#185: Bret Contreras: The Science of Muscle Building

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Jay Ferruggia

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🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Get ready to get jacked. My guest today is “The Glute Guy,” Bret Contreras. He’s a renowned fitness expert who knows quite a bit about the science of building muscle and getting strong.

Bret has made an incredible transformation with his own body and has helped thousands of others do the same. He has the unique ability to blend science, real world experience and critical thinking. This leads to great advice and even better training programs.

I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this fast paced discussion with Bret on every aspect of training we could cover in an hour.

Topics Discussed Include:

How heavy should you lift?
Is training to failure helpful or harmful?
Should you do full body workouts or splits?
The low frequency myth of body part splits.
What’s the optimal volume per muscle group?
What’s the optimal frequency per muscle group?
Low reps vs. medium reps vs. high reps. What’s best?
Is getting a pump necessary? Does it cause muscle growth?
How much muscle damage should you cause in your workouts?
The importance of muscular tension, and how to create it optimally.
Submaximal higher volume training vs. high intensity, lower volume training.
And so much more.

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0:00.0	What is up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the worldwide
0:18.2	phenomenon known as the Renegade Radio Podcast. I am J Farugia here to help you unleash your
0:24.2	strongest self with my guest today, Brett Contreras. And you guys are going to
0:30.2	love this episode if you love all discussions all things about
0:34.0	getting big getting strong getting jacked we are talking about the science of
0:38.9	muscle growth a K a hypertrophy today.
0:42.6	We're talking about real world experience.
0:45.7	We're talking about critical thinking.
0:47.6	Frequency, volume, intensity, training to failure,
0:51.2	submaximal training, everything you could imagine, Brett and I discuss, and you're
0:55.4	going to love it.
0:56.6	This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens.
1:01.8	I thought it green is something that's really helped me me out a lot of other people over the last few years
1:05.7	to get to the next level.
1:06.8	You never know what's going to come up during your day when you're out in the world,
1:10.2	but with one scoop of athletic greens and you wake up or you add it to your morning smoothie,
1:14.2	you have all your bases covered. It's quick, easy, taste great, much more than just another greens product.
1:19.6	It is the most complete Whole Food supplement with 75 ingredients working together to help with 11 different areas of health and it is the bomb son.
1:29.4	As a listener of this podcast you get a special deal go to athletic greens.com
1:35.0	slash J-A-Y to claim your special offer.
1:39.5	We are also sponsored by Kettle and Fire.
1:46.5	For a lot of talk about bone broth lately.
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