Strategies for Building Lean Muscle, Hormone Balance, and Nutrition

Body weight 0:00 0
“to be lean you probably need to understand what bodybuilders are doing”

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Exercise 0:02 0
“train for roughly half an hour two times a week Monday and Thursday if you do it properly it can comport an unbelievable amount of benefits”

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Hormone balance 0:26 0
“are you saying that there are people out there that would routinely take 800 to 1,600 milligrams of testosterone in a week”

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Exercise 5:25 0
“Dr Stone described as the science of taking good athletes and making them better and that was really really amazing time I probably learned more in that three years than I had in I don't know outside of learning how to read and how to do math probably more than I ever learned at school ever uh totally immersive got to work with teams got to work with athletes strength and conditioning coach truly Sport Science work we integrate all of the variables sport coaching strength and conditioning Sports Medicine nutrition the whole gamut incredible experience got a PhD there”

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Nutrition 5:25 0
“we integrate all of the variables sport coaching strength and conditioning Sports Medicine nutrition the whole gamut incredible experience got a PhD there”

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Body weight 10:29 0
“what you weigh right now 235 lbs”

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Body weight 10:48 0
“this is the roughly the fattest I'll get”

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Genetics 11:20 0
“thank you genetics for that one”

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Exercise 13:29 0
“you compete in bodybuilding”

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Nutrition 14:13 0
“if you really want to understand how to manipulate nutrition to be lean you probably need to understand what bodybuilders are doing”

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Exercise 16:54 0
“the science of resistance training works is for almost all of the health benefits and the longevity benefits and the quality of life benefits the amount of time you need to be training per week is measured in the 1 to three hour range with three being like you're really full sending it”

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Exercise 18:26 0
“probably the biggest return on investment the average person can make is to train for roughly half an hour two times a week Monday and Thursday if you do it properly it can comport an unbelievable amount of benefits just across the board”

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Exercise 21:39 0
“we get almost all the benefits from pushing either very heavy loads or lighter loads but very close to muscular failure which people have described as unpleasant, a burn in the muscle, a lot of pain, the weights slow down so it takes a lot of psychological effort to keep going.”

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Exercise 22:07 0
“precisely because weight training is so intensive you need lots of recovery time between sessions and you can do lots of disruption and damage in each session and also the total yield and how much it changes your physiology is very high for each session and actually per unit time.”

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Exercise 22:35 0
“the top end is 8 or 10 hours or something for even professional bodybuilders of time spent in the gym every week but for people that just want the basic benefits yeah we're talking about an hour or two hours a week and that's really all you need if you're pushing sufficiently hard.”

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Exercise 26:50 0
“which is you cannot discount the CNS fatigue literally that that comes from doing this type of work”

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Exercise 27:00 0
“sprinters train and obviously people understand that sprinters I shouldn't say Obviously but but if you if you if you study the mechanics of sprinting you realize it really comes down to force per unit Mass it's how it's how hard they can hit the ground with their foot relative to their mass”

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Exercise 27:34 0
“they'll Focus heavily on exercises where they can push the Ecentric phase pardon me the concentric phase and not the Ecentric phase and it was explained to me once that doing this allowed them to also spare themselves from some of the neurologic fatigue”

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Exercise 28:32 0
“the nervous system takes fatigue and it takes fatigue in the same way you would expect any system that's pushed to its limits to take various components of it experience wear and tear various substrates deplete and need to be repleted”

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Exercise 31:50 0
“train the living crap out of your chest one day and your triceps you can train back and biceps which have nothing much to do with those movements pretty robustly the next day”

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Exercise 33:00 0
“weight training is one of those things where you get a dose of it and for days after under the hood it's upgrading your body and your nervous system and your muscles and your tendons”

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Exercise 37:45 0
“he was really just sort of doing one set to failure per body per exercise and he was doing each body part once a week”

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Exercise 39:18 0
“if you go very close to failure with have very heavy loads all of the subcomponents of your musculature your motor units which is the motor on and all of the cells that it um activates they'll get recruited and they will be asked to work to their limits they'll take on a great deal of damage and disruption they'll sense a ton of tension and they'll produce great results for you”

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Exercise 39:42 0
“the relationship between both intensity and volume of how much you do work in the gym especially volume is curval linear and hyperbolic so it looks like this and if people are just listening to this it means if you do one all out hard set per muscle group per week which is not what Dorian did he did roughly 14 of those per week per muscle group um you get maybe something like 30% of what you could have gotten with five sets”

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Exercise 43:26 0
“if you want to do not a ton of volume for any one muscle if you work really hard and bring yourself very close to failure you can already do super super well just with that alone”

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Exercise 45:39 0
“according to his categorization the only work set was the one that was absolutely the true muscular failure sometimes with forced repetitions which you would also have to integrate because forced reps is when someone helps you lift the rest of the weight or if you do a drop set you use less weight right after you went to failure”

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Exercise 49:09 0
“training to failure the vast proportion of people that really propos that training to failure are somehow special for results they didn't reason their way into that they emoted their way into that”

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Exercise 51:11 0
“for results in the gym there's not much magical there you have to get close to it you just don't have to go all the way”

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Exercise 52:34 0
“if you're training twice a week let's call it Monday and Thursday for Simplicity you do want some symmetry so you don't want a situation which you train with weights Monday Tuesday and then you take the rest of the week to do other stuff”

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Exercise 54:10 0
“you're going to be training muscles like the quadriceps, the glutes, the hamstrings, the musculature of the back, the chest, the shoulders, the arms, etc., and choosing exercises that train those muscles preferably not just one muscle at a time.”

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Exercise 54:33 0
“compound movements, multi-joint movements things like pull-ups, pull downs, barbell and dumbbell bent over rows that for the back at least engage the forearm flexion muscles, the biceps, etc., they engage actually the muscles of the forearm themselves through your grip, they engage the posterior aspect of your deltoids, the rear delts, they engage almost every muscle in the back all at the same time.”

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Exercise 55:49 0
“compound movements... are insanely time efficient because you do a few exercises and you're like holy crap that's all of my upper body.”

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Exercise 56:24 0
“besides a deadlift and a squat, RDLs, various stiff legged deadlifts or good mornings, RDL is the same category of movement that trains your entire back, specifically your spinal erector musculature which is insanely important for healthy aging.”

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Exercise 59:18 0
“three or four warm-up sets per exercise it's a teaching session they never even lifted heavy they never pushed to failure but because they're so unaccustomed to lifting they'll get sore and it's enough tension of disruption that they will grow muscle”

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Exercise 59:39 0
“the next time they come in you work them through a different series of movements let's call it Monday Thursday movements the next week they come in and you do the same workout except maybe that last set of every movement after a few technique oriented sets you uh ask them to go for slightly more repetitions maybe not five but now 10 or you put a little bit of weight on the bar”

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Exercise 1:00:01 0
“over time slowly every week you increase the weight a little bit more a little bit more a little bit more until several weeks later their technique looks real good which most people can learn really good techniques it's not that complicated in a few weeks and now they're like kind of struggling with their weights we're finally up to a weight and rep combination that's challenging them physiologically every set not just neurologically for how to do the technique”

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Exercise 1:04:51 0
“most people will need something like 15 to 30 total working sets for their whole body per session you can condense that into 30 minutes but you're working almost the entire time”

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Exercise 1:05:05 0
“it's generally a good idea to do sets of 10 to 30 repetitions because those kinds of loads you don't need a ton of time to have your best performance you can get good enough performances with a short time for recovery”

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Exercise 1:05:39 0
“because it's a higher volume of work you get a great hypertrophy stimulus and you get great cardiometabolic benefits if you're breathing insanely heavy the entire time and sweating like a you know insert favor analogy here then you will be kind of one and twoing that session for a resistance training check mark and a pretty decent cardiovascular training check mark”

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Exercise 1:09:34 0
“better you do a 30 minute session of back to back compound free motion or dumbbell or barbell or even machine work and sweat your balls off and huff and puff the rest of the day seems like like a breeze and the Endorphin kick is massive it's like surviving a traumatic episode”

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Exercise 1:10:03 0
“this kind of res exercise has benefits that if we just took one by one time to talk about in this podcast we could talk about nothing else and do four podcasts in a row”

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Exercise 1:15:55 0
“if the trainer is someone that you just kind of vibe with they can dig into you and really get you going but they're also super fun to talk to outside of when you're you're you're not dying during training if they can get you to become responsible for showing up on time in a sense of uh you know the trainer and I are on the same team he's on my team and when he says are you going to make it Monday I just don't want to let him down cuz he's my buddy and I I I'm in this together we're in this process together I don't want to give up on myself”

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Exercise 1:19:10 0
“you would need to go down a checklist uh a troubleshooting checklist and we actually do have on the RP strength YouTube channel we have multiple videos of how to troubleshoot your muscle growth how to troubleshoot your diet how to troubleshoot your recovery so if you throw those on in the car during your drive to work you're going to learn a lot about how troubleshoot”

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Exercise 1:20:57 0
“exercise selection another variable to consider is technique some people have just not so great technique good technique involves putting the muscle into high Force positions at a very deep stretch long muscle lengths and high forces so if you're doing PEC flies for example but you're only going all the way down to like here you need to open up like crazy and take a few seconds down there in the Deep stretch that's really going to help you out”

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Exercise 1:21:53 0
“another question you have to ask is volume wise I mean I I I suppose you already said they're doing one or two reps in reserve so we're not going to question that we'll say to training hard which is good that's another thing to ask if someone is would be 100% like am I really pushing hard how hard if I think I'm pushing hard enough I should push a little harder and see what happens”

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Exercise 1:25:42 0
“it is inevitable that one of two things happen over the long term one you will reach muscular failure and you will be unable to do a repetition or the others you'll get infinitely strong forever and now you're Superman one of those is more realistic than the other.”

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Exercise 1:26:03 0
“put some numbers on the board and just buy a little two and a half or five pounds or one rep each week beat those numbers week upon week commit yourself I must hit 18 reps that's the goal if you can't do it success you went a failure now you know where the limit is now you're building an intuition.”

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Exercise 1:27:04 0
“between 10 and 20 sets per week is fine but for many people you have to use a second qualifier which is what's actually happening to you if you aren't getting super sore or super mega tired in your muscles for a day or two after training if your strength continues to be stable or increases session to session.”

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Exercise 1:29:03 0
“every for the average person cranking away probably the person listening to this podcast one week out of every eight one week every two months don't go to the gym stay active maybe do a body weight squat or a push-up or two in your hotel room or something ideally try going on vacation if not try to not exercise and be a little easier at work be a little easier on family stuff Have Some Fun cheat Foods eat a little more than usual be a little less active so that your body can recover in a way that it can never recover between sessions but it gets a whole week to do this.”

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Genetics 1:31:26 0
“how do genetics play a role in this and how does age play a role in this”

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Genetics 1:33:56 0
“the most important factor other than time spent in the gym about how jacked and lean you going to get is genetics and it is a hugely hugely important factor”

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Age 1:32:00 0
“age has such a profound effect on our results and we look around and as all young people like well I want to look like that well guess what 1982 was a long time ago so unless you have a time machine or age reversal”

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Nutrition 1:37:50 0
“it's not difficult to align your nutrition well eat mostly healthy foods some junk here and there is totally fine getting in enough protein if you want to be real serious about optimizing your muscle gains something like a gram per pound protein per day so if you weigh 150 pounds 150 grams of relatively high quality protein”

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Nutrition 1:40:02 0
“if you want to get as jacked as possible within the realm of several months time seek to eat enough food to get the scale to go up about half a pound per week so if you training hard for 12 weeks should gain maybe six PBS or so consistent six PB and if you're eating a gram per pound uh per day of protein spread into roughly three to four evenly spaced meals roughly very roughly a lot of wiggle room there that really is um kind of all you need to know about nutrition for how to get jacked that covers probably 90% of the variants”

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Stress management 1:42:18 0
“inconsistency especially when you're older especially when you have lots of stress from your professional endeavors”

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Sleep 1:42:48 0
“that can a segue if you'd like into a conversation of sleep and Stress Management”

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Hormone balance 1:43:45 0
“let's talk about testosterone replacement therapy where testosterone in a hypogonadal man is restored to typically the upper limit of a normal physiologic range”

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Hormone balance 1:48:40 0
“steroids don't accentuate every quality you have just the more masculine qualities.”

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Hormone balance 1:50:23 0
“you become more likely to be irritable, you become more likely to have anger and aggressive sorts of thoughts.”

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Hormone balance 1:51:45 0
“sex drive it's difficult for women to appreciate what the male sex drive is like on a quantitative and qualitative level both of those tend to magnify especially if you're not bringing your estrogen down.”

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Hormone balance 1:54:59 0
“if someone's like way too much estrogen for them they can do a 50/50 split of testosterone primobolan so that now they get all the good estrogen from testosterone but not too much of it but they get most of that anabolic drive from the rest of the primobolan but without any more estrogen addition”

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Hormone balance 1:58:08 0
“aromatase Inhibitors in many cases are incredibly toxic drugs and you generally want to avoid taking them if you can”

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Hormone balance 2:00:56 0
“the more estrogen you have to a point the more sex drive you have”

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Hormone balance 2:01:11 0
“if you're in that boat you're like well look like it's just trade-off how much of a benefit do I get in training versus you know how much is my wife or girlfriend going to hate me or hookup culture doesn't work for me anymore”

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Hormone balance 2:01:25 0
“nothing generally better than to start out with a solid plan that makes sense with a coach that knows what they're doing at very low doses of everything and slowly play with compounds and scale up”

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Hormone balance 2:02:26 0
“if you run like regular trt you were taking 100 milligrams of cypionate a week”

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Hormone balance 2:03:21 0
“I would probably weigh about 200 lb versus 230, 235 okay um now 35 pound muscle a lot of muscle yeah but I would still be very jacked”

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Hormone balance 2:05:01 0
“I have very elite genetics not Swagger it's just stating a fact”

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Hormone balance 2:07:04 0
“most people can resume normal testosterone production after the cessation of anabolic androgenic steroids but not all maybe like 90/10”

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Hormone balance 2:07:48 0
“I know some people who you blasted for a long time cannot have children TR everything it's just not in the cards because they their spermatogenesis is just it's just gone.”

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Hormone balance 2:09:57 0
“having done higher doses of androgens ever for weeks or longer on end can give you a higher level of muscularity especially well actually only if you've gone beyond your natural limit”

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Genetics 2:12:45 0
“I've got uh bad genetics for all sorts of things um but I have damn good genetics for health resilience.”

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Body weight 2:13:24 0
“I'm at like 7% body fat and leanness is a humongous variable for health.”

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Disease prevention 2:15:42 0
“Making sure blood pressure is good, making sure all the lipid values and things like that are very good.”

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Hormone balance 2:18:19 0
“I probably did too much I mostly didn't use super high doses by bodybuilding standards like kind of only a few times used high doses I would have used less had I had another chance to go around.”

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Mental health 2:18:45 0
“North of that my psychological side effects are so nasty it's absolutely just not worth it to me anymore especially with career and stuff like that.”

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Disease prevention 2:20:11 0
“I think major categories of disease will be completely solved in the 2030s.”

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Longevity 2:20:27 0
“If I make it to the early to mid 2030s then I'm at longevity escape velocity and looks like I succeeded.”

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Exercise 2:24:30 0
“I'm not going to exercise I'm going to wait for the exercise pill to come along and it just doesn't come along.”

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Air quality 1:41:48 0
“there's no air pollution”

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Nutrition 2:46:23 0
“Thank God I ate some freaking broccoli”

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Body weight 2:52:10 0
“if you're can achieve a certain level of body fat through caloric restriction without gp1s and you use any given dose of GP ones to reduce your hunger you get two things out of that one is now you can push to even more exotically lean levels which you should be we're not trying to race to the same point the destination changes so you can get some faint glutes striations and win a few shows without glps maybe you can get completely stripped out of your mind with them it's just as hard you're just as hungry but just as hungry a 3% body fat is a very different look than just is hungry at 6% one is glp enhanced one is not that's a big deal to remember”

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Body weight 2:53:53 0
“the other thing is you have to deal with side effects of glps I mean like they give you heartburn there is a certain amount of food Focus they don't eliminate like watching TV shows and watching people on them eat tasty Foods when you're in prep is not as difficult because you're not physiologically as hungry but you still have cravings and your Cravings are lower but they're still there and you still dream about food and the whole gamut it's not it's not complete kashing of hunger”

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Genetics 2:54:55 0
“assuming that work and diligence are the big variables that separate bodybuilders usually that assumption is made by people with Elite genetics and it's just not true”

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Body weight 2:57:29 0
“if you are lazy and you just take a pill and you lose all the weight you haven't address the root cause of the issue which is your poor diet”

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Body weight 2:59:53 0
“the only thing that the glps eliminate as a category of problem is the hunger Drive they eliminate it but they do a great job reduce it substantially”

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Body weight 3:01:44 0
“if you now have a solution to the hard dieting problem in which you can actually do much better job with less input that doesn't mean you're on the couch eating Cheetos though it could if you choose”

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Body weight 2:04:44 0
“there's two variables that come into determining How fat you are primarily one is food noise one is conscientiousness.”

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Overview of Exercise Strategies and Their Impacts

The content discussed various exercise methods, particularly those used by bodybuilders, to achieve a lean body and enhance muscle growth. Regular training for about 30 minutes twice a week was emphasized as beneficial for significant health outcomes. The discussion highlighted the use of high doses of testosterone by some individuals, pointing towards potential legal and safety issues.

Insights on Hormone Usage and Balance

The usage of hormones, especially testosterone, in bodybuilding contexts was a recurrent topic. High doses ranging from 800 to 1,600 milligrams per week were mentioned, raising concerns about health risks. Testosterone replacement therapy was discussed, focusing on maintaining testosterone levels within a normal physiological range for men with hypogonadism.

Nutritional Strategies for Muscle Growth

Nutritional approaches for maintaining leanness and muscle growth were closely linked to bodybuilding practices. A high protein intake, about 1 gram per pound of body weight per day, spread across 3-4 meals, was recommended. Also, achieving a caloric surplus to facilitate muscle growth was advised, aiming for a gradual weight increase.

Understanding the Role of Genetics and Age in Fitness

Genetic factors and age were noted as significant determinants in achieving fitness goals. Genetics was highlighted as a crucial factor in body composition and muscle development, while age was pointed out to affect physical capabilities and recovery rates.

Psychological and Physiological Effects of Intense Training

Training approaches that push individuals to their limits, such as training to muscular failure, were discussed for their psychological and physical demands. Though effective for muscle growth, these methods were noted for their potential unpleasantness and high demand on recovery.

Impact of Hormonal Treatments and Supplements

The side effects of hormonal treatments like TRT and the use of performance-enhancing substances were discussed. The potential for permanent hormonal disruption and fertility issues from long-term steroid use was particularly noted.

Exercise Efficiency and Recovery

The efficiency of compound movements in training sessions was underscored, with an emphasis on their ability to engage multiple muscle groups simultaneously, saving time and enhancing physiological benefits. Adequate recovery periods were mentioned as crucial to prevent overtraining and optimize muscle repair.

General Health Management

The importance of managing stress and maintaining stable health markers such as blood pressure and lipid levels was discussed as integral to long-term well-being. Scheduled breaks from intense physical activities were recommended to aid in recovery and prevent burnout.

Future Perspectives on Health and Disease Prevention

Optimism was expressed about future medical advancements in disease prevention, potentially revolutionizing health management by the 2030s. The discussions emphasized the significance of current health practices to benefit from future medical progress in longevity and disease management.