 All right, Hans Schmidt. Why does strength training require more rest than hypertrophy? Or is that much more, or is it that it's much more demanding? Okay, so what they're referring to is when you're training for maximal strength versus when you're training to build muscle, that's what hypertrophy refers to is actual increase in muscle size. Now I do want to be clear, they both contribute to each other. So that's number one, building maximal strength will cause muscle to grow. And on the flip side, getting your muscles to grow will contribute to more strength. So there's a little bit of gray area here. But when you are training for maximal strength, you typically are resting for longer periods of time in between sets. If you watch power lifters work out, you'll notice that those guys and girls will walk around, chill, talk or whatever for sometimes three, five minutes in between sets before going up and lifting again, whereas bodybuilders have a tendency to rest shorter, sometimes the shortest 30 seconds. Sometimes you'll see a bodybuilder trying to maximize the pump and they're going 30 second rest and they're going set after set. Now why is that? Okay, the adaptations your body gets through exercise are very specific to the way that you train. They're very, very specific. There are some general carryovers to other things, but your body will adapt in very specific ways. So if I'm training for maximal strength, that means each of my sets has to display my maximal strength. If I'm resting 30 seconds in between sets of squats by the second or third set, I am not maximizing my strength. I'm not lifting the most that I possibly can. I'm not practicing strength. It's impossible. I'm too fatigued. When you're training for strength, you want to train at your strongest, which means you have to rest. By doing so, you're practicing the skill and training the adaptation of strength. Well, you're also replenishing your energy too. And I forget what the literature says, but it's like it's somewhere between two and three minutes. When you rest two or three minutes, the most of that is recovered completely, right? So as we go through our workout, that starts to deplete, right? Your first few exercises you do, you're much stronger as you get further into the workout that diminishes as time goes on. But there's a sweet spot of resting to get the maximal amount of energy replenished to do the next set. And that number falls somewhere. There's an individual variance, and it's obviously much more nuanced than what I'm saying right now, but about two to three minutes for to get the maximum energy replenished to go after that set again. Whereas if you're cutting your rest periods at a minute or less, you're not allowing your body to fully recover, to give it its most, which you don't care about when you're chasing hypertrophy. When you're trying to get the pump, and that's more of your desired outcome, you're not really concerned that, oh, if I would have rested one more minute, I could have got an extra five pounds out of that set. You're not worried about it because you're not in that phase of training. And you build muscle, hypertrophy comes from training for strength, but it also comes from things like the pump from those metabolic stresses that you get from. That's why when you do like, was it BFR training? Occlusion training? Occlusion training is the type of training where you tie off, let's say your arm with a knee wrap, and then you do curls, and your muscle can't pump out the waist because it's been tied off. And so it builds up and you're only using five or 10 pounds. That's shown to build muscle, but that's probably from the metabolic waist stress that's caused. So building muscle comes from a lot of different ways, not just getting stronger, but getting stronger has to be trained specifically if you want to maximize strength. Now, there's nothing to, you know, with the way we lay out of our programs, there's obviously a systematic approach. And we think that these are some of the most ideal ways to mess with tempo and timing and sets and reps, but there's nothing that says you can't mess with this. Like there's times where I'll go in and I'll be following a strength type protocol as far as the rep count and the weight that I'm lifting, but then I'll just cut my short, my rest period shorter. I'll do heavy singles with short rest periods in between. I'll go over, rip it off the ground, rest for maybe one minute or less, go right back, rip it off the ground again, and do things like that. And the same is true for messing with your hypertrophy training every once in a while, you know, instead of only giving yourself a one minute rest on hypertrophy training, you know, try resting for three minutes and then do a set. You'll be able to lift more weight when you do it. So there's nothing wrong with manipulating the rest periods. It's just that when most people write programs or when you read most the literature around this, you'll see like, oh, hypertrophy training is considered, you know, eight to 12 reps with 90 second rest periods. And it doesn't mean that you can't play with that. In fact, if you only stay there, you're going to, you're going to diminish your muscle building hypertrophy, or if you only stay in strength training and you never move out of it, I think you're going to minimize your strength. We have friends like Ben Pollack who trained bodybuilding for a while. Now he's finding that he's stronger going back to powerlifting because he trained for a little while in bodybuilding. Stan Efferding talked about this and the reverse people who only train trying to maximize the pump and build muscle who never train for maximal strength, they'll gain benefit from that's why I said that there's a gray area because they definitely contribute to each other. And it's not because it's more demanding. Powerlifters aren't resting longer because it's harder. Bodybuilding training is harder. Training like a bodybuilding will gas you out more than training. You're fighting through a bunch of other factors, you know, through that whole process. So it's like a couple of different things that, you know, you're trying to work through the fatigue that's, that's inevitably like on setting. And with strength training, you're trying to be the purest form of like, I can, I can have access to this, this ultimate strength that I can output like at any given moment right now. And so that's the entire focus of it. It's like, what can I summon right now and how can I repeat that process? To repeat that process, I need adequate rest to then regenerate that type of force. Think about this way. If you want to get faster, you need to train fast. If you want to get stronger, you need to train strong. If you want to build muscle, there's a little bit of gray area. Same thing with the others. If you want to get fast, it means that sometimes your training will be a little slow, but most of the time you should probably train quickly. Same thing with power training. If you look at like plyometrics, if you want to improve your explosive power, then your sets and your training need to display that and working to fatigue means you're not going to be able to display that. So that's why there's a difference between the two. But for most of you people listening right now, you'll benefit from doing both. And I recommend you do one for a little while and then move to another one and do that one for a little while. That will give you better overall results long term. And most people listening are interested in both. They want to get strong. They also just want to build muscle and sculpt their body.