Wooov,
Man you have an interesting muscle make-up for sure. However, it is amazing how similar my legs are to your overall muscle structure in terms of how they generally function. Let me explain:
Legs are my strongest part and grow the most easily. No I cannot squat huge loads of weight, in fact I have not done squats for years because I came pretty close to hurting my back with them some time ago and have always gotten such good results from leg presses that I personally don't see the point in doing squats (I know, this has halved my bodybuilding credibility and just qualified me as a sissy). However, even more interesting than these is the fact that
a) I get a very very easy pump on my legs. I need to run for just 30 yards at a good pace -not even outright sprinting- and they are pumped as hell
b) My legs have the most terrible endurance you can ever imagine.
Something special is going on with my legs that cannot simply be explained by "they have more FTs" or other simple stuff like that. I have actually been in correspondence with Professor Tim Noakes, who as you may know, is one of the most famous scientists about endurance. He speculated that my legs may be sending more intense signals to the "central governor" (one of his very well thought-out models) for some as yet unknown reason.
So when all is said and done, what I think is going on with my legs and your whole body is that: When they contract, they do so very powerfully. What does "powerful" mean in this context? They reach maximal fiber utilization right away? They reach tetany very quickly? They trap the blood very effectively thus choking themselves out? Their lactate treshold is very low and they switch to anearobic pathways too soon? .... Probably a number of these things happening at once. I have especially high confidence in my speculation that they may somehow be trapping the blood around them very effectively and choking themselves out.
Now you may ask? If your legs are contracting so powerfully why are you not the strongest in your peer group? This may have a lot to do with tendon attachment points. The more advantageous the tendon insertion point from a leverage point, the more strength you have, but the longer your reaction time and the less explosive you are. However, if the tendon attaches lower, you cannot produce as much strength as you otherwise could but are very explosive. (and please no one respond to this by typing the lame F = M*A formula, I am talking about something entirely different here) I think this is part of the reason I am not super strong in my legs because I am very explosive with them. I just think that the tendon attachments in my lower body favor speed over strenght. I assume the same is true for you also -and not jus legs but overall in most muscles, based on what you have told us.
Let us come to the $46,000 question (why 46? because this is how much a Corvette goes for these days -give or take). Since your legs are already trapping the blood with regular contractions, is there any sense in accentuating this effect with ACIT? There very well may be. In my case, ACIT produced the best -by far the best- results in my legs. I do not have to squeeze like a maniac on the way down and still I get a huge pump as well as a very very very deep inroading (sionce legs are already inclined to choke themselves out, all I have to do is to make process a bit faster). Why don't you try ACIT for your legs on the leg press just as an experiment and let us know what it felt like? Just give it a few workouts to sink in. As far as not being able to do a drop set, don't worry. As I pointed out in the web site, I am having to drop the weight so far with the drops after an ACIT set that it is meaningless at this point. So I don't really do a drop set. However, the increased acidity is doing something to my legs and making them grow for sure...
Also, if you don't mind PM'ing me your personal information, I would like to keep it at hand, just so I can show another example like myself to Prof Noakes, and who knows he may have some suggestions there....
Thanks a lot for the info and keep us informed....
Sub7
I don't do drop sets simply because I have to drop the weight extremely far. This is pretty much across the board, but is more prevelant in the easier movements. Currently I have to take very long rests (3-5min) inbetween sets to even attempt 2nd sets without dropping weight, and still often don't achieve the same ammount of reps.
Back in highschool my lifting partners would always comment on this. It would seem that on rep 5 I'd still be going strong, but rep 6 would go up extremely hard, and I'd need assistance on the 7th. I always caught a lot of crap because "I gave up to easily".
Stats wise I can't say I'm very impressive. This has a lot to due with my lack of consistancey and effort, then anything. I just recently came back to workingout out after 2+ years of barely doing anything, so I can barely move any weight right now :run:
But maybe this will help you. In early highschool I was a running back. I definately had a lot of speed (which I have lost a bit of). I never had any type of long distance endurance. In practice I'd be the one getting chewed out because "one of the fast guys doing the run the slowest". I'm not sure if that is related to FT ST fibers more then it is to my lack of conditioning.
And finally, I wouldn't say "overly strong" Back when I was 14-16 and we started weighttraining for football, and my first real time in the gym, might be my best data. At this point I was one of the stronger, but definately not the strongest, member of my peers. Out of my class of 26 (yea small school), I was the 3rd strongest (the top 2 were freaks).
This is really the best I can answer your questions I'm afraid. I was (and still am) a very good golfer, but I'm not sure that's relevent either. See if you can make anything from this mess of information.