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Can you touch on force production? It’s been briefly mentioned that a muscle doesn’t produce enough force fully shortened, but wouldn’t it be weak lengthened as well? How does that effect/impact strength profiles or does that depend on the resistance profile?

Secondly, is the resistance profile of an exercise based on moment arm length during an exercise, since it’s continually changes?

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hey coach, wondering what you recommend for a young adult who has undergone significant weight/fat loss (235-155), physique looks decent but as for extra skin left over would it be beneficial to stay at a lower body weight and let the skin reform?? (if so approx time this takes and anything that could help this process) or reverse diet and gain muscle with the new body composition in order to fill out?? Thanks!

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Being 6’2″ with long femurs and not knowing how to use my quads until maybe four years ago, I’m pretty much what you would call an ass and adductor guy (so my hips sit more externally rotated), I want my Quads (specifically my right, all the joints in my left leg move fine for Quads) to do some f**kn work, my right ankle moves terribly and my hips are uneven, and whenever I squat with both feet the same setup(both flat or both elevated) I feel very unstable side to side and tend to slightly load that left quad more, unless I elevate just that right heel and let my hips naturally slightly rotate to put more tension in that right quad. Without elevating just that right heel, that right hip gets more externally rotated as I squat, the ankle runs out and the glute just completely dominates that side. SO, Would you recommend I continue elevating just one heel during squatting, if it allows me to actually work that weak quad? Or will this just set me up for future problems?

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In regards to working sets, I’m having trouble finding the balance of intensity & execution. Should someone perhaps focus on rest-pause/drop sets to really make the working sets count or just focus on partials (for example)?

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When it comes to my overall physique I feel like my pecs particularly upper are lagging. I feel like my front and mid delts take over during presses and I’m having a difficult time finding a position and range of motion that will focus predominantly on my pecs. I’m looking for a serious pec pump like I achieve in my arms. Thanks in advance!

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You often discuss the elbow pit alignment to avoid or alleviate elbow damage. Do you have a protocol for previously injured wrists?

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Got 2 more for you. I’ve seen you do/talk about joint mobility (like the prone trap raise sort of stuff). Could you please touch on improving mobility/drills/etc.?

Secondly, any personal/professional book recommendations? Thanks for your time!

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my man joe, for young lifters (20 yo) how important is staying lean during growth/mass phases, looking to some day compete but in bodybuilding (screw classic and physique) obviously this class takes the most size and now i’m apt to grow the most, let me know your recommendations!!

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New member and so stoked to have found you. How often do you train calves during this 8 day split?

Thanks for all you do and the energy you bring to it.

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What do you do for forearms and should all sets be done till failure? Thanks, much appreciated

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– what’s your thoughts on implementing intensity techniques when you train on your own? At the moment my sets are like that : complete failure + partials keeping the tension. Was thinking about rest pause to mimic the forced reps when you’ve a spotter

– what’s your thoughts on the push/pull split for an intermediate lifter? I’ve seen your front and back of the body workout and that’s all the parameters of the “start here” video
But how many rotations of each workout would you recommend? Jp is talking about 3-4, but for lagging body parts I think that’s too much movements pattern to focus and be perfect on, what’s your thoughts?

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Another one Joe, it is about the big discussion about HIIT vs LISS. Given the fact HIIT uses glycogen as fuel, why should anyone seek that way of fat loss compared to LISS which uses fat oxidation as energy source? In my mind, HIIT is superior only for time management, I cannot see any other benefit. Can you discuss?

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In many of your training videos you are mentioning you prefer to do the least amount of work to yield results. Why? Isn’t better to work around your maximum recoverable volume to see greater results in a given time period?

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I’ve seen you’re an advocate, predominantly, for lower volume training when the focus is execution, effort (intensity), along with progressive overload which I’m working stupidly hard to focus on, which in turn, has made my loads decrease because I’m not bouncing around like a fool! But wow, great stuff, really hitting the spot (and the fact you say not many people can take it there makes try so hard to take it there, getting spotters in on leg days left right and centre just so I can ‘Get it’)

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When periodising my training split, how frequently would you programme a volume session on legs as I have seen you say, both lower volume and higher volume on legs is beneficial. So, how frequently should you hit higher volume leg sessions? Basically how frequently should you put that type of stimulus on the legs?

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Christian Thibaudeau talks about training based on your neurotype (similar to Charles Poliquin’s article about the 5 elements on T-nation). Is there any merit to modifying the way you train to match your neurotype dominance?