In the world of weight training, scientific principles usually take a back seat to real world experience, but one principle worth paying attention to is that of muscle fiber recruitment order. Applying this principle correctly in the gym can make a huge difference in your muscle and strength gains. In...
Why Calves are Hard to Grow and How to Train Them
Calf muscles are notoriously difficult to grow in the gym, to the point where many people give up trying. What makes the calves so stubborn? It turns out the lower leg muscles aren’t meaningfully different from other skeletal muscles. What makes them hard to grow is that they’re already well...
