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Dr. Shoenfield is a professor at my college, I hope he's still teaching there by the time I enter my master's program. He's such a wealth of knowledge.
Love both of you! Been following you both for years. I will only push back on one concept here. That is that a “strength” workout focusing on the big compounds save time. If one is strong, the rest periods between sets is often quite long in order to hit your numbers. I can say that my squat, deadlift, bench, accessory row workouts take at least 90 minutes deep into the training block. Where as hypertrophy blocks I can grind out 22 sets in an hour easily in the 8-15 rep range.
Funny how Brad mentions the shifting of goals as i was just thinking about this recently. I started out just wanting to lean out and lose my beer belly but i thought that i needed to add weight lifting to my routine to get there which then shifted the goal to muscle building. :D
The cross-sectional area of a muscle is related to its strength. But so is neurological efficiency and other factors. So yes, you can get stronger without much size. You can also get bigger without gaining a significant amount of strength due to the build-up of fluids within the fibres. Only to a certain degree, though. Compare power lifters to bodybuilders. On average, power lifters are smaller but stronger. Training for strength with some hypertrophy is usually up to around 6 reps. Training for hypertrophy is 6 to 30 reps.
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Dr. Shoenfield is a professor at my college, I hope he's still teaching there by the time I enter my master's program. He's such a wealth of knowledge.
Love both of you! Been following you both for years.
I will only push back on one concept here. That is that a “strength” workout focusing on the big compounds save time. If one is strong, the rest periods between sets is often quite long in order to hit your numbers. I can say that my squat, deadlift, bench, accessory row workouts take at least 90 minutes deep into the training block. Where as hypertrophy blocks I can grind out 22 sets in an
hour easily in the 8-15 rep range.
Thx for the feedback! Fair point there.
Best Brad Shoenfeld interview I’ve seen thank you
I like how Dr. Schoenfeld qualifies some of his mechanistic explanations as "speculative"
What an excellent episode! In language I can understand. 🙏
I hope next episode will be discussed how to make workout routine based intensity, volume and frequency
Read his book! Covers all these
An excellent, very useful & informative discussion with one of the legends!
Glad you enjoyed!
Good pod.
Funny how Brad mentions the shifting of goals as i was just thinking about this recently. I started out just wanting to lean out and lose my beer belly but i thought that i needed to add weight lifting to my routine to get there which then shifted the goal to muscle building. :D
I always thought to get bigger muscles you had to get stronger in that muscle?
The cross-sectional area of a muscle is related to its strength. But so is neurological efficiency and other factors. So yes, you can get stronger without much size. You can also get bigger without gaining a significant amount of strength due to the build-up of fluids within the fibres. Only to a certain degree, though.
Compare power lifters to bodybuilders. On average, power lifters are smaller but stronger.
Training for strength with some hypertrophy is usually up to around 6 reps. Training for hypertrophy is 6 to 30 reps.
Brad talks about being able to gain just as much muscle size with reps as low as 3 close to failure as long as volume is equated doesn't he?
I think it’s a question of myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. That’s the model I believe is most accurate. And Brad is lost in the numbers.