Peter Attia

Once we start thinking about muscular endurance, we start thinking about north of 15, right?

Those are the general patterns of resistance training.

Okay.

Lower weight.

Yep.

Okay.

So again, we could go into much more detail around that, but just to finish the point here, why do I not do much training at one to five reps?

In fact, these days I don't do any training at one to five reps anymore.

Why?

Because to train at one to five reps comes at a risk.

Okay.

Especially for heavy compound movements.

So like...

I'm OK getting a little bit less of a strength benefit while still, of course, getting stronger, but training at a higher rep load.

So I'm targeting 8 to 12 reps with 1 to 2 reps in reserve is basically how I'm doing my resistance training.

That means every set I'm doing, I would expect to get to within about one rep of failure somewhere.

So today when I lifted, I don't think I did less than seven.

I didn't do more than 12.

And the weight was always titrated so that I was either failing, almost failing, or one rep away from failing somewhere in there.

And I was adjusting the weight constantly on every exercise to get there with the exception of one exercise.