Andrew Huberman· PhD
so we want really if you want to be fast you want long skinny tendons and small little muscle bellies so you know so what uh serves Aesthetics sometimes doesn't necessarily serve the sport and and vice versa
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so we want really if you want to be fast you want long skinny tendons and small little muscle bellies so you know so what uh serves Aesthetics sometimes doesn't necessarily serve the sport and and vice versa
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short calf bellies make people faster and better jumpers not because the calf is short but because because the tendon is long okay essentially we've got you know each muscle is really a muscle tendon unit and if you've got a longer tendon relative to your muscle effectively you're a little bit more plyometric you can store and release energy a little bit more effectively than somebody who has a shorter tendon and a longer bigger fatter thicker muscle