How to Feel Your Muscle Contracting

The strength curve of most muscles is that they are stronger when they're elongated and weaker when they're shortened. The right resistance curve for a muscle is always to have the early phase more loaded than the late phase. Why dumbbells? Because you get full range of motion. You can do the same thing by the way, the same motion you can do with the cable machine if you're sitting upright and there is coming from behind you. That's the motion in the pecs.

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