Gym Unc Humbles Science-Based Lifter
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People love saying the pump causes muscle growth, but ask them to explain how, and the conversation falls apart pretty fast. There's only one proven driver of hypertrophy, and "pushing blood into the muscle" isn't it. In fact, most of the things that produce the biggest pumps during training are things we already know don't lead to more gains. For example, higher reps give you way more pump than lower reps, yet when sets are pushed equally close to failure, growth is the same. Short rest periods create more pump than longer ones, even though longer rests are generally superior. Exercises that emphasize the "squeeze" tend to cause larger pumps compared to the "stretch", but they don't build more muscle because of it. If more pump really meant more gains, you might as well forget about heavy chest presses and just do hundred rep sets of these with 30 seconds of rest in between for two hours. Now this doesn't mean the pump is meaningless. If you're training hard you should be getting a pu
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