Dr. Bret Contreras

Like what you just said, you don't even count it.

You don't even know how many reps you did, but you saw results this way.

So a lot of times people see results just from doing something different.

You and I talked about how when you were in your teens learning how to lift weights, you were influenced right away by Mike Mentzer.

So you right away learned how to get your all out of one hard set or like, you know, low volume, low volume training.

I was the opposite.

I learned from Arnold and Arnold and Mentzer were like opposing.

They actually didn't get along in real life.

So I read Arnold's encyclopedia and I'm like, I got to do all this volume.

So I did high volume training for eight years.

When I was like 24 years old, I started doing low volume training.

Once set to failure, it took me a while to get good at it.

I sucked at it initially.

And then you get really good at pushing one.

It's a skill.

You get so much better when you're only doing one set.

You get really good at getting your all out of that one set.

You mentioned that then you saw good results realizing I can benefit from more volume doing more sets.

Same with when you said I'm going to focus on making the last reps harder, not using momentum or body English to squeeze out a couple more to make it easier.

And you definitely see gains that way, but it's this concept where something that can get you gains, then it can limit you eventually because your focus is now on... So you're relying on your mind.