Muscle Soreness and Muscle Growth (“BROSCIENCE” REVEALED!)

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Muscle soreness and the importance or lack of it is one of the most contested aspects of working out. Some will argue that muscle soreness plays no role in muscle growth and is not a requirement for building muscle. While it might be easy to see why that conclusion was drawn, it fails to consider the fact that the other two mechanisms for growth are likely not going to provide an unending stimulus for new size. Ultimately, you are going to have to resort to other methods of training.

In this video, I discuss the three major stimuli for creating muscle growth and for building new muscle. One of these is the use of eccentric loading in order to create mechanical damage to either the muscle fibers themselves or the connective tissue around the muscles (depending on which research you read). Either way, it is the mechanical disruption that takes place during the high tension lengthening of a muscle as in eccentric contraction that sparks the need for repair, resynthesis and regrowth.

The downside to this mechanism of growth however is that the soreness that is created can ultimately impede your ability to perform your next workout or train with a high enough intensity to see much progress from your next workout. Which is why the argument is often made in error that you do not need to use this pathway. Instead, you can simply train with sub maximal loads and create a metabolic overload or you can pursue overload via getting stronger or by increasing your volume.

It isn’t that easy however. You see, if you pursue the method of progressive overload you run into a wall within a rather short period of time. If the gains you are seeing for example are coming from neurological adaptations that are improving your ability to lift heavier weights, those will begin to slow down as soon as you become adequately efficient at performing the lift. From there, you will need to rely on the act of adding more weight to the bar to produce your strength gains and ultimately size gains.

The problem with this assumption is that you will never be able to keep doing this on end. At some point your progress will slow dramatically and you will not be able to rely on new strength at every workout.

This may lead you to turn to lighter loads and the metabolic overload that comes from training deep into the burn of a muscle while taking your sets to failure. Occlusion training is one of the more popular mechanisms of sparking growth along this metabolic pathway. The advantage of lighter loads is that you can take it easy on your joints while still seeing the benefits of new muscle gains. The downside? This type of training is brutal and downright uncomfortable. In order to do this right you have to embrace the pain that you feel during these sets and resist the urge to give in. Just at the moment when you want to stop your set is the time when the real benefits begin here.

If moderate loads with higher volume becomes your tactic for gaining new muscle you need to be cautioned about that as well. As a physical therapist, I can tell you that the largest amount of gym training injuries and issues that keep people from training are due to overuse. High volume puts you on the fast track to experiencing that first hand. In fact, when you combine the fact that sub optimal form is used on many exercises that are being used for higher volume, it quickly becomes apparent why this can become a problem.

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Jeff the type of guy to drop his pencil and use perfect deadlift form to pick it up

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Jeff the type of guy to take 30 seconds to close a door he opened for a girl to maximize the eccentric overload.

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I watched this video 8 times at 25% speed to maximize my gains. I could have watched 12 times but I didn't want to over-train.

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I watched this and because Jeff was always on the right side of the screen, now I have an eye muscle imbalance. Help me Jeff, please!

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i love muscle soreness... it is like a sweet pain for me

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jeff the type of guy to study for his blood tests

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Jeff the type of guy who drives with both feet to aviod calf imbalance.

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Jeff is the type of guy to put science back in strength.

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I thought that he would cut him out of the T-Shirt in the intro xD

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I love the wholesomeness and friendliness of Jeff’s subscribers and comment section. It’s obvious that toxic youtubers attract a toxic comment section and wholesome great youtubers attract great people, which is evident in this comment section ❤️

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Jeff the type of guy who only smiles to stretch his face before a workout

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Jeff the type of fitness guy to actually give decent advice on YouTube (scandalous)

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Jeff the type of guy to train like an athlete to look like an athlete.

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Jeffs the only trainer in the world that also drives on the left hand side in England 3 times a week so he has no imbalances

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Do a video on the best "Jeff, the kinda guy...." quotes of you actually doing them.

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Jeff the type of guy who helps the type of guy I am become the type of guy he is.

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I am 50% here for BROSCIENCE and 50% for reading the comments.

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After reading the comments my facial muscles have engaged in massive Eccentric Overload

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muscle soreness means your day at gym was not wasted

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