Some Lessons I've Learned

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This Week’s Healthy Discussion

1. Some Lessons I’ve Learnt

   a. You don’t need a ton of volume to grow

   b. You should be resting 3-5 minutes between sets

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Some Lessons I’ve Learnt

Over the years of my lifting journey, there has been so many ideas that I’ve been wrong about or there was a better option for it.

Specifically with muscle building, we are continuously finding better solutions to optimize our muscle growth in the best way possible.

Two things that I’ve had to learn are:

A. You don’t need a ton of volume to grow

B. You should be resting 3-5 minutes between sets

You don’t need a ton of volume to grow

I have spoke about this many times.

You don’t need that much volume to grow in the best way possible. More does not equate to better when it comes to hypertrophy. The best thing you can do, is find the exact amount of sets you can recover from and stay within that range.

This is where it gets tricky, because people will say they can recover from 20 sets in one workout, but this can be disproven by checking to see if they are progressively overloading frequently.

When we have the right amount of volume, you will see that your strength will gradually get better over the weeks and you won’t hit a plateau.

Properly organized volume creates a situation where you should never plateau in your progress. If you need a deload, it’s possible you have poor programming.

You should be resting 3-5 minutes between sets

This took me forever to learn because I always felt bad for people needing the machine I was using.

However, it will make or break your progress.

When we head into the a set after taking the previous to failure, you will notice a big difference by waiting 1 minute, compared to 3-5 minutes.

This is because when we take a working set to failure or at least close to it, this causes fatigue.

This fatigue can effect the recruitment we need for the next set for it to be optimal for muscle growth.

Therefore, waiting 3-5 minutes is an ideal amount of time, depending on the intensity of the exercise, for being fully prepared for the next working set.

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