Dr. Layne Norton

There are people who put in so much fatigue that it's going to mask their results.

But for the most part, most people – there are so many people I see online who think they're overtraining and I'll look at their training and I'll be like –

No.

No.

You're not overtraining.

And if you are, you're not sleeping well or your nutrition is crap or something like that.

Okay, so this is where it's going to be a nice segue of us of talking about X's and O's versus practicality, right?

So I realized...

within a couple of years of coaching people that, Oh, the X's and O's aren't really what matters.

It's just getting people to do this consistently.

Right.

And so it took me longer to realize that for training, but it still applies.

And what I mean by that is when it comes to exercise selection, for example, if I was putting together a program for somebody and they weren't going to compete as a power lifter and they just wanted to grow some muscle, um,

I probably wouldn't program barbell squats only because it's a relatively high fatigue exercise compared to something like a hack squat, which is still a compound.

It requires less balance and learning.

And the research shows very clearly now that.

that machines produce as much hypertrophy as free weights.

We used to have this like feeling that, oh, no, you got to barbell squat and you got to do these big compounds.

That's what builds mass.

And we have the research to show that's not true.