Ep 288 - Is Exercise Variety Necessary?

[@GVS]

Stealing someone else's physique for your statue is WILD.

[@thynaruto]

Key takeaway: Benefits - Multi-joint exercise: Some multi-joint exercise does not effectively train all part of the muscle well and variation is needed. Different exercises can emphasize different muscle fibers or parts of a muscle, which can lead to more comprehensive development. - Skill Acquisition: In skill-based sports like weightlifting, variation helps refine technique by exposing the athlete to different angles and demands, improving overall proficiency and adaptation. e.g. if they accidentally move one inch, how can they recover from that position. Counterpoints - Complexity and Mastery of movement: Making it harder to track progress. Mastering a skill also allow the body to trully target the muscle instead of just technique gains. - Single-joint exercise: There are some "optimal exercise" that is inherently better than another exercise. It's not necessary to include a worse exercise. - Reduced Specificity: For sports like powerlifting, where performance in specific lifts is crucial, too much variation can detract from spending enough time on those key movements, possibly impacting competitive performance.

[@Anandfulness]

Y NO TIMESTAMPS

[@watsonkushmaster3067]

Its powerhour - no banter just pure knowledge well

[@thynaruto]

Dr Eric Helms, PHD (Pretty Huge Delts)

[@lucymaltez5336]

I am a newbie (2 years lifting) and I have no plans on being a bodybuilder and am an average person, but I still love learning and want to know about bodybuilding and training. I just train to stay health and get better at swimming.

[@lindsaytoussaint]

I’m unreasonably pleased with the Trek talk. And, as always, A+ for the intro-to-topic transition 😂👏🏾

[@santicruz4012]

Timestamps pleaseee

[@ricklee1756]

What if we are all actually AI without knowing it, humanity has already been driven to extinction, Trexler is actually the only successfully cloned human, and humanity is slowly rediscovering itself as Trexler interacts with us?

[@reggie7716]

So glad more people are starting to call Huberman out, lol.

[@94EyeEagle]

34:34 Eric lowkey tried to sell Omar on Calf training 😂

[@StephenMarkTurner]

I remember decades ago, hearing that the 'Golden Bust' of Joe Weider was based on Robby Robinson.

[@arturobandini9308]

It’s ‘cinema verite’ (ve-ri-te), not vererite. Sorry, pedantic moment over now!

[@cdrtej]

You must be fun at parties

[@kban77]

Can you skip an episode and then be able to go back in a year to “find” the lost episode

[@gokukakarot1855]

For the algorithm

[@robhar6866]

Dr. Eric Trexler is not an AI, but a real-life human being due to his ability to display emotions, make personal connections with others, and demonstrate unique thought processes. As a human, he is capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions such as joy, sadness, and empathy, which are essential components of human interaction. Additionally, he is able to form personal relationships with others based on shared experiences and mutual understanding, showcasing his genuine humanity. Furthermore, his ability to think critically, problem-solve, and adapt to new situations highlights his cognitive abilities as a human being. Overall, Dr. Eric Trexler's complex and nuanced characteristics demonstrate that he is undoubtedly a real-life human being, rather than an artificial intelligence. -a real-life human being

[@Yupppi]

Sun Tzu said confuse the enemy. The muscle is the enemy. That's the road to victory. Listening to this I'm surprised to hear that Athlean-X was correct all the time training every single bicep and tricep and forearm head in a workout, and doing 8 different core function exercises. I think in his latest video he listed his favourite "chest, upper chest and lower chest" exercises. Funny thing about calves is that they have been my most sore muscle for weeks doing squats and deadlifts. Really appreciate bringing strength perspectives back on topic, to the iron game. And even talking about weightlifting, close to my heart these days. Helms flexing his knowledge about training weightlifters with variations is my jam. The fascinating challenge of programming for athletes is how limited the time for hypertrophy is, and how much the strength training has to adjust to the skill work and sport specific performance requirements. Like an off season of maybe only a couple of months has to fit hypertrophy and strength progress for the whole season and even then some sport training, the actual season being mainly trying to maintain the adaptations. Or arranging them between competitions like in grappling: adjusting sport training intensity to the weight training intensity in phases, only some sport technique work with plenty of weights in the beginning, almost no weights and all the actual grappling towards peaking for the competition. And how to fit them in a weekly schedule, you're bound to have double or triple training days like weights in the morning, technique during the day, grappling in the evening and you have to be able to perform adequately in all of them. Even more so choosing exercises for athletes in specific sports when you throw in the bin everything they don't need and try to pick the best beneficial exercises without having too much, but still keep some big bangs for the buck for huge general effect (like heavy squats for almost every single athlete, just range of motion changing).

[@jordanjacobs157]

Before watching, I recall a study by Schoenfeld. The findings were that variety was important for intrinsic motivation and enjoyment

[@KostendtO]

Delighted to catch the video soon after upload

[@cdrtej]

. . . A fleshy spirit?

[@kban77]

Excercise variety is a myth.

[@santicruz4012]

Just the psychological aspect is very real. Doing something diferent can be invigorating, thus increased effort, performance and therefore gains

[@KenanTurkiye]

When you've found the exercises that work for the areas you want to ''fill in'' variety is just a destruction or at best distraction to success.

[@mikecsapo9842]

Omar, There is no letter D in the word “important” so please quit mispronouncing that word.