Rep Ranges and Science

[blastncruiser]

I also do higher reps without any issues . I know guys benching way more than me yet I look better than them /am bigger than them lol.

I mean iv always lifted heavy but my new apartment has a gym so it's extremely convenient but the dumbbells only go to 65 pounds.
SSo it forced me to train lighter .
And I still am the same size if not a little bigger on a cruise dose . No need for me to go to a real gym if I'm maintaining fine on a cruise with my free apartment gym with lots of beautiful woman as eye candy on the treadmill facing me as I workout .

Maintaining fine with higher reps lighter weight on cruise dosage. (15-25 rep range )

I mean my gym has a barbell but I only do 225lbs for ,8-12 reps and 1 minute rest between sets followed by 20ish reps with 65lb dumbbell incline .. (used to do 115lb dumbbell each hand on include for 5-7 reps with few minutes rest between sets )

Plus I live in a luxury apartment so the woman already know if I'm working out there I'm not some broke gym rat working as a bouncer . I have my reasons but for purpose of this thread I won't get offtopic

 

[laclark89]

All is good, laclark89. Everybody is entitled to an opinion, including me and you, both.

Cool like wise, and like I said i respect your experience and opinion. And i apologize. I need too learn to chill and think more before I speak out of my ass. I blame the test an decca I’m on lol.

We do have more than 1 way to skin a cat so to speak, and I admit ur a better of a bb than me at least for the moment, and have More time to research than me, so I have to respect it, and appreciate the effort.

I just don’t care for nippard and Isratel personally, if anyone else does that’s cool go for it, they are much smarter and successful than me.

But honestly man to man, do u think nippard is not on atleast trt + that he will never admit too enlesss a clinic payed him to say it?

1 thing I like about Mike is he talks or admits gear use. That’s respectable for sure.

 

[laclark89]

I also do higher reps without any issues . I know guys benching way more than me yet I look better than them /am bigger than them lol.

I mean iv always lifted heavy but my new apartment has a gym so it's extremely convenient but the dumbbells only go to 65 pounds.
SSo it forced me to train lighter .
And I still am the same size if not a little bigger on a cruise dose . No need for me to go to a real gym if I'm maintaining fine on a cruise with my free apartment gym with lots of beautiful woman as eye candy on the treadmill facing me as I workout .

Maintaining fine with higher reps lighter weight on cruise dosage. (15-25 rep range )

I mean my gym has a barbell but I only do 225lbs for ,8-12 reps and 1 minute rest between sets followed by 20ish reps with 65lb dumbbell incline .. (used to do 115lb dumbbell each hand on include for 5-7 reps with few minutes rest between sets )

Plus I live in a luxury apartment so the woman already know if I'm working out there I'm not some broke gym rat working as a bouncer . I have my reasons but for purpose of this thread I won't get offtopic

Honestly the most I’ve ever done is 100 dumbells for 10. If your that fancy and luxurious they have magnets you can put on them to add a little weight.

The last thing that I go into a gym for is eye candy I get that at home. I like zero distractions.

 

[malfeasance]

Cool like wise, and like I said i respect your experience and opinion. And i apologize. I need too learn to chill and think more before I speak out of my ass. I blame the test an decca I’m on lol.

We do have more than 1 way to skin a cat so to speak, and I admit ur a better of a bb than me at least for the moment, and have More time to research than me, so I have to respect it, and appreciate the effort.

I just don’t care for nippard and Isratel personally, if anyone else does that’s cool go for it, they are much smarter and successful than me.

But honestly man to man, do u think nippard is not on atleast trt + that he will never admit too enlesss a clinic payed him to say it?

1 thing I like about Mike is he talks or admits gear use. That’s respectable for sure.

Just FYI, this is not about Mike Israetel, and Nippard appears nowhere in the video.

It is about the studies, and the guy talking has done some of the studies himself and published them and is discussing what the studies seem to show and even some deficiencies in the studies. He also talks about what researchers do not know yet because it has not been studied, as well as strengths and weaknesses of some of the studies.

This is not like one of Israetel's normal videos.

I am sorry that the YouTube personality, or social media personalities in general, got in the way of the information, but this one is well worth watching just to hear the researcher talking about what the studies show and do not show.

No, the researcher is not a bodybuilder.

OOPS. UPDATE. I take that back. I guess Brad Schoenfeld was a bodybuilder at one point in time in his life. Natural. That has nothing to do with whether his research is any good, however. He has a PhD and he concentrates on muscle building and fat loss research. His PhD is actually in muscle building, the focus of his dissertation.

Research Gate shows 428 publications by him.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brad-Schoenfeld

Maybe he is wrong. I don't know. But please don't refuse to hear him out just because he appears on Israetel's channel, and you hate Israetel. Mike Israetel is acting simply as an interviewer for this video. No 6th grade sexual innuendo joking or anything like that.

This is a chance to hear a guy who has hundreds of published papers on this subject discuss the research at length. Israetel does not talk much except to ask questions or prompt Schoenfeld to elaborate.

It is difficult to say he is wrong if you don't even know what he is saying . . .

 

[malfeasance]

It is interesting enough just to hear a guy who has devoted his life to studying muscle hypertrophy say that nothing about the studies "is unequivocal proof" of anything and those claiming so do not understand what they are reading.

 

[malfeasance]

"The subjects doing 25 to 35, half of them puked . . ." Well, there is a significant result.

 

[Liter O' Test]

I just dont think the muscle turns on as much with higher reps, like the muscle doesn't need to use all the fibers, the fibers don't need to be recruited.

 

[rokkrul3r]

I just dont think the muscle turns on as much with higher reps, like the muscle doesn't need to use all the fibers, the fibers don't need to be recruited.

high reps aka pump work is definitely a bias of enhanced people, according to Broderick Chavez it might be the best way to promote growth when you have an unnaturally high amount of androgens running through your bloodstream

since metabolic stress is not needed to promote hormone production simply increasing blood flow on the target muscles would be the more optimal choice

however Broderick also emphasizes that the microtear hypothesis might be bunk and mechanical tension on the fibers is what drives hypertrophy instead, giving a point to lower reps

in the end the optimal approach is just to work in all rep ranges, whether in the same workout or through periodization is a matter of preference

 

[egruberman]

I just dont think the muscle turns on as much with higher reps, like the muscle doesn't need to use all the fibers, the fibers don't ne

During higher rep sets, muscle fibers will fatigue, and as they do, more will be recruited. If the set is taken close to failure, the greater the likelihood that most of the muscle fibers have experienced tension.