How do you make your skin, bones, and muscles far denser than an average human?
Train in a grappling/falling art, such as Aikido or Judo. Achieve the rank of shodan or higher. Your bones will become denser from all the microtraumas of falling, especially if you train on hardwood or concrete.Get yourself a big bucket of sand, and repeatedly punch your hands into it at least 1000 times a day for several years. This will toughen up your knuckles and fingers, and further strengthen your wrists and forearms.Study Kung fu iron body part techniques. There’s iron head, iron belly, and iron crotch. It appears to involve having people punch or kick repeatedly to the specific body part to toughen the skin and connective tissues.Find your favorite old tree, and attack it full force 1,000 times a day for several years. Again, this will toughen and strengthen those body parts subjected to such abuse. You can also acquire and use a makiwara instead of a tree if you prefer.You’ll notice that all of these training techniques involve dedication to a rigorous and often painful process. It will have a significant opportunity cost. Make sure the end result is really something worth desiring before embarking on your path.
How dense and strong would your muscles have to be to stop a bullet from a pistol? What would be the effect of making your body become like that?
You can increase quantity of muscle tissue through strength training, but you can’t make it more dense as far as I know. Your body becomes overall more dense because muscle is denser than other tissues, but the muscles themselves can’t become more dense.I think stopping bullets is more about tensile strength anyway. The bullet pushes on the surface of the material which stretches it. If it breaks when stretched then the bullet pierces it. Or something like that. Different steel alloys can have tensile strengths ranging from 550 MPa to over 1000 MPa. Kevlar has 3600 MPa, and I believe that’s why it takes less mass of woven Kevlar to stop a pistol than it does steel even though steel is harder and denser than Kevlar.Meanwhile our pathetic human meat has a tensile strength in single digits of MPa. The hardness is near zero, and the density is not far off from the density of water. No amount of strength or training will change those numbers enough to stop a bullet. A person will never be bullet proof. Sorry.Disclaimer: I’m not a ballistics expert, just an avid user of the meat based computer inside my skull.
Since muscle is more dense than fat, if you are considered over weight, but you have a lot of muscle, would it be less of a health issue?
well yes and no. My ideal weight according to the charts at my doctors office should be 121 to 153 lbs. I haven’t been in that range since birth. I currently weigh 205 to 210lbs with bf at around 13–15% which is the fattest I have been in many years. I plan to get it down to 10% shortly Anyway back to your question my BMI is 35% which morbidly obese and I am nowhere near morbidly obese. Is it the optimum weight for me? Its close I would like to drop another 10 lbs or so of fat and see how I feel. I have been close to 250 lbs at one point and I was huge with 19 inch arms plus 29 inch legs right before I was getting ready for a show. I liked it at the time but its not for me now. Its a lot of stress on the body. So while it can be a health issue your body will adapt and you need to head the warnings signs that perhaps you are not at the optimal weight. And there are signs its just that we choose to ignore them. Too much weight whether muscle or fat will have adverse effects on the body over a long period of time. Yes the muscle is the better of the two but you have to remember that there is a limited amount of heart beats, breaths, times that your joints can bend without pain and severe wear during your lifetime and the extra weight is stressful.
How do i train to build dense strong muscle?
Hey guys, i was wondering if any of you know how to build strong dense muscle. I dont wanna aim to just get big, i really want to work on building the strongest muscle possible... how should i train to achieve this?
Muscle density? How do I get rock hard muscles?
Okay see, my goal's to gain muscle mass for now, and I've been doing that very well, and my diet works just fine. The thing is though, while my muscles have grown bigger and all, my biceps in particular, aren't rock solid and dense enough when I flex them. Sure, they're rock hard, but not all round. It doesn't make you feel like you're literally holding a rock in your hand. Just a part of it, particular the peak and the inner biceps, are hard. Not anywhere else. So my question is, how do I get my muscles more dense, in other words, harder? Thanks in advance for the answers guys. Cheers
How do I increase muscle density and NOT size?
Aha! A great question and right up my street. I am currently in the process of building dense lean muscle mass with a low body fat percentage and a lower body weight, using Dynamic Resistance. (calisthenics based)This is where I am constantly shocking my muscles with incomplete moves, such as half reps into isometric holds, long eccentrics, then explosives, drop sets of a variety of movements strengthening synapses that actually program the muscle. I've given this some thought and research, so I'm working on micro-adaptations in the fibres, a good analogy: rather than working on how big my hardware is, I am trying to update my software.I cant get enough of this kind of workout, it's just so fun and adictive, plus it will always be challenging. But on top of that, it is building actual muscle fibres (through primarily myofibrillar hypertrophy). I know this because I'm not being affected by isolated glycogen buildup. (puffy post-workout muscles). I'm also seeing real strength results in and outside training.I assume you want a sort of Frank Medrano build. I am going for a bit more mass than that if possible, but that will naturally come from weighted progressions.Give these dynamic moves a try and really find that tension.Alternatively, you can do 5x5 or 3x5 power sets in the gym, moving toward an Olympic lifting body functionality. Those guys have some of the densest fibres on the planet.