THE MONDAY WEBINAR SERIES:

Muscle Building and the Microtrauma Myth

LIVESTREAM - Monday 25 May 2026 7pm GMT+1

Recording available for 14 days after broadcast

Muscle Growth: Is It really about damage?

Muscle growth is usually explained as damage and repair.

But that story is probably too simple.

Most of us have heard the same explanation.

You train a muscle and damage the fibres.
The body repairs them.
They come back stronger.

It sounds neat and sort of plausible and biological and has been repeated so often and for so long it must be true. Right?


But like many neat stories in anatomy and exercise science, it can become misleading when it gets repeated too casually.

In this webinar, we’ll look at what actually happens when muscle adapts to training, why soreness is not the same as growth, and why “damage” may be the wrong word to base clinical thinking around.

Updating mythical and outdated training language

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ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

Muscle Building and the Microtrauma Myth

This webinar is for therapists, movement teachers, trainers and anyone who wants a more accurate and less fear-based way of talking about strength, soreness and adaptation.

In this webinar we'll explore;

  • Why “damage and repair” is an incomplete explanation of muscle growth

  • Why soreness is not a scoreboard

  • Why DOMS often tells us more about novelty than progress

  • How muscles adapt to load over time

  • What muscle protein synthesis actually tells us

  • Why pain after exercise needs context, not panic

  • How to explain strength adaptation to clients in plain English

  • Why “stimulus and adaptation” is a better clinical phrase than “damage and repair”

Webinar Schedule

25 May - Muscle Building and the Microtrauma Myth

08 June - Stretching: What Is It Actually Doing?

22 June - Why Won't Clients Do Their Exercises?

06 July - Hip Stability - Local or systemic?

20 July - Food vs Weight Loss Jabs

03 Aug - Deep vs Light: Does Pressure Really Matter?

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Format & access

Live online webinar (approx. 60 minutes)

14 day replay access for live attendees

Ongoing access available via the
Webinar Collection Membership

ABOUT JULIAN

JULIAN BAKER BSc(Hons)

Health Scientist and Manual Therapist

Julian Baker teaches anatomy like no-one else, showing you what’s not in the books and making it relevant to the work you do with your clients.

Julian joins up the parts of the body to show relationships that work in every day movement, taking the stillness of anatomy images and thinking and breathing life into theory.

His approach gives you the ability to apply your anatomy knowledge confidently and expertly within your practice, whatever that may be. We guarantee our classes will get you questioning, reflecting and inspired. It’s the CPD you’ve always wanted.

A dynamic and lively teacher with a passion for his subject and with over three decades of experience in the therapeutic and anatomical world, his unique insights and understanding of function, anatomy, behaviour and the language of manual therapy, make his classes and teachings compelling, entertaining and transformative.

Julian has been described as the 'Shaman of the Therapy World', straddling the vastly different realms between academia and complementary health.

A qualified Health Scientist, he translates complex science based principles into accessible and applicable messaging, with a healthy dose of self deprecation, humour and scepticism, making every session a lively journey into new discoveries and the breakdown of old ideas.

Bowen and Functional Anatomy Specialist

Julian Baker teaches anatomy like no-one else, showing you what’s not in the books and making it relevant to the work you do with your clients. Julian joins up the parts of the body xxxx

His approach gives you the ability to apply your anatomy knowledge confidently and expertly within your practice, whatever that may be. We guarantee our classes will get you questioning, reflecting and inspired. It’s the CPD you’ve always wanted.

READ SOME REVIEWS

Don't just take our word for it...

"To 'see' the soft tissue we as therapists think we influence is a privilege. Julian Baker makes all the right connections between the 'tissue' and considerations for therapeutic intervention. Functional Anatomy is a must for all 'hands on' therapists. It is also a must for the 'hands off' body of therapists! Seeing is believing.."

"Captivating, often bizarre and incredible insights into the human body like you have never seen before. Always life changing sessions, questioning the “norm” as we are taught it and bringing new dimensions to your practise.

If you attend one of Julian's classes your working brain will be changed forever - for the better and you will only want to see more!! His humour is also legendary!!"

"I have just participated in the scar tissue dissection course. This is an incredible lesson in anatomy. Julian takes you on a journey thru a human body like you've never been before. It is amazing to see how a human body is really built, how strong, how resilient. Eye-opening and educating. Thank you.

I will be back for more."

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