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#078 Resistance training for time efficiency, body composition, and maximum hypertrophy | Brad Schoenfeld, Ph.D.
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Do You Need to Train Heavy to Gain Muscle?
For the longest time, I remember you'd hear lift heavy or lift big or go home. My views of in certain respects done 180 and nothing can be characterized more so than loading. The reason that the body adapts to strength training is because it must challenge the muscles. With light loads, just innately lifting weight is already a survival mechanism. So if you are not challenging it in a way which makes it accustomed to being challenged, then there's no impetus for gaining muscle.
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