Jeremy Ethier's gym experiment passes four million views
The follow-up lesson is about effort: rep speed, rep drop-off and progress matter alongside the workout calendar.
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Why Almost Everyone Is Wasting Their Time In The Gym
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- 0:54The main comparison pairs six training days and higher weekly volume with three days and lower volume.
- 2:18Eric Trexler explains why the experiment uses circumference measurements to accommodate a larger participant group.
- 6:05The main groups record similar average growth, without a statistically significant difference.
- 7:31Eric Helms explains how a bigger planned workload can cause lifters to subconsciously reduce effort.
- 10:25Ethier offers three effort checks: rep speed, rep drop-off and progression over time.
- 13:30A third group, matching the higher volume across three full-body workouts, records the highest average growth.
Jeremy Ethier posted nothing new this week, but his channel added roughly 7.4 million views. The gym-frequency experiment we covered here last week remains his busiest video, now past four million views, with its practical questions extending beyond how often to show up.
In "Why Almost Everyone Is Wasting Their Time In The Gym," participants' check-ins give the workload a human dimension. Drew describes the difficulty of fitting in six training days, while Ato is blunt about not enjoying the program. Then Eric Trexler delivers the central finding about the main comparison: "Those two groups essentially grew the same amount."
The useful next question is what happens inside each set. Eric Helms explains how anticipating a larger workload can lead lifters to ease off without realizing it. Ethier turns that into three checks: how repetitions slow down, how performance drops between sets, and whether strength progresses over time. The calendar is only part of the story.
Older explainers are contributing, too. His tendon-training guide, featuring Keith Baar and physiotherapist Coach Q Wiley, is the next-busiest upload, followed by his breakdown of why fat disappears unevenly from different areas.
Across the channel, daily views are running at more than twice their usual level, and subscribers increased over the week. Jesse James West and Squat University are also seeing elevated daily viewing; Jeff Nippard's current daily pace is quieter than usual. Ethier sits in the middle of this nearby fitness group for weekly views gained, without needing a fresh upload to keep his training questions circulating.
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Which of these does Jeremy Ethier use as a check on training effort?
Ethier includes rep speed alongside rep drop-off and progression over time.