Originally Posted by
cyclintom
Can you think of any way I could prevent you from doing whatever you want or even desire to? You are free to follow your dream. Arnold Schwartzenegger can be your dream. Oh, wait, someone else said that your muscles don't grow from weight training. So I guess he was born that way and you're out of luck unless you were born that way.
Dr Hatfield (PhD in exercise physiology and competitive power lifter) has an interesting take on weight lifting and body size. His position is that athletes whose body composition is largely slow twitch, need to do high rep, lower weight programs to maximize the benefit of a weight program. Athletes with body composition of mainly fast twitch need to do low reps and heavy weight to optimize their lifting. He believes that body composition informs the lifting.