Dr. Layne Norton

Is there anything that gives you pain?

Is there anything that you know motivates you more?

Like I know some people are like, I love high reps.

I love the pump.

I want to get – cool.

Let's do more high reps because again, when we look at –

equated sets in terms of proximity to failure, when they compare low load training, and I think even down to like 40% of a one rep max versus high load training, they don't see differences in hypertrophy.

Now I could make a devil's advocate argument that perhaps those studies, you know, cause a lot of these studies are eight to 10 weeks, maybe over time, somebody training with heavier loads might produce more hypertrophy cause they'll get stronger.

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And so maybe by getting stronger or mechanical tension, but you know, I can't really say that now based on the research, but even if it was a difference, it'd be pretty darn small, which for practically for most people out there, I tell them, you know, if you're just training hard, you're getting 95% of the way there.

And I use this example because people will all the time send me videos of IFBB pro bodybuilders training videos.

Look at how they're training.

This isn't science, but how can you explain this?

I'm like, yeah, but they trained really hard for 20 years, like every day, right?

And so that mass action is going to wash out a lot of these little differences.

And most of the people who worry about these little differences are never going to actually get to express them because they just don't train hard enough.

And one of my favorite quotes was actually –

Somebody said you can't out-science hard training.

You've got to do the work if you want to get the results.

Being strong is fun.