How Do Pro Bodybuilders ACTUALLY Diet and Train? 

"If you look up to pros and you are a hard training natty who weighs like 160, you may very well be training harder than your pro." I don't know whether to take offense or be flattered, but I took it personally either way.

I fucking love how open and truthful you guys are. It's a breath of fresh air amongst all these fake naturals who think they've found some special way to train that makes it superior to everyone else's training.

Come for the knowledge, stay for the humor

I love how Jared just tells it how it is. The drugs and genetics plays a key role in what we see.

You are providing incredible value to the community. Thank you very much.

If only RP, Derek, Coach Doucette and RU-vid were around in the 90s, when I was growing up, to dispel so many of the myths surrounding bodybuilding. So many of us who grew up in that era were we were duped by all the muscle mags showing our favorite bodybuilders (Lee Haney, Dorian Yates, Shawn Ray, etc. etc) grimacing in agony, while lifting an ungodly amount weight in photographs, giving the impression that they all trained to absolute failure on every set and that they all endured excruciating pain in order to look the way they do. This generation should feel fortunate that you have people who tell it like it is, and dismantle the façade that the bodybuilding community has been nurturing for decades

Thanks for the dose of realism as always RP.

In my youtube viewing experience, the average IFBB pro walks into the gym, goes to a cable or single joint machine exercise for the muscle he's training on that particular day, does 30 reps to start warming up, chills for 45 seconds, adds weight, does 15 reps for the second warmup, chills for a minute, adds weight & does two sets of 15 with about 5 reps in the tank. He then goes to a plate loaded machine, & does 4-5 ramped sets, adding a plate each set, with the second to last one being hard & the heaviest being almost to failure or to failure. If he's good he does a backoff set. He then goes around to 4 other machines for that particular muscle group, doing something approximating 3X12 with his 20 rep max, or doing ramped sets once again with the last set to failure, 10-15 reps on everything. His last exercise averages 20 rep sets, & seems to fail more due to the pain of the pump than inability to complete another rep. He does some posing, does not stretch, & leaves the gym.

I was so happy to hear Mike and Jared made it official!! Much love and support for youtube fitness's favorite couple! 🏳️‍🌈👬🌈

I would listen to these two for hours on any topic, so fun and informative!

thanks for the honesty and also TECHNIQUE failure is so under rated, like it makes a huge difference. My chest could be dead after 5 sets of pressing, but bros would say keep pressing without realising my body has to adjust to use more triceps or shoulders. That's why I've transitioned to technique failure and not exhausting myself for no reason and my muscles still going strong. wondering why I don't grow.

What's better than Mike dropping free knowledge bombs on us? Mike and Jared combo tag team

As a natural hobby strength trainee, this video about enhanced professional bodybuilding was really cool, interesting and funny.

As a brit, I am actually VERY impressed with that accent. From that small sentence, I couldn’t hear any mistakes at all

"You know they're counting miligrams..." Just Love You Guys

Note to self: get on gear so I can bs my workout and go home to watch tv

I loved Jared’s impression at the end, plus all the great info of course.

I'll never be a bodybuilder, but the entertainment value is great.

Love the duo approach - are you planning a video on how to program back-off sets? I've never really understood how to use them or work them in - are they an intensifying technique? auto-regulation technique? or something you build into a meso?

Much love from Michigan! Your videos have been so educational and helpful in my journey! Thanks for doing these!

This discussion style video was great !

I like the Hollingshead comparison!

See now I understand why I burned down so much when I trained hard before pandemic. I would train until failure every single time. I would also train every damn day and I did full body. I would start with deadlifts 4x8, bench 4x8, squats 4x8, rows, pulldowns, raises, curls, etc etc. Every set until failure. I drank about a quart of whole milk every day at work (waitress). And I was strong af (relatively to now or ever before anyway). I could stand press 95 lbs for 8 reps while weighing 130lbs. But then I just lost all my strength and my bench was 95lbs now. It was very discouraging. And eventually I just stopped working out because I missed my peak numbers and lower numbers felt like a failure. I shouldn't have trained the way I trained, because it was not sustainable. This shit is hard. Thanks Dr. Mike for educating people like me. Спасибо и успехов вам, чтобы скорее купить Ламборгини =)

Shout out for reminding everyone these coaches and trainers are out of scope with diet recommendations. Theres loop holes but still, know your role.

Lolol. You guys are the smartest dude Bros I've ever had the pleasure of watching.

Jared Feather being Boomhauer from King of the Hill is S-Tier content

I enjoyed this video setup/format

Renaissance Toasterization I'll show myself out

RP vids are all awesome but these with just Jared and Mike talking are my favorite 😁

Woah. They need a fish eye camera to get both these guys in one shot.

Guys, I never get an answer on this, so I think most people don't know too: When applying RIR or RPE through a mesocycle, should the target RIR/RPE be complied to a all sets of a training session or are the last sets of exercises exceptions, where you should give all you have? In addition to this: Is it different when cutting down compared to when building muscle?

This is the most interesting video I've watched in God knows how long! Thanks a ton guys!

Didn’t know y’all were in Michigan. Shoutout from Wisconsin. Y’all got the best content and bud!

Hey I’m from Missouri!!

I was literally just posting how I was conflicted about these guys since I haven't heard them mention anabolic before but this Jared guy is cool as fuck about it

A guy I talked to at the gym jokingly said, "I'll do a couple sets and let the test do the rest."

Yeah, pretty sure there is some study found that those who took steroids without even weight training gained MUCH more muscle than someone who weight trained but was natural. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Anabolics are very powerful.

The training to failure thing going to hurt some egos 🤣

How about natural bodybuilders? Would love to hear your take

Thanks for the insight!

as a hardcore Greg Doucette fan, hearing Jared talk was eye opening. It finally made me listen to your point of not needing to go to failure. However, Greg was a world record powerlifter and he says people in athletics like the olympics have to train to failure to push themselves and that might be true for performance athletes like strength athletes.

Damn I would like to fly to USA and go through a few weeks of training with you guys!

Cool talk. Dr. Mike's accent wasn't English but the end was Scottish. So close geographically yet so far culturally

God, this was enormously encouraging.

How should Mike get rid of the water?

Love this segment

Thanks for the RD love!!! Sincerely, -A Dietitian

Dat's my coach man 🥺

What about the podcast on training to failure that Iron Culture did? There, the interviewed guy argued that, as long as the weight is sufficiently heavy (something like 5 to 10 RMs), training between 4 and 7 reps from failure did not differ in its hypetrophic effects from training between 4 reps and 0 reps from failure. What are your thoughts on that? Do you think that this reading of the literature is incorrect for some reason?

11:45 better than the information is to watch these 2 nervous tics!

British person here. You nailed it

I took every set to failure for four weeks. It was warm up, 4 sets of one exercise, treadmill, done. I actually grew. Did it every other day for a month.

Can you make a video of getting lean for the first time for people who haven’t successfully been able to do it

Im from England, your (southern) British accent was good!

Dope Video! More of this please!

Triggered by meat in oz and carbs in g. Cool video though.

LOVE the videos like this

I want to try the 4 weeks train till failure.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. thanks, gais

May I suggest having Jared a little closer to the microphone? Mike sounds a fair bit louder than him at times.

I could listen to these two for hours.

More of this please 👌🏼

🤘🏾😎🤘🏾 Most straight up no fluff or bull. Didn’t think it was possible . No bull fluffing….not one bull was fluffed in the making of this video.

Puts things into perspective, thanks sharing the chat

this is why I watch this fucking channel. honesty! thanks for the great content y'all, I benefit a ton from it. 8:50 😂

Shit I have ice cream in my fridge I forgot about. Thanks guys

Thank you for another great video:)

8:01 this is a great perspective, and now the people who have been and are preaching this wrong fact.... seemingly having hard time admitting that they were wrong; But how will they relate to them being wrong? Will they change or defend their perspective, and if so defending it, how will they do this? I like to see how Dave, RXMuscle, like to defend this; He defend allready Ronnie and Dorians heavy way of trainin, and even state Dorian being for longevity, eventhough Dorian trained only for 1 or 2 yrs. as pro before having major injuries; And those just kept comming, both the case for Dorian and Ronnie, the 2 people who trained by the heavy duty alike principle Dave preach. How is Dave going to react to this?

Want more of this!

Mike "looking like a toaster" is something I can't unhear. Hilarious!

BuT mY HaRdWorK aND dEdiCaTIon

Yesssss! Go Jared!

Thanks for sharing #Knowledge 🤟🔥 Love and respect from India sir ❤🙏

Dr. Mike is looking great!!!

Loved this!!

This was great! thanks

ive done every set to failure for years. it definately isnt optimal and probably even hindered progress but ive done it

Dr. Mike - "Can you speak Derpa lerp?" Jared - Hold my protein shake.

Great insight!

I'd listen to this topic on a 3 hour podcast no problem

Glad someone spoke on how 😺 a lot of pros train

You guys are awesome!!!

Some of these guys don't even need huge doses to grow either. Such is life!

Would be great to see both of you do Q&A vids the same way Joe Bennett does

this stuff is so interesting, good video

I am an RD 😃

Mike mentzer n Dorian ! Look em up

5:47 “I’ve seen that frequently” *side-eyes Mike* Man, Jared just won’t give Mike a break for sand bagging all the time 😂😂

@3:23 , how bout nutrition and sleep?

This kinda content, me gusta!

I love this channel

Thank you... Just thank you.,...

And we see the real genius trait where both Mike and Big Lenny have the same eyebrow twitch

Please where is Charlie? We miss him

Effectively destroying the "**insert pro bodybuilder** trained this way and he won 16 Mr Olympias, his methods have to be the best!!" argument. Your move, "Heavy Duty/High Intensity" bros.

The people at my gym go every set to failure then wonder why they cant progress. Like wow 6 months of training and you've gone up from 250 lbs bench to 255.... well mine went from 205 to 250 in that same time.. so I'll catch up soon

Great time to be alive at the same time as Dr. Mike.

Please do a part 2

😂Yup, we need to know this. Thanl u for talking about this, esp. Listeners that are new to training and have been following genetic freaks and enhanced bodybuilders/Athletes.

Wow…interesting stuff.