Strength / Weight Training

That's immense. Can't imagine even lifting that much off the rack.

Got a solid 210kg deadlift 1rm last night, could be a 5 plate Christmas

Ooh, nice work. What a treat that'd be! Let us know how it goes!

Thought this was interesting, especially as getting to the gym often is not my issue but having enough time is. Generally I have 45mins - 1hr so structured more of my routines to actually something similar to this data.

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I wonder if this is the same for strength rather than just hypertrophy (size).

Also worth bearing in mind established sets for hypertrophy were never that high. (3x8-12 typically). So is it actually just saying there's no point smashing 2 extra sets when tired?

Tempting to change to 3x a week for strength, but I really just don't have the time at the moment and not sure my body would recover with the cycling on top.

Isn't it all dependent on where you are compared to your potential? I.e. a beginner, intermediate etc. if you're a beginner then it's all pretty easy. Compound lifting 3x a week, eat healthy, sleep. You get stronger, bigger, leaner untill you plateau. Then you have to faff about with programming, goals, splits, whatever. If you are elite then it will change again.

Research like this needs to be put into context. Are the subjects untrained, elite body builders, on season rugby players who are trying desperately to maintain off season gains when the playing schedule only allows one session a week, steroid filled influencers, dad bod dads in their early 40s who used to ride a sweet fixeh but now sit at a desk wondering where it all went?

My guess would be this research is about beginners/untrained and not elite body builders, who are unlikely to be able to gain any size with squats.

It says in the image who the study participants were and links to the studies where the conclusions were drawn from. I thought it was helpful given that this is likely the majority of folks on here

Does it, my brain is having difficulty today.

Btw, I wasn't critical of your post, I think it is helpful. But as a man on the internet I suddenly felt the urge to give an opinion only vaguely related to your post, and possibly completely unhelpful.

You're right that context is key but this particular takeaway is pretty consistent across a wide range of experience levels. For example, similar research was carried out on the Norwegian powerlifting national team. The same volume split over 6x/week frequency had noticeable gains over 3x/week.

This is bad news for me as I try to cram everything into 1 or 2 sessions a week to still leave space for cycling

I think the point is “don’t do arms day legs day do full body day”

Also that’s the most
Inaccessible piece of infographic bollocks I’ve seen in a long time. And I specialise in making inaccessible pieces of shit.

There’s text that’s hidden links you can’t access and no summary fucking link in the fucking post.

How are you supposed to easily find the links that are in the footnotes on your phone? This is a clear “join my patreon for more like this”.

Weekly net stimulus model. Show me your working not just your conclusion- then I can pretend to read it and then agree with you.

You being Beardsley. Not tenderloin

dad bod dads in their early 40s who used to ride a sweet fixeh but now sit at a desk wondering where it all went?

Ooooof, that cuts deep.

Anecdotally, upping my gym visits in the last six months from 3X to 5/6X has seen huge benefits in my progress. I've found the consistency also helps with levelling out my urges to impulse binge on shit food and drink.

five or six times a .... week?
wow, that is impressive.

I aim for four and mainly hit three. If I count a weekly pilates session (hmmm) then it is reliably four.

Yeah, but it's great news that you have a life outside of going to the gym! Also, it's marginal, marginal gains at that point (all else being equal).

I was a night worker for many years and told myself I couldn’t do early starts but now I can’t lie in bed past 6am. As long as I’m back to do the school run then I’ve magically found an extra hour in the day.

I hate 2.5/5/7.5 plate set ups. Last week I went to 90kg on my squat and on Friday did 5x3.
Today I looked at the bar and thought fuck it and did 4x 1 at 100kg.

That's dope. Big jump!

Thanks I’d kind of set the target back in September but life etc.

Yeah boi!