Exercise Non-Responders & Inter-Individual Differences

This video discusses whether exercise "non-responders" exist, how much inter-individual differences can impact adaptations to strength training, endurance training and concurrent training as well as some simple practical advice for you to take away.

References:
- Refuting the myth of non‐response to exercise training: ‘non‐responders’ do respond to higher dose of training
- Heterogeneity in resistance training-induced muscle strength and mass responses in men and women of different ages
- Inter-individual variability in the adaptation of human muscle specific tension to progressive resistance training.
- Individual responses to combined endurance and strength training in older adults
- Variability in muscle size and strength gain after unilateral resistance training.
- There Are No Nonresponders to Resistance-Type Exercise Training in Older Men and Women

[jassu]

Great video man. Always short and simple!

[EnderEd]

Good bid as usual. Thanks! I trained 3 high schoolers together, same program, for 4 months, all fitness newbies. One a significant outlier with unusual, quick size and strength increase. While the other 2 progressed expectedly, one did more so with upper body strength, the other with lower.

[ranmasaotome]

Your channel is super underrated. You make great videos.

[jarilo]

Everyone should know about this. When people go online and say stuff like they don't make progress on SS 3x5 or SL 5x5 and people tell them to work harder and eat more when they are eating in a 1000 calorie surplus and training to failure each set isn't productive. I responded like crap(almost no response and negative response half the time) to low reps and high intensity linear progression programs. Since I've switched to higher volume work with low rest times and I've seen far better results in a fraction of the time.

[Crazywaffle]

I gain nothing on my biceps. My chest is the only thing that has ever responded. I do have a pituitary adenoma.

[dontreadmyname]

so the non-responders in that study did actually respond to higher training frequency (more training sessions per week)?

[naemanmalik]

I have been noticing and yelling about this to many frnds at the gym who train together.. Almost always, one grows and other dsnt.. Bt they just dnt listen to their bodies to knw what suits them.

[Fizniperal]

tl;dw= there are no non-responders, just slow ones!