Anonymous #2 1w

you can’t pull with your tricep lol

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Anonymous #4 1w

Sorry you know what lol I’ve been drinking

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Anonymous rangooner_of_crabs 6d

You are correct that a pump doesn’t really correlate with hypertrophy. The thing that causes a pump (blood flow and metabolites) is not the thing that causes hypertrophy (mechanical tension). I would urge you to not take advice from Dr. Mike though, he’s become increasingly less credible in recent years to the point of just spreading misinformation a lot of the time.

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Anonymous #4 6d

Hard disagree on that. His basic info is correct and what authority do you have 😭

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Anonymous rangooner_of_crabs 6d

My degree in kinesiology, and the fact that some of his stuff is incorrect at a very basic level. Him having a PhD doesn’t make him right about the basic stuff that is clearly wrong. For example, his overemphasis on the stretch when sarcomerogenesis cannot occur in most muscles, or his claim that smaller muscles recover quicker when we have data that show it isn’t true and that recovery is based mostly on fiber type (your quads recover faster than your biceps when given equal volume)

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Anonymous #4 6d

I can go on. Even if he has a PhD, it doesn’t make him automatically right. If Albert Einstein told you that 2+2=5, would you blindly listen because he’s a genius, or would you think a little bit more into it and realize that just because he is saying it, doesn’t mean it’s correct. When we have undeniable evidence and entry level facts that refute his statements, then his authority is irrelevant.

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Anonymous rangooner_of_crabs 6d

And I’m not saying ALL of his info is bad, but a lot of it is. His volume recommendations as well for example, are fucking absurd

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Anonymous #4 6d

I agree on your points about what is wrong. I will say you must not read very closely because I said basic points are correct for the average gymgoer. The way muscle building works, how to get into fitness and make progress, and translating into layman’s terms That being said I’m guessing your degree is a bachelors in kinesiology? You talk like you’re compensating for lack of authority

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Anonymous #4 6d

The more you learn about your field of expertise, the less a need to flex small tidbits that are unnecessary for a conversation

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Anonymous rangooner_of_crabs 6d

His basic points are also wrong. For example, his volume recommendations are absurd, the training style he preaches with a hyper emphasis on the eccentric and stretch is baseless, his commentary on recovery for specific muscles is objectively and factually wrong, and again, I can go on. These are the basic components of training that he is spreading misinformation on.

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Anonymous #4 6d

And not to be all “if you can’t lift heavy you don’t know what you’re talking about” because I think that line of thinking is stupid, but he’s 5’6” 240 pounds, on a shit ton of steroids, has dedicated his life to hypertrophy, but he can only bench 240x2? Are we fucking serious? It’s a great demonstration that either his training methodology doesn’t work, or if it does, he doesn’t follow it, because bodyweight x2 on bench is NOT hard, especially juiced

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