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Back to Episodes017 Exercise Selection - How to pick the exercises needed to maximally develop a muscle
Episode 18
Published 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Description
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