The Welcome back to the Stronger by Science Podcast. I'm Greg Nichols. I am PAC and on Milo. And we have another great episode for you guys today. Today we're talking about stretch mediated hypertrophy and

for people listening before you start getting nervous that this is going to be our second or recent is episode on whether or

not muscles grow more when training at longer muscle links our second episode episode in recent times and the like million

episode and piece of content around the internet about that topic in recent times.

Fear not. That is not what we're discussing. This is an episode about the concept of

stretch mediated hypertrophy and whether or not it's something we really even observe at all in normal resistance training interventions.

So I will fully admit on the front end this episode is mostly about a pedantic point.

It's not about whether or not muscles grow more when training at long muscle links.

It's about whether it's correct to call that stretch mediated hypertrophy because stretch mediated hypertrophy is a very specific thing

but I think when people use that term they often use it as more of a broad

descriptor of a lot of things that maybe shouldn't rightly be called stretch-mediated

hypertrophy, and it's not just a pedantic point, which even if it was, I still think that would be fun as an episode.

I'm a fan of using language precisely in a scientific context.

But it's not just that it is also an important distinction to make to discuss whether

the effect is actually mediated by stretch because that carries with it different

implications about what sorts of hypotheses one might make about why

training at longer muscle links might lead to more muscle growth, and it leads to different

hypotheses about the type of training one might do in order to try to grow more.

So yes, it's Pet Entry with a point, which is one of my favorite things in the world.

So yeah, we're gonna get into all of that in a second, but yeah, just here at the top of the episode how are you guys doing today?

We are good I am doing just fine we are working on a bunch of cool things behind the scenes, both research and content related, so lots of cool stuff to look forward to.

Echowing Pack. we've been working on a lot of strong-by-science-related content, a lot of videos

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