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116: "I Can't" VS. "I Won't". And What's More Important? With Rob Jones.

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The Gold G Tendon Organ

There's two different theories on how your body processes fatigue or what it exactly it is. There's the, I think it's called the catastrophic theory where basically your journey to Bada's and something breaks down and then like you run out of energy. And then there's this other theory, which is kind of the accepted theory now, that your brain has a governor in it. So when you get too much stress on your muscle, your brain says, hey, that's too much stress, you're going to stop the muscle contraction or let off. That's why if you go for a two rep max, one rep max, you can get it here and then you just boop

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