Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Just sort of let all that go for now and just think if you're getting close to that range , you're in the spot and all you have to do now is balance two things . Recovery , continued training . Ok .

Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

The volume is getting to you . However , if you're not seeing adaptations , then I'd say maybe the repetitions aren't enough . And so that's like , that's the kind of game you're running .

Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

You'll get more sore from the lower repetition , higher intensity range than you will typically the other ones and , and see if we can bust , bust through some plateaus there . So it , it just generally means you need to do something a little bit different than your , your training partner .

Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Um Yeah , good to do a lot of them . You've established that 10 really to 20 sets per week is the kind of bounds for um maintaining and , and initiating hypertrophy . If I were to like flag one of them , I would say 15 to 20 is the set that you want to get .

Avoid Weight Training Plateaus & Helping Nonresponders | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

It's very common to , to have challenges , activating lots . Yeah , I've noticed that many of the muscle groups that were responsible for a large fraction of the work in the various sports that I played as a young child are muscles that are very easy for me to selectively isolate and induce hypertrophy . And um I suppose I'm one of those mutants where my lats happened to be one such of those muscle groups .