"Glute activation laid the foundation for better glute training."
"There's a symbiotic relationship between the activator muscles in your mouth and the turgor pressure in the specimen you are biting into."
"But when you get it, you can feel your lower trap literally pumps up. It's really cool."
"When you lift the weight slow, you tell your nervous system to hold back a little. Don't produce as much force as it needs to. Part of the game in growing is getting full activation of your motor units."
"To optimize growth of a muscle, we of course want to highly activate it with an exercise."
"With a straight bar, it's hard to activate those lower back muscles."
"In order to activate the muscle fibers that actually have great potential for growth, you have to move hard or move fast. Ideally both."
"Engage the body, wake up stabilizer muscles, and set your posture before lifting."
"Stretching at the bottom...you're actually shutting the muscle off."
"Focusing on learning how to move your body as well as you can and using the right muscles and feeling them activate is gonna help you when it comes to weightlifting."
"Isometric contraction training yields Incredible strength, activates the most muscle fibers, and people build muscle very quickly in a very short period of time."
"Your central nervous system's ability to Fire and activate muscles is probably one of the single most important factors when it comes to any form of performance, strength, or athletic performance."
"Squeeze down on that cushion as hard as you can, you're going to feel that activating your inner thigh muscles."
"Isometrics is a great way to get your CNS to really ramp up so that when you go do an exercise, you activate the most muscle fibers."
"You should feel your butt on fire."
"The next consideration for combining exercises is how much of a hypertrophic stimulus a muscle receives via indirect training."
"The more muscle mass you activate, the more muscle fibers you tend to activate in the target muscle."
"Playing an instrument is more concerned not with what muscles are going to be relaxed, but which muscles are activated."
"The trick is, you want to force other muscles to come into play that wouldn't naturally do that."
"Most glute exercises, deep reps are going to activate the glutes more than shallow reps."
"You can hardly see that heel moving but trust me, you should feel your glutes and hamstrings."
"Shoulders down and back, lats that's my back that's activated."
"You feel that front hamstring? It should be shaking."
"Perform each lift in a way that allows the target muscles to become the limiting factor."
"The faster you dip and drive the more muscle spindle activation we get, the higher your jump, right? So we're using muscle spindles to our advantage by putting the hamstrings and glutes on a quick stretch."
"The more muscles you activate appropriately, the more power you can generate."
"Using different movements hits different parts of the musculature."
"Of all the data that exists, there is one thing you could do while resting that seems to show improved results in terms of muscle connection, muscle fiber activation which should lead to better results and it's visualization."
"Seventy-five percent of the speed in the golf swing comes from the articulation of the fast-twitch muscles, in particular in the wrists."
"Building muscle awareness, building body awareness so that when you use this in full-body exercise, those muscles turn on automatically."
"You're activating all of those wonderful glute muscles that we use to run."
"The faster twitch fibers... seem to activate at very high loads or conditions close to true muscular failure."
"Squeeze through your glutes, squeeze through your shoulder blades."
"Jumping rope... it activates many of your muscle groups while giving you a cardiovascular effect."
"Over-reliance on the hamstrings and under activation of the glutes, common cause of lower back pain."
"Squeeze the quads and the glutes at the top, really activate, contract those muscles."
"This really allows you to connect, create mind-body connection maybe with new muscles that are sleeping."
"Activating those inner thighs, thinking of lifting up from your pelvic floor."
"When I check people with balance, if they have some tension on toe and their glutes are a little bit activated, their balance is way better."
"Really think about activating those back muscles."
"It's neurological saying yes, fire that muscle; it is also physiological."
"So theoretically this is actually quite good for endurance athletes because that's what we have to do, we have to fire our muscles repeatedly."
"Eccentric overloading allows you to reach higher levels of muscle activation than you would with traditional sets, leading to more muscle growth."
"Push-ups and bench pressing elicit similar muscle excitation of the agonistic muscles when load-equated."
"The tower is just going to add a little bit more element of muscle activation that you're not going to get without the tower springs."
"Squeeze those glutes and then relax."
"When you stay in a strength-based posture for a good amount of time, the right muscles start to kick in and work."
"If you can get the muscles to fire in a shortened and also in a stretch position, you will feel wonderful."
"Move slow and controlled while you do the one-legged drinking bird but practice it as often as possible because when you do, you're going to activate all the muscles of your hips and they're going to feel strong and amazing."
"Practice activating the right muscles in your hips that are going to help you move your body through your daily life and feel significantly better again."
"The incline range goes up to 12 percent, which is effective and activates the posterior muscles."
"During the up phase, we emphasize short foot, we essentially squeeze the toe which then will cause your glute to fire at that particular time."
"You could literally stay just on a lat pull down and just by changing your body position and changing your hands, you're going to feel different muscles in your back working."
"We're focusing on muscle activation and active mobility."
"The size principle: smaller motor units are recruited first."
"Make sure you get nice and deep in these squats, full extension at the top, big squeeze glutes and quads."
"The very thing that causes the muscles to contract activates phosphorylase kinase."
"If you learn to activate those muscles and you practice that, you'll end up activating them more naturally during the day."