How Important Is Failure & How Much Does Training Hard Matter? ft. Greg Nuckols

[@TheJeffNippardPodcast]

This officially marks the end of the "How Hard" miniseries! I hope you guys enjoyed all the conversations -- I know I enjoyed having them as this is one of my favourite topics when it comes to training at the moment. Up next I've got a GREAT episode with physical therapist Dr. Sam Spinelli on posture, pain and more, so stay tuned for that. Peace!

[@diegorecuay2852]

:o have you thought about interviewing one of the Barbell Medicine guys?

[@gregorydemarco2835]

Would love to see you do a review of Christian Thibadeau's "Neuro Typing System" or even get him on as an interview because that system using psychological/personality profiling to determine almost exactly what you and Greg were discussing...who responds to high intensity/low vol, low intensity/high vol or somewhere in the middle all based on your brain's chemistry of neutrotransmitters (ie the balance between dopamine, seratonin, GABA, etc)

[@rockyevans1584]

Hope that's the last time I hear both hard and mini in the same sentence this week! Love the content Mr Nipples!

[@ibmathshelp]

Gold nugget of info @ 35:10 -> 70% - 80% of max reps

[@jimcoady9981]

Was just watching a Jeff Nippard video when I got the alert for this one. It’s a good day.

[@loganjames4863]

Just wanted to say thanks for being one of the only fitness youtubers I know that is science based and yet still willing to adapt to new research and fitness strategies. I owe a ton of my gains to you thanks man.

[@rockyevans1584]

How can anyone be science based and not follow current research? Genuinely curious here

[@quarkraven]

I'm a beginner to intermediate "lifter" (using dumbbells, bands and calisthenics at home) and just learned about RPE from Jeff's videos. I find it *very* helpful! The "not for beginners" critique is imho shortsighted. Beginners have trouble with everything. They're beginners--that's the point of learning! To have a concept of a quasi objective parameter of effort to guide my training has been invaluable, and I'm "dialing" its accuracy with every workout. Thanks for introducing me to this fundamental and easily applied concept, Jeff!

[@cv0669]

thanks for this series Jeff, always enjoy hearing Greg discuss these topics as he has a scientific and practical perspective

[@rockyevans1584]

Gerg knucks is the best greg around town.

[@CrimsonStrider]

41:23 “There was a study by Ah Fuk” Ah, my favorite researcher.

[@net-zokhul2838]

Hi Greg 👋 Best man in the Game Always nice to see new content from both of you.

[@AdamMc192]

*Greg is the goat of training for strength and hypertrophy*

[@sabelch]

When I think of Greatest Of All Time I think of people who have been around the block a few times like Charles Poliquin or Dan John.

[@Tannhauser62]

@@sabelch That will be the same Charles Poliquin who gave us the very silly One Day Arm Cure and his bonkers Five Elements classification.

[@lordvoldemort917]

It's in February 😂. Jeff kept his word

[@michaelseander4452]

I think your questions are excellent and are what most people want to know. I’ve listened to a lot of interviewers and you seem to really get what people don’t get about what theses guys say. Which seem to say do what works best for you. No kidding. I’ve been training people for 43 plus years. Believe it or not I still have the majority of my clients. That being said if I listened and practiced of what most of these experts instructed I wouldn’t have any. I’d like to chat with you sometime. Keep up the great work Jeff.

[@scarfygreen2775]

Love the videos and podcasts man! Keep up the great work!

[@theovercomer2006]

My personal opinion is after people get their exercise technique down so they can lift safely. They should train to failure for a while, otherwise what use is rpe if they won't be able to gauge it properly.

[@donniethornberry8782]

Love these podcasts, keep ‘em coming!

[@aaronhope8366]

Listening to this makes me want to host an experiment to go after the roots of exercise design and how to find and change what the ideal answer is over time with periodic testing.

[@rockyevans1584]

Thats what every single lifter is doing. Dang dude, hilarious

[@jackc913]

Take a sip every time Jeff nods

[@rockyevans1584]

I see you dont just fail on the appropriate sets

[@alphaapex3663]

This Podcast fully supports HIT training unintentionally. Mike Mentzer had it right all along

[@Hedgeflexlfz]

Great conversation

[@santiagoaguirregaraypintos801]

I realized I could adapt to training to failure on a daily basis when I tried Greg’s RTF program hahaha

[@lufeacbo8]

👏 I would love to see you speak with Doug Mcguff and Lyle McDonald also. Thanks.

[@StephenMarkTurner]

Train right for your blood type ;-) Thanks for this series, Jeff.

[@KenanTurkiye]

21:21 so true.....btw thanl you for the shared knowledge & thoughts. 👍

[@KenanTurkiye]

SFR is a newly (properly) learnt aspect of training for me and I find it fundamentally vital for effficient high performance training programming and preventing injuries etc. I like what I'm learning and adopting.

[@rockyevans1584]

These guys are great. Your comment was as efficient as you spelled the word. Smdh

[@KenanTurkiye]

@@rockyevans1584 lol that's not misspelling but rather mistyping, there is a difference. Btw, I don't use the english language everyday, only on the internet and commenting from time to time. So it is a second language for me and I apoligize for any distress my typing skills may have caused you, I wouldn't want you to get a head concussion or cervical hernia from all that head shaking. English language has been around for about one thousand years, my main language has been around for at least ten thousand years, I would want to see you speak it. : ) Take care and best wishes.

[@rockyevans1584]

@@KenanTurkiyeno, we are using a medium that is just words, misspelled is perfectly appropriate. This explains your word salad, well done considering. So in your hurry to be offended you missed my point, i used your poor spelling to demonstrate the efficiency of your comment. Your language may be old, but we are using english here, one of my 3 languages. Cheers, and try to fix your hurt butt

[@KenanTurkiye]

@@rockyevans1584 You're going to break that neck lol. Don't backtrack, my 'misspelling' was not efficient with three 'f' in 'effficient'. I'm all relaxed and laughing at the matter just got concerned at how you swang that stiff neck of yours from side to side, not realy worth over a simple typing error, unless you are very unhappy with your life and are trying to satisfy a deep down emptiness and establishing a feeling of superficial worth. Take care dude, life is not that simple. ;)

[@MrGflan]

I have a really hard time with training to failure versus not. I feel like my last set I push until I can’t do one more rep. I would say this is failure for me. I feel like if I don’t do this on the last set, that I am not going to my full potential. Does anyone else find that on their last set they leave 2 reps in the tank and see more gains this way? Just curious some anecdotal experiences. Thanks!

[@watsonkushmaster3067]

its scary but actually also great that at the end of the day you know shit about what will work for you...you have to find out by working out and trying stuff... if dr mike tells you "best hypertrophy occurs with about 40%-85% of 1rm for 5-30 reps"...like thanks doc but what are you really saying is freaking large sum of options to go by haha...and one never knows until he tries for years and years

[@TRXSTA38]

... What he's saying is exactly that: there are a lot of options that can all work so don't feel pigeonholed. If you're looking to turn off your brain and be told exactly what to do, I can see why that wasn't helpful for you.

[@rockyevans1584]

Try doing sets of 30 to failure and youll see the options arent going to be as varied as it seems

[@IWantMyNameToBeSpaghetti]

No wonder Jeff has a jacked neck, all the nods really hit it hard 🤣

[@AdamIsMyNameO]

Anybody: anything Jeff: “mmhmm mmhmm mmhmm mmhmm..”

[@MrMitchSH]

Jeff, if I just want to train for overall health, what is the ideal way to do that. Should I stick around RPE7-8 for my lifts, which set/rep range etc

[@TRXSTA38]

If you're just training for health, then do literally whatever you want lol

[@makobe584]

Really enjoyed this one! Inter-individual variability isn't talked nearly enough about, not in training and also not in other fields.

[@chichoquesada]

Just a thought 💭, technique or strength... is it the same think?. Sometimes we need to stop because we can’t finish the rep with good technique sometimes we don’t have more strength to finish it. Or it doesn’t matter how your failure is?

[@rockyevans1584]

Get yourself together man. Form breakdown is a very individual thing, generally should be kept to a minimum and only on heavy sets that would merit them. If you dont have strength to finish the reps youre likely doing too much work to recover from and adapt to.

[@lukeharris2622]

✝️💪

[@michaelburt8890]

I think it really depends on rep range. Someone doing fewer reps going to rpe 10 is not the same as someone doing more reps going to rpe 10.

[@Jmack7861]

The smart Greg

[@its_james_fitness]

Jeff did you stop neck training? :(

[@outerspacing9207]

I have a pencil neck myself, tried training it a couple times but it never did anything.

[@georgephillips66]

@@outerspacing9207 I think it depends on how long you trained it for. Give it a couple of months to see a difference.

[@outerspacing9207]

@@georgephillips66 yea maybe I'll try again one day but idk kinda gave up.

[@TRXSTA38]

@@outerspacing9207 ... Well, you know, as long as tried "a couple times". As we know, that's all you typically need to see results.

[@outerspacing9207]

@@TRXSTA38 yea I trained it about half a year and got zero results. Maybe I'll try again one day but probably not . Won't grow it's okay.

[@sajadali1435]

You don't need an RPE, all you need is some weight and a kiwi

[@DJcs187]

Wouldn't it hurt volume on curls when I go to failure for every single set? I. E. I have 6 sets of curls on pull days, 2 different variantions. Going to failure on the first set will hurt volume on all subsequent sets, doing the same for the 2nd set will hurt the following ones even worse and so forth. Or is it more like "you can always do one more set and take all to failure", since curls don't cause much general fatigue so per session volume isn't really a concern?

[@georgephillips66]

I'm not 100 percent sure. I train curls in a similar way. When I used to do 3/4 sets of 10/12 I had a 1 minute rest period. But now I do 4 sets to failure, including dropsets, and I have a 2 minute rest period in between sets. So my volume is very similar if not the same for pretty much every set.

[@DJcs187]

@@georgephillips66 So you're not losing Reps?

[@kakauko6679]

too much "it depends" unfortunately

[@sambsialia]

I think it is disingenuous if you were to ask someone who uses PEDs on training hard. I will not mention names and I dont mean Knuckols, but I dont care if you have a Phd if are not natty.

[@TRXSTA38]

Go ahead and mention names. They wouldn't be offended. They don't care that you don't care. Only you think that's somehow an insult or moral judgment that they're using PEDs. Because you're being ignorant.