Dr. Bret Contreras

So a lot of times we're just flexing it isometrically, and I think that's what I do.

When I'm doing, like, chin-ups and stuff, and I'm always, like, flexing it isometrically, which can provide a stimulus.

I'd get a bigger neck if I trained it.

But I think that's the hard part is...

I love having strong forearms.

I love grip training.

I love every muscle.

How do you work it together in a comprehensive program and do it week in and week out?

That's the hard part is how to train everything.

So we end up going, the six lifts we mentioned, you know, you're going to get most of your muscles, even like deadlifts are going to train your grip muscles.

But it's like then how do you hit all of them for maximum function?

How do you strengthen everything and not get distracted?

Because time-wise, you're right.

I think the problem is when you try to say, I want every muscle in the body.

I'm going to do 20 sets for my forearms, 20 sets for my biceps, my triceps, each head of the delt, my traps, my pecs, my lats, and upper pecs, lower pecs, upper lats, lower lats, erectors, glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves, adductors.

you name it i want it and then you it's a recipe for disaster so you have to specialize a little bit based on your goals your your preferences your individual weaknesses as per your anatomy and that's where you could say look um what we've talked about throughout this podcast gives people some tools it's like look the first set is the most important

It's for bringing up lagging muscle groups, but also what if you just wanted to maximize hypertrophy?

What if a bodybuilder, a pro, like what if I, it would be kind of cool if I could test this theory.

I just don't think anyone would want to train this way.

If you said, look, I'm going to go on this blast and cruise type philosophy where it's hard to build, easy to maintain.