@Breathedivinity July 24 || Why must we act like so many psychological elements of lifting are separate from what’s considered “optimal” or “scientific?” The bread and butter of your training is literally always going to be intensity, e.g. motor unit recruitment. Now that’s always going to have some nuance in the sense that certain smart training principles allow for higher motor unit recruitment in the muscle you want to hit, but training enjoyment is going to make a SIGNIFICANT impact on your progress in the long term. I was thinking about this a couple weeks ago- I used some pressing machines instead of single joint fly movements for chest, but the machines were genuinely so smooth and had such a beautiful resistance profile that it arguably might give me higher MUR in my chest then a mediocre “optimal” setup that feels kinda uncomfortable. Now in the long term, who knows if things would play out that way, but feel is truly underrated in my opinion and you should combine knowing what muscle has the best leverage to execute a movement WITH the afferent feedback you’re receiving from the target tissue. IF FEEL GOOD, MOTIVATION GOOD, INTENSITY GOOD, ME BUILD MORE MUSCLE👍 it’s like a bell curve with bottom IQ % thinking feeling is everything, middle % is like eh doesn’t matter and top % yes it CAN matter