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What you should know about each muscle group

Enough with the posterior chain preaching. Squat for a huge squat, and pull or do direct hamstring work to turn you hamstrings into pork cords.

A prior study examining the relationship between muscle fiber typology and rep performance found that fiber type was only weakly related to rep performance. This article breaks down a new study on the topic.

In Part 1, we discussed the fiber type composition and biomechanics of the chest, triceps, and shoulders. In this installment, we’ll cover the other major muscle groups.Read the full article on SimplyShredded.Read the original on T-Nation.

Training volume is a hotly debated topic, especially after the Schoenfeld et al. (2018) study finding more-may-be-better all the way up to 45 sets per muscle group per week, yet Barbalho et al. (2018) found things start to deteriorate after 10 sets per muscle per week. Training volume is widely cons…

Building a massive physique, unfortunately, requires a more measured approach than simply trying to heave as much weight as humanly possible. To know how to best train a muscle, you have to first understand its physical structure, specifically its biomechanics and fiber type composition. This inform…