Andrew Huberman· PhD
strength is a skill so two interesting things happened in the 50s one is Thomas rash he was an American uh exercise physiologist he proposed that strength adaptation was largely uh largely uh skill and he looked at pretty much the adaptations he noticed that there's no correlation between the muscle growth and strength then at the same time as Soviet scientist uh tanov was his last name he was measuring the electrical activity in the muscles of weightlifters who are pressing overhead and back then the Press was one of the competition events and what he found is as the athletes got stronger after some months the emgs started dropping off when they're lifting the same weights so pretty much he found out that the nervous system activity became more economical they were able to try less hard yet still live the same weights or pretty much they they could try harder and lift even heavier weights and hypertrophy could not explain that because in the 50s the Soviets were very anti- hypertrophy they were just doing doubles triples singles pretty much