Podcast Episode Details

013 Neuromechanical Matching: Everything you need to know (but few do)

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Episode 13

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In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake Doleschal and Chris Beardsley unpack one of Peary Rader’s Silver Era “advanced beginner” routines, before a deep dive into the principle of Neuromechanical Matching.

Key topics include:

• What Rader’s “advanced beginner” (intermediate) plan looked like
• A deep dive into the neuromechanical matching principle
• Common misconceptions and critiques of NMM
• How it interacts with the size principle and fatigue
• Practical implications for programming

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Published on 4 weeks ago