Dr. Bret Contreras

You're stronger when you do touch and go compared to reset reps.

I remember my client Ashley Hodge hits 315 for 18 reps.

And like Dominique gets it 315 for 11 reps.

And it's the environment's crazy.

We have their PR song going on.

You know, what song do you want to hear?

It's, you know, blaring it at max volume.

And you have 10, 20 of your lifting partners, your colleagues around going, come on, you got it, come on.

The videos back then were crazy.

And they're hitting these crazy PRs.

And then they say to me, coach, I don't know.

Cool, I set a deadlift PR, a touch and go PR, and then I'm sore for my next week and a half is shot.

It can take, when you're really training that kind of psychological arousal, when you're training that hard and doing like some lifts, like that hack squat you have at your place, it's more horizontal.

You can keep going with it.

If I'm there going, come on, Andrew, you got this.

Keep going.

You get in some zone.

There's some lifts where you can just keep going.

And then it annihilates you so bad your knees are sore for a week.

So we kind of realized then we're not going to train with that.