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Today we’re going to talk about how certain athletes can unleash tremendous strength and power during lifts through a process called densifying “neural drive.” We’re then going to learn how failure to maintain “neutral drive” can lead to technique faults and a failure to complete any more reps.

Special thank you to Dr. Stuart McGill for his collaboration in making today's post and Bryan Benzel for being our model athlete. To learn more from Dr. McGill check out www.backfitpro.com. Also shout out to Dynamic Disc Designs (https://dynamicdiscdesigns.com) and 3d4Medical with the Complete Anatomy app for the visuals of the body.

References:

1) Aagaard P, Simonsen EB, Andersen JL, Magnusson P, Dyhre-Poulsen P. Increased rate of force development and neural drive of human skeletal muscle following resistance training. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2002 Oct;93(4):1318-26.

2 Balshaw TG, Massey GJ, Maden-Wilkinson TM, Morales-Artacho AJ, McKeown A, Appleby CL, Folland JP. Changes in agonist neural drive, hypertrophy and pre-training strength all contribute to the individual strength gains after resistance training. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2017 Apr;117(4):631-640.
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Opening & closing track by JookTheFirst: https://soundcloud.com/jookthefirst