Mike Israetel

And after you've kind of appreciated what it is you don't like about your car, your next car can be a bit more of an educated purchase.

It's a very different answer if they're trying or if they're not.

It's a very different answer if they're trying or if they're not.

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Yeah. You would need to go down a checklist, a troubleshooting checklist. And we actually do have on the RP Strength YouTube channel, we have multiple videos of how to troubleshoot your muscle growth, how to troubleshoot your diet, how to troubleshoot your recovery. So if you throw those on in the car during your drive to work, you're going to learn a lot about how to troubleshoot.

Yeah. You would need to go down a checklist, a troubleshooting checklist. And we actually do have on the RP Strength YouTube channel, we have multiple videos of how to troubleshoot your muscle growth, how to troubleshoot your diet, how to troubleshoot your recovery. So if you throw those on in the car during your drive to work, you're going to learn a lot about how to troubleshoot.

You can consider yourself with variables that occur in the gym. You can consider yourself with variables that occur outside of the gym. Both are very important. In the gym variables, starting from the beginning would be exercise selection. Sometimes people say my arms aren't as big as I want them to be. And I look at their plan and it has no isolation work for their arms whatsoever.

You can consider yourself with variables that occur in the gym. You can consider yourself with variables that occur outside of the gym. Both are very important. In the gym variables, starting from the beginning would be exercise selection. Sometimes people say my arms aren't as big as I want them to be. And I look at their plan and it has no isolation work for their arms whatsoever.

And I tell them this is not a surprise. And they say something like, well, I thought underhand pull-ups and close grip bench was good enough to get big arms. And I would say, yes, it is.

And I tell them this is not a surprise. And they say something like, well, I thought underhand pull-ups and close grip bench was good enough to get big arms. And I would say, yes, it is.

Both of those exercises are great to get big arms, but you want bigger arms, which means like every bodybuilder ever, you're going to have to start working a few sets of curls in and a few sets of tricep extensions of some sort regularly and hard. So a lot of times people don't have the specific exercise selection for what it is they want.

Both of those exercises are great to get big arms, but you want bigger arms, which means like every bodybuilder ever, you're going to have to start working a few sets of curls in and a few sets of tricep extensions of some sort regularly and hard. So a lot of times people don't have the specific exercise selection for what it is they want.

They're just doing the kind of general training you and I just described, but they're sometimes not even honest to themselves at a deep introspective level of what it is they want. Like a lot of those people that want better results, you look at them and you're like, you look great. And like, yeah, but I want to look better. And you go, how? I just want fucking gigantic arms.

They're just doing the kind of general training you and I just described, but they're sometimes not even honest to themselves at a deep introspective level of what it is they want. Like a lot of those people that want better results, you look at them and you're like, you look great. And like, yeah, but I want to look better. And you go, how? I just want fucking gigantic arms.

You go, okay, well, like your workout is absolutely not designed to do that. It's designed to get you arms that look big to someone who like sees you lifting your suitcase into an airplane. But other than that, you don't have big arms. And then you go, okay, exercise selection. Another variable to consider is technique. Some people have just not so great technique.

You go, okay, well, like your workout is absolutely not designed to do that. It's designed to get you arms that look big to someone who like sees you lifting your suitcase into an airplane. But other than that, you don't have big arms. And then you go, okay, exercise selection. Another variable to consider is technique. Some people have just not so great technique.

A good technique involves putting the muscle into high force positions at a very deep stretch, long muscle lengths and high forces. So if you're doing pec flies, for example, but you're only going all the way down to like here, you need to open up like crazy and take a few seconds down there in the deep stretch. That's really going to help you out.

A good technique involves putting the muscle into high force positions at a very deep stretch, long muscle lengths and high forces. So if you're doing pec flies, for example, but you're only going all the way down to like here, you need to open up like crazy and take a few seconds down there in the deep stretch. That's really going to help you out.

And technique is so exercise specific and so individual that you really should get a on your own analysis to go like, okay, am I really doing this right? Because you think, oh, I'm hack squatting. And then you see an RP strength video about hack squats. And you're like, I have never hack squatted a day in my life. You try it our way and you're like, oh my God, my legs.