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Jeff Cavaliere: Optimize Your Exercise Program with Science-Based Tools

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Increasing Muscle Size Is a Good Idea

When training to increase muscle size, think not so much about moving weights, but more about challenging muscles. If you can flex your bicep to the point where it hurts a little bit, that's a pretty good indication that you're going to be able to stimulate that muscle well under load. For me, this completely transformed my results. I've dedicated a portion of my research along in collaboration with another group to try and understand what's happening in these upper motor nrons in the brain that can engage the muscles even more. It's really this mind muscle connection is a real thing when it comes to predicting results, and that you can get better at it. So i now i need

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