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

Yeah , I've always noticed that there are certain muscle groups that are very easy to isolate when under load and those are almost always the same muscle groups that are easy to contract very hard without any load whatsoever . Bingo .

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

It's very common to , to have challenges , activating lots . 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 .

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

And if you do that and you're like , wow , there's no movement here . Just recognize that's extremely common and that it's probably going to take you many , many , many months of trying before you start to see some movements and probably even a few years before you really start to see activation . So you , you're not some sort of like specific , like special genetic anomaly .