Started recording a deeply personal episode this week and scrapped thirty minutes of it because it turned into whining. So instead, episode 308 of The Drop Set goes in a different direction — things the bodybuilding industry has been selling you that range from outright lies to half-truths worth examining more carefully. More protein is always better — it isn’t, and anyone telling you doubling your intake will make you grow like a weed is either lying or selling something. Supplements make progress — no, supplements fix problems, and there’s a real difference. The scale tells you how you’re doing — it’s a secondary check at best, not the primary metric. Soreness means the workout worked — soreness means novelty, not necessarily progress. Spot reduction is a thing — it isn’t, and the term belly fat is marketing language designed to trigger an emotional response and sell you something. No pain no gain, sleep when you’re dead, if you’re not suffering you’re not working hard enough — some truth, some nonsense, all worth examining. Plus a listener voicemail from Derek Jensen on the interplay between training intensity and volume, and where I land on reps in reserve as a coaching tool. And a teaser for next week when I’m going to try again at the personal episode I couldn’t finish this week.
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