194. Feeling a muscle working doesn’t mean it’s getting stronger, with Natalie Wilson and Raphael Bender

Resources mentioned in the episode:

PE episode 160 Can we even feel muscles activating? here
Glute activation drills don’t increase glute activation here
High levels of mechanical tension on individual muscle fibers is the main stimulus for strengthening here and here and here
DOMS is caused by unaccustomed exercise including longer muscle lengths or eccentric components here
DOMS is not a good indicator of whether your workout was effective here
The repeated bout effect means that as you get used to a particular workout it causes less and less soreness here
In the prone leg extension test there is high variability in the order of muscle firing between healthy pain-free people here
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