Building Muscle: Men Versus Women | Educational Video | Layne Norton PhD

[@livephysiology]

Another example of explaining the importance between percentages vs. absolute values when interpreting scientific data.

[@K4R3N]

Matt Wenning put you on his Top5 Fitness/Health KZbinrs list. You were second right behind Attia. Well done man, great work. This channel deserves 2 million subs.

[@coonhound_pharoah]

Layne is much better than Peter. Peter the "longevity specialist" can't seem to have any longevity in his recommendations.

[@K4R3N]

@coonhound_pharoah I have books from both guys and sub their channels. It's not either or for me, I consult both. Layne doesn't go into cancer for example.

[@sircefiro]

Makes sense, if you think women have around 50% of the upper body strength of men & around 80% of the leg strength, the percentage measurement is better in this case

[@ashleydawson4057]

I’m pretty sure I have above-average muscle-building potential in my upper body vs most women, and powerlifting has helped me really appreciate this and develop a healthier body image. I really enjoy the look now! 💪🏻

[@srleplay]

I've trained many women and it is actually amazing how much what they think is training hard differs from what men think. Serious, dedicated female lifters usually need years to learn to really push themselves, while many 100lbs 16 year old boys are able and willing to train until their arms fall off after few months in the gym.

[@oldmedstudent1750]

I took a weight lifting class in high school and it was all males. Our teacher told us to train until our arms turned into jello. The only exercise I see women train like that for is hip thrusts, lol.

[@pamelajensen5961]

I think that’s because women tend to be more thorough in evaluating risks, often perceiving potential negative consequences as more likely and severe compared to men, which can lead to a more cautious approach to risk-taking like maybe going too hard with training and harming your body.

[@alanh7247]

​@@pamelajensen5961how are these men in the study gaining muscle with all these injuries they're supposedly causing?

[@verablack3137]

@@pamelajensen5961 I think this is a fair trade off too, because we tend to live much longer lol, but I admit this is why I take basically every set to failure, I tried to estimate RIR and I realized that my own perception of my effort simply didn't match the expected reps when tested to failure, I always stopped short thinking I was at RPE 10, but if I just lift the weight until I can't actually move the bar anymore then I know I have actually done it.

[@alanh7247]

​@@pamelajensen5961lol. and how is it that the men made greater gains than the women given all these injuries they supposedly incurred?

[@joerockhead7246]

happy new year

[@justinmininger5973]

Algorithm

[@lauraem4799]

Hey Layne, you might be interested to know that osteoclasts are also multinucleated. Thanks for another great video ✌️

[@shantanusapru]

As are cardiac muscle cells...

[@M.Sid9.3]

Cool

[@SelinYıldırım-y4r]

How can women avoid adding too much leg muscle if they want lean legs? Lean and toned . By adding cardio?

[@UniversalSoldier3k]

Less volume when training legs. More rest time between sets. Less calories.

[@full-timepog6844]

Theres muscle and fat. If your muscles get too big eat less.

[@lisinbondi1240]

@@full-timepog6844clearly there are women who can build large legs and it is all muscle. Recommending a dietary based solution demonstrates a lack of knowledge of female muscularity variability. PS I my daughter and my niece all have a propensity to build significant leg muscle. I run and do endurance strength training to keep my legs smaller. The girls don’t mind and cross fit and powerlift and are solid muscle.

[@swissarmyknight4306]

Stop doing progressive overload. If you aren't increasing the weight/volume, your muscle mass will stop increasing. Once you reach the desired muscle mass, stop upping the weight and plateau. Maintaining muscle mass is super easy. Its extremely difficult to build "too much muscle" and it happens very, very slowly.

[@PSA78]

We maintain muscles at around 60% of the load/volume (which is what matters for building), so just back off when you're happy.

[@VernCrisler]

Of course, aside from the obvious difference in testosterone levels, more men are likely to take "alternative" supplements than women. So, it's easy to understand why men would have a whole lot more muscles than women, even above the usual test. level differences.

[@oldmedstudent1750]

Nice try feminist, even when no steroids are taken, the absolute differences are appreciable.

[@VernCrisler]

@@oldmedstudent1750 Is there something about "obvious difference in testosterone levels" that you do not understand?

[@oldmedstudent1750]

@@VernCrisler you blamed it on steroids, feminist.

[@VernCrisler]

@@oldmedstudent1750 Learn to read troll.

[@abeidiot]

what kind of bs is this. Only terminally online fitness content brainrot will make someone think like this. Most people, men or women, do not take juice. Its only fitness influencers and wannabe fitness influencer kids watching that shit. Their numbers can in no way even be observed in statistical data

[@retro-1236]

Layne please fix sound quality, hate the bathroom echo. "for the algorithm!!" hurts my brain.

[@andrewzach1921]

For the algorithm

[@perserverance333]

Hey, I add Lindor chocolate candy to my yogurt, with some bananas too .... delicious! Lindor candy is good in coffee too.

[@NoGattsuNoGlory]

Men be skipping leg days 😅

[@flexlikeag]

Fta

[@flochfitness]

FTA

[@verablack3137]

Did the study actually say anything about trans people, kinda odd to throw that in there if it is just supposition, especially when I have my doubts in regards to outcomes, i.e. AFAIK a trans woman has never won a gold medal despite some sports rules allowing it. I don't have a dog in the fight so to speak but, aren't you the one who warns us not to base opinions on mechanisms (e.g. Asprin has pro clotting mechanisms) when outcomes can be measured (e.g. the total result of all mechanisms leads to the outcome that asprin is anti-clotting)?

[@howbradknew]

Especially given the trans population is such an extremely small percentage of the population that it's very hard to imagine they'd skew anything.

[@oldmedstudent1750]

What are you talking about? Lia Thomas literally won the NCAA Division 1 national championship in the 500-yard freestyle event, despite being an average male swimmer. There have also been numerous records broken by transwomen at various college level competitions.

[@swissarmyknight4306]

From what I can tell (I'm sympathetic to the trans community and want everyone to be able to participate in sport), it hasn't been studied very well, partially due to it being such a small percentage of the population, and athletes being an even smaller percentage. There are certainly some physiological differences, but it most cases they appear to be very small after hormonal transition, and only really present in AMAB trans persons who were trained athletes before transition (non athletes had no significant differences). I haven't been able to find much information on people who took puberty blockers and then started hormones at 18, but in those cases I would expect any physiological differences to be vanishingly small.

[@oldmedstudent1750]

@swissarmyknight4306 Tell that to Lia Thomas.

[@verablack3137]

@@oldmedstudent1750 I don't know why people report those talking points but a simple search would show: "During the 2018-2019 season, Thomas recorded the top UPenn men's team times in the 500 free, 1,000 free, and 1,650 free, but was the sixth best among UPenn men's team members in the 200 free" her middling status is from her season the year after on HRT but swimming for the mens team as she wasn't allowed to swim on the womens for a year. She was an excellent swimmer on the mens team before HRT, and obviously a terrible swimmer on the mens team after HRT. People make it out that she did so amazing on the women's team but look at the results, she won a few events, placed high at a few while being beaten by plenty of cisgender women, but fell short like 10 seconds off of Katie Ledecky's records in the NCAA, so she wasn't even a world class swimmer in the women's division. We can't know if her performance would degrade further after more years on HRT because they banned her likely more due to political campaigns against her than any real look at the data.

[@2ndstreetmarvel]

💪🏿Yo! I finally ordered some of your supplements to try!💪🏿

[@tom4705]

Is your hairline receding a little?

[@eric1020]

Way to explain percentages to us like we're 10 years old. Really provides some insight into your audience 😂

[@oldmedstudent1750]

Not everyone is as smart as you, big guy.

[@eric1020]

​@oldmedstudent1750 apparently not everyone is as smart as a 10 year old.

[@MmartinL]

I'm guessing you have problems with other people understanding you. Intelligence doesn't also mean you are smart. The sooner you learn this the better for you.

[@eric1020]

​​​@@MmartinL So, just to be clear, being INTELLIGENT doesn't mean that one is SMART -- is that the claim you're making? Not that it's relevant to anything I said... but I'm just curious how dumb Layne's audience truly is.