Squats vs Hip Thrusts: Which Builds More Muscle?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Squats vs. Hip Thrusts controversy
4:40 EMG and Hypertrophy
9:07 Squat biomechanics
13:06 Mechanisms of Hypertrophy
20:13 Potential spine injury with hip thrusts (posterior pelvic tilt)
24:55 Posterior Pelvic Tilt Hip Thrust vs. Hingey Hip Thrust
References:
Greg Nuckol's blogpost: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/bar...
Improbable data patterns in the work of Barbalho et al (white paper): https://osf.io/preprints/sportrxiv/sg...
Bret's PHD Thesis: https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/hand...
EMG activities in mono- and bi-articular thigh muscles in combined hip and knee extension (Yamashita 1988): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3220066/