Dr. Layne Norton

He loved CrossFit.

He's like, you know, I know it's not the best for building muscle.

And I go, you know what?

For you, it might be.

Because, like, dude, you told me when you tried to do bodybuilding training that you hated it and you stopped going to the gym.

So...

we have to start with compliance first, right?

Like you can have the best program on paper, but if you're not actually going to go in and do it, like it's not going to work.

Right.

And so I worry about for the average person, what gets them excited to go?

What, you know, exercises do they enjoy that they have low pain with?

Right.

And what will they execute consistently?

Because within that, for growing muscle, the world is your oyster.

Basically the things that matter, because I kind of got off track, but mechanical attention, number of hard sets, and performance.

Muscles at long lengths, meaning there does seem to be quite a bit of research that even when you equalize for proximity to failure, if you aren't taking a muscle to a long length under tension, you're probably not maximizing the benefits of it.

And so there's – if you look at research where they do partials of like –

the contracted, the more contracted partial of a lift.

So for example, if you're doing a squat, so doing full range of motion versus a half squat, right?

You get more hypertrophy doing the full squat.