Microtears are how they hypothesized gains happened in the mid 2000's. All the heavy hitters started to think this was true (Bib, Xeno, etc). In my mind that's been all disproved based on the evidence I know presented in my Long Game thread. For one there was question if microtears lead to scar tissue. ThoughtfulGold at thunders had a diagnostic ultrasound done recently and guess what? No scar tissue despite years of PE.
I now think it is a cellular mediated response to the stress associated with PE. Fibroblast mediated proliferation. To get more nerdy there is usually a delay of one week from time of stress to maximal response. In our world though you'd need more than once a week PE sessions for growth. Recovery can and does happen alongside restressing the tissue and growth. Something to explore and keep in mind as you read others accounts. The "theory" many times might not be that accurate and if you operate with a less accurate theory you will likely have less than optimal results because a less than optimal approach. I'm not saying flat out wrong just less optimal.
Take xeno for example. I believe he was taking strain rates as that'll explain how he formed many of his ideas, or at least taking daily BPSFL. He operated under the microtears theory. He used hot tub equipped to go hotter than normal to do PE in and took regular decons. So he did some things that were revolutionary and I agree beneficial at the time. However his methods were extreme because he was trying to cause actual damage to create those microtears. So he'd stress his tissues extremely for a short time (2 week) then take a decon. That may have been less than optimal.
The actual problem is that PE still is a little bit of a secret, we're doing try & error here, people are bringing up theories and making threads about it. Maybe it works for them but won't work for the others. Maybe there wasn't a better way in the past, but most of the so called theories are not proven scientifically by doctors or studies. So when I or others are trying to gain knowledge and reading old threads, sometimes it's the past and not the now.
People believed that the earth is flat until some people questioned it and they found out that it's round.
That's what some smart minds are doing here and you're one of them @longstretch (fire)
Maybe we should tag the old theories, which had been proven to not be scientifically correct with something like '[old]' and the actual ones with '[actual]', else people who're digging in the threads of the past will have the same 'problems' and learning old theories.
Man @longstretch you're one of the reasons why I've learned so much in a short time and even now when I sometimes got 'old knowledge' theories or believes from the past PE decades, you're even coming in and telling your actual view and dropping your actual knowledge in. (fire)
Thanks a lot for that, like really, that's insane and helps me but also all the others a lot