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Dr. Bret Contreras

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Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

They don't care as much as men do about arms.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And they're going to get decent arm development focusing on one upper body press and one upper body pull, but do that three times a week.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

We might do 36 sets a week for glutes.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And you think, oh my God, that's so much.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

It's 12, 12.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

I mentioned the four patterns.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

So you've got your squat lunge, hinge pull, thrust bridge, and then your abduction.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And those can be in any order.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Sometimes we prioritize the squat lunge, sometimes the hinge.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And it makes it fun because it's fun to PR on your favorite type of squat or hack squat or lunge or whatever.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And then the next month we might prioritize a hinge.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

But you're always doing all three of them.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

But you're going for PRs on one of the movement patterns each time.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

And then you mix it up throughout the... That's my system that tends to work well.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

There's a million ways to do it.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

But anyway, you can recover from that because it doesn't...

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

beat you up so much, but there's rules to it.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

You alternate with the squat lunge pattern.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

You alternate with a bilateral and unilateral because the unilateral tend to get you more sore.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Bilateral is double leg or double, like two limbs at a time.