Is the "20% Work, 80% Results" Claim a Lie or the Key to Success?

Minimalist training, or the idea that you can put in just 20% of the work and get 80% of the results, is a myth. While it may seem appealing to think that you can achieve your fitness goals with minimal effort, the reality is that it takes consistent, dedicated work to see real results. This is nothing new, I have trained people like this and I have also trained myself like this when I couldn’t do more. But ever since Jeff Nippard made the video about minimalist training I think this whole thing flipped and people took it out of context and most of these people didn’t even understand the context. That is fine since this topic is difficult to grasp. So the premise is that if you do 1-4 sets you get 60% of the result, if you do 5-9 sets you get roughly 80% of the result, so why would you spend time in the gym when you can easily cover that? I tell you why, because this was mainly done on untrained people. A newbie, who has never lifted, can pick the most ineffective exercise, worst training program, no diet, no structure, even bad form and they will improve no matter what. So this is the context you need to get, if you are not at the beginner stage then these rules will not apply to you, at least not on this percentage. This also opens new gates for scams to surface. “I got my results doing minimalist training in 6 weeks.” This is what it looks like. -bro what are you doing? I am just posting a video about minimalist training and my result -but you have been training for 6 years as a maximalist, don’t you think that your results are coming from that? -look I have been doing minimalist training for 6 weeks and I am clearly maintaining my physique so it is working -but then why are you using the picture from 6 years ago, why not one from 6 weeks ago Clearly because that has no difference, duh There are two types of minimalist trainees. One who hates going to the gym and hasn’t built up the habit to go consistently but is trying and the other one is the most common one that you see, they are unaware of what they are doing. The unaware type is always saying things like “compounds are training that, this gets stimulus from another exercise that trains a completely different muscle, calves are just genetics”. They are minimalist, just unaware of it. There is nothing wrong with compounds but when someone says “Squats are enough for my legs”, what about your hamstrings? And the answer is “they are stabilising the movement so that is enough” but it is not enough. What about calves? “They are just genetics anyway” how do you know that they are just genetically small if you never tried to train them? I believe that anybody who is investing 10-20 minutes watching nuanced youtube videos is serious enough to try to maximise their gains. And a minimalist approach will get you exactly that, minimal result. Once you manage to max out your newbie gains is when the real grind starts. Just to get a small drop of muscle you are going to bust your ass in the gym, have to improve everything starting with diet and training and just to simplify things when I say training I mean how hard you push your sets. You can do 10 sets and they will do nothing if you don't push all of them close to failure and some of them to failure. Of course don’t do a failure set on Squat and Deadlifts but leg extension? Why is your head not exploding? The reason the majority of people can’t pass the intermediate phase is just that. Minimalism and overcomplication and my favourite, emotional attachment to the old ways, what used to work when they were newbies. It worked because you have never touched weights to begin with but now it is still not complicated to make gains. You just have to start maximising all aspects of fitness, not at the same time of course to make some gains every year.