Dr. Bret Contreras
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Podcast Appearances
But she quickly got to where she could do it 50 reps.
So I had to buy a 203-pound kettlebell.
It looked like a cannonball because I didn't want to have a barbell in place.
No, I know.
And I look back because you still see the video on YouTube.
It's hilarious because the bench was against my TV stand.
And I had travertine tile.
And I'd pick up this Easy Bar and sit in their laps.
And they do hip thrusts.
You see in some of the videos like this red envelope, like the Netflix, back when we used to order Netflix DVDs, that's how long ago this was.
But if they were to drop the weight or their feet slid out, I would have cracked my tile.
But anyway, I saw great results just having minimal equipment.
But she could gain a lot of strength, but she did best with single sets.
And there's one study I remember on the ACE gene, the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene.
I don't know what the hell that has to do with strength and volume, but there were different alleles.
This is not my field, but different...
different phenotypes or whatever.
This was years ago when I read the study, but it seemed that some people do better with lower body doing single sets versus multiple sets.
Interesting.
And that study was like 12.