that’s so cool! i wonder how they got to blue as female and red as male… i always thought of blue as male and pink as female so it seems everyone wants blue lol

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@@nabinsharma7377 already made

@ which video?

@@synterium1687 me too. i’m sure we’ll see some research done on that eventually

respect. i think that’s the right time i agree with that

why?

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or maybe more sets means more stimulus and more stimulus means more adaptations

i aspire to reach your level of lateral raise one day 😞

Bro it’s only on day plus he has 10.1K subs Like if you agree 👇

appreciate that :)

@@DotanGorelov no problem bro

I genuinely appreciate your perspective, and let me say-I’m a big fan of the content you put out. It’s clear that your approach comes from a place of deep reflection and experience, and I’d like to elaborate on my take, rooted in what I’ve learned from powerlifting, particularly as it pertains to strength. From what we see in the powerlifting scene, the strongest lifters are often the ones who can handle more total volume. The idea to use volume as a tool to stimulate adaptation. Generally, the more high-quality sets you can fit into your program without exceeding your recovery limits, the stronger you’ll become over time-at least that is my understanding, maybe I’ve been led astray somewhere. That’s why concepts like deloading and tapering are crucial. Saying “adding sets isn’t progressive overload” misses the point-it’s not about the sets themselves, but the cumulative workload they provide; that is the crucial part. Over time, that workload builds the strength necessary to lift heavier weights. This is why many powerlifters celebrate volume PR’s. Of course, this has to be done intelligently-adding sets for the sake of it won’t work. But when used strategically, volume increases are one of the most reliable tools for building strength. The strongest powerlifters don’t just lift heavy-they lift heavy and do a lot of work to support it. And, I mean, look at the best powerlifters, specifically the “IPF nerds”- you will find many of them adopting high frequency high volume approaches to getting these strength gains. Agata for example does SBD every day and spends around 6 or 7 hours in the gym. Of course, you will find extremes such as this on every spectrum, but in the echochamber of strength, strength certainly does have an incredibly strong correlation with volume and thus sets. And, I propose an experiment in the realm of periodization that stems from the methods used by powerlifters: try ramping up your volume past what your MRV normally is for some time, deload, and see how much stronger you get. I really appreciate your wisdom. I am merely explaining my position on why I think what I think. Perhaps-and maybe even probably-in a few years, I will come to the same conclusion as you and regret having such an obsession with sets.

All impressive naturals on this platform seem to say and agree on the same things, get progressivly stronger in moderate rep ranges with moderate sets over a prolonged period of time. Even if ramping up volume did result in slightly more hypertrophy in the short term, is it really worth the possible drawbacks they also present? Also just seems to make simple things more conplex, when do you ramp volume up? When do you find you MRV? When you get tired? Lose strength? Lyle mcdonald has some pretty good content on this too, and he exclusivly trained powerlifters. Mikes bias is heavily skewed by PED users.

​@@DotanGorelov I think a lot of this comes from both being young (and having young joints, enjoy em heh heh) and having a strength focus. Training for 1 rep max strength and training for size across the entire body are fairly distinct. Training to reach your ultimate potential and training to reach your potential in an eight week block or even a year are quite different as well. First, high frequency, high specificity approaches are mostly for the neurological adaptations. You can make VERY fast progress...but you don't hear about the ones that burn out and/or get hurt. Lower back, knees, shoulders, elbows...I've talked to a lot of powerlifters and that kind of heavy training very frequently is EXCELLENT for progress but it just eats you up. Often these lifters are out of the sport in just a few years, and often ironically don't reach their potential. It is a roll of the dice. Second, there's a lot of real estate to cover. Calves, quads, hams, glutes, adductors, erectors, lats, traps, rear delts, side delts, biceps, triceps, forearms, chest, abs...sure many movements can hit multiple areas but at a certain point you just run into system recovery issues as a natural. Powerlifters can ignore a lot of those areas and devote a lot of volume to hip extension and chest. It's why many have very underwhelming physiques, they've dumped all their "training money" into lower body and chest. Third, practice is a lot less important for hypertrophy training because you can go lighter and more isolated, so you don't need to keep in touch with the movement as much, so you need less frequency and volume. Fourth, most of these powerlifters doing volume are not sniffing failure. The honest ones (especially those who have done bodybuilding style training) will agree with me, a lot of their "volume work" is 4,5,6+ reps in reserve, or more. That makes a MASSIVE difference in how much volume you can tolerate. It might actually make sense for them by the way, as they often generate massive amounts of fatigue due to their strength, so have to be more careful with failure. But if you're actually taking a specific muscle to failure with intention and aggression there's just a limited amount of times you can do that and not stagnate. Fifth, periodization is much, much less important for bodybuilding training because it is more varied and lighter. There's nothing to peak for so it doesn't really make sense to even have that mentality. It does mean that you have to manage fatigue in real time a bit more, so things need to be a bit more sustainable. So a bodybuilder has to work far more muscles than a powerlifter, is generally going closer to failure, doesn't have to work a movement pattern as frequently, and ideally there's very little skill involved with their lifts...so doing endless sets doesn't pay off as much. Volume is important, and I'm no HIT bro who thinks the correct number of working sets is always "ONE", but it's a lever I find myself pulling less and less compared to technique, loading, effort and exercise selection.

@@GVS @DotanGorelov Thank you guys for the insights, really helpful to see a bit deeper personal reasoning. I think these turn out to be the mantras each lifter repeat to themselves as they fit in any training block type they are in.

you’re right i’m gonna have to work on that for sure

i will achieve this one day

@ you’re pretty damn close dude. Might even have it rn. I meannnnn I do atg not parallel but who’s counting ;);) that was just teasing if you couldn’t tell. Nice work Dotan as always

hip thrusts! get your mind out the gutter young man

how’d it go??

@ I wish I had camera footage but it went pretty awsome I missed my 3rd attempt on bench I went for 255 and I got it but I got two red lights and my squat I did 405 and my deadlift 435

@ hell yea good job man 👏

strong man

you’re crazy

​@@DotanGorelovNah, you're crazy, I'm @LongestCommnetonYT

*Stone

hit 485 a while ago

I have the same problems too 😢

figure out what protein messes you up and replace it with something that works for you

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@@Kanu03 ❤️you can get both

getting lean is what i do. can also do the machine ab crunches and cable tile crunched both those are cool

@ thanks fine shyt

no but i’m doing self limiting variations to let my tendons and ligaments heal cause everything hurts so my lifts aren’t super impressive rn

@@therealcheese4455 specify

LMFAOOOO i can only aspire to be this negative in my life

none. the results speak louder than a diploma