Okay, welcome everyone to a new episode of the Jeff Nippard podcast. This is the fifth and final installment

of the How Hard Should You Train miniseries, and in this one I'm speaking with Greg Nuckles. Of course,

similar to the others, we don't only talk about how hard you should train. We also touch on a lot of

related topics like the usefulness of our PE, injury risks associated with maxing out, where the low-end

intensity threshold for maximizing

muscle growth might be the volume versus intensity debate and individual differences in ideal rep ranges.

And as a quick reminder up front, if you're not up on the terminology, RPE just stands for

rating of perceived exertion. And as we use it here, it essentially just ranks how hard your set was on a scale of 1 to 10.

So an RPE of 10 would mean you reached failure with good form.

An RPE9 means you could have done one more rep. RPE8 means you could have done two more reps, and so on.

And as always, I'll have timestamps to all these topics down below in case you want to jump around. And after this, I've got a really great interview with physical therapist Dr. Sam Spinelli

on posture, pain, and related issues.

So you guys can stay tuned for that.

And without further ado, I give you my full discussion about how hard we should train

with Greg Knuckles.

So I want to ask you the question I've been asking everyone lately, which is how hard is that we should be training in the gym?

All right, so if I sound robotic, almost as if I'm reading off a script, that's because I am.

So it really depends on the lifter, the exercise, and what you're hoping to accomplish, and you can look at it kind of from two different

perspectives, both how hard should you push each set and also kind of how much training

volume should you be doing.

So I'm going to start with the former.

For pure hypertrophy training, I think your best bet is generally to be pretty close to failure.

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