Dr. Layne Norton

And I think...

again, something I changed my mind on about 10 years ago, I was very big on like daily undulating periodization, which is basically like you're changing up your rep schemes, workout to workout, right?

Like maybe if you're doing squats, you might do like day one sets of 10, day two sets of seven, day three sets of four, you know, and by one, two, three, I mean, just your squat days.

And I thought,

that the research suggested that that was going to be better than just doing like straight sets or linear periodization.

And it turns out it doesn't seem like it really matters.

But what I will tell people is practically it might matter because people do well with variety.

I mean, you know this about dopamine and variety, right?

And if you get a new workout, you get excited about it, right?

Like, and I, it's funny as a scientist, I have a hard time getting myself placebo, which is actually really annoying because placebo is great.

Um,

But even now, whenever my coach sends a new training block, there's a little bit of like, you know, I get a little bit excited.

So I think variety is important because if you're just doing the same thing over and over, it's too easy to fall into.

Well, I do this weight for this many reps for this many sets and you stop progressively overloading.

Whereas when you change it up a little bit.

Now you have a little bit more motivation to kind of, you know, not settle into a normal routine, but that can go too far too.

I see people like change their workout up every single session.

And I'm like, you're not actually getting as many benefits as you could because you're not getting used to an exercise for a certain number of reps, which allows you to get stronger, more mechanical tension, probably grow more muscle over time.

So yeah,

When it comes to people who aren't going to compete in bodybuilding, aren't going to compete in powerlifting, mostly what I look at is like, hey, do you know if there's exercises that you really like and have access to?