Andrew Vigotsky is currently getting his PhD in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. He is a respected colleague among many of the well known science-based practitioners in the fitness community and is continuing to help publish relevant research in the field.

  0:30- Andrew’s background
  4:00- Does hypertrophy truly contribute to strength?
  10:40- What factors contribute to getting stronger?
  15:30- Moment arms and biomechanics
  28:00- Future research

Variable gearing in pennate muscles: https://www.pnas.org/content/105/5/1745

Some of Andrew's papers mentioned:
https://peerj.com/articles/5071/
https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/fu...
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
https://peerj.com/articles/1462/

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