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Dr. Bret Contreras

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1855 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

You get more in a dose response.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

You get more growth the more volume that you do.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Some influences have argued that it's just swelling.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

You're getting more swelling.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

But that is doubtful based on a study.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

I think it was from Rafalo.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

It looked at like the swelling three days after and five days after.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

It looks like that's legit.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

But all of us know that's not sustainable.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

You can't just do 30 sets for every muscle group indefinitely.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

That's the recipe for disaster.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

What people should be looking at is, wow, you can blast a muscle with high volume for brief periods and grow.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

So how does this translate for lagging muscles?

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

For a lot of my followers, they're just on a permanent glute specialization routine.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

They want glutes so much and they don't want other muscles.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Like a lot of my followers are like, I don't really care about my upper body or my quads or my hamstrings.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

I just want bigger glutes.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

This is mostly female followers?

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

Mostly female followers.

Huberman Lab
Build Your Ideal Physique | Dr. Bret Contreras

But I will say a lot of men care about โ€“ we care about every muscle and we kind of look in the mirror and it's whatever your weak part is.