The natty legend has spoken, he says if you don't continue lifting heavy into your 30's you're only going to detioriate with age

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He seems pretty loony but I think he may be right on this one tbh

My body never felt like more chit when I decided to “take it a little easy” with lifting. Been back to doing hard sets of deadlifts and other lifts and I’m feeling great again

3 mins in he makes a pretty good point. I'm not sure what purpose there is to ever going over 8-10 reps.

I think one of the best indicators of total body health is the ability to do a complete barbell back squat with a reasonable load and good form.

of course this is relative depending on size/age/other factors,

but in general I think anyone of any age under 75 should be able to back squat 225 lbs with good form if they weigh more than say ~175 lbs

I agree. I hurt my back at work and it didn't fully heal until I started deadlifting heavy again. Doctor said I bulged a disc and sprained a ligament in my spine. With good form, heavy lifting is going to strengthen the muscles and also the connective tissues like ligaments and tendons. I was pain free and felt stable again after I got my strength back up... Before that it felt off

Glucosamine and Chondroitin for all the oldcels.

****s life changing on joints. Srs

Yeah nah this dude is a quack. He looks like some sort of botox addict too.

I don't see the point in training in the under 6 rep range. It's the opposite of what you want to do for muscle growth. In fact, the people who train like I do are still living in their 80s+ with no complaints of joint issues.

I'm lean and aesthetic year round. I'm putting on weight year after year. I have been training with 0 joint issues for years. Granted, I'm only 32. The only injury I have had was when i was doing heavier weight and 1-3 reps. At least, I think that's when I got this injury (inguinal hernia). But it's almost never an issue for me. The only time I ever complain about it is if i eat too much in one sitting I'll get minor discomfort. I'll get it repaired eventually.


I suggest you guys follow the simple approach some of the most aesthetic dudes throughout BBing used: do feeler sets til you get to your max working set. push out as many reps as you can. ideally you want 8-12. full intensity. then you will drop the weight and do 2-5 more sets of that exercise with focus on the stretch and squeeze.

Essentially it goes

>pick exercise
>lat pulldowns
>select 120lbs
>do 2 reps and gauge how it felt
>select 200lbs
>do 2 reps and gauge how it felt
>Decide you will go with 240lbs and try to hammer out as many as possible. full intensity. If the last however many reps are sloppy who cares.
>get 11 reps
>drop the weight down to 200-220 and perform 2-5 sets. This is the part where you focus on those well performed reps. Sometimes on my last set i will push through til i get to 20 reps or something.


Same concept as him which is lift heavy, except I'm lifting heavy for muscle hypertrophy.

I had nagging rotor cuff pain and took it easy on bench and OHP for a few weeks, got worse. I decided to just slowly warm up to a working weight and lift heavy-ish. Pain was much better the next day and I was back to normal the following week. There's probably a fine line between aggravating your injuries and rehabilitating them. Since your body eventually starts breaking down, seems plausible lifting heavy with the best form you can will build yourself back.

BPC-157 is a lot better.

To his point he’s not saying to do this for muscle growth but for tendon, bone, joint health etc