Dr. Bret Contreras

They have different –

it's not people think testosterone is so important and growth hormone and all this stuff, but it's, there's so many things that are important.

There's so many pathways, so many, if you study muscle physiology, I don't, I just send them off, send these studies to my friend, Brad Schoenfeld and hope he reads them because I don't understand all the,

all the pathways, there's so many of them, they tend to have acronyms, you know, the JNK pathway, the RED pathway, the FOX, you know, these pathways that only the muscle scientists, but we don't know, we don't have a grip on this, but there's genetics to every aspect of it.

There's genetics to your anatomy, your muscle bellies, how you're going to look, there's genetics to how you're going to respond.

There's genetics of everything.

And so what you've tapped into is how you can keep the goal, the goal, keep lifting weights to where you enjoy it and don't make it something that feels like a chore or something you dread.

And that doesn't get talked about enough in this whole concept of long-term hypertrophy, long-term gains.

has a lot to do with remaining injury, not having these crushing injuries, not being in pain all the time.

And we talked about this yesterday.

I've never heard anyone discuss this, but I think it affects your NEAT, your non-exercise activity thermogenesis, where you don't move around as much.

if you have nagging pain, my knees hurt right now.

I can't do squats right now.

I love, I love training quads hard, but I just run up the stairs.

Yeah.

Run up.

Yeah.

But like right now I have some knee pain right now as I'm sitting here.

So if I think of standing up, I'm like, eh, maybe I'll just chill here.

I'm not going to get up.