Dr. Mike Roberts

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Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin · What Drives Muscle Growth & What Doesn't | Dr. Mike Roberts · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

We had controls that had no training history coming to the lab.

we put a knee brace on them for two weeks, and then after that two-week knee brace, took it off, and recovery resistance trained them for eight weeks.

Now, strategically, biopsies, walking in the door, right after the knee brace, and then right after the eight weeks of training.

And what Max wanted to answer was this, does training history play a significant role in the retraining response?

Well, does it mitigate the atrophy, right?

then does it give you a conferred advantage when you're growing the muscle after the atrophy this was in young healthies it was non-complicated disuse meaning there wasn't like uh trauma to the tissue yeah just putting a brace on them brace on them on a healthy limitations fascinating results that bucked all kinds of sort of uh preconceived notions the rate of atrophy the rate of vl atrophy was the same whether you had prior training or not but the key point there is your your tissue bank was larger so even though

Folks lost the same relative amount of muscle mass being either trained or untrained, right?

The absolute levels are still higher in those that had training experience.

That is correct.

Okay, great.

Which I think strategically works back to your original question.

Rather than thinking about like bracing angles, let's just think about, okay, let's condition ourselves.

So in the event that we have an injury, we're going to be sort of primed to deal with it.

So yeah, it works.

It does.

And I think while you were in the brace, Matt Stock at UCF, he had done some work with one of his PhD students.

where they did action imagery, imagining the affected limb, contracting, things like that.

That can add a little bit of at least function.

In addition to that, Darren Kandow, creatine during a bracing.

Yeah.

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