seem far fetched, but it so let them challenge the principle.
Mind and brain according to many current psychologists may be two separate entities, with the body simply a muscular container for some sub-atomic life spark with an infinite polarity for arranging matter (the muscular container spark polarity being my contribution to the fray). The study of genetics at present are entering into the outer control zones of this phenomena, or genesis matrix.
Therefore, muscle contraction with all sources in abeyance channels a life building force-muscle is to life what belief is to reality. Muscle as matter or living tissue is a transcendental conversion of mind power using the environmental elements.
Again, conscious development of these movement potentials take men and women from the jungles and even earlier primordial ooze, heightening them toward a sense of sublime art while expanding this potential.
On a more materialistic plain, the well respected late financial expert Malcolm Forbes once in discussion agreed with me, that muscles were a very important 'capitalist tool'for a society's economic growth-if muscles are kept fit.
According to Forbes: "If you're nimble in body, your mind is apt to be more nimble". And that applies in visa versa fashion - so the link of bioconsciousness is clearly made here on a solid footing.
Not all human beings have the same potential in muscle building, or life heredity for that matter. But lack of development of these potentials is a sure stumbling block for them ever being reached or appreciated on an intellectual, physical, or emotional level.
Some may have crippled extremities due to an accident or natural cause - what of their potential in muscle?
True potential relates to present capacity, therefore self potential and development remains the responsibility of controlling the individual tools given. Besting the self is the highest form of self potential using the tools available.
In life contrary to popular consciousness, there are no cripples, hereditarily unfit and the like - there are, in human terms, only'self motivators'. Their badges of honor are their apparent muscular structures for movement and survival. The Human Genome Project which commenced in the 1990's to map the 80,000 to 100,000 gene structures and 3 billion chemical bases that make up DNA certainly is enhancing and stabilizing that principle for mankind's expanding potential.
As early 20th Century strongman, pioneering Bodybuilding promoter Eugene Sandow once stated: "LIFE IS MOVEMENT".
And so our genetically controlled structural muscles, with the internal involuntary muscles which reinforce them, stand clearly as a leverage empire arbitrating human movement and territorial exploration. This then, is an empire of rule with no living physical alternative, which must be maintained, if not continually developed ... or the beast and superman both decay, doomed to a lethargic demise in organic reality.
Training the muscles therefore takes on a separate reality of its own corresponding to the energy of our thoughts, and giving them a dimensional goal. The muscle structures as they develop extend the present physical potential into a future form of life extension, as they renew their molecular structure from one microsecond to the next due to use.
This gives the human being's individual life forces a broader base of expression in the environment. Stretching the definition to its farthest borders, the act of consciously attempting to build muscle may be tantamount to a constructive religious ritual, not for exhibition of pride or defensive camouflage, but for showing respect for the essence of life itself.
Our very bodies themselves may be a physical matrix for a universal energy continuum - with the consciousness and control of muscles our current access. If this is so, obviously each of us, one with the other, are connected by boundless wellsprings of infinite force fields, with exercise itself being a physical preservative linking our realities.
The 'beast' and its mark may then be a response to the present environment which in past times we saw as alien - when in truth we are all originated from the same point.
"Muscle ... is Thought. "
Together 'Mind and Body' are 'Bioconscidusness' and that is the goal purpose of making the THE IRON CONNECTION!
The next building and fitness genetically aware generation faces a new technological period of 'unique training principles' pushing our genetic potential toward the stars. They'll probably impart more life to the 'old chestnut' of just plain lifting weights a.k.a. resistance training.
True Bodybuilding for constructive muscle development is based on a principle, and hydraulic force little mentioned in our general sports magazines: to this author's memory it has never been noted in its specific terminology... 'Hemodynamics.
Hemodynamics as an internal system is the way the cardiovascular and circulatory systems supply energy and remove waste from the tissues performing work, in our frame of reference, the muscles in particular.
All weight training, principles are based in 'hemodynamic' control drive, superset, tri-sets, static pumping, positive and negative ... you name it. The methods, depend on the human blood transport system. Which most trainers are generally unconscious of at least on a medical level, except for what a good pump or fatigue feels like.
One more fact is equally overlooked, that being, the mind and its perceptional reasoning capacities. This includes the brain's measuring and computing responsibilities.
A human brain stands alone as the world's most efficient computer ... biochemical computer, this is. Our next generation realizing this, will come to view sport and Bodybuilding from a totally different viewpoint.
Much of our coming strength and building skill technology will have a qualifying prefix added to the activities sub mechanics. . . 'Psyche', short for psychological.
That means in general, the control of motivation, so it can be manipulated for a purpose giving less pyrotechnical emotion and more well directed application by force of activated unfaltering will. Any trainer will be able to understand and get the most from him or herself with less overall confusion due to their own mental blocks, and ineptitude.
This is the reason I created through performance research in the 1980's a new encompassing Weideresque training idea term bubble. Which may be a precursor to the dawning period that, free weights their supplementary apparatus, Nautilus machines and their clones, dangerous artificial steroids, much mythology and sport folklore, counterbalanced with sound kinesiological principles are pointing our technologies of training and specific nutrition towards in the future.
Later during this period incomplete data was published in book and feature form elsewhere on the evolving principle's mechanics. THE IRON CONNECTION current book contains the perfected final physio-chemical, mechanical and psychological performance stages of Psycho Blast today.
With it THE IRON CONNECTION becomes a thing of the mind. But please take note early on, as an author I do not believe steroids are part of our new technological period, never have and never will. Fore, the brain can be programmed to produce more steroids when stimulated properly, natural steroids which are precisely calibrated to the individual muscle system involved, no side effects ... ever.
The principal of 'Psycho-Blast' is based on getting maximum electrical output from your brain, creating better contractile forces in the muscle fibers under stress of a weight when training against it. This is not as easy as it sounds ... people have been doing it for years right?
Wrong!
No trainer gives equal intensity to every single rep. What they wait for is the wake up pain call from the last few to zero in on with their concentration. Therein lays the major error of approach.
Because... all reps must be performed with equal intensity and speed of force velocity. Since the earliest reps program the muscle biochemically for the final and last reps.
Unconscious reps are non-controlled reps, and where there is no control carelessness and sloppy performance occur. This leads to non-true activation of the muscle structure being enervated, which the brain measures as a performance level.
Right here, right now, I'm going to say something which most readers will say is totally impossible . . . You can make gains every workout, absolutely. Every single workout, a trainer can gain size and strength, if they compute the reps carefully, with mind force.
But first he or she must develop a direct neural control link of every single rep and that is the meaning of 'Psycho Blasting'. Using it, you also get more out of less sets, while receiving a tighter pumping. Pumping, is the well directed art of Hemodynamics control (remember we said that word eadier.).
You now enter a well disciplined and existential success hungry training world where thoughts and images can be tapped for their radiant forces, and be converted into intense muscle contraction impulse maximum winning power drives.
You now enter Book Two of THE IRON CONNECTION where IRON, BODY and MIND forge together.
"As far back as men have recorded their history, veils have been lowered to disclose a vast new reality-rents in the fabric of Man's awareness. And somewhere in the endless search of the curious mind, lies the next vision, the next key to his infinite capacity . . ."
from TV's The Outer Limits:
'Expanding Human' .
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