Training Long Vs Short Muscle Lengths For Hypertrophy

Does more range = more gains?

Dylan Dacosta
In Fitness And In Health
10 min readJan 19, 2022

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Key Points:

  • Training at longer muscle lengths tends to promote more muscle growth than when training at shorter muscle lengths
  • Biarticular muscles (meaning crossing two joints) such as the hamstrings, allow for us to manipulate multiple joints to change the length…

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Dylan Dacosta
In Fitness And In Health

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