Dr. Bret Contreras

For now, I'm going, okay, it makes sense to me now after studying biomechanics.

He used a lot of bands and chains.

That's a little bit easier in the stretch position, a little bit harder in the end range position.

He did one max, everybody's rotating the lifts every, you know, several weeks.

And so that's what I do.

But I don't, I'm not just preparing my clients for powerlifting.

I love the squat, the bench and the deadlift.

I also love the military press, the chin up and the hip thrust.

Those are my big six lifts.

But we also use leg press.

We use whatever machines, tools, whatever suits the clients well.

And I help my clients figure out what their favorite exercise are and they evolve over time.

Here are the tools, and we try to set PRs over time, but you switch it around.

Because what you talked about in a previous question, this old nautilus and hip philosophy was, you know, hit a muscle infrequently, hit it hard, recover, blast it, and try to get one more rep or go up five or ten pounds.

It sounds great in theory.

It just doesn't work out in real life.

That's the thing.

If you just repeat the same exercises, say you and I just said, look, let's, you know, say we worked out tomorrow together.

Let's set our baseline with deep squats and stiff leg deadlifts.

And whatever we hit, we hit.