Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.

We took a short break, but now we're back.

And I can't think of a better conversation than what I want to discuss now.

Today, I want to focus on a problem I see in the gym all the time.

But before you think this is just about lifting weights, it's about so much more. I've told

you about how I feel when I see people doing half reps or cheating on their exercises, this is

different. These people are doing the full motion, three sets of 10 reps and a full stretch and a flex.

From the outside, everything looks truly fantastic, but this isn't about the form.

The problem isn't cheating themselves, is that the 10th rep looks just like their first rep, easy.

And then the next week, they'll come back and do the same three sets of 10 reps.

And they're going through the full motion but that's it they're just going

through the motions growth doesn't come from easy reps your growth comes from the hard reps

the ones where you struggle sometimes the ones where you fail i've told the story hundreds of times

about when i asked uh mohammed ali how many sit-ups he does a day, he didn't know because he said,

I only count once they start hurting. We became friends immediately. This is something I've

preached for six decades. And finally, the scientists have caught up with me. Look at these three

recent studies. A study showed that mechanical tension

is the primary driver of muscle growth. Not motion, not sweat, tension. If the reps are easy,

the muscle has no reason to change. The muscle grows only when the load forces it to fight for every inch.

Research has found that sets taken close to failure produced dramatically more growth than

sets stopped early, even when total reps were the same.

Translation, 10 easy reps do almost nothing, while 10 reps were the last two to three are brutal, send the

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