He needs some training in public speaking and creating presentations. 😅

I tend to believe that a lack of soreness has a lot to do with a lack of reaching a threshold of muscle activation. Ex. The ability to only activate 20 percent of the calf muscle with the 20 percent being the a portion of the gastro head then doms doesn't seem likely because there's not enough activation to create the stimulus needed to create damage and pump enough blood into said muscle .

When's the full video dropping?? Really looking forward to it!

I feel like periodization's biggest value is for generalists who have broad fitness goals. When the weather is nice I run and do calisthenics to maintain muscle and strength. I do the same with kettlebelling in bad running weather. When I have more time to train and get serious about improving body composition or strength, I lift weights at a gym and cut and bulk.

Man, I love that cauliflower ear; so jealous

I love how Dr. Mike is too bro for the evidence based nerds, but he’s too much of a nerd for the hardcore bros. It’s almost like he’s the chosen one the prophets spoke of who will bring our two worlds together.

A more intresting question is if this stretch mediated hypertrophy be usefull for advanced lifters, so if the gains slow down for us with traditional training, then having some machine stretch our muscles result in even further hypertrophy?

I remember that scene in “Pumping Iron” when Arnold and Franco Columbu had exactly this same conversation.

strength is never a weakness and weakness is never a strength - mark bell

2:06:40 "...anyways... back to mental health and lifting" fucking. killed. me.

Nice to see smart people disagree in a productive (ie informative) way.

Loved the door edit with the audio!

I remember the time I felt my self worth being tied to my ability to get the next big PR. As I'm super high in the personality trait neuroticism, chasing pwrlifting numbers really didn't do me any favors. I decided to stop the "numbers game" and focus purely on bodybuilding. It was better for me to focus on more subjective qualities, like aesthetics. By bodybuilding, I could start shifting my focus away from outcomes and start loving the process. Loving the process made it possible to also love the outcomes! Edit: spelling

Thanks Dr Pak

From an orthopedic standpoint periodization with progressive increases in volume and intensity also allows graded exposure to that same load/intensity overtime to for connective tissue adaptation. Jumping in too quickly “too much too soon” could lead to an increase in injury risk. Even though resistance training has an already very low relative risk of injury.

Muscle soreness does not equal muscle growth, it just doesn’t. All this science nonsense from people like this just causes people to spin there wheels and become overwhelmed.

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Thank you real doctor Pak. Strength shmrength

Mike Israetel and Menno Henselmans just released a talk where they pointed out that most exercise scientists in hypertrophy context don't seem to be able to agree what exactly does periodization mean compared to what is commonly considered periodization. Or that they use the word to mean different things. Their key take was that any program you construct is periodized because it won't be doing the same exact session every day from now to forever, and that most programs have both upwards trajectory with constant slope but also some undulation during the week/weeks, so they would be by definition all periodized no matter how you put them together.

I often used to hit plateus in my training until I switched to a DUP program, and saw way faster rate of progress. Muscle building is a very slow process. I think it's more encouraging to focus on progressing strength in the gym. It's motivating and fun, and helps with adherence. As for hypertrophy, I think generally we don't have studies that are nearly long enough to see compounding effects. If my strength improves at a faster rate that's going to equal higher volume later and that progress compounds on itself. I would be shocked that if in the long run (multiple years) it didn't accumulate to substantially more muscle growth

I like how Jujimufu uses periodization to manage training in multiple separate somewhat unrelated disciplines in an organized way.

Love the content and the presentation as well. Insightful!

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Great short but too flashy, it distract me from content a bit.

Paul Carter is behind you.

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Idea for next podcast: DOES BEING A PEDOPHILE REALLY INCREASE YOUR DEADLIFT BY 20%?

I chuckledna bit when Pak, the Greek, mentioned reckless driving as stimulating. The whole of Greece drives recklessly.

This podcast really...LIFTED my mood.

Nope. Not for me. I’m still crazy.

My only criticism is Greg constantly using the phrase “I don’t know”. The dude does know. A lot. Incredible intellect. Great podcast Gents

Milo wolf on his KZbin videos needs to explain things in his videos so anyone can understand otherwise I like most of his content

My wife is a counselor and her biggest pet peeve is people saying, "I can't do X because of my mental health." or "I need to protect my mental health." People confuse personal comfort with mental health, when in reality your mental health depends greatly on pushing yourself past your comfort zone and practicing voluntary discomfort. Personal experience with the effects of lifting on mood is largely positive. When I'm already exhausted, it does not have a positive effect but it doesn't really have a negative effect. A new observation I have found is that doing any exercise outside increases this effect. I've been rucking 2.5 miles every day for the past couple weeks and I am a lot calmer. Doing something outside every day for at least 30 minutes seems to be the best way to improve my mood.

Q: Does Lifting Really Improve Mental Health? A: Yes, the simplest evidence is; for 1-2 hours each gym day, I'm distant from toxic narsissists, and that can only be good.

My anecdotal experience with lifting and mental health is that starting to lift changed key parts of my life to more positive in a way that positively affected mental health as well: focus on sleep, nutrition and exercise. That is to say, I started having some regularity in sleep and emphasized getting sleep, I started having regular meals that were of good composition and size (quality and quantity improved) and I had some structure to days accompanied with activity. It's a huge deal if you come from a point of having none of those basics down. And you just feel self-efficacy, that you can control your life in some way and get things done successfully. And it's not just that you generally feel better, but all of those things balance out mood, which also feels pretty great and makes it easier to go about your day. One thing that comes to mind from mental health is that we often talk about it like there's a binary border where you either are good or not, even though these days we perhaps split it into talking about multiple different areas of mental health. While it seems to be more of that spectrum where you're somewhere and it affects your life or doesn't, there's better and worse times and you just drift into them from where you are currently. And there's a point where someone seeks help or doesn't. Of course most of us don't want to just open up on every detail of our mental health randomly, so we tend to simplify it to "I'm fine" if we can cope with things at the moment. The low energy with mental health problems is rough, because you know you should be sleeping well, eating well and exercising, but people generally struggle to get out of bed, do the dishes or anything. It's really difficult for them to move from "I know what things are good for a person" to doing it. Because if they didn't have mental health problems, they wouldn't need the advice and they'd be doing it already. It's like weight loss tips. Then again, pets seem to help some with depression like we saw the emotional support cat on Milo's lap. I'm actually surprised it hasn't been shown that cardio on top of lifting would improve the situation. Like runner's high is definitely the thing a lot of people enjoy in running and I would wage it's a different experience than what you get from lifting. "Exercise debunked for mental health benefits?" well your fault if you didn't watch the full 2,5 hours podcast.

Only 2.5hr? 😔

For me it is a no. In fact lifting gives me more anxiety because I am a complete non-responder to training and I hate being around all these jacked guys in the gym. In the end I had to go to the gym at 3 am to avoid everyone :(

great talk. I actually liked that you guys had to do a little more speculating on this one. The talk and answers seemed less preordained that your normal excellent talks. Maybe incorporate that more into your more typical shows where you have solid solid evidence and then go into speculation mode for short bursts. It is a nice break.

TLDR?

not in my case. I just get more nervous and angrier after every session until I fully recover.

I've never made gains without being sore and I've never been sore without making gains. It's a very good indication. Chase moderate soreness

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Very insightful 👏 as usual 👏

Wait if I take too low of a test time won't my next set be junk volume?

You love your tattoos. I mean... it appears to be some type of obsession. You probably struggle to sleep some days because you're so happy/excited about your arm tattoos. Cheers.

Science shows 3mins is best for rest, look it up 👀

For the algorithm

Valid

Thanks what are you thoughts on myo reps?