Dr. Mike Roberts
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If the number of fibers that are splitting at any given time are 2%, well, over years, compounding interest is a powerful thing.
Yes.
Who's going to sit there looking at the ceiling with 120 ton, you know?
Yeah, okay.
So, Brad has done a good bit.
I'm familiar with some of the stuff indicating that partial squats, for instance, seem to be just as effective as deeper squats, according to the meta.
And I also know that he's done lengthened partial work, which is to say that imagine yourself going to the gym.
And oh, by the way, this is a study we're doing.
So Daniel Plotkin, all of the glory to Daniel.
He wanted to pursue this pretty much from day one when he came from Brad's lab after his master's into my lab for his PhD.
He has taught me a ton.
on lengthened partials.
Apparently there's a lot of good evidence at the ultrasound level that lengthened partials, which is to say you go to the gym,
You get in the leg press, the hip sled, all that weight loaded on.
You sort of unrack it, and then you start working in this range of motion.
Knees to chin, and that's the lengthened partial for the quadriceps.
Deep stretch.
And this sort of integrates the notion of, okay, if we can't sit in the gym, look at the ceiling, hold 120-pound dumbbells for seven days, you know, straight.
Right.
What if we adapt the training over 10 weeks, right, where all of our movements are lengthened partials?
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