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How to Immediately Optimize Your Upper Body Training #283

Muscle Intelligence

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Do a Bicep Girl

The ability to generate tension in muscle without resistance is called top down motor, upper motor neurons controlling lower motor neurons. So we're trying to create top down control of the bicep contraction. I have a client in my coaching from Czech Republic, and this guy sends me videos two or three times a week that he's capable of 50% more than he actually does when he trains. He doesn't understand yet the concept of stability. But what we must learn how to do is how to contract muscles in isolation without resistance.

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