Hypertrophy and Powerlifting: Research-Driven Training | Dr. Pak, Dave Tate's Table Talk

[@Dr__Pak]

Thank you for having me!

[@Mr.PotatoAWESOMEFitnessTips]

Thank you for everything you're doing, bruh, it's important as fuck, and as a part-time lifting educator HAHAHA I do appreciate most of your content, dude, it's refreshing and adds tons of fuel to my motivation and curiosity.

[@cubencis]

Great talk. Love the research

[@mrdrsir3781]

Where would I go to learn all the basic boring shit that we for sure know works for powerlifting?

[@kieranwardale6212]

I'm not gonna lie, I think that being on Table Talk is how you know you're legit in this field. Glad to see that Dr. Pak has made it!

[@theREDdevilz22]

You know you’ve made it when you’re on Table Talk 👏🏼 well done Pak

[@bbszabi]

Great to see Dr. Pak at this table, with Dave! It's almost a validation that his voice and expertise really matters in the strength community. I've been following him here on YT for a while now and I love his strength training content. I actually did his minimum effective dose training for squats early this year, while I was pushing more for the deadlift and it worked great. It allowed me to run a Sheiko-style high volume deadlift program at 51 yo without burning out. I was able to do 3 pulling/hinging exercises (15-20 hard-ish sets) a week, besides one squat workout and I made progress on the squat, too. For an old timer over 50 with shitty sleep that's a big deal!

[@strong_slav]

Easily one of the best conversations you've had on this podcast. Thanks so much for this!

[@samuele.marcora]

Well said about the need to interpret the findings of studies in their context, and the need for cumulative evidence before drawing strong conclusions

[@DemetriLamps]

Amazing conversation, Dr Pak definitely one of the best in the business

[@SnarfsBalls]

S-tier guest.

[@19gizzard]

Imagine running into Tom late night in a Walgreens parking lot... terrifying 😅

[@samuele.marcora]

I wish all practitioners were as smart as the punk guy (sorry for not knowing the name)

[@JohnDoe-ig6pc]

I cant even eat looking at this dudes piercings

[@watsonkushmaster3067]

Pak made it

[@archmaesterofpullups]

In Pak's study, they added 50lbs to their total in 6 weeks?! I feel like the time period of this is pretty limiting because I'd consider a 2kg increase in any lift in 6 weeks to be significant. That's like 17kg/year per lift.

[@BenjaminKuruga]

You have to understand the neural adaptations related to strength- they will very-very-very likely not make 50lbs total improvements EVERY 6 weeks they train. Chris beardsley and paul carter have talked about how minimally fatiguing programs work best for powerlifting as there is no interference from fatigue due to excess volume/intensity.

[@watsonkushmaster3067]

They wasnt peaked in the beggining i think...it was not a 50lb all time PR, just cosidering before and after study if i got it right

[@samuele.marcora]

All the confounding variables are controlled by randomisation. That's something that people without training in science and statistics don't understand.

[@ralevkopoulos]

FOR KOLOFOTIAS

[@davidsirmons]

Maximize Gains, minimize En^%$3 *CAN'T SEE WHAT THE THUMBNAIL SAYS BECAUSE THE VIDEO LENGTH COUNTER COVERS UP YOUR TEXT*

[@samuele.marcora]

Well done Pak

[@LiquidityThieves]

That dude is so well spoken but his piercings are distracting

[@tiggerish]

Is Tom Sheppard Scottish?

[@fitoverforty]

I like Dr. Pak, but they drilled him pretty good showing the knowledge gap. These researchers should collaborate more with the real experts before choosing study design.

[@sheabuttersymba]

He did though. They were limited by Covid and the amount of willing participants. They just weren’t American experts