Dr. Bret Contreras

The no weight arm.

Yeah, the no weight arm.

That's pretty wild.

Yeah.

Yeah, so you can, but then how... I'm not suggesting that's the training people stick with.

Right.

Yeah, if you can't feel your muscles, you know, if you can't flex your... It's kind of hard to like, how do I flex my delts just standing here?

But like, yeah, you start tweaking the body and contorting and you're like, oh, I can feel my delts when I do this.

Flaring your lats, that took me some time back.

you know, 30 years ago when I started.

And then you start to realize, oh, and then another thing, sometimes you go to a gym that doesn't have a lot of equipment or you're limited in loading and you're like, you know, I'm going to do lat pull downs and you figure out, wow, I feel my lats more doing it this way.

Lifting is a lifelong journey.

You can always be improving your form.

You can always be learning new skills.

But in the beginning, yes, you want to learn how to flex your muscles.

You want to learn how to perform the exercises with good form, gain the coordination factor, the neural gains.

Then over time, most of your gains in strength will come from the muscle growing from hypertrophy.

Well, this was like proposed by this researcher, Vladimir Yanda, Janda, whatever, and kind of got trickled down.

I know Stu McGill, you've had him on the show.

He started talking about gluteal amnesia.