Brady Holmer

So yeah, mindset is definitely important in structuring your training.

Some single joint exercises.

I think, yeah, bicep curls, tricep extensions, leg extensions.

Yeah, that's all those.

Yeah.

All those things.

Anything where you're just doing a single joint kind of explains itself.

Dr. Schoenfeld, I think that was one of the main things he stressed with strength training was there might be that temptation to, you know, rest maybe one to two minutes or like really cut the rest interval just to get to the next set.

Because it does, you know, it does make the exercise, quote unquote, harder because, you know, you're reducing your rest period.

And like you said, if you're in a decent, you know, you have a decent level of aerobic fitness, I think that your heart rate will come down quickly after performing that exercise.

So

maybe even, you know, psychologically, cardiovascularly, you might feel like, oh, I'm ready to do the next set, but your body literally needs time to replenish the phosphocreatine stores in order to produce, you know, the ATP to do that next set.

Your nervous system needs time to rest.

And so that's why, you know, Dr. Schoenfeld recommended

rest up to anywhere from two to five minutes, again, based on how much weight you're lifting.

You know, if you're doing failure on each set, you might need to do longer.

If you're doing one to three reps in reserve, you might need to take a little bit shorter rest.

But two to three minutes is probably the minimum, anywhere up to five.

And he really emphasized, just don't rush the rest period, especially when training for strength, because your goal on each of those sets is to lift the maximum amount of weight that you can.

You don't want to, it's not just about fatiguing the muscle, it's