Roger M. Enoka

You're, you're being given respect, um, and you know, you might even know more about the topic than the person asking, but you also have to have the humility to know you're wrong and then dampen your desire to give an answer because someone's asked you for a favor, right? So I, I get it, and, uh, I was recently listening to Tony Batagi's Stronger with Time, really great podcast.

Had Roger Enoka on, so neuroph- n- n- neurophysiologist, uh, one of the most well-read, researched, and, you know, godfathers of like muscular fatigue, right? And Tony was eventually like asking him, like there was some really interesting information, like, hey, technically we don't have like fast twitch motor units, right? Motor units innervate a bunch of fibers, but a high threshold motor unit doesn't necessarily only have fast twitch fibers in it, and some of our nomenclature.

And he's like, "I like to be very specific with my language." And so there was these really cool insights, and then Tony would go to asking, very reasonably of course, um, "So what does this mean about, um, application? So how, how should we train therefore?" And each time Roger would say, "Well, that's not my area," you know? Um, and I like, I, I, I would have to step out of my expertise to be confident saying that.

And he even did it like stepping into like biomechanics a bit from the actual-

But no, it, it does take a lot of, I think, uh, two things.

Uh, so I think it takes, number one, humility, right? I mean, obviously anytime an expert, especially someone...

I mean, Enoka is a hu- like for people who aren't aware, he's a huge name in neuromuscular physiology, like about as big as the names get.

And so for him to say, "Oh, I don't know," like that actually takes a tremendous amount of humility, which is hard to find when people ascend to that level of stature, uh, in a specialization.