Dr. Bret Contreras

And so you can maintain very... That was like his classic paper that...

But I kind of realized that too.

I'm like, man, it's really easy to maintain strength and size once you've built it up.

It's hard to build.

It's easy to maintain.

And that could have something to do with this muscle memory concept where it's like, well, muscle memory has an epigenetics component to it and then a myonuclear component to it.

But once you've gotten those nuclei fused as extra nuclei from the stem cells, the muscle stem cells, the satellite cells,

And they're now in the muscle fiber.

They're there to stay.

That's kind of debated.

But as long as you're lifting weights, it's hard to gain.

It's easy to maintain.

So sticking with this concept of like maintain certain muscles, we know from the extreme high volume literature that

that for brief periods, if you specialize, you can blast a muscle with high volume and it can grow.

It's almost like the more the merrier, which is crazy for me because there's now five studies, I believe.

The first was this Radiali study.

Then there was Schoenfeld.

Two by Ennis.

There's another one I'm forgetting.

But these are five studies showing that over 30 sets a week,