CheekiBreekiFitness wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:39 pmAthlean-rofl reccomends 10 sets of 10 with 80% of your e1RM. He also recommends to breathe out before you descent on your squat. So no, I don't think that he's "not much better of worse" than Nuckols, Israetel or somebody comparable.I've had many periods of hitting the gym with good effort, high consistency, and proper nutrition, and no progress. So I also disagree with that.
If you were training for hypertrophy this should never be the case imo, discounting medical conditions or aging. Even when very advanced but not actually at your natural limit the progress should just be so slow that it is almost undetectable (again imo rather than ime).
How reliably this can be converted to 1rm strength gains is beyond me, but I'm pretty confident that you have to get quite strong before this becomes a major difficulty.