Slow Reps vs. Fast Reps & When To Add Sets for Hypertrophy

[@tntcheats]

I always love hearing Brian's way of unpacking stuff. I'm glad to have more videos on this channel where he's given the platform to share his take on things in a long form. When other people unpack their thinking (especially with research inferences), he lays the assumptions (which are often not emphasized enough) bare with common-sense questions and observations in a way that really shows the intellectual honesty of the people he works with-they don't feel undermined and embarrassed or go on the defensive.

[@TypicallyUniqueOfficial]

Would yall be willing to make a video of performance drop offs set to set, and potentially using that as a gauge for how much work you could/should perform in a session? It’s something I’ve always found interesting and there are also differences I’ve noticed from person to person. I know how someone trains can impact how much rep drop off you see from set to set, but it also seems highly individual in terms of genetics. Women I’ve trained don’t tend to lose many reps from set to set even when training 0-1 RIR, meanwhile some men could see anywhere from a drop off in 1-5 reps after a set to failure. Would it make more sense for the person losing more reps to perform less work, whereas someone whose performance remains more steady set to set able to do more work since their level of fatigue being displayed being lower. It’s something Charles Poliquin talked about a lot, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

[@BarbellsandBBQ]

Absolutely. The extra sets just cause more fatigue to have to recover from.

[@bobjenkins4925]

I'm certain that sets which cause more performance drop off also cause more overall stimulus. Sorry to be great to get some research on board to quantify that

[@TypicallyUniqueOfficial]

@@bobjenkins4925 this is what I’m thinking as well. Fatigue is measurable in performance. If so, why don’t people just use rep drop offs?

[@yaboiij6694]

For mechanical tension to be effective, the concentric rep speed must become involuntarily slower despite high effort.

[@Nepplol]

Unrelated topic but I'd like a podcast about the "optimized" first 3-5 years for a total newbie to weight training with a goal toward competitive bodybuilding. And for Eric I was wondering why we never speak about microbiome study and its impact on nutrients assimilation.

[@stejeranis]

It's a bit annoying. Why you are calling Minimum Effective Dose when the actual definition is Minimum Effective Volume? We all know that Mike Israetel came up with the MEV definition, what not give credit for that? It feels like you are bit jealous.

[@RehanShaikh..]

If you listen closely, Brian is referring to minimum effective volume as "dose" because its literally the same thing- someone might do a set of 5 super slow with the same motor unit recruitment as a 15 rep set on the same exercise. If this person sufficiently fatigues at the exercise, they will likely have the same "stimulus" for adaptation regardless of the volume.

[@BaldOmniMan]

I highly doubt their intentions were to step on Mike’s toes - furthermore he didn’t exactly come up with the idea of minimum effective dose. I have heard people call that same thing a million other names.

[@mattheweley]

Weird tribalist comment that totally misses the point

[@stejeranis]

I agree with everything they are saying - and I am a big fan of 3DMJ. I just don't understand why Brian has to clone the definition, that's all, no hard feelings.

[@bojanrajacic5045]

MEV, MRV and MAV are very cool concepts made popular by our favorite doctor, but it's very useless in real life