And the Welcome back to the Stronger by Science Podcast. I'm Greg.

I am Pac. And I'm Milo.

And we have another great episode for you today with our brand new hosting lineup. And in this episode we'll be discussing the research around

very high volume training. So not just the effects of training volume on muscle growth, but whether there might be

efficacy to going 20, 30, maybe even 40 sets per week, looking at what the research has to say about that.

And you know, we'll do kind of a looser intro in a little bit,

but just to start this episode, I want to give a little bit of context for why this

is an important and surprisingly contentious topic these days.

So the background context here is that there are broadly speaking two camps

when it comes to training for muscle growth.

On one hand there are people who generally promote

training volume as the most important variable for muscle growth,

pointing out that research does generally support the idea that higher training volumes tend to cause more muscle growth at least to a point.

On the other hand, there are people in what used to be called the high intensity training camp.

You know, people have rebranded some of those ideas now, but, you know, folks who generally promote lower training volumes, but training very close

to failure or past failure, that is, broadly speaking, the other camp camp and those folks generally are of the perspective

that muscle growth largely comes from training very close to failure or maybe even

past failure per set and that in order to even be able to

tolerate high training volumes that's just evidence that you're not putting

enough effort into each set and that you're doing a bunch of so-called junk volume.

So very close to failure, very hard sets, but

considerably lower training volumes.

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