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Lifting Only 3 Days A Week For Maximum Gains - How To Gain Muscle & Strength With Greg O'Gallagher

More Plates More Dates

More Plates More Dates

Health & Fitness, Science, Education, Self-improvement

4.9806 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

So we have your blood work as far as like the whole natural thing.

0:02.6

You were talking about how it annoyed you and your mid-20s and whatnot.

0:05.4

But before that, I think talking about your training is kind of interesting.

0:09.2

And I don't really talk about training on my channel very much.

0:11.6

I think it's worthwhile, especially somebody who's achieved like a great natural physique and has kind of what many may see is or not understand as far as like training philosophies and like how you

0:22.5

regiment it like you mentioned you do like the reverse pyramid training and like low volume

0:27.1

three days a week you know seems kind of counterintuitive potentially to some people who are new

0:31.3

to the gym and just think you're supposed to like more equals better so like what is the general

0:36.2

breakdown of your splits and has this remained

0:40.0

consistent over the years that you found to work the best? Like, I know you've talked about your

0:44.7

first working set should be like your heaviest set, obviously, because that's when you have

0:49.0

the most ability to tolerate load and you have the most like the least fatigue and obviously at some point

0:56.4

though you work like you do like work up like feeder sets that are just like a minimal amount

1:02.7

of I don't warming up just to like get the area like circulation in there and get you know

1:07.9

the ready get yourself ready for that heavy top set?

1:11.9

Yeah. What's like the process? So I mean, you know, I'll all like preface and say that I've

1:17.0

been very into working out in fitness since I was 13 years old. I started lifting weights at 13

1:22.0

years old. I got heavy. I would be buying fitness books at the store online, ordering, like there are websites

1:28.2

of fitness people like Ross animate way back of the day where you could order and they ship

1:33.0

you their their fitness book. I was obsessed with this stuff at a very, very young age, started doing

1:38.1

weighted chin-ups at 14, 15. I actually achieved my first one-arm chin-up at 15 or 16 years old,

1:43.8

which I was stoked. I was doing like 80 pound weighted chin-up at 15 or 16 years old, which I was stoked.

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