Episode 20 - When It Comes to Training Volume, More is Better feat. James Krieger
The Jeff Nippard Podcast
Jeff Nippard
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🗓️ 17 February 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this episode James Krieger, MSc discusses with Jeff:
-how many sets are best for maximizing hypertrophy?
-is there a point at which adding more training volume is detrimental for gains?
-how important is training to failure?
-is it better to space volume out across the week with higher frequency training or have more per-session volume?
-the value of relative vs absolute volume for hypertrophy
-why James' 2010 meta-analysis on volume survives criticism
-hints about some unpublished research from James and Brad Schoenfeld on training volume and hypertrophy
...and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the ice cream for PR's podcast. My name is Jeff Nippard. |
| 0:05.5 | And joining me this week, I've got a gentleman James Krieger on the line. So James is the founder of Weightology LLC, |
| 0:14.8 | which is a subscription-based research review that I strongly recommend. He actually holds two master's degrees, so one in |
| 0:22.9 | nutrition and the other in exercise science. He's worked with some of the some |
| 0:28.9 | pretty big names from the founder of the Sylvan Learning Center, the vice |
| 0:35.0 | president of Costco as in the grocery chain, and also the former vice president |
| 0:41.4 | of MSN. So some pretty decent credentials there in terms of coaching clients. And James is also |
| 0:49.5 | a published author, so he's published work in scientific journals, including the Journal of Clinical Nutrition. |
| 0:56.0 | And he's written over 250 articles on training and nutrition. |
| 1:01.0 | So it's a real pleasure to have you on the podcast, James. |
| 1:04.0 | So thanks for joining us. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 1:07.0 | For sure. |
| 1:08.0 | So before we get into things, and I do want to talk to you mostly about training volume |
| 1:14.3 | today, I was just wondering, do you have any current fitness related goals for yourself? |
| 1:18.4 | Like I know you did a physique contest probably a few months ago, was it now? |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, I did a physique contest back in the end of September. So, and I kind of would like to do one again, but I need to put on quite a bit more size. |
| 1:36.9 | And so I'm going to spend the next couple years just seeing why I can do, you I'm 42 years old now so it's getting |
| 1:44.7 | harder and harder to put size on but but I want to see what I can do especially |
| 1:49.8 | I'm experimenting now with high frequency training and kind of really want to see what |
| 1:54.3 | how that goes I'm I'm you know only two months into it or not even two months really |
| 2:00.5 | six weeks into a program I kind of developed for myself and I'm so two months into it, or not even two months, really, six weeks into a program |
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