Hot off the press: Is auto-regulating volume better for hypertrophy? - With Dr. Jake Remmert - Ep. 218

So funny enough, this evolved a bit over time.

I'm trying to remember what year this was that we started thinking about this.

2023, I guess, something like that.

starting to kind of bat ideas around for my dissertation.

And I knew I wanted to do something with volume.

And originally my idea was to build off of a lot of the stuff people have been talking about in the field about, should we keep set numbers the same? Should we increase set numbers over time? What's going on with this? I'm like, okay, well, that's cool.

It's interesting.

And then I started to think about, well, what's the best way to do that? And a bunch of us in our lab were talking about it and At that point, we had kind of gotten a little bit past that initial, I'm sure you remember this, when those ideas first got introduced, people kind of ran with it in an extreme way.

And they were like, oh, I need to add sets to every exercise every week.

And we quickly figured out that didn't work very well.

It's too fatiguing.

So people started to be like, okay, well, add a set if you notice this.

And it got a little bit more auto-regulatory, right? So then I was like, huh, well, what if, is there a way to auto-regulate how we increase the sets? And then it's like, well, let's just look at auto-regulation because that's really what it is at the end of the day.

And was thinking about other research on auto-regulation.

And there is some on changing the weight on the bar for strength, not really much for muscle growth goals.

Like, well, that's the thing I care about the most.

So it kind of was a perfect storm after some conversations with my fellow lab mates and that this seemed like a really good direction to go to be directly applicable to what people do in the gym and also what I'm really interested in and also an area where there's not very much research so we can kind of get into some uncharted territory, which is fun.

Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

I am curious now.

Let's get into the study itself.

Can you tell us more about the population that you studied, the methods? Basically, can you introduce it to us to give us a picture of what you did, you and your team did? Of