What determines whether a muscle or muscle region is recruited during an exercise?
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When you train hard and create microtears in your muscle fibers, you’ve created the primary stimulus for muscle hypertrophy.
Your body will repair the micro tears and ultimately create a bigger and stronger muscle.
How many times do you think you’ve heard this?
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A brand new study out of Japan by Maeo et al. has recently come out, comparing overhead extensions to pushdowns, and its findings have important implications for maxing triceps hypertrophy.
Let’s dive into this great new paper.
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Training hard is clearly important for developing muscle and strength.
It’s logical to think the more you train, the more you gain. You’d don’t to take your foot off the gas.
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It’s almost a guarantee that if you got two people to perform the same training program, they would get different results. Why is this?
Genetics, nutrition, and sleep may be some factors that instantly come to your mind, and all of these are unquestionably valid. But another, probably underappreciated factor, is the psychological stress levels experienced by a person.
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When consuming fitness content online, including mine, much of the discussion is on training variables and nutrition.
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High-intensity training refers to high effort, low volume, and lower frequency training. We’ll cover the precise details shortly.
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Are compound exercises (exercises that train two or more muscle groups) enough for maxing muscle hypertrophy?
And are isolation exercises (exercises that train one muscle group) just a waste of time?
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In this article, we’re going extremely deep into the science comparing different training frequencies and splits for muscle hypertrophy.
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Should you train a muscle with a higher frequency to consistently spike muscle protein synthesis and thereby keep yourself more anabolic.
Using the current science, we’ll assess this.
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