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When I was on my course back in February for fitness instruction, the course lecturer mentioned that salt has a big part in muscle softness in appearance reduction due to the water content between muscles. What he said to me was by reducing your salt intake it helps to reduce the water within the muscles that gives it that soft look. Has anyone else heard of this or can verify the truth to these possiblities?
Maximise wrote:
When I was on my course back in February for fitness instruction, the course lecturer mentioned that salt has a big part in muscle softness in appearance reduction due to the water content between muscles. What he said to me was by reducing your salt intake it helps to reduce the water within the muscles that gives it that soft look. Has anyone else heard of this or can verify the truth to these possiblities?
Yes I have heard this, but I would have thought the more water you get in the muscles the better, as this is basically what roids do.
Yes I have heard this, but I would have thought the more water you get in the muscles the better, as this is basically what roids do.
Wayne
I'd think the more water you hold , the softer you'd look ... bigger but softer. I watched an interview with Rich Gaspari when he was getting ready for one of the Olympias - one of the ones he should have won, IMO - and he mentioned he even stopped eating egg whites because they were high in sodium and that would allow him to hold water.
Nobody came into contests as shredded as he did back then - he raised the bar as far as being ripped.
Now I remember something from way back in Vince Gironda's ' Unleashing the Wild Physique' book, about taking in MORE salt in the form of salt tablets to shed water ....
Yes I have heard this, but I would have thought the more water you get in the muscles the better, as this is basically what roids do.
Wayne
I'd think the more water you hold , the softer you'd look ... bigger but softer. I watched an interview with Rich Gaspari when he was getting ready for one of the Olympias - one of the ones he should have won, IMO - and he mentioned he even stopped eating egg whites because they were high in sodium and that would allow him to hold water.
Nobody came into contests as shredded as he did back then - he raised the bar as far as being ripped.
Now I remember something from way back in Vince Gironda's ' Unleashing the Wild Physique' book, about taking in MORE salt in the form of salt tablets to shed water ....
Anyone know the idea behind that ?
You probably meant "to shit water".
I'm beeing serious here. Just drink a lot of seawater at once during your next beach holiday and see what happens. Look out for a toilet near by to avoid the mess.
I wasn't talking about something extreme as your example, LOL, and don't remember Gironda suggesting drinking sea water to shit you brains out.
I thought I remembered something about taking in more salt to get rid of water which didn't make sense to me and thought someone could explain the idea behind it. I figured more salt from food, not drinking from the Atlantic Ocean, would make you hold water and bloat, not shed it.
I doubt he was talking abut inducing severe diarrhea ... or maybe he was.
Yes I have heard this, but I would have thought the more water you get in the muscles the better, as this is basically what roids do.
Wayne
I'd think the more water you hold , the softer you'd look ... bigger but softer. I watched an interview with Rich Gaspari when he was getting ready for one of the Olympias - one of the ones he should have won, IMO - and he mentioned he even stopped eating egg whites because they were high in sodium and that would allow him to hold water.
Nobody came into contests as shredded as he did back then - he raised the bar as far as being ripped.
Now I remember something from way back in Vince Gironda's ' Unleashing the Wild Physique' book, about taking in MORE salt in the form of salt tablets to shed water ....
Anyone know the idea behind that ?
Gironda again ? It sounds like something that nut job would suggest.
