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

There's certainly signaling that overlaps when you compare it to exercise, but it's a different signature.

Practically speaking, I've had this conversation with people that train, you know, coming to Auburn and asking, how should I train students to set the other...

So I wouldn't, unless it's something for, you know, stabilizing the joint, I don't think that doing pure eccentrics is going to maximize hypertrophy, if that makes sense.

Do it for something else, you know, optimization purposes, but don't do it thinking that this is the way forward to get muscle growth, right?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I think at the tissue level, it's fair to say 15%.

15%.

Yeah.

And then at the cellular level, and this is another topic we can get into, right?

But you have a little bit larger increases in cell size.

Excellent.

So I need to tip the cap to Marcus Baumann, who really brought attention to this

topic at the molecular level.

Priscilla Clarkson and Monica Hubel, they published really the first paper in the mid-1990s on this, just showing after resistance training, when they're looking at hundreds of people and you plot the individual responses, what happens is exactly how you described it, right?

You're going to have this sort of

mean response where 70 of these individuals fall you know 60 to 70 are right in the middle there sweet spot it's a bell curve right it is a bell curve yeah and then you have um we'll call it 10 some odd percent maybe 15 that respond quite well and then on the other side you have people don't respond at all it's almost like they didn't train when you're looking at the hypertrophy response

So Marcus Bauman, also presented in Finland, he was the first in the mid-2000s, him and Jay Kim, his postdoc, showing – and I still think this holds true – that the highest responders hypertrophy-wise to resistance training – this would be 16 weeks in their study –

had this very exaggerated satellite cell activation response.

And not only that, but they started training with more satellite cells, which is to say that if you were somebody that has never trained walking into a gym, and for whatever reason, genetically,

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