@lovely_krystal86 Not related to the video, but I see a lot of comments here flat out misrepresenting anything Dr. Mike has claimed or advocated. Some with some pretty weird takeaways.
Some examples:
Some said Dr. Mike says not to do cardio.
- he doesn’t say that at all. He says you should try to keep lifting and cardio as separate as possible as to not risk diminishing the benefits to the muscles you want to build. Going too hard on cardio may end up driving recovery towards the muscles you worked with the cardio.
Someone was saying that Dr. Mike thinks he’s going to failure.
- Dr. Mike usually doesn’t go to true failure, knowingly. He’s a big advocate for leaving 2-3 RIR and stopping once he cant do more with good form. Thats his choice and he doesn’t say you should not ever go to failure. There just isn’t much more benefit to doing so or there may be difficulties with recovery if you take every set to failure.
Some said Dr. Mike doesn’t have his own bodybuilding accolades or successful coaching history.
- He is a professor and sport scientist primarily, he isn’t aiming to be a personal coach. He competes, but that’s not his full-time gig like a lot of other guys in the BB influencer sphere.
Some claimed his full ROM emphasis comes from it looking “pretty”? Or he’s just BSing.
- He may not always source his info down to the study like Nippard does, but he studies this stuff himself, professionally. He’s published a lot of studies.
Someone claimed that he only preaches perfect technique that doesn’t accommodate people being different.
- This absolutely isn’t true. He routinely says that different things work differently for other people. Good technique is vital, he does place it as the most important thing in his opinion. He has stated however, that if you make a change to your technique and it works better for you, that is your new perfect technique to abide by. You have to try different things to see what works for you.
Someone said he only emphasizes using low weights
- This isn’t true, he advocates lowering the weights if you can’t perform the movement to its full ROM, control the weight, or have to use poor technique. He also says you still have to lift heavy and utilize progressive overload. If you are just throwing around heavy weight like 1/3 the full ROM, you risk injury to your muscles, tendons, and ligaments. He emphasizes optimizing your workout. Yeah just lifting heavy weights in whatever uncontrolled way will build muscle. Dr. Mike wants people to balance lifting heavy with injury minimization. If you can lift 3/4 the weight and gain more for less wear and tear to your body, that’s great. The point here being that just lifting is great, but you can get more out of less if you aim to be efficient and controlled. Not every lift has to be self-destructive.
Someone said that the videos where he trains an athlete for a session shows them never going to failure, just til they get out of breath.
- He posted a video today titled “Worlds hardest one set leg workout” . I think you need a refresher. I don’t think the guy who made this claim has actually seen these videos lol.
I didn’t want to sit around and reply to all these people individually. Some of these claims are absurd and it shows that the people making these claims don’t watch his videos. There are more valid reasons to critique Dr. Mike, but making false statements isn’t it.