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492: Eric Helms on Rep Tempo - Muscle and Strength Training Pyramid Level 6

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  Eric Helms is back and talking exercise tempo when weight training on today's continuation of sharing Eric's Muscle and Strength Training Pyramid. Find all of these YouTube videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/Team3DMJ/videos   http://traffic.libsyn.com/appliedmusclescience/492_helms_john.mp3  

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471: Explosive Concentrics or Slow & Controlled for Muscle Size and Training Prioritization

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  There always appears to be disagreement and arguments amongst bodybuilders and the like over if you should do slow controlled movement to really contract a muscle you’re trying to grow or instead say do more explosive concentric reps to get some added power or performance benefits from your training. Would doing these faster concentric make muscle sise gains suboptimal compared to a more controlled technique? We go all the way back to 1993 today to look at what research tells us. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here:...

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439: Review of Best Ways to Train for Maximum Muscle Gain

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  As you know if you’re a regular listener of the show I typically review original research articles, but occasionally I do cover reviews of research and we have one of those articles today. Often times the reason I don’t cover reviews is because I was to avoid a potential extra layer of bias in interpreting the research, but reality is most people writing an in depth review of a topic are going to be quite while versed in the content and I think reading a few reviews gives a little bit of checks and balances – more than likely...

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424: Revisiting “Can You Shape a Muscle?” Once Again

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The debate on whether or not you can shape a muscle seems to be dead for most people, but I keep it alive and so do researchers of articles like in today’s study reviewed on the show. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25811947 .  http://traffic.libsyn.com/appliedmusclescience/424_-_final.mp3

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