wristisfrogs
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Mike has a PHD, Gregg has a basic degree in kinesiology. Mike has based all of the Renaissance programs on James Kriegers and Schoenfelds work on volume and frequency that they have both given a seal of approval to. Renaissance Periodisation now has a client list in the millions and plenty showing off what they've done with it. Gregg has no grasp of what RPE means and even made an utter arse of himself when trying to argue that the volume study only worked cos they didn't train hard enough. Which is basically a roundabout way of in fact confirming the study findings that more volume = less non responders. Non responders being caused by a whole host of shit, so its a wonderful safety net. Mike is able to apply contextual thought to training, where its a give and take scenario, whereas Gregg screeches train harder or offers some other vague anecdote then bangs on about his obscure record and 97432 shows.
Assuming you're training 100% all the time, your RPE regulates proximity to failure in line with fatigue. You're known peak volumes are based on your own overreaching data so falls anywhere in the ranges I posted previously from Kriegers work. Gregg has no program that uses current best case programming and most his programs read like an 80s fitness mag. They are however high enough in volume that they work.......cos volume.
When it comes to programming size progression, who gives a flying fuck about someone's diet or ultimately what they look like when what they're saying is proven on multiple occasions by 3rd parties? Half the best coaches look like shit or achieved nothing world beating in strength. They're the best coaches because they understand and evolve.
Remember greggs little beef with fouad about how many cals to eat? And then Ian valliere comes in and says that why I dropped him, I knew I wouldn't get the size with gregg. Gregg releasing his video claiming it was cos Ian would learn more with a different coach. Hardly glowing endorsement of knowledge from someone who is right 99.9% of the time.
Gregg is a meme.
This is getting way off track but to say Greg's info is useless is an actual ridiculous claim especially coming from a guy that struggles keeping his diet under control and copied and pasted studies from Google and says "I'm right and you're stupid because x study" when that study could be on menopausal woman.
Greg has great info, whether you disagree or not. Fouad believes in dirty bulking and ridiculous stuff that's shown to not help very much with muscle gains and then you lose muscle dieting the fat you gain off.
PhD doesn't always mean = real world knowledge. There are PhD holders out there in exercise that have outrageous beliefs and are sitting around 40 pounds overweight telling you to dirty bulk to build muscle or GTFO.
Ridiculous notions.