Favorite Line: "I can't tell if you're trolling me", epic. Great episode, love everything with Dr. Mike. This is a must see.

"I'm contractually under obligation to say it's a pleasure." I'm storing that gem and appropriating that!

On muscle building from 9:29

LMFAO dude I love mike so much, he's fucking hilarious

“Don’t say it doesn’t work. You suck.” I love it. Handle your shit and then get back to work. I have an insane work schedule for one month a year where I don’t stress about my progress. But as soon as it’s over, I prioritize recovery and get back to where I left off.

Wow, this is the first JuggLife episode I've watched and I will be returning. Great information here.

Everytime I watch Dr. Mike I become paranoid that I'm doing things wrong.

Yo, I'm one of those 17 listners ! please, keep making podcast. We love them over here.

I listened to this on the podcast. Loved it. Y'all keep that podcast going, I like this regular stuff. Can't wait for more.

Your channel ist awesome. Thank you for putting all this out fo free!

This podcast was brilliant !!! Informative,humorous and straight to the point ! Could watch you guys speak all day. Keep them coming Chad !

As a Personal Trainer about to get my certifications this channel is a godsend, amazing info thank you so much

Quality, every damn time. Jugg talks, we should all listen

Love the JuggLife episodes! Thanks guys! Hope to see you all at the Arnold :D

A lot of information in this episode. Great break down of program design. Thanks guys!

Beard looks good on Dr Mike

Awesome stuff guys! I am a strength and conditioning coach at the high school level. I point my kids in your direction often! keep it coming!

All hail to king of hypertrophy Mike Israetel !

Yes, that was good. Free quality info from muscle and nutrition brainiacs. Looking forward to more podcasts from JuggLife. Thank you.

Just have Mike on the podcast every week, tons of great information

"Strength Nerds of the Internet" Feel like this is somewhat directed at me. hahaha

38:06 I cant tell if you are trolling me 😂😂😂

"Is this the best youtube channel ever? Of fucking course it is the fucking best fucking youtube fucking channel fucking ever fucking fuck" -Mike Israetel

Ok guys who the hells needs to go to a comedy club when you can get all in one video. Laughs, nutrition, programming and so much more. Great job you guys. I have to go before my head explodes.

Great info guys love it!

"Technique is a crutch for the talent-less" fucking gold man

Fantastic content! So good!

"Fuck all these advanced terms, it's about how big your muscles are" This is why I love Mike, he has a Phd in sport physiology so he can say that and still be right

This information is Gold.

upload all of them!

By far one of the best KZfaqchannels about Powerlifting .... @Juggernaut Training Systems

Understanding that swing from MEV to MRV during a cycle explains so many of my training experiences :[]

More bodybuilders need to listen to this guy. It seems like powerlifters and weightlifters are the only ones that know how to and value programming

Mike is a funny guy. "I can't tell if you're trolling me" hahaha

At 37:43 I legitimately thought Mike said, "that would be so swag." I had to replay that at least 5 times.

The last podcast caused quite a stir on the WA state USAPL page lol. I think you are absolutely right in everything you've said. Also I am going to be lifting at the Juggernaut Winter Open this Sunday and I hope to meet you!

I heard Greg Nuckols is on glutamine

This guy can finish your 10000 character essay in one breath. Clutch

good stuff.. keep up the pod cast...

Awesome info! Can't wait til my copy of the scientific principles of strength training comes in

50:12 🙌 Loved this episode.

i don't see this posted as a podcast on the feed. can it be posted pls.

I have been a subscriber to this channel for a while and it is the best objective information out there. Do not know how I trained with out it. I wish I could see these guys when they come to NY in a few weeks.

I like Mike better with a beard and his longer hair here.

This was fun to listen to :).

I forgot Max was in the room when listening to the podcast Obviously, he was only in this one to be eye candy for the video

My two favorite things, exercise science and jiu jitsu. Dr. Isratel is my hero. I also do not like the USAPL. And Maximum Max Montana is a cool name. Basically the three best friends anyone could have! Just like the hangover.

My training is basically: Monday - Deadlifts and assistance exercises Wednesday - Bench Press and assistance exercises Friday - Squats and assistance exercises I use no anabolic steroids or growth hormone. I find it hard to recover doing the powerlifts more than once a week. Any thoughts?

I love how much Max and Mike hate each other

"You're in charge of your own training" 51:50..... Yeah! Preach it Doc! Absolutely right on the money.....except that there are so few people who actually read, listen, understand, apply and tune in to their own bodies to feel and gauge the responses to the stimuli. What you're saying is spot on, but people want a program spoon fed to them with some kind of magic formula.....

Fav part: 41:10 LOL I love Mike great sense of humor, "I don't even need to be paid for that "😂

I was under training for years. for example benching min 95lbs when I have it in me to rep 135lbs lol so great advice on MRV and MVE. I found my sweet spot way too late, but at least I found it. I'm a little work horse.

i found your videos there all so ridiculously interesting thank you

Knowledgeable... and hilarious :)

can confirm: I worked up to a max of 27 sets of squat variants a week for the last couple of months, and am falling apart. my deadlifting has suffered, my accessories have suffered, my upper back has suffered. in particular my calves and adductors are just constantly sore. Listen to this advice people! when you stop responding to high volume training, dont just keep increasing the numbers; take some time off to heal and desensitise, rather than just trying to grind out another block that you wont respond to

Are the other episodes on KZfaq?

Mike why do you use the floating rang fof volume between 10 and 24 sets when all sets are not equal? If you trainimg trples and 85%; volume 6

TEAM JACOB CHECKING IN

Put the option of subtitles , please..

would be great if u posted all ur podcasts on the KZfaqs !

can you do a video/podcast about whether rubbing lacrosse balls into every part of your body is worth it from a scientific perspective?

Is Mike’s RP T-shirt for sale somewhere? Can’t seem to find it

Does anyone know if this is available on spotify? Been trying to find it to download for wifiless walks

You should really get Jeremy Loenneke on the show, I think he could provide a deeper insight of his concept and his philosophy regarding his 1RM approach. And this isn't something he has just made out of a single study... like the rest of the community, he thought that volume would augment strength, but after looking through all the studies, and doing several studies himself on the topic, he changed his mind. To quote him: ''for example here we thought that the added volume/practice would augment strength..it didn't...so we followed up a different study (pending) looking at a similar idea...and it didn't again. As for the muscle size, you'd have to design a study where both conditons maximally grow but you minimize strength (something like No-Load supports this in part) to show that theres not a direct link there. If muscle gowth was contributing, you'd expect strength to be similar. You'd then have to design a study that maximize strength and minimized growth in a group of people who are capable of meaningfully growting. If you could knockout growth but still have similar performance it would again suggest that "other factors" are contributing. This obviously isn't going to be solved by any one study but it is a question that I think is worth exploring...particularly since there seem to so many issues with the proposed model of "neural first and then growth".'' '' I think the concept is, strength is specific...so if your "strength" is a big 1RM...then you should probably be training close to the 1RM. I think if muscle growth plays a role with strength, then it would make sense to ensure you were having sufficient volume within a session to maximize growth. The problem is, the evidence that the change in muscle size with training (as an adult) has a causative role with the change in strength is surprisingly weak/non-existent...despite it being largely gospel.''

good shit fellas

curious if ever tried training 20-30 reps to failure? cross checking what jerry branium said about a study, alegedly, old and young people tested in two diff studies, and as long as they went to failure, (20-30 reps) they had the same muscle growth as the regular 65-85 percent of 1rm group...i find this interesting cuz i have been training almost 6 years non stop, and i have done something similar but not as high ,i typically hit 15 -20 reps alot saving 10 reps for db benching, and pull ups, where as flys and rows stayed up around 15-20 , stil regardless of age , i wonder if i can find this study , because if they are all newbies then it really didnt matter what they did ..so now i guess im off to find the study lol , you guys are great and i really appreciate all the work you guys put in, thank you for your time, and passion to get real answers to us in the fitness community, i am not a fan of cross fit or anything like that, but i think it would be cool if someone would invent some kind of branch off from body building or training in general and make a competitive sport out of it , who can get the biggest pump! lol one versus one, flip a coin , winner chooses muscle, then each lifter has 10-20 mins to get the biggest pump in that particular muscle then compare, and if thats to short of a competition , you could keep going to the next muscle,the opposite lifter picking the next muscle, you can categorize each match with diff themes, upper body, lower body, push , pull , ect. i think this would be a strategic competitive event, pre grame would be a factor as well, how hydrated you are, pre game carb meal, supplementation, right and while the competition is going on you can discuss with the audience what each lifter did pre workout, and comentary lol or something like that idk it just came to mind just now, it has competion and helps spread knowledge, from nutrition, supplementation, exercise selection, form , diff tech in practical application, like blood flow restriction , super sets , drop sets, stuff like that , i deff think it would interesting to watch ,

Really interesting video. Is there any video explaining how to implement the concept of MAV and MRV in Strength programs? I guess you count the volume of each lift, but what are some guidelines regarding reps per set, RPE etc. I think it will be a bit lower for big lifts like the squat and the deadlift cause 20 sets of squats or especially deadlifts per week would be an overkilled.

In a powerlifting context, are you still using the MRV concept per body part or are you doing it per exercise? For example, instead of 12 sets of chest 12 sets of bench per week. Intuitively, something like cable crossovers after bench would be less of an impact on recovery. So which should you base it off? Thanks! Great content

Hi JTS, thanks for the information. Is MRV only for hypertrophy training volume or does it also count fort strenght training like olympic weightlifting? And how can i calculate my MRV? Thanks

Great stuff. Just started implementing these principles after reading your book. I am left with one question in regards to tracking volume. Dr Mike mentions sets per week. But a set of 10 is obviously different than a set of 5. So I guess using Sets x Reps x Weight is a good way to track volume. But what exercises are included? For example, when tracking volume for a certain muscle group such as shoulders, it becomes confusing. Shoulders get worked during your main bench, bench variations, accessories, and the direct Shoulder work itself. Do you count all of these when tracking volume for Shoulder work? Or would tracking Shoulder specific work be more ideal? Hope this makes sense.

Awesome Podcast, when Mike speaks of MRV he seems to do so from a weekly perspective, is that because he only hits these muscle groups/exercises once a week? I assume I should calculate from one Squat(Quads/Glutes) session to another and likewise with every other muscle group?

What time is he talking about "volume desensitize"?

I have a question, if you increase the number of sets during hypertrophy mesocycle, do you also use any other principle of progresive overload in those sets? like, number of reps or weight increase every week, or stick with same weight for whole mesocycle and only increase sets? THX (sorry for my english, )

There needs to be a JTSU (Juggernaut Training Systems University) lol

Excellent commentary, very interesting. I was wondering about your statement of cross sectional muscle area being the most important aspect of strength. On a different video you talked about being weaker at the end of a hypertrophy block in terms of 1RM than at the end of a peaking phase. Presumably your muscle fibre cross-sectional area is greatest post hypertrophy phase, so isn't this a bit contradictory?

36:36 just lol my gains out!

Is it available on Spotify?

Mike getting himself all riled up lol

At 1:13:08 when he says it's all camera muscles he flexes his chest xD

oh yea!

great podcast. can we get these somewhere other than the Apple store/iTunes ?

i wish this was available on any other platform than itunes. I would be nice to listen to while doing cardio. (walking the dog).

First!.. First to learn.

36:20 - 38:25, funniest part of the podcast

Any thoughts on how Arnold was able to become so great. By looking at his routines, he seems to exceed the volume, which greatly exceeds any reasonable MRV?

When talking about starting at MEV, moving through MAV and coming up against MRV as part of a cycle, Dr. Israetel only really talks about it in terms of added sets (e.g. 15 sets, than 17 sets, then 19 sets) but doesn't really speak about added weight instead or in conjugation with sets as a way to increase total volume. What is the reason for this? Is it wrong to see a progression from, say, 4x8 at 205 bench to 4x8 215 the next week as a increase in volume, or is it that it would be seen as better/more productive to increase volume by going to 5x8 at 205 instead? Does it matter if your goal is just mass, or mass and strength at the same time?

when legends meet

I have been on the dark side of MRV. My max deadlift is over 300kg and I was supposed to do some romanian deadlifts on 240kg. I didn't even want to touch a barbell loaded with 160 to warm up. I felt anxious and ready to cry at any time. :) On another note. You talk alot about sets, but how about intensity and reps? Is a set of 6 at 75% of 1rm about as taxing as a set of 10 at 60% or a set of 2 at 85%? Do you have any guidelines for that or is it very individual?

I'm a fireman for 2 different Fire departments, so my sleep isn't consistent around half of the time, I do decent with my meals, not always ideal, but the best I can. With my sleep the way it is at work, the stress of the physical aspect of the job and the things I see from time to time, would my MRV be considered "floating", and what can I do to manage the fluctuations, or should I not be concerned with that?

When Dr. Mike is talking about finding MRV and number of sets per week, is he talking about max sets on one group of muscles, like quads for example, or is he talking about comp squat for powerlifting? Could he handle 12 sets of hard comp squat per week in addition to say, hard leg press, or would it be maybe 6 sets of hard comp squat or 6 sets of hard leg press?

Damn. Throwing some serious shade there.

does the super compensation happen during over reaching week or during deload week?

How would i calculate the volume for a dumbbell exercise like dumbbell chest press? Is the weight both of the dumbbells or one? Also, how do i calculate the volume for a timed set and paused variations? Thank you!

These three haha, my ears are moist

I think Dr. Mike has a 75.8679% chance of being my hero. Bonus points for "IQ dick".

"...if not one, many, many grains of salt" made me LOL

Cross sectional area for the win.

Can someone timestamp this? I’m here to hear about deloading.

I couldn't tell they were joking about Greg. I was like "Oh shit! Worldstar!"

You guys are super legit, always dropping all different types of great technical knowledge, and on top of that you're freaking hilarious. Chad's my favorite but everyone is great. I love this channel