Dr. Bret Contreras
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When I train people in real life, it's typically two sets.
But it's... And I would say most of the world does four sets.
You know, like most people just generically do four sets per...
per exercise.
It's just kind of what... And most people do bro splits.
They do body part splits.
What most of the world does isn't always what's best.
And there's nothing wrong with doing four sets.
It's just that people aren't focused.
They just kind of go through the motions.
You'll say...
you know, hey, Andrew, what's your workout?
And if you go, well, I do, you know, bench press, I do 135 for 15 and then I do 185 for 12 and then I do 205 for eight and then 225 for five.
Well, that's what you do every week.
Then why would you grow?
Why would you adapt?
Why would you see results from that?
So a lot of people just go through the motions.
When you have a plan and you're utilizing progressive overload,
So we can talk about volume, frequency, all these things.