David is a loser and this guy in video is real. See the difference? One says nonsense the other clear educated conclusions. David goggins is seriously over rated and will most likely pass away early due to the stress he puts on his body
The science/biology behind his words is that there are two types of muscle fibers, Fast twitch and slow twitch, fast twitch generate stronger and more rapid contractions than the slow twitch, but they get tired quickly because they use anaerobic respiration which releases lactic acid. These fast twitch muscles are generally more common in the upper body, and they’re used for short but heavy exercises, like lifting a heavy dumbbell for example. Slow twitch on the other hand contract slower and weaker but they can work for way longer and take much longer to fail because they use aerobic respiration, which produces more energy and uses more oxygen than the anaerobic. This makes slow twitch better for longer exercises like walking or jogging if ure on the treadmill, or generally any exercise where you’re doing lots of repetitions. Slow twitch muscle fibers are found more in the lower body.. If you came this far thanks for reading😄
@mamugangat8667 an average person's lower body muscles have an even proportion of type 1 and type 2 muscle fibres, sprinters have a greater number of type 2 muscle fibres in the quadriceps than type 1.
There has been recent evidence to support within the same types of muscle fibers, fast/intermediate/slow that certain muscle groups are more responsive to different levels of volume and frequency. Especially larger muscle groups legs back etc. While smaller groups can't take as much systematic fatigue. Calves and forearms also seem to an exception here. But really WTF knows 100 different studies have slightly different result.
In my 30 years of weight training I’ve come across this man for the first time what he’s saying makes sense and I’ve done high reps for legs and the results are great.
Yeah my legs are legitimately shocking, I'm not trying to brag my legs are amongst the most impressive anyone will see. Now I attribute most of this to genetics - bc I don't do leg days. Maybe 1 good leg day a month. My legs are almost all built by me bouncing around in martial arts and fighting and doing footwork drills.
I took his advice and tried high rep on all aspects of my leg routine, once I hit failure I switched to negatives. I had to *CRAWL* to my fucking car afterwards.
@@tonygarciAtla51 🙄 more ignorance again, the approach he's describing is literally key to what Bulgarian power lifters use as a routine. It's still high weight high intensity it just includes longer rest periods. Ask Any powerlifter? What like the one who goes to your gym.
@@tonygarciAtla51 🙄 English classes are very cheap and you clearly need one. This program works perfectly all around hence my point about Bulgarian lifters using it for strength but merely increasing rest times. Let me know if you wanna switch tongues?
Last week I decided to change it up. Lower the weight and rep it out. 5 sets 20 reps 135lbs. I was absolutely crippled 2 days later 😂 can't wait to do it again Friday 😅
Perhaps your form and rep quality was bad when lifting heavy? What "going light" does for people is allow them to do their reps right instead of having to cheat their heavy reps.
One thing about your body.......and that is, it will never hurt when you are working it out. Even when you're doing whatever intense choice workout, as that is its food. No different than when one eats to fuel their body. I never understood why people would put themselves through pain with the belief that they're benefitting in the long run. Being youthful, structured and well defined with healthy muscles, really just require discipline. As your body is pretty much developing as you age. Most folk don't see their errors or hype that they've subscribed to, until they're older and can't change what they've already done for decades. You really have to know your body and *fully understand what it is capable of and needs. In return, responsibly using the tools that you've been given to care for it.
High rep leg workouts will give you soreness like you've never experienced. I once did 200 bodyweight squats in one set and could barely walk for 5 days
Taekwondo practicioner here. It is true that by decreasing the weight and increasing repitition will improve endurance (Same as just by doing bodyweight). The main goal of that is to not build muscles but rather be more functional to not be tired easily fast and do difficult tasks continuosly for a long record of time. For real life application; if you train with this method consistently, you'd be able to climb the stairs 5 stories on a normal speed walk without getting tired. Compared to your before if you tire out after climbing just 2 stories on the same speed walk
@@adamwarlock5286 Oh It doesn't 😅. I just said I was, because it makes more sense for me to know these things since I studied and put these principles into my taekwondo practice. To mention; at the end of my workout, I pump out as many normal speed squats as I can without rest, I don't count them but until I cry and my legs give out. It works out my endurance that way, allowing me to push time longer from physical stress. If I were to count my repetition, last time I did was 43 and my legs literally felt like a burning sting all over. The reason why that's the only amount of rep I can push is because I already finished speed, plyometrics, strength and muscle building training for legs beforehand 😅 then endurance training is my last workout.
To add to this, this works for any part of the body, its just most people do workouts in ways for the arms so differently and focus on the big muscle groups instead of strengthening muscles that are not as noticeable (big arms focus over functional strength all around leads to imbalance of muscles within the arm itself, which is why people get tendon problems so much because they got weak tendons under extra stress due to larger muscles putting to much strain on them because the smaller muscles that connect to a lot of the tendons and connective tissue are weaker, think tug of rope.) Don’t overtrain it but doing high reps on arms is very doable (50lb curls per arm vs 70 at increased reps of 20-30 per arm.)
Been in the 1000lb club for over 10years consistently. Not a ifbb pro or anything but I'm above average fit. Blacking our while lifting has nothing to do with cardio. Your either not breathing during strenuous reps, poorly hydrated, blood sugar problems or blood pressure problems. All u guys taking pre workouts, N.O., and caffeine; ur blood vessels get stretched too far over time and u likely have low blood pressure problems.
😱 Amazing. I was just starting to do this with leg days. Not at 100 reps but just higher reps, less weight. Big difference. Feel 10x better. Thought i was the only one.
I worked with a 60+ yr old psychiatrist who hiked 20 mile on weekends and did hundreds of weightless calve raises. He had massive calves. Crazy old man strength
I did heavy (for me) squats for the first 4-5 years of my lifting life. Then I developed chronic back pain and learned I had scoliosis. So I replaced heavy squats with Goblet squats done in HIIT fashion. 10 Sets of 15-20 reps, 60 seconds rest. My legs exploded, grew so much bigger in the 3 months I did that, than the whole 4-5 years of heavy squats.
He’s right. We use our legs to carry our bodies around all day everyday. It’s amazing what the body can become when you think outside the possibilities of Normal
@@runriki2009 Yes, but only for legs/lower body. We walk all day. Leg muscles are different. Stick to moee weight less reps on arms/chest/shoulders ect....
yeah so lets say leg day, i was doing mid weight for 15 reps 3 sets, saw some growth but once i switched to a bit lighter for 60 reps for 2 sets my legs exploded then for arms id do mid/heavy 5/10 reps for 3 sets my arms really started to grow
Great interview, I’ve been looking into starting a small homestead myself. Trying to get away from big corp. supermarkets and box stores. I resonate with everything this man said.
As a Powerlifter I would do this. I would work in the 3-5 rep range until I got to a sticking point where I couldn't progress any further at a rate of 5 lb every week and then I would drop the weight and do super high repetitions for a few weeks and then come back and I'd be able to break through my former plateaus...something akin to 9 weeks of linear progression with sets of 3×5 adding 5 lbs. each workout or so, followed by 4 weeks of high reps at a 10-20% weight reduction, increasing reps each week from 4×20 to 3×30 to 2×40 to 1×50, them rinse & repeat, it works wonders and is easier on your back, knees & hips.
This sounds really good, but could you break it down a little for me please? I heard the 3-5 rep thing was really good for building muscle, but I don't get what you're saying. First you say you do 3-5 reps, then why do you change from that to 15 -20reps etc? What does your plan look like daynto day week to week?😊
@@lauraashley1 it's cyclical, I do 3-5 rep range for 9 weeks, then slightly less weight at 20-50 reps for 4 weeks, then back to the 3-5 rep linear progression...9 weeks→4 weeks back & forth over & over...the high-rep range to near-failure stimulates a lot of growth that I then build upon for the next 9 weeks.
Ahhh that's simple. You just done neural reloading. Try every 7-8 months doing upper body 20 ties lower 50 ties.for four weeks. Then go back heavy. It will take 7-10 days and you will be able to go higher 2.5- 5 % than eve. Never seen anyone who didn't have this change occurring.
He is so damn right, i played soccer for almost 15 years and my legs grown so good. Now i train once or twice a month with high volume and they still growing
Idk why I've always felt this. I recently started going to the gym again and doing 4 sets of 25 increasing weight till failure my legs are getting massive also been going on a 1hr hike in the mountains 3 times a week. What used to be a struggle 2 months ago is effortless now
@@dominicpfaffenberger1420 each exercise of 4 sets + high reps. My current calisthenics leg workout: •Pistol squats •Nordic curls •Sissy squats •Hamstring curls on rings •Reverse Nordic curls •Hip trusts with one leg on rings •Lunges or jumping squats or very high rep bodyweight squats or hill sprints ( depends on what i prefer doing that day)
This shit, my legs blew up more doing bodyweight squats than anything else. 1 set to failure until I built up to 500. Eventually that got easy and I changed to pistol squats and got up to 42 per leg. Got married, had kids, got fat, but recently started working out again and am back to 130 reps after only a few workouts. Nice to be back on this road.
I remember back 12 years ago i got upto 1000 bodyweight squats and ended up in hospital with Rhabdo.. I was so ill it was crazy! the pain in my legs didnt leave for like 2 weeks.
Learned to do this in 1987 with my strength coach in college and he told our football team to train like this and he did. Thank you Steve M👍🏾 Still doing this today!!!
He is right, I recently started doing a single set around 18-20 is when I reach failure. My legs are getting ripped, my original 5x8 I did for 6 months was not doing anything even when I increase weight
I was doing 5×5+1 for legs for a couple months and switched to higher volume for legs 1 month ago and I'm noticing the difference big time. High volume for legs works 💪. Does for me.
It’s common sense really. You think low reps low volume will do anything to a muscle group that was designed for you to constantly use ALL DAY LONG? (You can literally stand up all day and work, construction workers do it, tradesmen do it, etc) so just by knowing that, you must do high volume to challenge the muscle to improve. The upper body muscles are used much less which is why 6-8 reps higher weight and a few sets will challenge those muscle groups.
You really have to know your body and what it wants, needs and can do effortlessly. Minus the need to experience pain and fatigue. You pretty much put yourself in a vulnerable position where your legs or where ever you over did, can't perform if you need it to.
I'm not a native speaker so I might be off but I think he has a Mid-Atlantic accent, which was popular until the 1950s. You don't hear people talk like that anymore because it was an artificially created accent used as a status symbol - you had to be taught to use it.
@@IordanIovkov His pronunciation of r and t are very American which if he was speaking with a mid Atlantic accent would be the main difference. .A mid Atlantic accent would sound almost like a well spoken English person but not as posh as King Charles though.
I've always done lighter weight high reps & it's served me incredibly well. It also throws people off when they talk shyt before you pickup the real weight. Light weight produces good form, good form produces proper strength & growth. If you can do 100 reps with 100% proper form, you can do atleast or almost half that with 2 to 3 times that weight.
Tell you right now you're always need to start off with a really lower weight and stretch your muscles in your ligaments because if you don't you're really going to miss so much more potential that your muscles can really have
@@conflict7269 Yea its definitely good to start off with light weight for warming up & stretching. Most people just don't realize & underestimate the power of light weight high reps. Slowly upping the weight in order to get that flawless form & strength is the way to go compared to just quickly upping the weight once u can do 10 to 12 iffy reps. Atleast for me personally.. It's all around ideal cuz it's more cardio based so you get stamina, muscle mass, proper form, real strength & it's very sleeper build depending on how high up on the weight scale you go.
@@WillHurtUrFeelingz you are absolutely right I think because when I was younger I was one of those powerlifter want to be guys that would go in and just start cranking on the heaviest weight I could get up yeah sure I build up a lot of strength and mass but man the injuries from that are bad I just feel like you're more prone to those type of injuries like tendons and stuff in your back and things like that
@@conflict7269 More prone to injuries & problems after a while of powerlifting with incorrect form/knowledge, most definitely. Powerlifters that do it with proper form are more prone to it injuries, it happens all the time to even the greats. I was that kid too for a couple yrs i started lifting around 11 or 12 & I eventually started hangin around bodybuilders powerlifters & all sorts of different fitness heads. I kept an open mind & took in a lot of info/advice & done tons of research & it's been incredibly helpful. Because I kept an open mind, I'm smaller than a large portion of people but I'm much stronger than that large portion & have always been stronger. It's never a dull moment when someone sees a 6ft tall "skinny" dude rollup to ridiculously heavy weight & lift it like it's a few feathers. People always judge a book by its cover not realizing what's inside that book.
This is how you sculpt your leg muscles like greek statues. I remember I used to do the day of one-thousand squats every week, then moved onto leg-pressing 1050 lbs 8+ reps for 4-6 sets, then back to running 5k and 10k's... Our legs our straight machines, it's a matter of overcoming the pain
And he is massive and super strong, but he has been doing boxing for over 4 decades, so the neurons connection to the muscle are like 10 times more efficient that a regular guy
He makes so much sense! We don’t walk on hands but we do thousands of steps every single day for thousands of days. The picture of me you see was taken 8 years ago when I weighed 240 lbs at 5’8” and now I’m 175, and I started not even with workouts but with walking 10,000 steps a day and when I lost 65 pounds I noticed that my legs were already bulky. Now I only train legs once a week, 3-4 sets of zercher squats and 3-4 sets of Romanians and that’s enough to keep them big😂 so, a cheat code to bulky legs is to get morbidly obese, live like that for at least 5-6 years and then lose weight 😂😂😂
I've been gaining weight for 2 Years I grew from 49 kg to 85 which is massive cause I could never gain weight, the irony? I'm killing myself with all the cardio this that blah blah in hope of loosing excess fat
@@the1stime it depends on your appetite I guess, I ate a lot of food that contained carbohydrates and starch plus food that contained fat. You can try adding butter or cheese or any food that has huge amount of fat to your diet
@@AirdropKenyanese if you mean it then you can start by being lazy AF just eat sleep repeat it's unhealthy but it sure get you fat Oh and don't skip out food that contains fat, try food that contains oil especially meat that has fat on it, if you're vegan I can't help you much.
Doing one set per exercise in a controlled motion until failure has been easily the best gains ive ever had in my life in such a short amount of time. Keep in mind im doing a fullbody routine working top to bottom. 2-3 exercises per bodypart and 48 hours of rest in-between each workout. This stuff is no joke.
This sounds like a plan, would you please elaborate further? I think I will try it for the next 2 months and see how it turns out. Like one set with a weight that results in how many reps for upper and lower body, etc...
Would you please elaborate further, I am really tempted to try this routine for the next 2 months. For example, how much weight per set for how many reps? Like a weight I can do 10 reps with until failure or 20 or different from a muscle group to a muscle group, etc... 2nd time I am posting the comment as after posting it the first time I didn't find it
My teardrop on my legs would never become sore. I would fatigue the muscles using squats, leg extensions, and lunges. Only the outside of my lower thigh and the part of my thigh closest to my groin would become sore. I finally followed this advice and decided to do the 45 lb bar 100 times. My God! Every fiber of my thighs was sore like no other ever. I was sore for 5 days.
I can tell you right now I do low weight high reps on legs and I’ve noticed massive gains, I have hip problems so I had no choice to drop the weight, so I’m happy seeing this video 😊
I started doing the 15 sec holds instead of reps for arms and chest as I heard him say in another video and honestly the difference in growth is huge to such a extent I had some one at the gym ask me point blank if I was on steroids with how I started blowing up within a 1 month period.
@@gstroyce hold the weight in the middle portion actually of the rep where the chest is actually being engaged. I tried holding it at the top and it felt like I was working more my arms and shoulder than chest but ones I held the weight mid rep my chest was on fire. I do about 5 reps of 15 sec holds and feel like I did 3 sets instead of 1 set of bench.
This made me sad. As a guy, I can't even imagine the ache he will feel after he gets to know this, and if he can recover from this and move on. People say express your feelings, so that you don't regret later, but if things like this happen, I wonder how much a human heart can take. Stay strong King. Hope you live.
Yes, I started lifting at 17 and did many squats in the first two years. Its amazing when your legs adapt to do 5x50 squats sets with a weight on your shoulders
I’m no body builder but I remember when I was hitting the gym often and decided to do this method. My legs would get pumped way faster with higher reps
Makes sense. We are built to walk and run for a long time. I have noticed also that higher weight less reps for legs I never feel as sore. Even if I use alot more weight than normal. But if I use less weight and do a longer workout or more reps and sets than I feel way more sore the next day. I think a mix of both is the way to go though. I usually do lots of reps with lower weights and than at the end of my workout I increase the weight as much as I can do and go until absolute failure.
The key here is what is meant for productive, this would be good for getting big legs, size only, not ideal for strength and maybe would help endurance but you’re more likely to develop a pain in your legs like knee pain or ITB syndrome that will hinder everything all together
That's why he said to work up to it until you're doing 50 each leg or 100 total on both legs. Think, alternate, breathe, take short, and I do mean short breaks. Don't hurt yourself but he's simply using big numbers to get his point across that you need a LOT of repetitions
He's right. I've worked up to 60 reps with a 70lb kettlebell absolutely none stop and the increases in size, endurance and cardio has just been incredible.
If you do barbell squat to failure 10 reps. Vs lets say bench press to failure 10 reps. You can clearly feel the difference. Your chest might be burning and full of blood pumping after thos 10 reps to failure. But your legs after 10 reps of failure? They don't feel very pumped. After i walk down the stairs after 10 reps to failure (2 sets) with a barbell squat, i can still walk down the stairs. If i do 20 reps to failure with barbell squat? Bro i have to focus to not fail because my legs feel so weak. 20 reps just FEELS like it damages your legs a lot more then 10 reps. With 10 reps it just feels like its to heavy and you body already had to stop early because there is just a shitload of weight on your back. Doing 20 reps to failure is harder also because you suffer longer lol.
Well. Leg day is gonna be brutal tomorrow. Bro challenged my ego when he said it wasn’t for the weak. It’s time to carry the boats David.
How’d it go?
And?
David is a loser and this guy in video is real. See the difference? One says nonsense the other clear educated conclusions. David goggins is seriously over rated and will most likely pass away early due to the stress he puts on his body
How did it go
He died in his brutal workout. May he rest in Peace.
The science/biology behind his words is that there are two types of muscle fibers, Fast twitch and slow twitch, fast twitch generate stronger and more rapid contractions than the slow twitch, but they get tired quickly because they use anaerobic respiration which releases lactic acid. These fast twitch muscles are generally more common in the upper body, and they’re used for short but heavy exercises, like lifting a heavy dumbbell for example. Slow twitch on the other hand contract slower and weaker but they can work for way longer and take much longer to fail because they use aerobic respiration, which produces more energy and uses more oxygen than the anaerobic. This makes slow twitch better for longer exercises like walking or jogging if ure on the treadmill, or generally any exercise where you’re doing lots of repetitions. Slow twitch muscle fibers are found more in the lower body..
If you came this far thanks for reading😄
Yh but what about sprinters they need strong explosive low body
@mamugangat8667 an average person's lower body muscles have an even proportion of type 1 and type 2 muscle fibres, sprinters have a greater number of type 2 muscle fibres in the quadriceps than type 1.
@@mamugangat8667that would be a training adaptation from years of sprinting
There has been recent evidence to support within the same types of muscle fibers, fast/intermediate/slow that certain muscle groups are more responsive to different levels of volume and frequency. Especially larger muscle groups legs back etc. While smaller groups can't take as much systematic fatigue. Calves and forearms also seem to an exception here. But really WTF knows 100 different studies have slightly different result.
We came this far, you’re welcome 🤝
In my 30 years of weight training I’ve come across this man for the first time what he’s saying makes sense and I’ve done high reps for legs and the results are great.
Check out the Nautilus book and the Nautilus Bodybuilding Book by him and Ellington Darden.
Yeah my legs are legitimately shocking, I'm not trying to brag my legs are amongst the most impressive anyone will see. Now I attribute most of this to genetics - bc I don't do leg days. Maybe 1 good leg day a month. My legs are almost all built by me bouncing around in martial arts and fighting and doing footwork drills.
50 reps is cardio
Great in what way?
Hevey resistance on a bike before squats will blow your legs out . its great
That’s awesome! My philosophy. Train upper body like a bodybuilder. Lower body like an athlete.
Good philosophy for me i train calisthenics and streetlifting for upper body and for the lower and i train explosiveness and endurance like wrestlers
I used to do legs for weight but i really started noticing growth when i went to this method im a believer
I stick to 5x5 5x3 and 5rm squat trice a week and can tell you cant walk normal without tearing my shit up
How long have u been doing this method?
@@streetzgeneral3739 the last 6 months or so.... ive noticed more growth than in the last year
i am not natty and i’m noticing massive gains going for reps and only sticking to one hour max a workout
Same here...
I took his advice and tried high rep on all aspects of my leg routine, once I hit failure I switched to negatives. I had to *CRAWL* to my fucking car afterwards.
I've done that not nice
This is the way.
Worse than that is trying to sit on the toilet next morning 😬😬😭
And probably in pain for 3 days after
to weak to press the gas afterwards xP
This guy just told the secret. He is on point
Tom Platz: i told you guys
@@giovannigarcia128Arthur Jones was well before tom ever came to town.
He didn't JUST tell the secret. He did it years ago.
@@tonygarciAtla51 🙄 more ignorance again, the approach he's describing is literally key to what Bulgarian power lifters use as a routine. It's still high weight high intensity it just includes longer rest periods. Ask Any powerlifter? What like the one who goes to your gym.
@@tonygarciAtla51 🙄 English classes are very cheap and you clearly need one. This program works perfectly all around hence my point about Bulgarian lifters using it for strength but merely increasing rest times. Let me know if you wanna switch tongues?
bruh, the conviction behind his message got me working out my legs and i don't even have legs. 😢😢😢
lollol
Like for major pain?
Bruh...🤔🤣
Lol
😭🤣
This is going to sound real dumb but he just reminded me I knew this when I was 20 and life had me forget. Thank you Sir.
That happens man
It happens to me too man
Same here bro
Very well said
Not dumb at all … as time goes on we all forget something
I really wish we had Mr. Jones and Mr. Menzter around today
😮he died of heart attack threw steroids look how old he looks there FFS
@@staffordshirebullterrier5634that’s Arthur jones dude. He was already old in the video. 😂😂
Legend has it he's just turned 23 in this video
@@Jamiey- 😂🤣
Mentzer was an imbecile by todays standards. Mr jones seems alright but idk
Dude was on to something here. Changed from 6-10 reps and started working in the 15-20 rep range.
Got me walking around like Cotton Hill
Bro not Cotton Hill 😂💀
Lol fkn little man xD
I killed fitty reps
Kahn approves Hahahaha!!
Good ol peg leg walk
He’s ABSOLUTELY right! I started doing 50 + reps 20 years ago with a trainer everyone thought was crazy but knew his stuff! ✨✨✨✨✨
Who is this guy
@@nashhenry9314author jones
Last week I decided to change it up. Lower the weight and rep it out. 5 sets 20 reps 135lbs. I was absolutely crippled 2 days later 😂 can't wait to do it again Friday 😅
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Perhaps your form and rep quality was bad when lifting heavy? What "going light" does for people is allow them to do their reps right instead of having to cheat their heavy reps.
One thing about your body.......and that is, it will never hurt when you are working it out. Even when you're doing whatever intense choice workout, as that is its food. No different than when one eats to fuel their body. I never understood why people would put themselves through pain with the belief that they're benefitting in the long run. Being youthful, structured and well defined with healthy muscles, really just require discipline. As your body is pretty much developing as you age. Most folk don't see their errors or hype that they've subscribed to, until they're older and can't change what they've already done for decades. You really have to know your body and *fully understand what it is capable of and needs. In return, responsibly using the tools that you've been given to care for it.
@@rjmariThat's kind of what I was thinking.
What's your max, I'm just curious.
High rep leg workouts will give you soreness like you've never experienced. I once did 200 bodyweight squats in one set and could barely walk for 5 days
Taekwondo practicioner here.
It is true that by decreasing the weight and increasing repitition will improve endurance (Same as just by doing bodyweight). The main goal of that is to not build muscles but rather be more functional to not be tired easily fast and do difficult tasks continuosly for a long record of time.
For real life application; if you train with this method consistently, you'd be able to climb the stairs 5 stories on a normal speed walk without getting tired. Compared to your before if you tire out after climbing just 2 stories on the same speed walk
Muscle building is not a test of endurance or to see how much you can withstand
Think some mike guy said something like that
Why do you think taekwondo has any bearing on what he's talking about?
@@adamwarlock5286 Oh It doesn't 😅. I just said I was, because it makes more sense for me to know these things since I studied and put these principles into my taekwondo practice.
To mention; at the end of my workout, I pump out as many normal speed squats as I can without rest, I don't count them but until I cry and my legs give out. It works out my endurance that way, allowing me to push time longer from physical stress.
If I were to count my repetition, last time I did was 43 and my legs literally felt like a burning sting all over. The reason why that's the only amount of rep I can push is because I already finished speed, plyometrics, strength and muscle building training for legs beforehand 😅 then endurance training is my last workout.
Mh
To add to this, this works for any part of the body, its just most people do workouts in ways for the arms so differently and focus on the big muscle groups instead of strengthening muscles that are not as noticeable (big arms focus over functional strength all around leads to imbalance of muscles within the arm itself, which is why people get tendon problems so much because they got weak tendons under extra stress due to larger muscles putting to much strain on them because the smaller muscles that connect to a lot of the tendons and connective tissue are weaker, think tug of rope.)
Don’t overtrain it but doing high reps on arms is very doable (50lb curls per arm vs 70 at increased reps of 20-30 per arm.)
100% on point. I grew quads so big my pants wouldn't fit
Thats totally correct! Lower weights and high reps gives your back a good chance not to get hurt plus a great muscle workout.
But not 50 reps. 5-30 reps is best for hypertrophy
Wrong.
True, but be careful if youve been skipping cardio exercises because it will make you black out if you go too hard
Squats for 10+ reps truly is a cardiovascular workout too. Thank you for pointing the black-out thing out
😂😂😂
So true, I was going ape shit and was on the verge of puking
Sir, blacking out? There are many warning signs
Been in the 1000lb club for over 10years consistently. Not a ifbb pro or anything but I'm above average fit. Blacking our while lifting has nothing to do with cardio. Your either not breathing during strenuous reps, poorly hydrated, blood sugar problems or blood pressure problems. All u guys taking pre workouts, N.O., and caffeine; ur blood vessels get stretched too far over time and u likely have low blood pressure problems.
😱 Amazing. I was just starting to do this with leg days. Not at 100 reps but just higher reps, less weight. Big difference. Feel 10x better. Thought i was the only one.
I worked with a 60+ yr old psychiatrist who hiked 20 mile on weekends and did hundreds of weightless calve raises. He had massive calves. Crazy old man strength
Recently started doing 20 plus reps on all my leg exercises with lowest going to 15. It’s working really well.
I did squats with 95 lbs for 25 reps. Crazy burn and my lower back felt great
I tried this today it felt like a blowtorch
How much size did you gain on your legs doing that?
@@shanehancock9624I don’t think it’s all about that…
@@shanehancock9624 really ? After one workout ? Even Hercules wont build muscle ,like that fast
Yeah it does burn but luckily Im a ginger and we have enhanced pain tolerance
I did heavy (for me) squats for the first 4-5 years of my lifting life. Then I developed chronic back pain and learned I had scoliosis. So I replaced heavy squats with Goblet squats done in HIIT fashion. 10 Sets of 15-20 reps, 60 seconds rest.
My legs exploded, grew so much bigger in the 3 months I did that, than the whole 4-5 years of heavy squats.
Thank you so much this sounds both epic and painful I wanna try this
Did you develop that scoliosis and pain because of squats?
How many times a week do you do this? And do you only do 10 sets?
@@bradebronson9449 bro's doing 150-200 reps of squats and you asked "only 10 sets?" Bro how many sets do you want? 😭
Same bro HIIT workout got me legs pumpin than heavy back squat
He’s right. We use our legs to carry our bodies around all day everyday. It’s amazing what the body can become when you think outside the possibilities of Normal
He was right....all along.
i can confirm this, how i did my workout & saw more growth than when i would go heavy for 3/5 sets of 15/20
So better low weight with more set&reps than high weight low reps/set ??
Example 5x20 100lbs > 3x10 150 lbs ??😊
@@runriki2009 Yes, but only for legs/lower body. We walk all day. Leg muscles are different. Stick to moee weight less reps on arms/chest/shoulders ect....
yeah so lets say leg day, i was doing mid weight for 15 reps 3 sets, saw some growth but once i switched to a bit lighter for 60 reps for 2 sets my legs exploded then for arms id do mid/heavy 5/10 reps for 3 sets my arms really started to grow
Great interview, I’ve been looking into starting a small homestead myself. Trying to get away from big corp. supermarkets and box stores. I resonate with everything this man said.
As a Powerlifter I would do this. I would work in the 3-5 rep range until I got to a sticking point where I couldn't progress any further at a rate of 5 lb every week and then I would drop the weight and do super high repetitions for a few weeks and then come back and I'd be able to break through my former plateaus...something akin to 9 weeks of linear progression with sets of 3×5 adding 5 lbs. each workout or so, followed by 4 weeks of high reps at a 10-20% weight reduction, increasing reps each week from 4×20 to 3×30 to 2×40 to 1×50, them rinse & repeat, it works wonders and is easier on your back, knees & hips.
This sounds really good, but could you break it down a little for me please?
I heard the 3-5 rep thing was really good for building muscle, but I don't get what you're saying. First you say you do 3-5 reps, then why do you change from that to 15 -20reps etc? What does your plan look like daynto day week to week?😊
interesting
@@lauraashley1 it's cyclical, I do 3-5 rep range for 9 weeks, then slightly less weight at 20-50 reps for 4 weeks, then back to the 3-5 rep linear progression...9 weeks→4 weeks back & forth over & over...the high-rep range to near-failure stimulates a lot of growth that I then build upon for the next 9 weeks.
Ahhh that's simple. You just done neural reloading. Try every 7-8 months doing upper body 20 ties lower 50 ties.for four weeks. Then go back heavy. It will take 7-10 days and you will be able to go higher 2.5- 5 % than eve. Never seen anyone who didn't have this change occurring.
@@reeferfranklin That's called pendulum periodization.
Makes sense. Tom platz used to squat heavy but for very high reps. He had some of the biggest legs in the industry.
😮
Genetics
@@oa2621not true. Maybe mind genetics. Dude was a pshyco in the gym
Tom Platz only did Max-Squats 1-2 times every 1-2 Month. Besides that he went for 100 Squats once a week.
Tom Platz said repetitions is more important than heavyweights.
He is so damn right, i played soccer for almost 15 years and my legs grown so good. Now i train once or twice a month with high volume and they still growing
Soccer is a monster on the whole body especially the lower half
legs and calfs
I need that receipt for the upper body 🤣
💯 been there, felt that
@@toNynho88play soccer with your arms
@@pavelborisov515 lol
That voice is so reassuringly wise!
Yeah he might be into something. I'm starting this regimen tomorrow.
Update?
@@Alpha-xr9yf What update bro? He's just 1 week in. It can't possibly give results in such a short amount of time 💀
@@andrecarrion7695 lmao yea but i meant update on workout efficiency not muscle results
The way he responds
Presentable
Idk why I've always felt this. I recently started going to the gym again and doing 4 sets of 25 increasing weight till failure my legs are getting massive also been going on a 1hr hike in the mountains 3 times a week. What used to be a struggle 2 months ago is effortless now
I’m thinking of doing the opposite… starting at a weight I can only do 25 reps and lower it if I fatigue at 20 reps
My legs changed enormously when i started doing high rep calisthenics exercises. It's true
Did you only one exercise or 3-5 exercises with each 100 Reps?
@@dominicpfaffenberger1420 each exercise of 4 sets + high reps.
My current calisthenics leg workout:
•Pistol squats
•Nordic curls
•Sissy squats
•Hamstring curls on rings
•Reverse Nordic curls
•Hip trusts with one leg on rings
•Lunges or jumping squats or very high rep bodyweight squats or hill sprints ( depends on what i prefer doing that day)
Reps and forms are the most important things in executing
This shit, my legs blew up more doing bodyweight squats than anything else. 1 set to failure until I built up to 500. Eventually that got easy and I changed to pistol squats and got up to 42 per leg. Got married, had kids, got fat, but recently started working out again and am back to 130 reps after only a few workouts. Nice to be back on this road.
I remember back 12 years ago i got upto 1000 bodyweight squats and ended up in hospital with Rhabdo.. I was so ill it was crazy!
the pain in my legs didnt leave for like 2 weeks.
Haven’t thought about this. Definitely going to try it for a solid month. Lower weight, much higher reps.
It really works ..never had calves until I hit them with 300 rep . Result was crazy
What to do for upper then?
I love these old talks.
Just pure info.
No bs distractions.
It's incorrect tho
Ok good for you.@@edwisongogo6326
TRUTH🔥..... Genius ✨
Damn, Mike Metzer sounds damn near identical to this man, makes sense as I believe this was his mentor. Awesome!
Mentzer was an apprentice of this man though
Yes this was his teacher
@@alonzox5420Who is this man?
He's 100% right
Learned to do this in 1987 with my strength coach in college and he told our football team to train like this and he did.
Thank you Steve M👍🏾
Still doing this today!!!
I took this man's calf routine advise, crippled for a week, this man talks sense, happy training all💪
He is right, I recently started doing a single set around 18-20 is when I reach failure. My legs are getting ripped, my original 5x8 I did for 6 months was not doing anything even when I increase weight
That’s because you’re doing 5 sets mate 😂😂
Doing a weight you can hit 8 reps and only doing 5 sets is crazy talk
I was doing 5×5+1 for legs for a couple months and switched to higher volume for legs 1 month ago and I'm noticing the difference big time. High volume for legs works 💪. Does for me.
It’s common sense really. You think low reps low volume will do anything to a muscle group that was designed for you to constantly use ALL DAY LONG? (You can literally stand up all day and work, construction workers do it, tradesmen do it, etc) so just by knowing that, you must do high volume to challenge the muscle to improve. The upper body muscles are used much less which is why 6-8 reps higher weight and a few sets will challenge those muscle groups.
@@DoDgeSwaGThat’s not how it works
He is right my legs respond much better with higher reps (its way more painful tho💀)
100 reps lol ok
@@richt5986npc, lol.
You really have to know your body and what it wants, needs and can do effortlessly. Minus the need to experience pain and fatigue. You pretty much put yourself in a vulnerable position where your legs or where ever you over did, can't perform if you need it to.
What to do to get a good upper body
@@IoriYagamii put more emphasis on eccentric and isometric on every movement
Upon this rock I will build my church
Dont use the words of The Lord in vain
@@macabeoit says not to use his name in vain. The word is always good for teaching.
Arthur jones never fails to be full of it. Salesman thats all he was. And mentzer took his ideas seriously and ran with it.
I'm going to try this this week
Always worth changing up your routine now and then might be worth a try
THE MAN....THE MYTH.....THE LEGEND!💪 ARTHUR DROPPING INFORMATION LIKE YOUR DAD DROPPED LOADS INTO YOUR MOTHER HAHAHAHA 😂🤣
This makes perfect sense.
My legs are really sore from this so far. Hitting that 100 will take a little bit but I'm going to keep pushing. It's definitely humbling.
Time under Tension is a Huge reason to grow...
I still can't believe Arnold competed with this guy and he's still looking better in 2024 .
One of the greatest minds in the business
We don't hear people talk like this anymore, I mean the way they talk and pronounce the words..
Pleases the eardrum
Very masculine
I'm not a native speaker so I might be off but I think he has a Mid-Atlantic accent, which was popular until the 1950s. You don't hear people talk like that anymore because it was an artificially created accent used as a status symbol - you had to be taught to use it.
@@IordanIovkov His pronunciation of r and t are very American which if he was speaking with a mid Atlantic accent would be the main difference.
.A mid Atlantic accent would sound almost like a well spoken English person but not as posh as King Charles though.
@@bigbruvofenglanduk I see, thank you.
I've always done lighter weight high reps & it's served me incredibly well. It also throws people off when they talk shyt before you pickup the real weight. Light weight produces good form, good form produces proper strength & growth. If you can do 100 reps with 100% proper form, you can do atleast or almost half that with 2 to 3 times that weight.
Tell you right now you're always need to start off with a really lower weight and stretch your muscles in your ligaments because if you don't you're really going to miss so much more potential that your muscles can really have
@@conflict7269 Yea its definitely good to start off with light weight for warming up & stretching. Most people just don't realize & underestimate the power of light weight high reps. Slowly upping the weight in order to get that flawless form & strength is the way to go compared to just quickly upping the weight once u can do 10 to 12 iffy reps. Atleast for me personally.. It's all around ideal cuz it's more cardio based so you get stamina, muscle mass, proper form, real strength & it's very sleeper build depending on how high up on the weight scale you go.
@@WillHurtUrFeelingz you are absolutely right I think because when I was younger I was one of those powerlifter want to be guys that would go in and just start cranking on the heaviest weight I could get up yeah sure I build up a lot of strength and mass but man the injuries from that are bad I just feel like you're more prone to those type of injuries like tendons and stuff in your back and things like that
@@conflict7269 More prone to injuries & problems after a while of powerlifting with incorrect form/knowledge, most definitely. Powerlifters that do it with proper form are more prone to it injuries, it happens all the time to even the greats. I was that kid too for a couple yrs i started lifting around 11 or 12 & I eventually started hangin around bodybuilders powerlifters & all sorts of different fitness heads. I kept an open mind & took in a lot of info/advice & done tons of research & it's been incredibly helpful. Because I kept an open mind, I'm smaller than a large portion of people but I'm much stronger than that large portion & have always been stronger. It's never a dull moment when someone sees a 6ft tall "skinny" dude rollup to ridiculously heavy weight & lift it like it's a few feathers. People always judge a book by its cover not realizing what's inside that book.
True! I remember doing body weight squats 40x5 3x wk. Big thighs.
This is how you sculpt your leg muscles like greek statues. I remember I used to do the day of one-thousand squats every week, then moved onto leg-pressing 1050 lbs 8+ reps for 4-6 sets, then back to running 5k and 10k's...
Our legs our straight machines, it's a matter of overcoming the pain
That explains Mike Tyson's strength:
500 Dips
500 Pushups
1,000-2,000 Situps
30 Minutes of Neck Bridges
400-1,000 squats
500 Shoulder Shrugs
12 rounds 3 minuts every one. This explain what he needed from his muscles and how his workout looked like
And he is massive and super strong, but he has been doing boxing for over 4 decades, so the neurons connection to the muscle are like 10 times more efficient that a regular guy
Lol he did more squats cuz legs are stronger, are you dumb
@@ulisescarrillo30504 decades ? That's debatable if you don't specify which time period of Mikes boxing career
@@ulisescarrillo3050maybe like 3 decades but we get your point
He makes so much sense! We don’t walk on hands but we do thousands of steps every single day for thousands of days. The picture of me you see was taken 8 years ago when I weighed 240 lbs at 5’8” and now I’m 175, and I started not even with workouts but with walking 10,000 steps a day and when I lost 65 pounds I noticed that my legs were already bulky. Now I only train legs once a week, 3-4 sets of zercher squats and 3-4 sets of Romanians and that’s enough to keep them big😂 so, a cheat code to bulky legs is to get morbidly obese, live like that for at least 5-6 years and then lose weight 😂😂😂
I've been gaining weight for 2 Years I grew from 49 kg to 85 which is massive cause I could never gain weight, the irony? I'm killing myself with all the cardio this that blah blah in hope of loosing excess fat
@@finch-zj2gnNice! How many calories a day? Any tips to stimulate appetite?
Hey @@finch-zj2gn any tips for us trying to gain weight?
@@the1stime it depends on your appetite I guess, I ate a lot of food that contained carbohydrates and starch plus food that contained fat. You can try adding butter or cheese or any food that has huge amount of fat to your diet
@@AirdropKenyanese if you mean it then you can start by being lazy AF just eat sleep repeat it's unhealthy but it sure get you fat
Oh and don't skip out food that contains fat, try food that contains oil especially meat that has fat on it, if you're vegan I can't help you much.
That's what i've been doing for legs .. and my pleasure to say, He Is Fqn right !!
Well said, 100% accurate, I have been doing it and getting results frequently
I do 100 reps for all body parts. Best results ever.
How does a training day look like when doing 100 rep?
100 for a body part, do 4 sets of around 25 reps. Maybe choose different exercises? No so hard to understand.
@@alvinmodz thnx,
Of course I see this after my leg day
Doing one set per exercise in a controlled motion until failure has been easily the best gains ive ever had in my life in such a short amount of time. Keep in mind im doing a fullbody routine working top to bottom. 2-3 exercises per bodypart and 48 hours of rest in-between each workout. This stuff is no joke.
This sounds like a plan, would you please elaborate further? I think I will try it for the next 2 months and see how it turns out. Like one set with a weight that results in how many reps for upper and lower body, etc...
Would you please elaborate further, I am really tempted to try this routine for the next 2 months. For example, how much weight per set for how many reps? Like a weight I can do 10 reps with until failure or 20 or different from a muscle group to a muscle group, etc... 2nd time I am posting the comment as after posting it the first time I didn't find it
My teardrop on my legs would never become sore. I would fatigue the muscles using squats, leg extensions, and lunges. Only the outside of my lower thigh and the part of my thigh closest to my groin would become sore. I finally followed this advice and decided to do the 45 lb bar 100 times. My God! Every fiber of my thighs was sore like no other ever. I was sore for 5 days.
This clip just literally changed my life !!
I go up to 30 reps.. never shrank and always grow..
I can tell you right now I do low weight high reps on legs and I’ve noticed massive gains, I have hip problems so I had no choice to drop the weight, so I’m happy seeing this video 😊
People should incorporate this technique it works
There is no magic rep number just take the set close to failure and you are good
I started doing the 15 sec holds instead of reps for arms and chest as I heard him say in another video and honestly the difference in growth is huge to such a extent I had some one at the gym ask me point blank if I was on steroids with how I started blowing up within a 1 month period.
So bench press, keep the bench at the stretched position for 15 seconds for example?
@@gstroyce hold the weight in the middle portion actually of the rep where the chest is actually being engaged. I tried holding it at the top and it felt like I was working more my arms and shoulder than chest but ones I held the weight mid rep my chest was on fire. I do about 5 reps of 15 sec holds and feel like I did 3 sets instead of 1 set of bench.
What's his name?
This made me sad. As a guy, I can't even imagine the ache he will feel after he gets to know this, and if he can recover from this and move on. People say express your feelings, so that you don't regret later, but if things like this happen, I wonder how much a human heart can take. Stay strong King. Hope you live.
Yes, I started lifting at 17 and did many squats in the first two years. Its amazing when your legs adapt to do 5x50 squats sets with a weight on your shoulders
Gym Class in H.S., PE teacher was the varsity football coach. We did 100 body squats on a 3 count 😂😂😂.. This was 1st period smh
This isnt mentzer? They literally speak with same tone and cadence
Old microphones ...
Endurance is a byproduct of STRENGTH!!! If your one rep max is increased then a corresponding increase in multiple reps, with less load goes up!!!
I’m no body builder but I remember when I was hitting the gym often and decided to do this method. My legs would get pumped way faster with higher reps
Makes sense. We are built to walk and run for a long time. I have noticed also that higher weight less reps for legs I never feel as sore. Even if I use alot more weight than normal. But if I use less weight and do a longer workout or more reps and sets than I feel way more sore the next day. I think a mix of both is the way to go though. I usually do lots of reps with lower weights and than at the end of my workout I increase the weight as much as I can do and go until absolute failure.
Did this in my morning session this morning. He's right, it is painful...but it hurts SOOOOO GOOOOOOODDD 😏😆💯💯💯
Thank you! I will drop my weight as I just got back into it from 145 to 105. I’ll start slow with 4 sets of 25 and then build to 100
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Jocko's leg day is killer. 50 overhead squats at 65% BW, 50 front squats at 75% bw, then 50 back squats at 85% bw for time.
You definitely feel it.
Jesus!
Great advice
I'm 6'5 and I approve this message! I have really ling muscle fibers and anything under 20 repeats my legs don't even register
Higher reps this Sunday
Yessss!
100 reps?!!! My legs are done by 15-20 reps 😂
Lower weight
The key here is what is meant for productive, this would be good for getting big legs, size only, not ideal for strength and maybe would help endurance but you’re more likely to develop a pain in your legs like knee pain or ITB syndrome that will hinder everything all together
Looking forward to apply this in my routine. Thank you, Sir! 🙏
Hes right. I did similar method for my legs and they got bigger and shredded
100 reps with only 10% less weight with 1 set? Surely impossible
That's why he said to work up to it until you're doing 50 each leg or 100 total on both legs. Think, alternate, breathe, take short, and I do mean short breaks. Don't hurt yourself but he's simply using big numbers to get his point across that you need a LOT of repetitions
He's right. I've worked up to 60 reps with a 70lb kettlebell absolutely none stop and the increases in size, endurance and cardio has just been incredible.
60 reps is less ideal for hypertrophy
Such a valuable information and nobody mentions it.
50 is to much, the muscle fibers you are after can't go that long. 15-20 is perfect
ARTHUR Jones has the same exact voice as Mike Mentzer! Like teacher like student!
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Have Mike Mintzer addressed this issue?
Interesting. I need to know now
Yes, he said legs respond better at 12-15 reps while upper body 6-10 reps
I think Tom Platz inadvertently took this advice because he's known for his monster legs and hi reps.
It's a great idea
If you do barbell squat to failure 10 reps. Vs lets say bench press to failure 10 reps. You can clearly feel the difference.
Your chest might be burning and full of blood pumping after thos 10 reps to failure.
But your legs after 10 reps of failure? They don't feel very pumped. After i walk down the stairs after 10 reps to failure (2 sets) with a barbell squat, i can still walk down the stairs.
If i do 20 reps to failure with barbell squat? Bro i have to focus to not fail because my legs feel so weak. 20 reps just FEELS like it damages your legs a lot more then 10 reps. With 10 reps it just feels like its to heavy and you body already had to stop early because there is just a shitload of weight on your back. Doing 20 reps to failure is harder also because you suffer longer lol.
And calves sets of 20 fast to shock them
Bro, muscles don't grow from shocking. There's so much good information out these days, do some homework and get those gains