Dr. Layne Norton

We have the practical examples to show it's not true because Phil Heath won seven Olympias and I don't think I've ever seen the guy touch a free weight barbell.

I'm sure he has.

But for the most part, he trained with machines and built one of the greatest physiques of all time.

And people might say, well, those guys are on drugs.

Yeah, but all of them are on drugs.

So if we see similar results with different training styles, I mean, those sorts of things are equal, right?

And so the research supports that.

So, but here's where practical segues with that.

So I trained very heavy with free weight movements.

And for me, it was the best exercises for growing muscle.

And here's why.

Cause that other shit was boring to me.

Like high reps with isolation stuff, put me to sleep.

But you load up a free weight barbell back squat.

Now all of a sudden I'm hyped up.

I'm excited.

I'm going to work harder at it.

I'm going to be consistent at it.

And so for me, even though training like a power lifter is not maybe how you draw up on paper somebody to be best for hypertrophy, for me it was because it got me excited about training legs two, three times a week to get in all that volume I needed to actually build that muscle.

And I had a client one time who loved CrossFit.