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#35 - How Much Training Volume Do You Need? ft. Dr. Mike Israetel

The Jeff Nippard Podcast

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The Hypertrophic Response Isn't All It's Made Up to Be

There's this camp of people, i feel like the're a little bit more on the periphery in the scientific community, but they'd argue that volume isn't really all it's made up to be. What's more important is taking sets to momentary muscular failure. And provided you're taking sets to muscular failure, you don't need to accumulate a whole lot of volume,. because you can max out the hypertrophic responsem so there's a few researchers in particular, fisher and steele, who've kind of made this argument again and again. But every single review of the literature has been done shows that volume is actually more important than relative intensity. So if you go to failure,

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