Dr. Andrew Huberman

And really you're hitting each muscle directly once per week, very intensely.

both with mental focus and with physical intensity, obviously.

And then you leave it alone and you try and get stronger every single workout.

That was kind of the idea.

Nowadays, I'm hearing a lot more about the kinds of things you're describing, like training each muscle group two or three times per week, dividing upper and lower body.

So not dividing the body up as finely into like chest and back one day, shoulders and arms another day, legs another day and so forth.

And doing a lot more volume but maybe not going to failure and certainly changing exercises each workout.

So these two things, obviously they both can work.

I think we were talking about this yesterday.

They both can work but –

There was this additional kind of element to it that I want to frame up here, which was the idea from Mike Menser and Arthur Jones and all the Nautilus folks that really believed in these really brief, super high-intensity, infrequent workouts was one that I do think is true, at least in my experience, which is as you gain more experience with resistance training –

you are able to generate more directed intensity.

Not like coming into the gym with more energy, but being able to really focus your mind and energy on, let's just say like a pull-up.

Rather than just trying to get one's chin over the bar, which is what we do early on when we're trying to get pull-ups and then just count pull-ups, you drag yourself slowly out of the bottom position, paying attention to really using your lats and not using the biceps.

So like

focusing on elbowing someone behind you, you get to the top, you try and bring the bar to your chest or even lower to like the, you know, for lack of a better way to put it, to the nipples, and then really squeezing the lats and then lowering yourself slowly.

This is very different than trying to rep out chin-ups.

And the idea always was that doing things in a more focused way comes with experience, that the beginner can't generate that kind of intensity.

They don't know how to do the movements, which led me at least to believe that

at the beginning when somebody's in their, say, first four to six months of training, that a bit more volume is necessary in order to really learn how to do the movements properly, really develop the mind-muscle connection, really understand how to train without getting hurt, and really learn what that MRV, we didn't know that concept back then, but really learn, you know, okay, I can train my legs twice per week, it's fine.