#934: Are Deloads Useless…? (w/ Researcher Max Coleman)
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Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Max Coleman is a Researcher, Trainer, and content creator who recently published a study that showed deloads are probably a waste of time… Which defies so much of what we’ve all believed for DECADES in the training industry. Because of that, we had to get him on to discuss his study and learn more about deloads as a whole!
Max dives deep into the importance and fundamentals of deloads. Deloads are periods when an individual takes a break from exercising. But what is the right way to do it? Is it more beneficial to take a whole week off or just reduce the training volume temporarily? Can every lifter benefit from deloads? Tune in to learn the answers to these and other questions!
Timestamps
[04:00] - Who is Max Coleman?
[11:31] - Max's perspective on the data provided by research;
[21:34] - Explaining the study: gaining more by doing less;
[30:39] - What were the goals of this research;
[39:45] - Deloads might not be needed for every lifter;
[52:41] - How Max's research connects with other types of research.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We do have evidence now, relatively clear evidence, that taking periods away from the gym |
| 0:05.0 | is not going to hurt you like that much, right? |
| 0:08.7 | So if you do have that client that's like, yeah, they're kind of half ass it in the gym, |
| 0:12.8 | they're only trained in two to three times a week. |
| 0:14.7 | Like, do they need a delode? |
| 0:16.7 | Probably not. |
| 0:17.7 | But if they come and ask you like, hey, I want to delode. Like, I'm not going to say no. |
| 0:21.3 | Like, I'm not going to say, no, you haven't earned your delode yet. |
| 0:23.9 | You don't get that. |
| 0:25.2 | It's clearly not going to hurt them to take a period away from the gym. |
| 0:28.5 | And it's a case-by-case basis because some individuals, they take a week off the gym, |
| 0:31.5 | it's really hard for them to be like, no, we probably shouldn't take a full week away. But most of the time, like, if someone comes to me, they're like, hey, I want a week away from the gym, I'd be like, why not? |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the tailored life podcast. Today's guest is Max Coleman. He is a researcher. He is a online coach. He is a trainer. He is |
| 0:57.9 | somebody who is his words, obsessed with getting jacked and learning everything he can about building |
| 1:03.7 | muscle. He studies under the goat of hypertrophy, literally the greatest fall time that is Brad |
| 1:08.8 | Schoenfeld, who is known for his hypertrophy research |
| 1:11.5 | and his influence in the training world and the hypertrophy world, bodybuilding space, all that |
| 1:15.5 | because he's probably conducted more research than anybody. He's been on the podcast for, |
| 1:19.1 | and this is one of his students, is one of his mentees, and he's gone to college with him. |
| 1:23.8 | He's become a professor under him, and he is a wealth of knowledge. And what he is about to tell you |
| 1:27.6 | today is that delodes do not help. They suck. They're not going to improve your results. They're not |
| 1:33.6 | going to help you get stronger. They're not going to help you build more muscle. It's actually quite |
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