Colorado experiment

[two_phat]

Anybody heard of this? And the results it gives?

The full article is here: http://www.bodybuildingfanatic.com/colo ... riment.htm

For those who can't be bothered reading the whole thing, heres a run down.

RESULTS . .

First subject (Casey Viator), 28 days

Increase in bodyweight........45.28 pounds

Loss of bodyfat..............17.93 pounds

Muscular gain.................63.21 pounds

Second subject (Arthur Jones),22 days

Increase in bodyweight .......13.62 pounds

Loss of bodyfat...............1.82 pounds

Muscular gain.................15.44 pounds

"For example, during the first l4 days, Viator gained 28.93 pounds, a daily average of 2.06 pounds. During the next 3 days, he gained 3.92 pounds, a daily average of 1.3 pounds. During the following 5 days, he gained 6.09 pounds, a daily average of 1.2 pounds. And during the final 6 days, he gained 6.34 Pounds, a daily average of 1.05 pounds."

Apparently both subjects spent around 4 hours in the gym a week. They had a specific type of training outlined below

Out of the total of 122 sets, 54 were performed in a "negative only" fashion . . . 14 were performed in a "negative accentuated" fashion . . . and 54 were performed in a normal (negative-positive) style.

Negative only means that the resistance was "lowered" only, involving eccentric contraction.

negative accentuated means that the resistance was raised with both arms (or both legs), and then lowered with only one arm or leg.

Normal means that the resistance was raised with both arms (or legs) and lowered in the same fashion.

Only one "set" of each exercise was performed in almost all workouts, and when two sets of an exercise were performed they were never performed in sequence.

Those results seem pretty amazing to me...anybody else know anymore or have any thoughts on this?

[NZPT]

impressive but i find it very hard to believe they gained that much in 28 days. So prob BS.

The experiment design has limited mention of their calories or how they were regulated additional supplementation ( probably a hefty dose of dianabol :grin: )

seems like a lot of name dropping in reference to football teams and stars too.

[two_phat]

Yeah those gains seemed to alot for such a small amount of time - it was done back in the 70s so wouldn't be suprised if they had some 'extra' help.

Still even if they were using gear - those are still some very impressive gains.

Read on wikipedia that both subjects were regaining pre-existing muscle mass.

[Agent]

There's no doubt about Casey Viator, he was one of the thickest guys of his day. Muscle memory, great genetics and I assume AAS all would have been a big factor, he lost a lot of size after an accident and getting sick so would always put it back on fast once the training and diet was sorted.

It was a great advertisement for Nautilus training too.

Check out http://www.levrone.com to see what he's done in such a short period of time recently, similar story - muscle memory, proper training and diet after a layoff.

Whatever the reasons - muscle memory, gear, genetics, it's still impressive the body can put on such a large amount of muscle in a short time frame.

[Mr_Krabs]

Man changing your body that much and fast I'd be pretty paranoid about pregnancy style stretch marks?

[HumanPerformance]

I remember this expriment. It was way back ,and covered in muscle and fitness magazine. Yes the gains actually happened as was independantly verified at the time. The majority of muscle Casey gained though was due to muscle memory though. He had had a couple of years of and this was his big comeback.

He was incredibly strong , squats 260kg for 15reps and the like.

He was a genetic freak (like all pros really) and the results from this study have never been replicated despite arthur jones best efforts.

[xen]

Hmmm "Colorado" must be slang for 'roids; looks like a load of shit. If you're natural, you'll likely overtrain very quickly doing so much negative-only work.

[two_phat]

So arthur Jones tried this again then?

Jones himself experienced some reasonably big gains as well - whats his excuse?