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013 Neuromechanical Matching: Everything you need to know (but few do)
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In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake Doleschal and Chris Beardsley unpack one of Peary Rader’s Silver Era “advanced beginner” routines, before a deep dive into the principle of Neuromechanical Matching.
Key topics include:
- What Rader’s “advanced beginner” (intermediate) plan looked like
- A deep dive into the neuromechanical matching principle
- Common misconceptions and critiques of NMM
- How it interacts with the size principle and fatigue
- Practical implications for programming
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