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#29 - Dr Mike Israetel - Why You're NOT Building Muscle with Calisthenics

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The machines, their big advantage is they can isolate a specific muscle or muscle group in a way that oftentimes doesn't involve a lot of the others. "We're done with saying machines are bad because we just want to get as good a calisthenics as possible," he says. If you have stronger biceps, can you do more pull-ups? Hell yeah, you can. But how are you supposed to get your strongest biceps if all you have is a pull-up bar?"

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