Can You Autoregulate Your Training for Better Gains? - Dr Jake Remmert

Jake Remmert joins Steve Hall to unpack his first weeks as a professor and researcher at Illinois State University, plus how a cross country move, new teaching load, and coaching responsibilities are affecting his bodybuilding routine.

They also dig into his dissertation on auto regulation for hypertrophy, including what happened when one arm trained with fixed volume and the other adjusted sets based on fatigue.

Chapters

00:00 Dissertation Recap & Jake’s First Days as a Professor

06:02 Bodybuilding as a Support System, Not the Priority

11:27 Research Plans & Studying Muscle Growth

22:46 Why Jake Chose Autoregulation for His Dissertation

26:42 Fixed Sets vs. Fatigue-Based Training

29:44 Can You Use the Pump to Autoregulate Training?

37:58 The Key Finding: Autoregulation Changed Training Volume

44:48 The Big Takeaway

50:08 Autoregulation Methods & Future Research