Q: You recently said to ignore influencers’ workout advice on Instagram. But you’ve had their exercises in some of your newsletters. I’m not sure I understand the message.
A: I’m not saying to completely ignore the advice of Internet influencers. You can get some interesting and often helpful muscle-building tips to try—like this from biomechanics expert Paul Carter (liftrunbang1)…
However, you need to be selective. Use your understanding of the biomechanically ideal exercises and how optimal resistance curves work (in both OMYM and OMYM2)…
And use common sense. For example, if an influencer suggests that you sip your own urine between sets because it worked for him, DELETE.
Seriously, there is some decent advice out there, but a lot of it is conjecture at best and dangerously incompetent at worst.
Some may even have studies to back up their advice, but there may be studies that show the opposite…
One example in Old Man, Young Muscle 2 is rest between sets. Influencers are saying the studies show that resting 2 to 3 minutes between sets gets better results than resting only 1 minute….
They conclude that longer rests produce better hypertrophy results…
But I discuss a study in OMYM2 that shows 20 seconds between sets produced slightly better hypertrophy than longer 2-to-3-minute rests—and short rests meant much less time in the gym.
So perhaps 1 minute wasn’t short enough to get the “extended-set, fast-twitch-activation” effect as shown in the OMYM2 workout.
Note: There was no pee ingestion involved that study.
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