Do Partial Reps Build More Muscle? (Lengthened Partials Explained) | Dr. Milo Wolf
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
00:00 - Intro: Is Milo Batman or Robin?
01:00 - How he finished a PhD young (23 YO BABY 💥)
06:30 - Why Milo chose to study exercise physiology
11:49 - What got Milo into lifting?
16:30 - Bulking mistakes: why big surpluses usually mean mostly fat gain
26:30 - How Milo started studying ROM as it's related to hypertrophy
38:45 - Not all partials are equal: stretch-position vs squeeze-position
44:30 - How Milo feels being assigned "The Stretch Guy"
49:50 - Milo's principled protocol for max hypertrophy
56:00 - Rep standardization: partials vs full ROM; Tempo and injury prevention
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the RP Strength Podcast. I'm Nick Shaw, joined by there's always a PhD on here with me. |
| 0:11.0 | Dr. Milo Wolf, second time being on the RP podcast, first time you were with the, you know, |
| 0:18.2 | so Dr. Pack was just on and I asked him this question. So I want to get your take. You guys are kind of like Batman and Robin. Who's Batman? Who's Robin, you think? Man, much to my disappointment, I would say I'm Robin. I'm no one gets shit down behind the scenes, but I don't want to, you know know I don't take the credit I'm uh I'm more |
| 0:37.5 | low key I would say so yeah let's put it that way that's funny um what did you say on a |
| 0:43.2 | curiosity uh I shoot so that was two days ago I thought he gave an answer where he was kind of |
| 0:50.7 | rob which I think is like kind of the best thing when like each person's like ah you know we're |
| 0:53.9 | kind of you know I think that's is kind of the best thing when like each person's like, ah, you know, we're kind of, you know, I think that's how. Sidekick. Yeah, no, no, that's good. And then he proceeded to give you a lot of credit in that, um, so you got a PhD when you're like 25, was that? 23, actually. Oh, 23. Yeah, okay. well, I was doing the end of service there. Underselling me. |
| 1:11.7 | That's pretty wild that's pretty unusual right so in the states maybe it's a little bit |
| 1:19.2 | different in the UK I'm not really sure but um you had a four years undergrad in the US and then usually |
| 1:25.7 | was it like another three years so it's kind of like seven years once you're done with high school in the U.S. And then usually, was it like another three years? |
| 1:30.0 | So it's kind of like seven years once you're done with high school. |
| 1:31.9 | And the U.S. is my understanding. |
| 1:37.6 | So that would put most people at 25-ish or so on the early side. |
| 1:39.9 | Because you might have some masters in there as well, potentially. |
| 1:43.5 | So how did you do it by 23? Yeah, it's a common question, I guess. |
| 1:46.0 | So I don't want to make it seem like I got it done because it was particularly smart or anything. |
| 1:52.0 | What happened was in Europe, or at least in some countries in Europe, like in Belgium, where I grew up, the school system, you get put into a year based on the date of birth. |
| 2:02.9 | And basically, if you're born between January 1st and December 31st, you're in one school year, |
| 2:07.3 | when one grade, right? I was born on December 28th, which means that when I graduated high |
| 2:13.2 | school, I was 17. I was going to turn 18 a few months later, but I was still 17. |
| 2:20.3 | So I started college, I guess, you would call it, at 17. |
| 2:26.0 | Finished my undergrad by age 20 at Loughbury University, which is like highly decorated for sports science, whatever. |
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