Podcast Episode Details

017 Exercise Selection - How to pick the exercises needed to maximally develop a muscle

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Episode 18

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In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake and Chris discuss Sig Klein’s extensive routine and use it as a springboard to tackle one of the biggest programming questions: how much exercise variety do you really need for maximal growth?

Key topics include:

• How neuromechanical matching explains which motor units get recruited first
• Voluntary activation deficits - why bigger muscles and bigger lifts mean some motor units aren't recruited
• How to use unilateral work to meaningfully increase recruitment
• Why some muscles require greater exercise variation than others

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Published on 8 hours ago