How To Tell If You’re Training Hard Enough (Using Science)
Timestamps: 0:00 How To Tell If You’re Training Hard Enough 9:14 Jeff Nippard (RPE Oopsie) 10:34 Chris Bumstead (RPE 10) …
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February 3, 2026
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Timestamps: 0:00 How To Tell If You’re Training Hard Enough 9:14 Jeff Nippard (RPE Oopsie) 10:34 Chris Bumstead (RPE 10) …
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Do you think that set from Jay Cutler was hard enough to maximize hypertrophy? Why/why not?
10 sets per muscle per week? Those are rookie numbers I’m doing 50-60 sets per muscle per week 😎. Started working out 7 weeks ago and have gained 10lbs of muscle
Saying RPE 10 means 0 RIR, RPE 9 means 1 RIR, RPE 8 means 2 RIR, and etc. is so misleading, because, with this logic, RPE 0 (no exertion at all, absolute rest) would mean 10 RIR, but if I do a 20 repetition set that goes to failure, the 10th rep was a 10 RIR, but definitely not a RPE 0, since I was performing some level of effort.
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Surely jay could have done nother 2
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9:33 Say that again…
3:44 Get really good at Braille
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i wish i had a safeft mechanism while doing squats. my mom's home gym doesnt have that so im scared of training to failure and ending up with an injury because i cant rack it fast enough or i just cant push it enough. its a small space too so its tough to just drop it if i need to.
I hate it when spotters put their hands on the bar like that.
Wow this shit was amazing! I learned a looooot
@5:47 now that is a respectable sumo
moral of the story there is no one perfect right answer just keep showing up to the gym
i think he had 2-3 reps left
so am i the only person who thought going for rpe 10 on every set of bench press was normal
RPE 7-8 is best for general health
I would love to know if the analysis actually shows statistically significant results for the graph at 4:50 or whether you have just based this opinion on the visual trend. It appears that the results are quite significantly skewed by a single study that appears to not be an outlier.
I’m not disagreeing, I’m just asking from a scientific standpoint
14:20 actually, the spotter bars to raised a notch.
Squat needs to be a little deeper. Like maybe an inch.
Failure of a deep sweat is always at the bottom. You can squat and hold it there all day but cant explode up thru parallel. If the spotter bars are tighter, you only drop the weight 3-4 inches. Instead of a foot like here.
So, squat deep to failure. Allow bar to roll off traps onto spotter bars. No harm, no foul.
4:15 BOOM
What I have been saying all along.
If you want to get as jacked as possible in the shortest time possible (measured in months) you need to be in the gym a lot. Like, re training each muscle every 48hrs to maximize gains. And to be useful in the gym a lot, you cant push to failure on every set or you will gas out.
If your goal is to be in the best shape possible WITH THE LEAST TIME INVESTED in the gym. Then go all the way to failure. Do full body workouts. And only show up once every 7-10 days. Allowing a complete recovery between workouts. This will reduce to 2hrs of gym time per week at most. You will only see half the gains in any given year. But time invested will be 1/4 that to obtain full potential gains that year. So twice as time-efficient.
Dorian Yates was dominant in the '90s and only worked out 3-4hrs per week. Literally 4 days at 45-50 minutes each.
Tldr: 2:09 I should train without glasses 😀
I mean. Your body will tell you if you listen
I honestly love watching your channel a lot of it is free, I also feel like you’re giving too much information on possibly your paid content but yeah, it’s your choice😊
The fact that Jay is 1 inch from for the rack and his form is so fine tuned that it looks like he’s on a smiths machine is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen
Awesome video
Way to break it down. Thanks.