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#18: Everything You Need To Know About Building Muscle With Michael Gornall


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Keen to make gainz? Head Coach Mike @michaelgornall breaks down what we need to understand about the science of building muscle.

We discuss:
- Building muscle vs strength
- The most ways people go wrong (is his experience
- The role of lifestyle factors
- Ideal exercises for building muscle
- Rep ranges 
- How many reps to leave in the tank
- What our bodies know about reps
- Rest periods
- Should we ever train to failure?
- Relationship between frequency, intensity and volume
- Can we train too hard?
- How to know if we are doing too much or too little?
- How training experience plays a role in making progress
- Neurological vs physiological adaptation
- Can you make progress by training once a week?
- Ideal training volume
- Supersets?
- Realistic timescales to make progress
- Deloads

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