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Podcast: Strength Changes Everything
Episode: Muscle Size Increases - What's Happening Within Your Muscles
Description: Is bigger always better when it comes to strength training? In this episode, Amy Hudson and Dr. James Fisher break down the science of muscle growth, revealing why increased size doesn't always equal increased strength. From neural adaptations to muscle fiber recruitment, they explore what's really happening inside your body when you train – and why understanding it can transform the way you approach your workouts. Amy Hudson and Dr. James Fisher talk about increasing muscle size, and when that doesn't happen. Back in the 1980s, a hypothesis by Digby Sale looked at the two key adaptations mo...