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F the Details—Shut Up and Train?

Steve doing Smith machine squats, Jonathan spotting

You may have seen some bodybuilders say to stop analyzing your workouts—just do plenty of sets on the big exercises, and you’ll grow.

That may work if you’re young and/or on anabolic drugs. But as you age, you must get more analytical to continue making progress as well as avoid injury… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: biomechanics, grow, muscle gains, muscle growth, muscular gains, train to gain

Mass Machine: Less Insane to Gain

Jonathan Lawson doing dumbbell curls

Yesterday I talked about training to failure and how it can have a negative effect on your nervous system, making each set after the first less efficient at stimulating mass.

A hammered nervous system doesn’t allow enough “juice” to engage the high-threshold motor units, which control the fast-twitch growth fibers.

Solution: [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: failure, growth fibers, high-threshold motor units, mass machine, subfailure, Tim Patterson, train to gain

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