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Today, let's talk about rep ranges and different exercises and different body parts and kind of

I want to give you my thoughts on how to optimize all of that.

Now, there is really, you know, there's been studies over the last several years where they show that anywhere between four and 30 reps can elicit hypertrophy and give you similar results.

I've always said for, you know, years and years and years and years.

And I was fortunate enough to when I got started when I got started in this industry back in the mid-90s that I learned

from the old school guys in 1996, a book called Dinosaur Training by Brooks Cuba came out,

and that was a huge influence.

And then I was turned on to all the, you know, a lot of the old five-by-five stuff,

Bill Starr and John McCallum and Dr. Randallel, Dr. Randall J. Strassen,

and even the old, I was able to, there's a guy named Bill Hinburn who published all the old

books from the early 1900s, the Bosco courses and Arthur Saxon stuff from 1906 and George Hackens Schmidt. So I don't even

know how or why, but I was turned on to all that stuff early. So I only spent a few years wasted

doing high rep kind of bodybuilding stuff. And then I got into lower rep heavy training. And it was,

it was great. And it, you know, changed everything for me. So I've been a big five to eight rep guy for years and years and years.

I really do find that to be the sweet spot for most people most of the time.

Now, the majority of my clients and probably people listening these days tend to be over 40.

And we tend to have mileage on us.

My ideal clients are not newbies.

They're not guys who are just climbing off the couch and, you know, brushing Doritos off

of their chest because they can't get motivated and they need someone to diaper them

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