by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 28, 2020 | Fitness
You can become very strong and grow large muscles just by lifting a single set of 6 to 12 repetitions of a weight that is 75 percent of your maximum, three times a week (Sports Med, Apr 2020;50(4):751-765). You need to lift a weight heavy enough to damage muscle...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 2, 2016 | Fitness
If you want to make a muscle stronger, you have to exercise it intensely enough to damage the muscle fibers and when they heal, they will be stronger than they were. You can tell you are causing muscle damage from the soreness in that muscle you feel four to eight...
