That’s a hyper-specific example. I agree power cleans are not applicable to dunking. I’d argue they are applicable to American football lineman. But that is outside of my point.

Training fast twitch muscles is definitely a thing. Which is what I meant by explosiveness. But to circle back, it depends what you want to get out of the gym. I’m probably being that “ackshually “ asshole. My intention is to highlight edge cases of goals at the gym. At a macro level, most people are at the gym for strength and aesthetics. I agree injury prevention is extremely important to avoid major setbacks or worse.

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High intensity training targets the fast twitch muscle fibers better too. The explosiveness that American football athletes get is from practice and muscle growth.

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Is this guy your boyfriend that you’re obsessed with? Just teasin 😂 I would definitely learn new things from his videos. I wasn’t aware you can target fast twitch fibers with slow tempo reps.

Haha he’s the only guy that makes short and concise videos about this stuff. I could send you other content that’s like 2 hours long from my other bfs 😂 jk