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Joel Kellett: The More Advanced You Get, The Less Volume You Need?

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Joel Kellett from ‪@MoreThanMuscle‬ returns to the Longevity Muscle Podcast! In this segment, Joel discusses how muscle growth and training strategy change as lifters move from beginner to advanced levels. The conversation explores a widely debated idea in natural bodybuilding and hypertrophy training: whether advanced lifters actually need less training volume to build muscle and why its relative to what you once did, and more importantly how you did it.

Joel explains how many lifters chase heavier weight, but often overlook the importance of execution and creating maximum muscle stimulus from the least amount of weight before adding load. We discuss training volume, low reps vs high reps, training to failure, and Joel's take on strength training vs hypertrophy training and how they differ.

This episode breaks down key principles for building muscle naturally, improving strength progression, and maximizing hypertrophy stimulus while maintaining long-term training longevity. For anyone interested in muscle growth and natural bodybuilding, this discussion highlights whether or not advanced lifters should do less volume than once previously done, in order to gain more, by focusing on proper technique, intelligent load progression, and efficient training stimulus, and above all, not rushing the process!

00:00 The More Advanced You Get, The Less Volume You Need?
01:17 Gaining Strength Equals More Muscle?
02:59 Training Volume & Training To Failure - The Relationship
05:10 Advanced Lifters Need Less Volume? Joel Kellett's Experience
07:45 Get The Most Out Of The Least - Beginners vs Advanced
11:41 Gym Pins, Maxing Machines, Low Reps - Consider This!
14:16 Adding Reps vs Load - Do This First!
15:44 Strength Training vs Hypertrophy Training - What’s The Difference?
17:54 This Is The Essential For Lifting Longevity

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18 Comments

@TheGimGamer 6 months ago

There is such a hunger for him in Brock in longer format, comedic as it was I loved there podcast

@YakuzaGoon 6 months ago (edited)

Awesome, really dialled in and started going stricter on form after viewing basically all of Joel's material and his book. Very cool asynchronous body part split, super strict form, pyramids on basically everything style. Definitely did get bigger across the board by getting stricter, in my experience anyway.

@musictraininghits 6 months ago

All roads lead to Mike Mentzer.

@humbertocamposdiaz2456 6 months ago

My bro ! brings wnbf pro tiago bernardino to the podcast

@David-yn5bs 6 months ago

Joel really know his stuff, clearly applying sensible good intelligence. Great video, thank you for posting!!

@ramtin-s8722 6 months ago

Man the fitness industry is so freaking polarized…every expert says the exact opposite

@killer.strength 6 months ago

Stellar conversation and content. Very insightful.

@AnthonyVenmans 6 months ago

Whenever we see Joel, he always wears a tank or stringer 😁
Thanks for sharing the video!

@PrimalConnection 6 months ago

I'm 6'2" and 288. I've been working out for over forty years. Full body twice a week.

@yesir9165 6 months ago

JOELLL IM COMING FOR YOUUUUUUU👀

@arissp4950 6 months ago

Something about strength that is often misunderstood. When many bodybuilders say (enhanced or not) you have to become stronger cause strength=muscle mass they don't mean you have to lift like a powerlifter on the 3 main lifts for singles or 7 sets of 3 reps etc. In the hypetrophy zone 6-12 reps become stronger there. If I train for 1 year and I bench press 60kg for 10 reps max and the second year I rep 100kg for 10 reps then I became and stronger and definitely bigger. Long story short progressive overload should be applied in the bodybuilding rep ranges and exercises. And yes it is strength.

@nikolad6137 6 months ago

Everything works just never let musle to adapt and get used to your training style. A one Austrian schnitzel man said a long time ago Shock the muscle , shock the muscle 💪🏻

@billybarnett2846 6 months ago

These young folk are impatient and don't want to do the fundamentals.

@daviddietsch 5 months ago

It’s not hard to go to failure past 12 reps if you have that dog in you… Lower reps are easier and for most people it’s more productive but it’s not going to matter on most lifts as long as you are getting stronger over time. Compounds certainly don’t seem to benefit from high reps but it can be done. Look at Doug miller..

@Rubenfrom1994 6 months ago

The gym pin phenomenon is absurd. It's become a status symbol for them to get to the end of the stack ASAP so they can slap a gym pin... The form is horrendous. No control. Muscles disengaged. It is a horror show.

As a rule of thumb.. If you got to the end of the stack and you don't look REALLY good.. either the machine is shit, or you are not squeezing the most tension of out of the load.