What Most People Get WRONG About Muscle Growth (VOLUME vs INTENSITY)

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“You can’t out-volume a lack of effort.” That’s a brilliant way to put it! Great content!

Damn good video, you really broke down the most important points 🔥🔥👍

I believe volume & intensity are equally important if both are used properly, as you did a great job explaining. It’s the level of Effort Intensity that matters most at moderate to higher volume to get the best results in muscle hypertrophy, which in simple terms means pushing to as close to failure as possible in the working sets. There’s definitely much more nuance here than just this single topic, and I’m glad you’re going to cover it further. Ironically I’ve been working on a video diving into the same exact topic for a while now, & I think our perspectives are very similar, but the way we explain it & our overall approach may have some interesting differences that will only help give further perspective on this very important topic. Great video Geoffrey! 💪

My legs grew from 4 sets of squats per week for a long while, just doing 1 set to absolute failure then doing 3 more sets with -1 -2 -3 reps each. Strength went from 115kg squat to 165kg in 2 months time. Good times but does come with pain and suffering 😂

You killed it with this one. Mike Isratel and team call this "junk volume"...essentially most of the fatigue for none of the progress. Knowing that so many people are in this territory (I certainly was), some things I can suggest to test this idea and move forward: - Take your last set to failure, to keep yourself honest about your RIR estimates, or at least to test the idea that you might be underestimating. - Don't even consider stopping a set until the weight slows down. Use the difference between that and the first point on bigger muscles to get a decent estimate of RIR. - Train your smaller muscles to failure as a starting point (e.g. biceps, triceps, delts, calves, forearms). You're not going to pay a high fatigue penalty for working small muscles hard. I'm 49, and fatigue is a significant limitation I have with training. It's helped a lot to think about training efficiently and effectively rather than training exhaustively.

Like Eric Helms says, it isn’t just about volume, it’s about VOLUME OF WHAT. If you do one set to failure you will stimulate some growth. If you do 30 sets nowhere near failure you stimulate no growth. So you need to make sure you are training to or near failure first, then you do as much as you can depending on your recovery.

Explains how I'm getting results despite never counting a single rep, I just do it until I'm close to failure, that's it.

Damn man, I'm currently reading "Hypertrophy" from Chris Beardsley, I have read the part on the 5 reps (on average) during which you recruit the high threshold motor units last Sunday so I was pretty sure by reading the title that it would be close to it. You did not disappoint !

Beard, gains, deep voice... Tren confirmed?

That was really good stuff. Great video. Thanks, man.

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This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much for making the video. Brilliant stuff.

Really great advice,sir!

Probably the best video i've ever seen on this topic!

I was the one who sent the DM, so glad you did a video, you are a real one brother. Keep up the great content. 🙏

good points, well made!

Great explanation, thanks 👍

Great vid man!!👌💪😎

This explains why so many people claim high volume is best, because they train with low effort and stop their sets when it starts to get hard. They get better results doing high volume because doing 20 half assed sets is better than doing 10 half assed sets. It’s a very inefficient way to train but you will get some results training really low effort for lots of sets.