Drew Baye is one of the top high intensity training experts. He’s also a prolific writer, researcher, an elite level personal trainer and the founder of Baye.com, the most popular high intensity training blog.
In this mini episode, we discuss the problems inherent within a lot of the current exercise science, which attempt to identify the optimal protocol for muscle hypertrophy, strength, etc.
Listen to my other interviews with Drew here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6.
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Drew is the best! 😀 Lawrence, as far as your podcast content is concerned, higher volume and frequency are the best way to go! More is better for Corporate Warrior production. Cheers!
Really enjoyed speaking with you Tuesday. Just read through book we discussed and I had forgotten how much of it applied to work environment productivity.
The problem with assessing the effect of TUL is that it is closely coupled with mechanical load or tension. If you use a (relatively) high load, the time to failure is short; use less load, you can exert tension for a longer time. But since load is such a potent stimulus, how can you separate the effect of time from load? You cannot have a very high load and a very high TUL at the same time (assuming a single set).
Wondering the same about comparing volume in sets/reps to TUL.
I would guess ‘effective tension over time’ is a better metric? At lower loads, the tension over time is more distributed. At high loads the tension over time is more condensed. But the sum at the point of MMF should be the same?
This metric can also include effective loading due to good form(making the exercise as difficult as possible).
But the fact remains that there is still a TUL/volume treshold imo, or an ‘effective tension over time’ threshold?
I’m not sure if I understand myself here haha.
Properly formatted and planned, these bitesized podcasts would be awesome. Great points made by Drew here.