Why your brain is limiting your progress
You almost certainly have not trained to failure. Your nervous system stops the set well before the muscle runs out, and it does so without telling you — which means the single most important variable in hypertrophy training is one most lifters systematically under-deliver.
read → 9 min 02The importance of perception of effort
Effort isn't a signal your muscles send upward. It's generated in the brain, from the size of the command being sent down. Once you understand that inversion, most of what's confusing about training intensity — good days, bad days, RIR that lies — stops being confusing.
read → 8 min 03Why poor macro composition in your diet is holding you back
Calories decide which direction your weight moves. Composition decides what that weight is made of, how well you train on the way there, and whether you can stand it long enough to matter. Most people get the first right and the second badly wrong.
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