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Dr. Andrew Huberman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2846 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And what you just described yesterday and took me through was incredible because I could really feel the activation.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And I can really sense how it stabilizes the pelvis and does all the great things that people can look up that Glute Medius does.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

So thank you for that.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Although we're mainly talking about the glutes, you've also been giving us a beautiful description of how to prioritize a lagging muscle group.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

It just so happens that the glutes are lagging for most people.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Let's transfer that to essentially any muscle group with the understanding that different muscle groups have different needs, right?

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Different size muscle groups recover more or less.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

It can handle different volumes.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

We certainly don't have time to get into all the details of that.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And it's highly individual as well.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

But what I'm taking away from what you've said so far is that if one does a really honest assessment of their development, their aesthetic development, their strength development,

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

There almost always is one or two body parts that are lagging that need help.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

that aesthetically or functionally or strength-wise or all of the above are behind the rest of the body.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

I think men more than women, in my observation, tend to focus a lot on their stronger lifts in the gym.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Like, oh, if they can bench a lot and they've got really, you know, a lot of chest development, they'll like bench a lot.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

I always want to pull them aside.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Like, listen, like lay off the benches.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

You see these guys with like heavy lower pec development, no upper pec development, or just...

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

like huge chest and then like pipe arms and no forearms.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And you just kind of want to be like, listen, man, like, is it really that necessary to like lean into your strengths that much?