Straight sets vs. ramping sets for hypertrophy

[Big_paul]

215x8, 230x8, 245x8, 265x8 (65%, 70%, 75%, 80% of 1 rm)
or
245x8, 245x8, 245x8, 245x8 (75% of 1 rm across

Neither makes any sense. More research. The more you can lift the bigger you get.

If you can press 500, you look like you can press 500, with very few exceptions.

I did watch a guy walk into the gym one time 135x8, 225x8, 315x8, 405x8.

He didn't look that big to me. Prison is my best guess. Nothing better to do.

 

[Big_paul]

He wore street clothes. No one questioned him, and that was all he did. In and out in 15min.

 

[Soloshino]

If you can press 500, you look like you can press 500, with very few exceptions.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l84vmuuuHRg


Does he "look" like he can bench 410?

 

[Big_paul]

The man I saw that day looked alot like him. Big through the chest and tries.
I was astonished.

 

[Megadick3000]

The man I saw that day looked alot like him. Big through the chest and tries.
I was astonished.

This dudes ripped as fuck, not huge at all, but moves astonishing amounts of weight like i move a throw pillow.

 

[dumpmutt]

This dudes ripped as fuck, not huge at all, but moves astonishing amounts of weight like i move a throw pillow.

yeah there are tons of videos like on insta and yt this and they're fake. This guy has millions of views and is a prankster/comedian. You can clearly tell in many instances in the video the way the weight moves, how it responds when it hits the floor or the lack of tension/grip that it's fake. The reactions people have are really scripted. there's a huge industry around this in social media.

Another influencer who posts a lot of fake content is the little beast, a 4'10" 110 pound asian woman who claims to have a 200 pound bench, 300 pound squat and 400 pound deadlift. all for reps. If you watch closely you can see many of the movements look strange, her "PR attempts" look like warmups and the weights don't move like they would and not only that but she filters her face in all her videos and pics and photoshops her body. it's all fake. i know someone who randomly bumped into her at a hotel gym and she looked like a completely different person.