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Mechanisms of muscle growth revisited

What makes muscle grow? The organizers of the epic SPS Summit this year - arguably thé fitness conference of 2017 - were kind enough to share one of Menno’s lectures for free. This is an absolute knowledge bomb. Menno goes over a large range of topics from rest intervals and advanced training techni…

I’m always looking for advanced training techniques to maximize muscle hypertrophy. Most have pros and cons and are only situationally effective, so I was excited to see there’s a new study by Evangelista et al. (2019) finding increased muscle growth with an inter-set stretching technique. Here’s my…

The Aesthetic by Science duo interviewed Menno Henselmans about training programming in this short interview. This was originally live streamed, so you’ll have to bear with a few lags and mic issues. How to select the best exercises for your training program? What makes an exercise optimal for hyper…

Why can a new lifter add muscle so quickly? Can you recreate those conditions? That’s the question we ask as the backdrop for this treatise on muscle growth

Robert Sikes interviewed me on a lot of different topics in this one. We talked about how low fat diets can be a trap for natural lifters, how higher fat intakes may benefit muscle growth, why strength training often beats cardio for fat loss, what my own diet looks like and much more. See the times…