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Episode #186: How Liposuction Makes You Fat

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The Effect of Heavy Lifting on Muscle Growth

PAP or post activation potentiation is when you load a muscle prior to an activity. It causes the central nervous system stimulation that causes you to recruit more motor units at the muscle level and produce more force. With explosive athletes, this works really, really well; with slow-twitch athletes, it doesn't seem to work as well.

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