066 Do you need to feel a muscle for it to grow?

In this episode of Hypertrophy Past & Present, Jake and Chris begin with another Leroy Colbert routine, this time examining an over 100 set silver-era routine. The conversation then explores whether you actually need to “feel” a muscle for it to grow, what the pump can tell us about muscle recruitment, and where the mind-muscle connection may or may not be useful.

Key topics include:

• Leroy Colbert’s extreme 10-set-per-exercise Silver Era routine

• Why “feeling” a muscle and getting a pump are not necessarily the same thing

• Why stretch, cramping, and soreness can be misleading indicators of muscle activation

• Mind-muscle connection, internal focus, and how they change muscle recruitment

• Why exercise selection may be a better solution than trying to force a mind-muscle connection

• When mind-muscle connection and isometric contractions may actually be useful

• Why constantly using a mind-muscle connection can interfere with progressive overload

• Why pre-fatiguing a muscle doesn’t cause the other muscles in a compound exercise to “do more work”

• What motor learning research tells us about training and practising skills while fatigued

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