Hey Matt, Is Grease The Groove Effective For Building Muscle?

[@mickeybrown9052]

I'm and old dude. "Grease the Groove" has helped me prevent injuries.

[@chrislots]

The best health and fitness channel on KZbin.

[@residentgeardo]

Certainly one of the more underrated ones compared to some other channels.

[@glensmith5721]

You grease the groove so you become proficient and safe with your technique. Once you have the technique down pat you can add more resistance witch will improve strength and lead to hypertrophy.

[@michaelblacktree]

^This

[@jamesmapletoft4541]

In the military, doing pull ups ad hoc during the day is how you get to the standard. So “grease is the groove” does actually work in that instance.

[@acemusic4105]

GTG is also good specifically for calisthenics bc bodyweight recovery seems to happen at a different pace sometimes. So now you can basically 1RM or 2RM a challenging movement and recover quickly enough to work at it again later. If you try to factor a highly taxing movement into a full workout, you get one or two good useful reps then the rest is junk unless you regress form intentionally. GTG is great for building proficiency w the nervous system regarding technique, like you said. I would add that, in turn, you can generate a higher quality nerve signal to the muscle during hypertrophy related work.

[@arozentz]

Thank you for answering this. Was very interested about GTG -muscle relation too. Thanks

[@coleheketoa]

I've used GTG. Its effective if you do it as described. I use it consistently for learning new movements.

[@djpuplex]

Progression that builds muscle.

[@robertledentu5432]

Currently doing hard progressions of Calisthenics via Veterano (as Easy Strength). 2x5 & 3x3 & 2-3-5 with the idea of going higher sets via Grease the Groove with the same of different hard progressions.

[@Gigusx]

I was wondering about how well GTG works on building strength instead. Many people say it's increased their strength, but in my experience with pushups, it brought my ability to do them to a normal distribution curve in a way. In other words I'll nearly always hit the average number I can hit and rarely be able to do more than that but also rarely have an "off day" where I can't really do many pushups. But, it hasn't really increased the total number of pushups I can do (consistently) if that makes sense.

[@johnobrien6869]

I think many misunderstand the concept...repetition builds skill...nothing to do with hypertrophy. Use as light a load as possible to "wire in" movement pattern "x" over time. Not only does repetition wire skills in neurologically it trains the joints and ligaments and all the connective tissues involved in a particular movement pattern. Hypertrophy progressions start after that. Just my view/opinion -still learning @ 65 😃

[@residentgeardo]

I guess the lady in the background at 0:17 is greasing the groove as well 😅

[@Kunreal89]

I am doing GTG right now, because I want to break 20 Pull Ups and training progressivley I've reached a plateau at about 14. But I'm also wondering if I will keep the to ability to do 20 Pull ups when I return to normal training after that. And of course how it will impact my strengthlevel. Anyone got experience?