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That's Mike Matthews in the thumbnail no?

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Shoutout to Infinity programming for taking care of all these variables.

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Does this matter if you are training purely for hypertrophy?

Kind of hard when you have to cycle 20 miles to work and back per day

Excellent information. Thank you.

My question is how many primary day a body/big muscle groups/small muscle groups/ ligaments can take in a week? I understand that we can establish our base ligne by recording our progression, but as a climber, thing are not as simple. I do try to take as many takeaway from powerlifting as possible, because our hand goal feel similar, as much strength as possible with good coordination. That said, our baseline training (climbing hard) are often compound and we take secondary day where we work on technics or problems that put less load on specific muscle group, but in the end we do put stress day ins and outs ont our mains groups (back, shoulder, arm, forearm). What is your opinion?

Great video Josh! Keep them coming.

I’d like to know if anyone has ever done a study comparing doing a 8 day “week” or 6 days or 9, my guess is we have always based everything off a 7 day week because it’s convenient not because of biology

The question posed wasn’t answered, was it?

There're studies on animals where they train one side of the subject and then count muscle fibers of both side after training, which discovered causality. e.g., W. Gonyea et al. 1977. For research purpose, It's not rigorous to say that this also works for human, but I guess the evidence is strong enough for coaching purpose

Great video ! I think that one of the most overlooked methodoligical bias in this study is the way of estimating fiber number. The way they do it implies that fiber size and hypertrophy is similar between all muscle fibers so that the fibers analyzed from msucle biopsy are truly representative of the rest of the muscle. I do not think that this premise is true, at least from my experience in mice, which shows a great effect of muscle fiber area variability and regionalization. This could lead to a significant oversestimation of fiber number in trained individuals in my opinion. I do believe that this is even a bigger bias that study design unless some literature can show that fiber size is homogenous throughout the muscle in humans.

I totally get the causality argument but either way it’s a super interesting result. I mean either resistance training does indeed cause significant hyperplasia or if it doesn’t there’s some really wild selection bias going on. I wouldn’t have believed that if you told me. If it is true, then think about the consequences. You could take untrained individuals, count their fiber density and predict whether they will respond better to resistance training. That’s amazing! My guess is because that sounds even more farfetched than the original hypothesis, that the simpler explanation ala Occam’s Razor is actually hyperplasia. Just a thought from a failed academician. 😂

this is excellent

Great episode. Thank you, guys.

Nailed it. I am a grumpy, old veteran, and while I like nerding out, I see a lot of this as fuss over trivial differences; however, I always add the caveat (when grumping) that it's different if you are trying to hit your Olympic competition peak before 25...

Retired and have all day to complete my 5-7 rep to failure sets. Some days it takes all day to do my program. Any research on too long a rest period? Thanks Go Owls!

Regarding the 52 sets study were the people always sore? If they were sore while they took the measurements they probably had some inflammation so maybe the measurements were skewed because of increased swelling.

If i understand this correctly, it parallels the programming in the low fatigue strength template from Barbell Medicine.

Background music too loud, distracting and irritating. Content is great.

RIR-velocity relationship.

I sometimes take 10 minutes between sets

I’d imagine that rest is one of the least important variables for hypertrophy when considering volume and closeness to failure. We can always drop load and continue to press the pedal near failure.

Fantastic video, thanks for the practical takeaways

Great video. Thank you for sharing

Would love to hear about advanced volume cycling! Thank you guys

For some reason, people seem to enjoy ignoring error bars. Was the same with the "proximity to failure" meta. And they don't even have to run the stats.

Could you address the practicality of training to failure? I.e., the cost of fatigue that may negatively affect, for example, volume.

Thanks a Lot! :⁠-⁠) Does it also make sense to do long partials on chin ups, where there is nearly no challenge in the bottom position??

Bad take. The very process of gaining muscle relies on progressive overload--adding reps or weight to your sets over time. If you don't, muscle growth will stall. Who has bicep development doing curls with 20 pounds?

Amazing video and looking forward to the upcoming one! I have one question related to the task specific hypertrophy continuum-if my goal is to e. g. increase my competition 1rm squat, would I get benefit of performing the squat/leg press motion more "bodybuilding style" (i. e. slow eccentric, get into a deep stretch, pause for a moment) at the expense of lower specificity (both in terms of different motion pattern and lower weight)? (Same would apply for e. g. competition bench press vs dumbbell bench press with deep stretch at the bottom) Thakn you very much!

Great content

Again, if muscle size isn’t important for strength then why are larger lifters stronger? Why do weightlifting and powerlifting federations have weight classes?

If muscle size doesn’t matter then why have weight classes ?

Miss programming with you guys. Shame since moving to the states I lost all strength and am skint cos everything here is expensive and I have cycle 15 miles a day to work as I cannot afford the car. Anyways, love the podcast.

more about the relationship between strength and hypertrophy would be awesome

The correlation between hypertrophy and power is astonishingly low. This is due to power being a function of neuromuscular drive. Size, in and of itself, does not translate to power in the absence of max intensity training.

at last someone talks about specificity as is, tyty what about the correlation between size and str? its pretty obvious

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Killing it man. Good information.

Its been proven in multiple studies that you dont have to go to failure to build muscle

One way I would go about the Full Reps vs Partials debate would be just give the Partials their own exercise slot. Say Pec Deck, for One Exercise where we do x15@9, Then MyoReps 1-5x4, Then Pec Deck Partials After that Exercise for x15@9, Then MyoReps 1-5x4. Then attempt to Increase performance week to week On those two exercises in their own slot. Both ways, you train pretty close to failure, and you can have measurable ways to track each's performance. The measurable ways to track each's performance was always something that I hated about partials on movements where you don't know what exactly would be called a "partial"

I think for the first couple of years training, people just need to put in plenty of effort with good technique and try to increase the weights they are moving. Stay around that 5rep range and train hard for 3 months then take a week off etc etc. Gains should be straight forward for the first year or maybe 2years. After that gains slow down. Then i think its more useful to use percentage based training, which can get the gains going again.

Geoffrey Verity Schoefield does this for mist exercises and his results are quite compelling

Thats crazy because I would have sworn that Josh was like 5'8" lol

This would be called "Platz failure"....thats when u cant move the weight at all

I actually love your content. Maximising hypertrophy is my main goal as i shifted away from powerlifting (looking better makes me more comfortable tbh)