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Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

#478 The Art of Building Muscle: Why Mechanical Tension is NOT Always The "Be-All, End-All"...

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

Fitness, Muscle, Health, Sports, Health & Fitness, Lifting, Bodybuilding, Strength

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week's show is a follow-up from last week's discussion on the effectiveness of EMG testing for determining the best hypertrophy exercises. On today's episode Joe explains why "high activation/low mechanical tension" exercises STILL have a place in the muscle building process. He shares 3 specific reasons WHY they're valuable, along with the importance of knowing when to "trust your experience over science". *For a full list of Show Notes + Timestamps visit www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode number 478

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of the Industrial Strength Show.

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Let me be the first to wish all of my

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Merrickin listeners a very happy 4th of July,

0:15.0

happy Independence Day to you all.

0:18.5

Hopefully you're still listening

0:21.2

just because the show falls on a holiday this week I hope

0:27.2

I didn't lose half my audience I I don't remember how that goes when the last time the show falls fell on a holiday

0:40.5

besides Thanksgiving and I haven't really I don't I don't obsess over my

0:45.8

podcasting statistics like downloads and you know if someone asks sometimes the sponsors will ask for the specific numbers of a show and then I'll go and look but it's just not

1:01.2

It's not part of my routine. It's not a habit of mine. It's not something I obsess over.

1:06.0

I do the show because I enjoy it because I told you guys nine years ago that every Thursday I would drop a new podcast and that's why I do it and for those of you who listen each week I hope you get a lot of value from it and whether that's you know 10 people 10,000

1:27.7

50,000 I kind of just do the same show each week regardless so yeah I don't know what where I was going with that but yeah the today being a holiday

1:41.5

listen it's Thursday so, so I'm dropping another show. It just happens to be on a holiday.

1:48.0

I don't know if that means I will have more listeners, more ears, more eyes and ears on this week's show or less regardless I'm here

1:59.0

and we're doing the damn thing so I appreciate anyone and everyone who is listening right now

2:06.1

again happy fourth to all my American listeners and to the rest of you, happy Thursday. I appreciate you joining me here this week.

2:16.0

Speaking of this week, let me start by saying this is the first Thursday of a new month, July 4th, first

2:29.0

Thursday of a new month, so that means 10% off all of your favorite DeFranco brand supplements and

2:37.9

free shipping on orders over $99 when you use the coupon code,

2:43.3

Muscle Up July, it is active right now.

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The link to the supplement store is in the show notes,

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