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Muscle Soreness and Muscle Growth (-BROSCIENCE- REVEALED)

Muscle Soreness and Muscle Growth (-BROSCIENCE- REVEALED)

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Muscle soreness and the importance or lack of it is one of the most contested aspects of working out. Some will argue that muscle soreness plays no role in muscle growth and is not a requirement for building muscle. While it might be easy to see why that conclusion was drawn, it fails to consider the fact that the other two mechanisms for growth are likely not going to provide an unending stimulus for new size. Ultimately, you are going to have to resort to other methods of training. In this video, I discuss the three major stimuli for creating muscle growth and for building new muscle. One of these is the use of eccentric loading in order to create mechanical damage to either the muscle fibers themselves or the connective tissue around the muscles (depending on which research you read. Either way, it is the mechanical disruption that takes place during the high tension lengthening of a muscle as in eccentric contraction that sparks the need for repair, resynthesis and regrowth. The downside to this mechanism of growth however is that the soreness that is created can ultimately impede your ability to perform your next workout or train with a high enough intensity to see much progress from your next workout. Which is why the argument is often made in error that you do not need to use this pathway. Instead, you can simply train with sub maximal loads and create a metabolic overload or you can pursue overload via getting stronger or by increasing your volume. It isn-t that easy however. You see, if you pursue the method of progressive overload you run into a wall within a rather short period of time. If the gains you are seeing for example are coming from neurological adaptations that are improving your ability to lift heavier weights, those will begin to slow down as soon as you become adequately efficient at performing the lift. From there, you will need to rely on the act of adding more weight to the bar to produce your strength gains and ultimately size gains. The problem with this assumption is that you will never be able to keep doing this on end. At some point your progress will slow dramatically and you will not be able to rely on new strength at every workout. This may lead you to turn to lighter loads and the metabolic overload that comes from training deep into the burn of a muscle while taking your sets to failure. Occlusion training is one of the more popular mechanisms of sparking growth along this metabolic pathway. The advantage of lighter loads is that you can take it easy on your joints while still seeing the benefits of new muscle gains. The downside? This type of training is brutal and downright uncomfortable. In order to do this right you have to embrace the pain that you feel during these sets and resist the urge to give in. Just at the moment when you want to stop your set is the time when the real benefits begin here. If moderate loads with higher volume becomes your tactic for gaining new muscle you need to be cautioned about that as well. As a physical therapist, I can tell you that the largest amount of gym training injuries and issues that keep people from training are due to overuse. High volume puts you on the fast track to experiencing that first hand. In fact, when you combine the fact that sub optimal form is used on many exercises that are being used for higher volume, it quickly becomes apparent why this can become a problem. The bottom line is, your training plan needs to incorporate all of these methods of growth. Saying that you will not need to create soreness to gain muscle is overlooking the fact that ultimately, you cannot continue to make gains without accessing all three pathways. This includes the eccentric overload and soreness inducing path of mechanical damage. If you are looking for a program that puts all of these techniques to use at the right times with the right loads, head to and use our program selector to find the program best suited to your physique goals
Date: 2022-04-22

Comments and reviews: 10


should i employ all three methods like jeff said here, ofc ik he knows best. my method rn for example for biceps is eccentric overload, i do barbell curls and get the weight up, squeeze at the top and then fight the way down for 3 secs and do 4 sets of 8. the pump after is insane and i feel its working great. i should also do heavy weight for progressive overload for strength and less reps right? so for my push day i usually do 4 sets of 8 70lbs on the flat bench press bc I rlly get a good chest contraction. i could do a rep or two of 120-140lbs but I wouldnt be doing that for 4 sets of 8 reps. I have good pushing strength and mind muscle connection w the chest bc I did so much bodyweight training for 6 months to develop a good base. I also have a good mind muscle connection bc i do some squeezing pushups and plate squeezes to active my chest and make pinning back my shoulders a habit. in order to add more progressive overload to my training, should i start doing heavier weights and less volume for flat bench to help my strength and overall chest development? hope someone responds thank u.
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Hey Jeff, I really like your videos. and it would be great if you included women in your language more. I'm a female new to strength training and I notice a lot of male centered language. I've heard you mention in other videos that you don't intend to leave us out, but I wonder if you'd be willing to use more inclusive language instead of -broscience- and -guys- all the time. I do your workouts too and would love to feel more part of your audience, and I'm sure I'm not the only woman interested in advancing their muscle growth. Thanks for all you do: -)
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I haven't done squats in quite a while and just did a whole bunch and I got the DOMS big time! Lol. I was just doing 5 reps at each weight starting with an empty 45lb bar and going up in increments of 10lbs. (45, 55, 65, 75, 85, 95, 105, 115, 125, 135, then back down 125, 115, 105, 95, then I was too burnt out to do even 1 more squat so I stopped) How long should I wait before having another squat day? I think I'm going to be sore for more than 3 days. BTW I'm 42 years old and 5'8- 175lbs and not lean 23% body fat.
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What I do it I incorporate a high rep workout into also high weight, for example, I just got out of gym and did chest and abs, I did 9 sets on bench press, first set was a set of 12 with a lighter weight, then I do 10, a little heavier, I-m not going to include the weights I use but I stay on the line where my last rep is really hard to get up. I got all the way down to 4 reps, then back up the latter to 12 reps, Is this a good way to work out? v
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the best method for gaining muscle is to make sure to keep creating progressive overload. every month or less, keep increasing the intensity when you are able to handle it. this is to keep it simple and easy for anyone to understand, progressive overload builds muscle over time. You also want to make sure you are performing each exercise with a good technique and contracting a much as possible. and of course, your nutrition is important.
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muscle soreness is unavoidable after every training session iam sore my from explosive training for basketball and from my weight training i mainly train eccentric overload with heavy weight with proper form and slow reps but also fast twitch training lighter weight more explosive quick reps but still proper form iam sore everytime your muscle tear regardless but they rebuild differently depending on the training
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I-ve lifted heavier, more controlled movements, and until I couldn-t lift it anymore and I-ve felt sore after but I don-t feel sore the next day which confuses me because I-m doing more but it doesn-t feel the same like it did when I tried it the first time. Ik it will feel different after working it for awhile but I-ve done more so I thought I-d feel sore the next day but it-s only after I workout I do.
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Simply put: Progressive Overload and Metabolic Stress done correctly leads to Mechanical Overloads! That-s the basics of lifting/resistance training. Sadly MOST people do not understand their own bodies and how it functions. Everyone-s body is not similar in how it operates. There are a few body function types and correlating ones training to said body functions will be very useful.
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I just started watching your videos about a couple weeks ago, and I've been absolutely addicted to them. I've been learning tons from each one, but I never necessarily enjoyed the humor all that much. All I can say is, you NAILED it with the very beginning of this video, and I can't stop laughing. Plus, you're yet again increasing my knowledge, so thanks again for that!
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I cannot tell you how much I love your videos. So clear and helpful- Thank you! Have you ever done one on lifting that preserves finger dexterity? I am a musician, and I have always shied away from lifting heavy weights because it makes playing challenging, bring anxiety about damaging my hands/career. I would really benefit from your take on this.
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