Jeff Nippard Got This Wrong? Powerbuilding Breakdown

In this video, we'll discuss why following Jeff Nippard won't necessarily make you strong. Learn the truth about strength training and exercise techniques.

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00:00 Introduction
00:37 First Things First
02:41 Things To Consider
05:45 Muscular Endurance vs Strength
06:16 Jeff Missed This.
08:08 Jeff, I Disagree....
09:29 Periodization
11:45 So... What Does This Mean?

[mitchellhooperstrongman]

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[eddiehauser]

I think for the general population the idea that, as Mitch says, "It's very difficult to get big and strong at the same time" can be very misleading, and impractical. For guys like Mitch, or Jeff, or Dr. Mike who are, or have competed at high levels of strength sports, or body building, this is a very important concept to understand, but for the majority of people, I don't think it is very important or practical. In reality, it's actually not very difficult to train for size and strength at the same time, and reach a relatively high % of your genetic potential in both areas, which I think is sufficient for the majority of people

[monusaikia]

That point about systemic fatigue is spot on. I've definitely overtrained in the past. I'm curious, does HermQ factor in fatigue management in their advanced powerbuilding program?

[chhotugamer]

This video is a game-changer. The info on rep ranges and muscle fiber composition is super helpful. I'm gonna see if HermQ has any templates I can adapt.

[ajajansari]

The presenter's knowledge is impressive! I'm learning a lot about powerbuilding. I’m going to see if HermQ has any articles on that topic!

[PuranPandre-kjlb]

This video is gold! The discussion on rep ranges and muscle fiber types makes so much sense. I've been trying to balance strength and size, and it's tricky. I wonder how this fits into the different programs on HermQ, they have a ton of options for different goals.

[aabb-zdg]

Hey Mitch, just wanted to say that after years of back pain, your deadlift seminars helped me finally fix my form and get back to where I used to be strength-wise. Appreciate your content, LHBK.

[AdityaGarade-sxft]

Really appreciate the science-backed approach! The part about tendon strength is something I hadn't considered enough. I'm going to adjust my periodization. Anyone else using HermQ's program builder to customize their training?

[MC-epcu]

Thought you two did a collab got excited

[omergoktuggunes]

7:30 I think you have one point wrong:
There is no such thing as " slow twitch muscle respond better to high reps training" and " fast twitch fibers respond better to low reps". In the literature both ranges has been shown to be effective for both types of muscles. Also slow twitch muscle s hardly grow at all even when you train your calves it mostly the fast twitch part that grows.
But the physical implications of that styles do make sense both in a loading single joint isolation exercises are kinda injurious point but also due to something I heard from Dr mike istreatel:

Dr mike says that he used to count volume of a exercise not as sets x reps x weight but rather sets x reps x weight x distance/ ROM.
Basically the reason reps of below 5 not being really effective is that the time under tension is just too low. But when you grind really hard or the movement has a long range of motion sets of 5 and even 3 still produce the needed time under tension for optimal muscle grotwh.
The thing is that not all exercises and joints are created equal. Due to a exercise like calf raises having a very small total ROM if you put it to the Dr mikes volume equation the total comes upto be very low and you need to do more reps to get to the same time under tension as let's say 5 reps of squat. In that regard if squat has a range of motion twice as big as a calf raise than we can roughly say sets of 5 In a squat is the same time under tension as sets of 10 in a calf raise. By that logic unless youre competing for it training small rom muscles like forearms and calf for low reps seem not optimal and I very largely agree with Dr mike.

[matthews]

I feel like there are so many people who talk about how to get bigger muscles. I've given up on aesthetics though and just want to get strong. Seems like most Youtubers don't address that as much as the more 'bodybuilding' side

[BonytoBeastly]

Why would using heavy loads at high stretch cause injury? Pretty common to stretch your lats out at the bottom of heavy chin-ups, your hamstrings at the bottom of heavy Romanian deadlifts, your chest at the bottom of a bench press, your quads at the bottom of a squat, etc. Most muscles have big exercises that train them heavy under stretch.

[AntreasUplift]

Even though I am nobody in front of you and mike I would say that over emphasising stretch is not really a good idea when we speak about hypertrophy, if you open a few studies you will just realise that stretch mediate hypertrophy is just sarcomeres in the series which comes to an end after 5-6 weeks of training, so after that you just maintain your gains, what really build muscle is sarcomeres in parallel which is what we want to target and happens when we train close to failure, with high mechanical tension and high motor unit recruitment, so stretching all the time all that does is fatigues the muscle which leads to lower motor unit recruitment and lower gains. Great source in fact of influencers is chris which is a high lever researcher as well as some real pmid studies

[daltonmason]

Just saying, quad and beard game are both on point!

[Violaphobia]

What a great time to be an amateur, so much amazing and detailed info out here

[fritzb.]

Here’s something that I haven’t totally seen tied together: what exactly is strength? If it’s gymnastics style strength, that’s one thing. But, for moving stuff strength, at some point you need more body mass. So, pushing a truck strength it would seem to require hypertrophy of muscles, some hypertrophy of belly, strength and then technique. Then, there is Pavel, which depicts more of a performance, every day (plus military, mma, etc.) type of strength to be combined with what whatever activity you want to focus on.

Would be very interested a general overview of different sports and activities and the general optimal bulk vs strength is trained for those.

[nastynate]

I think you missed the mark on training frequency squatting 3 days a week and deadlifting 2 days a week is pretty standard for a large amount of drug free liters with elite strength. I still do it in my 40s. The trick is have 4 rest days per week also and not to do strongman on top of all that.

[gideonboots]

Agree with Mitch regarding periodization.. I'm 60 been training 40 years..by Gods grace I'm still getting extremely strong especially in deadlift.. however even when young I couldn't maintain training for strength more than 3-4 months at a time..Id end up losing strength... so Ive learned to cycle in Hypertrophy focus to give my CNS an extended time to recover over maybe 3-4 months then I go again with Strength focus.. it works.

[petesears]

Great vid, straight to the point, and the length was perfect for me, who has a limited attention span. Really, really informative.

[omergoktuggunes]

8:50 yeah it would absolutely destroy a huge strongman like you but it's likely that for smaller guys like Jeff high frequency is doable and it's very common practice in powerlifting circles. Last I checked world 66kg ipf champion pana was literally doing 5 BENCH SESSIONS a week. I am mostly a intermediate / advanced guy and even I can't properly recover from 3 good bench sesssions a week. I guess they are doing very low rpe work to keep it manageable otherwise espacially at the very top level this would be wildly unsustainable.