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Dr. Andrew Huberman

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2012 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Okay, so for those that don't know, supinated means palms facing you.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Palms facing you.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Palms facing you, pull down or on a pull-down machine to, you know, chest level or something like that, to the front, obviously.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

My understanding and my experience is that

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

if you do a proper warmup and then you train close to failure or to failure for one or two sets, maybe a third set, that it takes at least three or four days for that muscle to recover.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Now, I realize some people recover much more quickly, but I feel like most people don't.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

So for me, it's always been hard to wrap my head around three times a week training unless people are not going to failure or they're switching up the movement so that the muscles are being targeted differently each time.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

No direct arm work, for instance.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Because they don't want their arms to grow.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Could you clarify bilateral, unilateral?

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Okay, this is an extremely important concept that most people, I believe, have not heard of.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Certainly in exercise science circles, I'm sure everybody knows, but maximal recoverable volume.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

I think this is so critical because it frames basically everything we've been talking about up until now.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And I also think it can help clarify a lot of confusion for people, in particular, people that are starting to do resistance training and wanna better understand what works and what doesn't work over time.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

both men and women, but also experienced lifters.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Because my sort of weaning and understanding around resistance training came from the high-intensity folks, okay, those years ago.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And this can be basically summarized as you warm up,

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

You do a super intense focused set, maybe two, maybe three.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And then you maybe do that for another muscle group.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And then you take a couple of days off and then come in and train other muscles.