Andrew Huberman· PhD
It's going to be great, eccentrics are great for strength development, very good for hypertrophy, and allow you to focus on control.
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It's going to be great, eccentrics are great for strength development, very good for hypertrophy, and allow you to focus on control.
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They can. - Yeah, they typically can, but they're also higher force output. So very good for strength development. But they're going to lead on average to more soreness. So more potential for intracellular disruption that
Yeah, they typically can, but they're also higher force output. So very good for strength development. But they're going to lead on average to more soreness. So more potential for intracellular disruption that is going to be associated with pain.
eccentric work it's suppos supposedly very helpful to promote hypertrophy but there are a lot of ifs and butts in there
Outside of simple awareness, eccentric overload is a very effective way for activation of a difficult to target muscle. Things like a pull-up. Okay? So, if if if I'm going to do a pull-up and I have poor lat activation, to make the movement simpler, I'm going to go all the way to the top. So, imagine stepping on a box or something, going all the way to that top of that pull-up position and starting from there. And I want you to simply lower it under control.
Eccentrics are great for strength development, very good for hypertrophy, and allow you to focus on control. I I I'm willing to bet a huge percentage of you out there who've like I've never had a sore lat. Even though I've done a lot of pull-ups and things like that, if you do that eccentric only, you'll probably wake up the next day going, "Oh gosh, I feel it there."