Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Yeah , I've noticed that many of the muscle groups that were responsible for a large fraction of the work in the various sports that I played as a young child are muscles that are very easy for me to selectively isolate and induce hypertrophy . And um I suppose I'm one of those mutants where my lats happened to be one such of those muscle groups . But I think that's because I swam a lot when I was a kid .

Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

So , if you're in your journey and you're just like , I have no idea and , um , you can look up like a lap pose . So how do you like , how do you puff your lats side ? How do you show it ?

Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

If you can't , you can probably assume about the same thing gonna happen . So , uh , yeah , you'll know , um , this actually the las are actually really interesting , um , because they tend to be one of the more difficult muscle groups to learn how to activate . So , if you're in your journey and you're just like , I have no idea and , um , you can look up like a lap pose .

Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

So it's like that polling and pull to is , is thousands of repetitions allowed you to get very good at contracting . But because um I also played soccer and skateboarding , but I didn't do any baseball , basketball or football , muscle groups like deltoids are very challenging to activate and isolate . So I do think that early development is super imposed on a genetic template that sort of predicts which muscle groups are going to be easier or harder to isolate and , and train .

Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

You know , that's actually really insightful . So , um , you can kind of use this heuristic of , of like , if you can contract your laps just standing here , you're probably going to contract them very well when you left . If you can't , you can probably assume about the same thing gonna happen .