Andrew Huberman· PhD
If you have muscles that are challenging to contract, it's going to take more sets in order to stimulate the desired effect in those muscles not fewer.
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If you have muscles that are challenging to contract, it's going to take more sets in order to stimulate the desired effect in those muscles not fewer.
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That your ability to contract a muscle hard is inversely related to the number of sets that you should do in order to isolate and stimulate that muscle.
That your ability to contract a muscle hard is inversely related to the number of sets that you should do in order to isolate and stimulate that muscle.