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The Jay Ferruggia Show

The Top-5 Muscle Building Mistakes

The Jay Ferruggia Show

Jay Ferruggia

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Studies can be useful.

But there's no better way to know how to build slabs of muscle than to get in the trenches and do the work. 

Which is exactly what I've done for the past 28 years. 

I've helped countless men get jacked and become dominant in all the domains of their lives.

I've also learned what doesn't work.

And today I'm giving you the top-5 mistakes to avoid if you're looking to build muscle...

  • The Top-5 Muscle Building Mistakes. [0:42]
  • The best ways to alleviate your anxiety. [20:09]
  • Do you need to deload? [25:10]
  • How to make squats work for you. [27:07]

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. What is up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Renegade Radio. I am your host Jay Ferrujia. I have been a coach professionally for 28 years helping people get bigger, stronger, faster, leaner and become the most elite, strongest, most badass version of themselves. That is what we continue to do each and every week here on the show

0:26.0

we'll continue doing that today today's topic self-destruction

0:31.0

the KRS one there for you.

0:33.9

I don't know if anyone caught that.

0:35.7

It is the top five muscle building mistakes

0:37.8

that kill your gains.

0:40.8

So we're gonna get right into it guys. Number one, as I've said countless times, is doing too much volume.

0:49.0

People fail to make gains because they do too much.

0:52.0

There was a recent meta analyses, which is a... gains because they do too much.

0:52.7

There was a recent meta analyses,

0:54.5

which is a study of multiple studies.

0:56.3

Now, I am not Mr. Studies, right?

0:59.5

I prefer real world experience.

1:01.6

I like to get other coaches, colleagues, trainers,

1:05.5

in here and discuss it before the internet even existed.

1:09.8

Before social media existed,

1:11.8

this is how we gain knowledge.

1:14.1

We looked at successful coaches, what are they doing?

1:17.6

How are they achieving results?

1:19.2

Are they achieving similar results

1:21.2

with lots of people repeatedly? And that's how we would all gain knowledge.

1:25.0

You know, me starting in the early 90s and people in the 80s, 70s, 60, 50s before me, you know, we would talk about or talk to guys like George Hack and Schmidt

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