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Muscles are incredibly inefficient.
That's why people that work 12 hour days doing manual labor were "skinny strong".instead of jacked.
To get huge muscles, we need to trick our bodies into thinking we randomly have to move heavy weights every once and a while.
Part of that is slowly increasing the weight so they muscle rebuilds even bigger otherwise it would just stay the same. If you stop, your body stops wasting the energy for those huge muscles and they get smaller.
Shouldn't that be "efficient"? They will adapt to the minimal required strength for whatever the standard is.
No, because it always uses more energy to move.
Tendon strength is more efficient, so that's what your body wants
He's saying overbuilt muscles are inefficient, so the body pars back to only what's necessary.