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Lifting & Mortality, Global Versus Localized Hypertrophy, and Pre-Sleep Meals

The Stronger By Science Podcast

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Do You Know if Lower Body Training Reduces Muscle Protein Synthesis?

In three studies, muscle protein synthesis in the quads was 20 to 30% lower than for other muscles. The research supporting that interpretation is very weak and very tenuous. Most jacked people don't have glaring holes in their muscular development. It's just the rest of them are probably not as much missing by neglecting certain muscles.

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