Andrew Huberman· PhD
High repetition ranges in resistance training can be associated with increased risk of injury.
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High repetition ranges in resistance training can be associated with increased risk of injury.
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I think also if you go beyond that, then there's there's more of a chance of uh kind of form failure and injury risk. And so we want to be really proficient in the moderate rep range before we start exploring those lower or higher rep ranges.
And compound movements are where you can get hurt. You can get hurt on isolation movements, but multi-joint movements done for 20 reps, I mean, unless you're really locked in mentally, that's often where people get injured is my observation.
But isn't there the idea that some of the smaller supporting muscles can fatigue as a set goes on and make one susceptible to injury? Is that or is that just gym? Is that just like jock science?
In my experience, high repetitions from 15 to 25, especially on compound movements, get people hurt at least as often as the heavy stuff. And I think it's because it's I'm I'm guessing here, but that it's hard to concentrate and generate perfect form on a very high repetition set.