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Your Pilates, Yoga, or Barre Class Is NOT Strength Training | Ep 455
You've been showing up to Pilates, yoga, or barre for months, maybe years, and your body composition hasn't changed. You're not getting stronger.
And if you're over 40, the muscle and bone you need most may be slipping away while you work hard at the wrong thing.
Building muscle and maintaining bone density after 40 requires two specific things from your training: mechanical tension and proximity to failure. Pilates, yoga, and barre are not designed to deliver either one.
Philip covers why these modalities plateau fast, what the research found when scientists actually measured muscle growth…
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