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Mike Israetel

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Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

One is, is that target muscle feeling really weak? So let's say you do a few pec exercises and you think they're for the chest. And then you try to push yourself into your car, like push off your steering wheel and you feel like a profound weakness in that pack. You're like, oh my God. And a really good example is if you're trying to walk downstairs after you hit quads.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

If you think you hit quads, but you really hit glutes and adductors, you can hop skip down the stairs. No fucking problem. Are we allowed to swear in here or is that not a good idea?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

If you think you hit quads, but you really hit glutes and adductors, you can hop skip down the stairs. No fucking problem. Are we allowed to swear in here or is that not a good idea?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

If you think you hit quads, but you really hit glutes and adductors, you can hop skip down the stairs. No fucking problem. Are we allowed to swear in here or is that not a good idea?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Yes, like desperately clean for dear life and your legs are shaky. Another thing with perturbation is crampy. None of this is required. But if your chest cramps hard when you're trying to pose after a few sets of whatever you're doing, that whatever you're doing absolutely hit your chest. The other thing is weakness too. So if I tell you, hey, there's mega pec workout, what's your best bench?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Yes, like desperately clean for dear life and your legs are shaky. Another thing with perturbation is crampy. None of this is required. But if your chest cramps hard when you're trying to pose after a few sets of whatever you're doing, that whatever you're doing absolutely hit your chest. The other thing is weakness too. So if I tell you, hey, there's mega pec workout, what's your best bench?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Yes, like desperately clean for dear life and your legs are shaky. Another thing with perturbation is crampy. None of this is required. But if your chest cramps hard when you're trying to pose after a few sets of whatever you're doing, that whatever you're doing absolutely hit your chest. The other thing is weakness too. So if I tell you, hey, there's mega pec workout, what's your best bench?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And you're like, well, it's like, you know, 200 pounds for a set of 10. And I take you through a mega pec workout. After that, if we put 200 pounds on there, if you bench it for any of the close to 10, your pecs never gotten very fatigued, which almost certainly means they never got very stimulated. So you should see a pretty big repetition strength drop off.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And you're like, well, it's like, you know, 200 pounds for a set of 10. And I take you through a mega pec workout. After that, if we put 200 pounds on there, if you bench it for any of the close to 10, your pecs never gotten very fatigued, which almost certainly means they never got very stimulated. So you should see a pretty big repetition strength drop off.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And you're like, well, it's like, you know, 200 pounds for a set of 10. And I take you through a mega pec workout. After that, if we put 200 pounds on there, if you bench it for any of the close to 10, your pecs never gotten very fatigued, which almost certainly means they never got very stimulated. So you should see a pretty big repetition strength drop off.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

If you can barely do a pushup after a chest workout, Oh shit, something happened to your pecs for sure. Especially if you feel like your chest is the kind of onus of weakness in that movement. So those are all, Ways to kind of proxy that.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

If you can barely do a pushup after a chest workout, Oh shit, something happened to your pecs for sure. Especially if you feel like your chest is the kind of onus of weakness in that movement. So those are all, Ways to kind of proxy that.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

If you can barely do a pushup after a chest workout, Oh shit, something happened to your pecs for sure. Especially if you feel like your chest is the kind of onus of weakness in that movement. So those are all, Ways to kind of proxy that.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And I would say in another one, again, not a huge deal, not the deal, but a good little additive to the mix is do you feel any kind of weakness or soreness that persists for hours or days after?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And I would say in another one, again, not a huge deal, not the deal, but a good little additive to the mix is do you feel any kind of weakness or soreness that persists for hours or days after?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

And I would say in another one, again, not a huge deal, not the deal, but a good little additive to the mix is do you feel any kind of weakness or soreness that persists for hours or days after?

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

So for example, if you do some kind of new quad machine at your gym and two days later, your inner thighs are sore, your glutes are physically sore, your quads aren't either the way you did it, which I'm sure we'll get to technique or just the exercise itself. It says quads, but it's really not quads.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

So for example, if you do some kind of new quad machine at your gym and two days later, your inner thighs are sore, your glutes are physically sore, your quads aren't either the way you did it, which I'm sure we'll get to technique or just the exercise itself. It says quads, but it's really not quads.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

So for example, if you do some kind of new quad machine at your gym and two days later, your inner thighs are sore, your glutes are physically sore, your quads aren't either the way you did it, which I'm sure we'll get to technique or just the exercise itself. It says quads, but it's really not quads.

Modern Wisdom
#882 - The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)

Maybe it is to some extent, but you would expect if you had a novel stimulus to feel some kind of soreness. But if you did something that says quads on it and then the day later you can barely walk and you're sore to the touch, man, you know, you have to have stimulated your quads. There is no alternative. So all those things are in the plus side category.