Dr. Bret Contreras

That's 36 sets per week.

People would say that's overkill.

But I was learning from the strength coaches back then, and we were doing similar workouts to that three times a week.

All the popular strength coaches, they would do...

a a knee dominant movement and a hip dominant movement meaning a squat lunge variation and then a hinge variation and they people could recover from it well you i knew that the athletes could could do that three times a week they're recovering i'm like if the athletes can recover from it then if you add in a thrust bridge movement and an and an abduction movement it's not going to be too much more especially because we were doing abduction and and uh bridging movements in the warm-up

So kind of how I became popular, I invented the hip thrust.

I remember just going, these movements are awesome.

Why don't we load them up?

Why don't we make them harder?

Why are we doing them as glute activation in the warmup?

Why don't we do them as a resistance exercise?

I'm like, these guys are brilliant.

They're using bands and body weight stuff, but why are we doing wimpy movements?

Why don't we push the envelope on these?

Because I don't like doing high reps.

You don't either.

We hate high reps.

I want to do low reps.

I don't want to do...

20 reps.