Dr. Bret Contreras

And then it gets a lot of backlash because people are like, oh, you really have gluteal amnesia.

Your glutes don't activate at all.

But what we're talking about is some muscles, and I learned this from doing EMG electromyography testing back in the day.

I'm like, man, when people walk up stairs, their quad activation is through the roof.

When you just stand up from the couch, quad activation through the roof.

Glute activation doesn't get very high during everyday normal movements.

Right.

So they're probably more prone to atrophy and disuse.

The muscle will shrink.

You're also not activating as much.

Why would the neural gains be as efficient?

And then probably there's a genetic element too with your anatomy and with your sport history and stuff.

um so there's kind of like neural think of it as neural programming i know glute activation gets a lot of flack from people because it got so popular back they low load glute activation it's funny because i'm a personal trainer but my roots come up as a strength coach um i wanted to i wanted to work with athletes earlier in my career and i think that's what differentiated me from

All these these bodybuilding coaches have a different mindset.

I have a more of a functional outlook on things, but also we were doing low load glute activation back in the day.

And there were all these coaches, the popular strength coaches were doing it in the early 2000s up until the late 2000s.

What's low load glute activation?

You're using lower loads, body weight or bands.

And you're just doing like, you know, movements trying to, you're not going to failure.

It's not a working set.