Dr. Bret Contreras

It's like delts.

I prioritized delts the last year and I feel like they grew.

I wanted to do more delt volume, but if I just do dumbbell ladder raises all the time and I'm always going for progressive overload on them, I start heaving, I start, it starts kind of irritating my joints a little bit, but I've found that cable ladder raises don't beat me up as much.

But I will use dumbbells, machines, cable columns, even bands.

You can do band exercises.

Those work you most in the squeeze position.

They don't create as much muscle damage.

So you use this knowledge to maximize your recoverable volume.

MRV, it's this concept of maximum recoverable volume.

You want to do as much volume as possible, but still recovering from it.

So yeah, that's the hard thing about working with people online compared to in person.

Online, you kind of have to have a generic cookie cutter approach.

In person, you can individualize it and assess where they are.

If I have a beginner, yes, I agree with you.

They benefit from more volume to have the motor learning and gain the coordination.

Also, you should like, I remember standing in the mirror when I was like 15, 16 year old flexing.

And I'm like, I can't, how do I flex my lats?

How do I flex my, if you can't flex your muscles, how can you flex your muscles against resistance?

Like super important point.

So you can use what Mel Siff back then is a legendary sports scientist.