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Back Pain Treatment, Prevention and Insights from Leading Spine Expert Dr. Stuart McGill #346

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The Trade-Offs of Muscle Hypertrophy

Muscle hypertrophy unloads the joints. Some people will say, okay, we'll all just grow my muscles now and then load my joints. Well think of what's going on in the back. Someone's dead lifting a thousand. So you can pick up a hundred kilo with half the load on your spine than I would being half the mechanical advantage. But here we're playing a game of trade offs.

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