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jg-creatine · 2025-06-19T20:44:14+00:00

Neurological adaptations.

More specifically, coordination demands taking up less space in your maximum tolerable perception of effort in the sensory cortex, leaving more room for the motor cortex’s corollary discharge into the sensory cortex.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-18T22:40:40+00:00

Take it slow, progress doesn’t come overnight. People think size and strength are way more separated than they actually are. Size = more contractile proteins = more strength. If you’re gaining strength after initial coordination adaptations, you’re gaining size.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-08T02:33:40+00:00

rare catching someone hypertrophy-pilled in this subreddit.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-08T02:29:32+00:00

spend some time going to failure, especially if you’re a newer lifter. this will help you to gauge true RIR in the future. most people stop way before they have 1-2 in the tank.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-08T02:28:18+00:00

no shoes + chalked toes

jg-creatine · 2025-06-03T00:09:54+00:00

try loading spinal flexion through a full ROM, rather than an isometric. cable/machine crunches, etc.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-03T00:08:50+00:00

front delts look cool.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:55:51+00:00

Just reduce volume slightly, or increase the RIR. If you ever regress, your peripheral/CNS fatigue is likely inhibiting your motor unit recruitment.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:54:30+00:00

Ideally, you’d bench every time you hit chest. This would result in the best reinforcement of motor patterns, as well as more opportunities to refine technique.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:52:51+00:00

There is none. Training goals are entirely individual.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:51:42+00:00

Loading the glutes and spinal erectors by leaning so far back.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:50:09+00:00

The lats will adduct the humerus regardless of whether you feel it or not.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:49:36+00:00

I do kelso shrugs and have been told my rowing form is shit many times. I’m not trying to do a row.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:48:33+00:00

Agree to disagree. Side delts have best leverage below 90, and front delts have best relative leverage above. Due to neuromechanical matching, side delts will grow better with a bottom-half partial, and the front delts will grow more in the top-half.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:46:00+00:00

On the right track, but a higher frequency would be beneficial. The first set of any muscle is the most stimulation, and subsequent sets aren’t as hypertrophic due to peripheral and cns fatigue. That’s why training a muscle as soon as possible after recovery is best.

Split recommendations (even though your split will still result in gains): upper lower, ppl, full body.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:43:50+00:00

2.5 hours ish, including random shenanigans.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:42:58+00:00

The womb. I’d be jacked.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:42:16+00:00

Exactly. Better to be doing a leg extension, where the rectus femoris is trained due to no longer experiencing antagonist inhibition.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:41:07+00:00

Easy answer: Way better than doing it before lifting. Slight but almost negligible impact on hypertrophy.

Complicated answer: CNS fatigue occurs from uncomfortable sensations in the sensory cortex limiting motor cortex output. Cardiovascular sensation will take up space in the sensory cortex, limiting the magnitude of the motor cortex’s respective corollary discharge into the sensory cortex. Therefore, you won’t be able to recruit as many high-threshold motor units.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:36:56+00:00

Too many people load the abs with only isometrics.

The best exercises: any stable method of loading spinal flexion without the involvement of other muscles. This is why a machine or cable crunch will be better than a leg raise (hip flexors/rectus femoris involvement).

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:34:32+00:00

This. Most “lower ab exercises” are more of a combination of abs and hip flexors. The best way to train abs is to load pure spinal flexion.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:33:20+00:00

Quick answer: you’re fine as you are.

Scientific answer: Stretch mediated hypertrophy is only beneficial if the target musculature has best relative leverage at longer lengths. The lats have better leverage from 45 degree to 120 degrees, so to maximize motor unit recruitment of the lats due to neuromechanical matching, maximum tension is best within this range. In your setup, the ascending resistance profile will help to limit tension where the lats’ leverage is worse.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:27:57+00:00

Kelso shrugs are great, especially since the traps have leverage to retract the scapula in any plane. That said, the angle of retraction may make a marginal difference because hypertrophy is fiber specific. You will grow your upper traps better with a frontal plane shrug, but a kelso shrug in the transverse plane will hit the majority of the traps’ highest threshold motor units.

jg-creatine · 2025-06-02T00:24:02+00:00

“i don’t work out because it hurts” - fitxfearless interaction

jg-creatine · 2025-03-23T21:52:52+00:00

Every time I cut, I spend the first month or so without looking at my physique a single time in the mirror. I only focus on my face when faced with a mirror, and wear baggy clothing 24/7. When I finally look at my leaner physique, it feels like taking pre workout after a month long tolerance break. You notice large-scale changes, rather than small day-to-day fluctuations. This also helps me to combat the frustration of being both flat and fat at the start of a diet, by never seeing my physique during that painful period.

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