{"id":50526,"date":"2019-10-16T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T09:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/how-much-can-we-actually-stack-on-top-of-each-other\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:30:51","slug":"how-much-can-we-actually-stack-on-top-of-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/how-much-can-we-actually-stack-on-top-of-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"How much can we actually “stack” on top of each other?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A closer and clearer explanation of my phrase in the title, what I will actually be about in today’s post, will be, in simple terms, our muscles. Or, to put it mildly, the muscular system. And what exactly? Let’s talk about how it works with the growth of our volume and strength. Again, a little more professionally, let’s talk about our muscle and strength potential. In a synonymous dictionary, we would find an equivalent for the word “potential” in the word “achievable”. So what about what we can achieve with our bodies? Let’s go in order… <\/p>\n\n

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In order to be able to produce a certain strength, we should have a certain muscle base, capacity. Muscle capacity depends on several factors – genetics, the structure of our skeleton, hormonal response, the length of individual muscles and our initial weight at the start of exercise. <\/p>\n\n

The term genetics should be understood as heredity. It is something we are\nborn with and that affects our entire life and therefore the very trainability of\nour muscular system. It is something that should not be overlooked. But\nwhatever our genetic predisposition is, we should always be able to realize\n that we can influence it to a certain extent in the long term with the right training. \n<\/p>\n\n

Another important indicator of muscle potential is the structure of our skeleton.\nIn very layman’s terms, a person with a more subtle skeleton cannot stack\nand develop muscle mass to the same extent as a person with a\nrobust skeletal structure. Thus, in the first case, the muscle potential will be less than\nin the second case. What is the main idea behind the muscle-to-bone ratio? \nHere I will rely on an expert and scientist in the field of kinanthropometry,\n Francis Holway, who, based on measurements of elite athletes from various\nsports sectors, found that 1 kilogram of bones supports a maximum of 5 kilograms\nof muscle in men and in women it is a maximum of 4 kilograms of muscle with 1\nkilogram of bones. This finding confirms that muscles and bones are\nanatomically and functionally closely connected. Starting from the same stem\ncell line, they grow and strengthen in response to very similar\nhormonal signals. The traditional concept that skeletal muscle is used to load\nthe bone and transform skeletal segments into a system of levers is evidence\n that striated muscle is essential for the maintenance and development of our\nbones – bone density. In addition to biomechanical function, skeletal muscles\nand bones are also endocrine organs capable of secreting factors capable of\nmodulating biological function within their microenvironment, in surrounding\ntissues or in distant organs. These properties of muscles and bones\ncan be used to sense and transmit biomechanical signals, such as different\nexertion, exercise, and others. These mechanisms can become extremely important\nduring bone and muscle healing after musculoskeletal injuries. We can influence all this\nwith the correct and appropriate load based\non strength training. A small impulse to think about what we can\ninfluence by simply “pounding” in the gym… <\/p>\n\n

The muscle-to-bone ratio is a much better indicator of someone’s\nability to gain muscle mass, as it not only takes into account height, but also points out how broad and robust someone is. The one who will look more robust even at\nthe same height, even if he has a little more fat mass on\nhim, but will naturally really look\n “gigantic”. Thus, his potential to gain muscle mass will be greater than\nthat of someone who is the same height but is actually thin. <\/p>\n\n

What kind of idea we could have about muscles, now\nlet’s briefly focus on strength. Strength is the result of how many muscles we have\nand how we know how to use them \u2013 activate them in relation to overcoming a certain\nresistance from the external environment. This is also how it could sound somehow. Strength\nis a function of nerve and muscle factors. More sophisticated wordingJ The more muscles we have, the greater our\nstrength potential will be. However, all this is a long-term process, because through training we\nimprove our nervous system, which is necessary for muscle activation (addressing\nmotor units, helping them to activate faster, produce more\nwork, relax faster, increase\noverall performance). The second, essential thing is the constant improvement of\nmotor control in anything. Better mastery of any movement, motor pattern, together with better\nneural activation,\n leads to greater force production. <\/p>\n\n

In conclusion, I would like to point out – whatever your goals are in gaining mass\nor gaining strength, try to take into account these facts, which have been briefly stated here\nand tried to look at the matter soberly. Although it is\ntrue that all the limits are actually only in our heads\nand with hard and honest work we can get really nice\nresults… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A closer and clearer explanation of my phrase in the title, what I will actually be about in today’s post, will be, in simple terms, our muscles. Or, to put it mildly, the muscular system. And what exactly? Let’s talk about how it works with the growth of our volume and strength. Again, a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50528,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50526\/revisions\/50528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitcamp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}