WHY IT TOOK ME 3 YEARS TO LIFT 5LBS MORE 🤡

[mattvena]

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[radreynolds]

I've started just adding more rest days in my training and it's made a world of difference. I no longer care about weeks, only sessions and groupings of sessions. Similar to how I stopped caring about waiting "3 minutes before the next set bro" and moved on to waiting until I'm recovered, I do the same with training. Low back is tight? Push the squats one day ahead. Rest and eat. My progress has certainly become slower, but much more predictable and less prone to wobbles.

[bigal]

The older I have gotten, the more I realize recovery and feeling good trumps everything. Doing a minimum amount of training and not feeling beat up the next day works best. Lee Haney said it best, stimulate, don't annihilate. The philosophy works well for powerlifting too.

[nh]

Incredibly interesting video actually. The fact that it took such a small amount of time to PR with that level of volume is crazy. My guess is the "sweet-spot" for volume changes a lot over time, and is usually somewhere between crazy high and crazy low volume.

[CruelEvisceration]

This video is on point in terms of content creation. In 3 mins you cover what normally gets padded out into a 10 mins video.

Thank you for your efficient presentation and quality information.

[joecowan]

Thanks Matt, enjoy your shorts but definitely enjoy these longer videos where you go into more detail where you analyze your training. This year I worked on my GPP a lot more and have been PR'n left and right during my peaking phase.

[Proxiginus]

So often do I put on your shorts and listen to them and then they play like 1000 more times because I'm doing something else so I'm glad you're making longer stuff. I can't recall you ever having a particularly bad take and you've def given me some good laughs. I don't know what exact content I'd want to see per se but I'm sure I'll be watching

[allenroy]

I'm 61 and I've had a coach drill the less is more approach into me.
I've been too proud of being able to handle heavy loads at high volume for a long time. Its been about 6 months and my coach asked me recently...
But are you stronger?
You're video here just confirms what certain smart people are trying to get through my thick skull .

[peeli]

keep going with the longer form stuff bro, you have a lot of good things to say and people should hear more of the nuanced stuff imo

[stephenstathis]

I love you did this because I had something similar happen to me over the course of 2021-2022.

Did my first powerlifting meet in January 2022. Hit an 1175 lb total. I used a high volume approach to prepare for this meet. If anyone has ever done cast iron strengths best fucking 12 weeks of powerlifting program you know.

After the meet, went on a minimal volume approach. Saw good results, the minute I decided to do another meet and go back to a high volume approach, I saw everything you just mentioned in the video above.

Now I use what I would call a “moderate volume, high intensity” approach. I bench and deadlift twice a week, and squat once a week because that’s all my body needs for squats (every time I’ve taken it beyond once a week, I get glute medius problems which I’m sure is “the glute injury” you’re talking about in your video.

All in all. Thanks for this Matt. I thought I was the only one lol

[philmalin]

I’ve been in the same loop you describe for a decade, chasing former weights and not getting close before injury and associated frustration - thank you for this. Keep the long form videos.
I would like a breakdown of your lifting, thoughts on RPE, I’m an older lifter (50) so content on that as well as variation vs the same lifts

[Giuseppe_Paolillo]

Agree with this approach. Just cause an engine can make it to 200km/h it doesn’t mean that’s sustainable on the long term. Love the long content.

[quinhahnarmstrong]

Always appreciate you telling your story love the longer format

[drednac]

I had shitty progress overal pretty much since day 1 .. but my progress improved when I started doing gym only twice a week total. I wasn't recovering from the sessions and I had pain all over the place. However my biggest mistake always seems to be load management. Every time I tried to do it "by the book" lift lighter and then get back to my original weight I just got weaker and I was so pissed. Anything below RPE8 feels like too easy, and then boom a grinder. I guess I am the non-curable ego-lifter.

[highproof]

I think the longer content is better but whatever you choose I’ll still be watching.

[kozmo]

Loving this style Matt

Great stuff and helps me think about my own training too

[RNRZ]

Thanks for making these long videos, very helpful!
Also, on a side note, I feel you would have PRd long ago, if you had found out about squat plugs early on.

[gaminikokawalage]

bruh 3 minutes is long form content. was very hyped for the premier tho

[Abandonedpolitics]

Solid video. This has me reflecting on my own progress and the fact that maybe, high volume training simply isnt compatible with my body. I think a slow grind towards the top is what its gonna have to be for me.

[mattvena]

1st
Another long video for the fans of those