The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
periodization was kind of a a big thing for lifting back in the day and now we've kind of shown that at least in the research studies it doesn't appear to produce greater gains in lean body mass maybe a little bit better strength gains but that's probably just because people Peak better when you're periodizing things but what tends to actually be shown is that people just tend to like periodization better because they're varying their repetitions they're not as bored
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periodization was kind of a big thing for lifting back in the day and now we've kind of shown that at least in the research studies it doesn't appear to produce greater gains in lean body mass maybe a little bit better strength gains but that's probably just because people Peak better when you're periodizing things but what tends to actually be shown is that people just tend to like periodization better because they're varying their repetitions they're not as bored right so you never want to kind of pooh-poo the psychological effects of those things I talk about this with diet as well adherence is the most important thing just getting people to come in and do it
what tends to actually be shown is that people just tend to like periodization better because they're varying their repetitions they're not as bored right so you never want to kind of poo poo the psychological effects of those things