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Ep. 163 - All About EMG and Hypertrophy (feat Andrew Vigotsky)

Mar 21, 2022

01:25:32

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Is This a Proximity for Excitation?

02:45

Is Muscle Protin Synthesis Related to Hypertrophy?

01:57

How Does a Muscle Contract?

02:27

Introduction

3min

Emg

3min

Is There a Difference in the Hierarchies of Evidence?

3min

Andrew, I'm on With Megan, Is That Your First Solo?

5min

How Does a Muscle Contract?

2min

Is This a Proximity for Excitation?

3min

What Is a Pennation?

3min

The Tork Angle Relationship Between Swats and Leg Extensions

2min

Do You Know if Front Squats Are Better Than Back Squates?

2min

10.

Are You Comparing Exercises That Are So Close?

3min

11.

Is Muscle Protin Synthesis Related to Hypertrophy?

2min

12.

The Use of Energists in Compound Exercises

2min

13.

The Earliest Studies on Muscle Activity in the Forties and Fifties.

2min

14.

The Surface M G Study, Is There Equipoise?

3min

15.

Can You Design a Study to Try to Best Isolate Surface Mg?

2min

16.

Theote, More Ecological One Is to Go to Failure

2min

17.

The Longitudinal Hypotrophy

2min

18.

Is There a Difference Between Fatiguing and Fatigue?

3min

19.

I Think the Most Fruitful Work That Could Be Done in This Area Is E M G

3min

20.

Are You a Monogamous Relationship With a Muss Group?

3min

21.

Is There Evidence for Longitudinal Hypotraphy?

3min

22.

How Do You Choose Exercises?

2min

23.

Do You Remember Annaconda?

2min

24.

Exercise Selection for Hypertrophy?

3min

25.

Is Longer Muscle Longer Better Than Shorter?

2min

26.

The Importance of Muscle Volume

2min

27.

The Bro Coach, Is It Enough?

2min

28.

The Cutting Edge Recommendations From the Literature Will Beat Out the Brococh?

3min

29.

I'm Gonna Say Something Relevant to This, Probably Nota.

2min

30.

The High Load vs Slow Loader

2min

31.

I'll Take It Too Far, or Better Safe Than Sorry?

3min

32.

The Misrepresentation of Science for Personal Benefit

2min

33.

I'm Getting Frustrated by Misrepresentations of a the Bio Mechanics People, Right?

2min

34.

The Science of Exercise Selection Is Misrepresented by the Researchers

3min

35.

Is EMG a Valid Tool?

4min

EMG studies, they’re the classic “evidence-based” tool to “Um actually” all the bros about what the perfect exercises they should have chosen for every muscle group. Or are they? Today we’re joined by returning guest, Ph.D. candidate Andrew Vigotsky, who’s published some of the most influential papers on the limitations and the best practice guidance for EMG research. In this episode, we learn what EMG data can and can’t tell us, what types of evidence we should rely on to inform exercise selection, and what research we should perform in the future to move the field forward. Ultimately, we unfortunately learn that the good old days of T-Nation articles might be sadly behind us.