My book is here, it goes into a great deal of detail on all of the movements mentioned and a hell of a lot more as well. It'll be very helpful during your fitness journey! www.verityfit.com/product-page/sweat
Random ques , are you scammed occasionally in Chinese markets becoz you are white ? Was watching a video where tourists in China are asked to pay 10-20X the price .
I actually have underdeveloped front delts and overdeveloped rear delts haha. It all began a few years ago when Jeff Cavaliere was saying how the rear delts are always underdeveloped and how the face pull is the best thing ever created. Since then I always put emphasis on rear and mid delts and had shoulder issues because my front delts weren't as developed lol. Now I'm training them more and the issues disappeared. Go figure..
Calves are underrated, imo. I had tiny calves back in the day, and was self conscious about them. Adding just 1 inch made them at least appear "normal". Admittedly, I had disproportionately small calves). 🏋️♂️
Personally, I really like that DBZ look where the calves are nearly as large as the quads. Thankfully, I naturally have fairly beefy calves and enjoy training them to boot.
@juwo7569 Just do the standing and seated calf raises. Heavy days, light days, same old advice you've probably heard a million times. Eat a ton. If you're already lean, your calves won't grow much without massive calories. And they might never grow much . . . I know people who followed my advice and never made big gains. Genetics play a part, but if that’s what's holding you back, you may need to devote a lot more time training them. If your thighs are huge and your calves are tiny, leg days might involve devoting most of your time destroying your calves. They're stubborn. The most stubborn for those of us, not gifted with naturally huge calves.
This video is speaking my language brother! I’m all about making making our weaknesses into our strength, whether it’s bodybuilding, strength, functional training, etc... So important & a great topic 👍
Just used the menno calculator... interesting how much genetics play a role in this. Never trained my forearms or neck a day in my life and I got a perfect (91%) on forearms and overdeveloped on neck (104%)... whereas my poor upper arms are undeveloped despite training 2-3 times a week.
This video just gave me a huge confidence boost. The fact that this site told you that your maximum arm potential is 16.3 inches but you've achieved 17 inches arms proves that this isn't very accurate. Mine maximum arm potential is showing to be 16.1 inches and I kind of disliked it, accepted it though. I'm currently at 15.2 inches arms, I'm 4% over developed in neck and 3% under developed in calves, the rest are 1% or 2% away from perfect, and my forearms are shown to be "Perfect" by the website.
For glutes I found two additional things very helpful: Leaning slightly forward during lunges and rouding the back a little in hyperextensions. The latter will take the spinal erectors somewhat out.
Absolutely brilliant video. By chance, tomorrow's bedroom workout is the back, and Im going to try your approach to the dumb bell rows, by rowing them back towards the hips. Then, some barbell rows , and in the evening, Ill do some of those bodyrows that you recommended in you Outside workout video. Thanks for this- excellent discussion and advice. Loved too, the Two Towers reference. 👍🤘🥇
I’d love to see an anatomy series from you, please!!!! Lol. I think your right, a lot of people don’t understand anatomy and work the wrong muscles when doing certain isolation exercises. Really great video!
Sometimes I like to sit there and slowly move the weight while flexing the area super hard. It brings the mind muscle connection back to where to where its good.
excellent content as always. for me the most profound youtuber. I also like the editing and short clips.... one thing I noticed for lats is to stay upright at the lat pulldown machine . If you lean back too much , you most likely engage traps and make a bit of a horizontal pull out of it due to gravity affecting the line of pull
you think? I mean even if he wouldn´t be strong, that doesn´t mean necessarily he is clueless about these topics. I don´t know if he has been training for more than 5 years, but it seems he has good genetics. He beats me on every lift by far ( 3years experience) and 1-2 inches on measurements.
@John Smith damn why you roast me like that^^ my 1 year numbers were 90 bench, 120 squat and 180 deadlift.. but I mean do you refer to powerlifting maybe, cause strength is a skill, you know that
@John Smith deadlift is the only exercise Im good at and where my long arms help due to the shortened lever^^ do you know if frontsquats are better for quad development since they are activated more, or is high bar / lowbar squat superior due to the increased weight and thus mechanical tension
@John Smith nice numbers. yes its about arms in relation to torso. well Im 83 kg lean and I dont count last year due to covid since I had no access to gym. I can only maintain (size ) at home. Probably have to reduce weights by more than 20% when it reopens 😅
Been working out for 6 years at this point and the calculator says everything I have is slightly overdeveloped except for the legs, which are slightly underdeveloped. Kinda makes sense cause I don’t have anything that I consider to be a major weak point. Maybe things that I want to be a bit bigger, but a couple of more years in the grind should suffice. I’m actually surprised my neck is overdeveloped because I don’t train it lol. Try to but... my workouts are long anyway 😅😅😅
Love the analogy you used for compound movements compared to using isolation. Congratulations on the subscriber count growing as fast as coach Greg’s head! Lol jk coach Greg don’t attack me!!! 😄
Damn just realized you live in Shenzhen! I thought you were in there before! I'm a chinese in Cali and I found your channel last year from Sean's channel. I don't know if you speak Chinese. But I wanna say:杰夫牛逼破音！！！Show this to your wife she'll explain my admiration for you dude!
According to the FFMI thing, my FFMI is 24.8, and my weakest body parts are my arms (true) and forearms, neglecting calves (as anyone does). A 9% overdeveloped neck and 3% overdeveloped torso, but 3% underdeveloped arms. Cool. Once this asymmetry is worked out and my right arm and shoulder are as big as my left, I'll be doing a lot more close-grip like I was doing before, and maybe some isolation exercises for the tris. Also doing a lot for the forearms. They're pretty big, 12 inches following the instructions in the calculator, 12.5" flexed, but my grip is pretty terrible. I can just above DOH 330 on a good day and my conventional (who even trains sumo, amirite 😎) ís 400.
Hey Geoff did you always have those big forearms? I see that you have also big wrists . my forearms are not even 12 inch and Ive been progressing over 3 years with compounds and dumbbells and never used straps. Is it really just genetics or should wrist curls/extensions help with 20+ reps since they are slow twich fiber dominant?
Geoff. I did that Memmo H FFMI by measurement and I came up with overdeveloped 110% on everything except my calves and thighs. I am not a big dude at 80 kgs, 17-20% body fat, 181 cm tall. Is this just because I have puny wrists and ankles? Will I really be this genetically limited?
I think its relevant to at least briefly bring up variation in muscle insertion/ genetics people have for different muscles. Since training again for past 3 months I haven't touched chest once cause my chest is big af for no reason. And before then I havent trained for years. 42" torso @ 5'8. Wish my arms nd calf insertions were as blessed.. mostly arms.
I think you missed one lagging weakpoint: the scapula. I am actually dealing with scapular winging and i would like to know how to fix this muscle imbalance /injury . Still not sure what it actually is but strengthening the scapula could also be good.
I find that if you're looking to bring up a lagging body part, go to Google, type: "Vince Gironda ______". Fill in the blank with the lagging body part and Vince has a way to isolate and annihilate. He was obsessed with how the muscles functioned and the absolute best angles and movements to truly hit the right spot.
1:42 Personally, I really like the DBZ look, so getting my calves to be in the same ballpark as my quads (i.e. overdeveloped af) is a bit of a goal of mine. Thankfully, I naturally have large calves, so I'm not _that_ far off as it stands.
Okay yesterday I decided I’m done slacking on rear delt, calves and forearms even though the only thing that’s lagging is my rear delts. But my obliques can go to oblivion I will never do isolation oblique exercises.
I think amongst experienced lifters abs are underrated and newbies mostly dont have good hypertrophy principles, who doesn't want thicker abs especially as a natural who can't sustain under 10% for 99% of people. Greg doucette for example no matter how good his insertions are his abs in no way look well developed but imagine if they were...
Used the calc. It was massively over developed torso and neck, minorly overdeveloped upper arm, minorly underdeveloped legs and forearm, and massively underdeveloped calves. Mostly as expected but not exactly: I have knee and back issues so dont back squat and didnt train legs consistently until the last year or so. I have decent tone and they arent small but porportionally, I expected them to be the smallest from neglect. I noticed them catch up lately bid not expect them to be relatively proportionate. I thought calves would be my third strongest behind neck and torso so surprised to see them so far behing. I dont do too much direct training consistently but I just thought my calves were good enough - never as big as those guys with naturally massive calves but reasonably enough. Maybe a sign I should attack them more consistently. I thought my forearms would be more developed then my arms too but surprisingly not. My torso is pretty big and my shoulders have always been a strength but I never been satisified with my arms. Its probably more I dont have large peaks and that my entire arm is large. With forearms, they overtake on curls and back exercises if Im not careful and they seem relatively large, but lately I got some versa grips for my rows and deads and shrugs.
Yea it's not a requirement for growth. Some areas just don't really get as sore. But it's a reasonable test for a lot of people, especially muscles that often do get sore with proper training (hamstrings, chest, triceps, glutes, etc)
The cool thing about bent-over barbell rows is that once you reach a certain weight (heavy enough but manageable - I'd say at least 100kg+), if you pull like this 17:33 you will also hit the traps. 19:12 and that's a nether row, duh
Nether? It's a Yates style of row, but aiming higher for the traps. Atypical, but still a row. And yes the lats/traps thing is preferential. It's a compound movement so will still work both.
Is it really that your weak muscles stay weak? Do they stay relatively weak or absolutely weak? I thought about this a lot in regards to my benching. I can bench 30-40lbs more right now with a closer grip and more elbow flare, resulting in less chest involvement. But due to moving higher weight this way, my chest is still handling a relatively higher load compared to using a different technique with less total weight. Bringing up my chest in this scenario would mean sacrificing some triceps gains for chest gains, right? In that case I would not concern myself with weak point elimination until after several years of massing/ getting stronger. Seems like a waste of potential for a novice or intermediate to focus on.
Should i have a day dedicated to training my lagging parts like 2 to 3 exercises to both my quads and chest? I train 4 days a week so I'll still have plenty of rest if I do this
How to find out if we are doing too much volume for muscle group. For example my training is always high intensity and Im doing decent amount of volume. I can always recover fully in few days. If I knew training more (upping volume) would help I would do it, but I dont want to overtrain. Thanks jeff!
Takes some experimentation. I'd say overtraining is something that is so incredibly rare in bodybuilding training that it's not a worry. So perhaps worth a try gradually scaling things up. Alternatively, it might be better and more surgical to alter exercise selection or execution to target an area better, rather than just piling on volume.
I've never felt any engagement or soreness in my biceps despite their apparent size (I have a literal point of reference as a paraplegic what it feels like to feel nothing and that's what's happening with my biceps), I always knew, my PT told me, the FFMI calculator confirms that my forearms are significantly more developed (99%) than my upper arm (92%). I can not for the life of me find an appropriate biceps exercise where my forearm wouldn't take the brunt of the work, not allowing me to engage my biceps at all. I have no sensation in my biceps regardless how isolated the exercise is. No lying/incline DB curls, no cable curls, no preacher curls, nothing makes me feel my biceps and any of these only make my bicep tendons(?) in my forearm sore at most. Even when I deliberately overtrain my forearm so my biceps would be forced to do more of the work I don't feel a single thing (and I might have screwed myself with this attempt, because my forearms haven't stopped hurting under tension for 2 weeks).
@@muhammedminhaj9418 In what way do they help? You mean for my biceps? That pain by the way I was complaining about toward the end of my comment was tendonitis and it took me 8 months to recover.
@@dominic.h.3363 You cuff them to your wrists and attach it to cable machines. That way you dont have to hold the dumbell, so no way for your forearm to take over
Hey Geoffrey, I love your channel, and the content you put out. However, you really need to cover Connor Murphy’s latest videos recommending the consumption of what he calls the divine protein shake.
Not going to give him attention, it's just clickbait bullshit. I try to put out helpful content, there's really nothing educational there, it's just pure fluff content.
@@GVS I agree that it’s most likely clickbait, unless he really did crack up, but he has a huge outreach, and he’s actually trying to pass this off as a healthy nutritional practice that offers a myriad of benefits. Who knows how many impressionable people are going to believe him and load up on the stuff. I don’t know how much of a crossover there would be between his viewers and yours, but if you discouraged even one individual, it would be worth it, as I think there are inherent risks in indiscriminately consuming the protein shakes of others who might be passing an easily transmitted disease.
@22:35 I feel like the demographic of natural evidence based fitness viewers do all the rear/side delt work as a result of it being such a popular talking point.
Geoff, do you think Chinese people have generally good calf genetics? I live in a ethnically Chinese majority city and see lots of defined calves. (That sounded weird)
Haven't seen the video yet, but just regarding the thumbnail: have you too noticed The Vitruvian Man (Leonardo) 's got the chest wrong? It looks relaxed and brought out/ not-flat even though he's in a full abduction and as we know from the double biceps pose, the chest should thus flatten :p It always irritates me on the picture, reportedly Leonardo might have been drawing it from his own image in the mirror, I suppose his arms weren't abducted whilst drawing the 'chesticles' :D (but then, he performed countless autopsies to get the anatomy right, so, maybe, he should have done better than that!) Some images of Jesus Christ on the cross have it wrong too occasionally... (especially, when they strive to make him look jacked)
Me: training traps, side and rear delts like beast, isolating them and making at them a priority for months. friend: youre looking good man, really good, id say do some more trap and shoulder work though and you would look even better. :(
My book is here, it goes into a great deal of detail on all of the movements mentioned and a hell of a lot more as well. It'll be very helpful during your fitness journey!
www.verityfit.com/product-page/sweat
Random ques , are you scammed occasionally in Chinese markets becoz you are white ? Was watching a video where tourists in China are asked to pay 10-20X the price .
Been waiting for this For months,thank you sir geoff.
You're the best 💯👊🔥
@@user-zk4dv2nx8k No, I can speak Chinese, and know the value of things, that tends to cut down on the bullshit pretty quick.
Can I just say we stan a youtuber who time stamps
Tiktok brain rotted ahh
But frfr
I actually have underdeveloped front delts and overdeveloped rear delts haha. It all began a few years ago when Jeff Cavaliere was saying how the rear delts are always underdeveloped and how the face pull is the best thing ever created. Since then I always put emphasis on rear and mid delts and had shoulder issues because my front delts weren't as developed lol. Now I'm training them more and the issues disappeared. Go figure..
I’m pretty much here lmao
Yep and nobody will tell you to do isolated work for them because there us sufficient pushing volume.
I have a weird front delt attachment so it never pops.....damn it
Moral of the story:
- balance in all things
- acquire training advice from multiple sources
Calves are underrated, imo. I had tiny calves back in the day, and was self conscious about them. Adding just 1 inch made them at least appear "normal". Admittedly, I had disproportionately small calves). 🏋️♂️
Personally, I really like that DBZ look where the calves are nearly as large as the quads. Thankfully, I naturally have fairly beefy calves and enjoy training them to boot.
I got more defenition in my calves and also veins showing now, but never really got more mass on my calves idk what im doing wrong
@juwo7569 Just do the standing and seated calf raises. Heavy days, light days, same old advice you've probably heard a million times. Eat a ton. If you're already lean, your calves won't grow much without massive calories.
And they might never grow much . . . I know people who followed my advice and never made big gains. Genetics play a part, but if that’s what's holding you back, you may need to devote a lot more time training them. If your thighs are huge and your calves are tiny, leg days might involve devoting most of your time destroying your calves. They're stubborn. The most stubborn for those of us, not gifted with naturally huge calves.
@@juwo7569 Fascinating.
Love seeing your subscriber numbers up everytime I watch. Keep it up bro.
Agree, super underrated guy
This video is speaking my language brother! I’m all about making making our weaknesses into our strength, whether it’s bodybuilding, strength, functional training, etc... So important & a great topic 👍
When you have bigger calves than Geoff:
*I have achieved... power*
Just used the menno calculator... interesting how much genetics play a role in this. Never trained my forearms or neck a day in my life and I got a perfect (91%) on forearms and overdeveloped on neck (104%)... whereas my poor upper arms are undeveloped despite training 2-3 times a week.
I thought my arms were fine until I saw yours tbh. Now you reignited a forgotten passion in me
GET BIG BRO
This video just gave me a huge confidence boost. The fact that this site told you that your maximum arm potential is 16.3 inches but you've achieved 17 inches arms proves that this isn't very accurate. Mine maximum arm potential is showing to be 16.1 inches and I kind of disliked it, accepted it though. I'm currently at 15.2 inches arms, I'm 4% over developed in neck and 3% under developed in calves, the rest are 1% or 2% away from perfect, and my forearms are shown to be "Perfect" by the website.
Your book and videos are a godsend. I feel I finally know how to target my quads thanks to you.
I haven't seen another UA-cam video go into this amount of detail on this topic!
Keep these longer videos coming, Geoff 🙌
For glutes I found two additional things very helpful:
Leaning slightly forward during lunges and rouding the back a little in hyperextensions. The latter will take the spinal erectors somewhat out.
The guy at the back is also getting a pretty good biceps workout. 26:50 That's how Mike O'hearn built his arms. Naturally.
I can't believe I've never come across this guy until now. Quality information 👌
Absolutely brilliant video. By chance, tomorrow's bedroom workout is the back, and Im going to try your approach to the dumb bell rows, by rowing them back towards the hips. Then, some barbell rows , and in the evening, Ill do some of those bodyrows that you recommended in you Outside workout video. Thanks for this- excellent discussion and advice. Loved too, the Two Towers reference. 👍🤘🥇
I’d love to see an anatomy series from you, please!!!! Lol. I think your right, a lot of people don’t understand anatomy and work the wrong muscles when doing certain isolation exercises. Really great video!
Your editor is really working 130% with the rate of publishing!
Yea been working waaay too much recently.
I think I have a problem. I seem to be addicted to your videos...
the good kind of addiction
Sometimes I like to sit there and slowly move the weight while flexing the area super hard. It brings the mind muscle connection back to where to where its good.
excellent content as always. for me the most profound youtuber. I also like the editing and short clips.... one thing I noticed for lats is to stay upright at the lat pulldown machine . If you lean back too much , you most likely engage traps and make a bit of a horizontal pull out of it due to gravity affecting the line of pull
you think? I mean even if he wouldn´t be strong, that doesn´t mean necessarily he is clueless about these topics. I don´t know if he has been training for more than 5 years, but it seems he has good genetics. He beats me on every lift by far ( 3years experience) and 1-2 inches on measurements.
@John Smith damn why you roast me like that^^ my 1 year numbers were 90 bench, 120 squat and 180 deadlift.. but I mean do you refer to powerlifting maybe, cause strength is a skill, you know that
@John Smith deadlift is the only exercise Im good at and where my long arms help due to the shortened lever^^ do you know if frontsquats are better for quad development since they are activated more, or is high bar / lowbar squat superior due to the increased weight and thus mechanical tension
@John Smith these numbers were 2 years ago... I moved over to leg press . are u also 183cm with 190 wingspan? and what are your numbers now?
@John Smith nice numbers. yes its about arms in relation to torso. well Im 83 kg lean and I dont count last year due to covid since I had no access to gym. I can only maintain (size ) at home. Probably have to reduce weights by more than 20% when it reopens 😅
Did implement overhead presses on the floor this lockdown. I feel them a lot in the rear delts for stabilisation. Like them a lot.
MM biceps, yep...need that. My triceps are substantially stronger as I did a huge amount of CGBP in my younger days.
Been working out for 6 years at this point and the calculator says everything I have is slightly overdeveloped except for the legs, which are slightly underdeveloped. Kinda makes sense cause I don’t have anything that I consider to be a major weak point. Maybe things that I want to be a bit bigger, but a couple of more years in the grind should suffice. I’m actually surprised my neck is overdeveloped because I don’t train it lol. Try to but... my workouts are long anyway 😅😅😅
Love the analogy you used for compound movements compared to using isolation. Congratulations on the subscriber count growing as fast as coach Greg’s head! Lol jk coach Greg don’t attack me!!! 😄
18:09 this is golden!
Happy to know my rowing technique is "a lot of lat"
Great video - you covered my main weak points - legs, arms and torso - so I'm all set for my next workout :).
Everything then? lmao.
@@Oyashio202 his neck is fine bro
13:04 Ok that helped so much. I totally squat like that. I’m a low bar, wide stance guy, that gets very sore in the adductors and glutes
Hm, that Menno tool is pretty cool. Need to work a little on my forearms and upper legs I think, not too much though.
I watched this whole video... and didn’t intend to. Great job 👏🏿
ALRIGHT GODDAMNIT IVE SEEN ENOUGH...subscribed.
Hahaha, welcome to the channel!
That is one great synoptic video! Thanks.
Another awesome video. Thanks for sharing. Much appreciated.
Damn just realized you live in Shenzhen! I thought you were in there before! I'm a chinese in Cali and I found your channel last year from Sean's channel. I don't know if you speak Chinese. But I wanna say:杰夫牛逼破音！！！Show this to your wife she'll explain my admiration for you dude!
哈哈谢谢但是不需要老婆翻译，我看得懂! :)
@@GVS 太屌了兄弟，为啥不开微博账号或者微信公号😂
@@weixiong5625 我已经用太多平台！另外我不在内地工作，大部分的客户在国外
Awesome video Geoffrey
According to the FFMI thing, my FFMI is 24.8, and my weakest body parts are my arms (true) and forearms, neglecting calves (as anyone does). A 9% overdeveloped neck and 3% overdeveloped torso, but 3% underdeveloped arms. Cool. Once this asymmetry is worked out and my right arm and shoulder are as big as my left, I'll be doing a lot more close-grip like I was doing before, and maybe some isolation exercises for the tris. Also doing a lot for the forearms. They're pretty big, 12 inches following the instructions in the calculator, 12.5" flexed, but my grip is pretty terrible. I can just above DOH 330 on a good day and my conventional (who even trains sumo, amirite 😎) ís 400.
Very informative all about fitness , nice!
Thanks for the video!
Very informative. Thanks.
Great video, thanks!
Team lagging chest + biceps here :P
chest or traps here
33:00 Haha that's my strongest body part! 😎
I learned a new technical term: "Kangarooing" rhe movement. Good balance of overview and detail in this video, very well done.
Never had a shoulder soreness all my time in the gym. But my shoulders grow
Also bent raises ss with skiiers developed my rear delts
Awesome tips
Hey Geoff did you always have those big forearms? I see that you have also big wrists . my forearms are not even 12 inch and Ive been progressing over 3 years with compounds and dumbbells and never used straps. Is it really just genetics or should wrist curls/extensions help with 20+ reps since they are slow twich fiber dominant?
Not sure I don't have measurements from before ~2019. Wrist curls for higher reps can help, not due to fiber type but just smaller range of motion.
Geoff. I did that Memmo H FFMI by measurement and I came up with overdeveloped 110% on everything except my calves and thighs. I am not a big dude at 80 kgs, 17-20% body fat, 181 cm tall. Is this just because I have puny wrists and ankles? Will I really be this genetically limited?
If you're already at 110% it clearly didn't limit you, keep going!
I think its relevant to at least briefly bring up variation in muscle insertion/ genetics people have for different muscles. Since training again for past 3 months I haven't touched chest once cause my chest is big af for no reason. And before then I havent trained for years. 42" torso @ 5'8. Wish my arms nd calf insertions were as blessed.. mostly arms.
Good video GVS
I think you missed one lagging weakpoint: the scapula. I am actually dealing with scapular winging and i would like to know how to fix this muscle imbalance /injury . Still not sure what it actually is but strengthening the scapula could also be good.
I selsom do abs exercise because I get them worked when I am doing squats, pushups, triceps to plank extensions and pullups too.
I find that if you're looking to bring up a lagging body part, go to Google, type: "Vince Gironda ______". Fill in the blank with the lagging body part and Vince has a way to isolate and annihilate. He was obsessed with how the muscles functioned and the absolute best angles and movements to truly hit the right spot.
Best calf exercise for me was gaining a lot of weight for years then losing it.
Very good knowledge;. You help young gradshoppa become mastah
Chess I have hard time growing. But legs I look at the weights they grow.
1:42 Personally, I really like the DBZ look, so getting my calves to be in the same ballpark as my quads (i.e. overdeveloped af) is a bit of a goal of mine. Thankfully, I naturally have large calves, so I'm not _that_ far off as it stands.
Just checked the calculator you linked, i do indeed have lagging upperarms, but surprisingly enough my calves are not (and i don't train them)
''Focus!''
me on my bench just thinking ''chest chest chest'' staring at them.
Okay yesterday I decided I’m done slacking on rear delt, calves and forearms even though the only thing that’s lagging is my rear delts. But my obliques can go to oblivion I will never do isolation oblique exercises.
I can’t squat a damn plate but man can I deadlift
How useful is that tool if you don’t know your body fat percentage ?
It won't be useful at all, then. Best to estimate from pics online if you don't have any other way (like a coach with laser eyes)
I think amongst experienced lifters abs are underrated and newbies mostly dont have good hypertrophy principles, who doesn't want thicker abs especially as a natural who can't sustain under 10% for 99% of people. Greg doucette for example no matter how good his insertions are his abs in no way look well developed but imagine if they were...
Used the calc. It was massively over developed torso and neck, minorly overdeveloped upper arm, minorly underdeveloped legs and forearm, and massively underdeveloped calves.
Mostly as expected but not exactly:
I have knee and back issues so dont back squat and didnt train legs consistently until the last year or so. I have decent tone and they arent small but porportionally, I expected them to be the smallest from neglect. I noticed them catch up lately bid not expect them to be relatively proportionate.
I thought calves would be my third strongest behind neck and torso so surprised to see them so far behing. I dont do too much direct training consistently but I just thought my calves were good enough - never as big as those guys with naturally massive calves but reasonably enough. Maybe a sign I should attack them more consistently.
I thought my forearms would be more developed then my arms too but surprisingly not. My torso is pretty big and my shoulders have always been a strength but I never been satisified with my arms. Its probably more I dont have large peaks and that my entire arm is large. With forearms, they overtake on curls and back exercises if Im not careful and they seem relatively large, but lately I got some versa grips for my rows and deads and shrugs.
1:26 I see what u did there Geoff 😂
I'm late, I should never turn my internet off!
Thumbnail is giving off some NH vibes
Yea halfway through making it the same thought struck me.
1:26 you sneaky bastard
My lats are big but I don't remember them ever being sore.
Yea it's not a requirement for growth. Some areas just don't really get as sore. But it's a reasonable test for a lot of people, especially muscles that often do get sore with proper training (hamstrings, chest, triceps, glutes, etc)
using this on every body part
The cool thing about bent-over barbell rows is that once you reach a certain weight (heavy enough but manageable - I'd say at least 100kg+), if you pull like this 17:33 you will also hit the traps.
19:12 and that's a nether row, duh
Nether? It's a Yates style of row, but aiming higher for the traps. Atypical, but still a row.
And yes the lats/traps thing is preferential. It's a compound movement so will still work both.
@@GVS lol
@@CharliePersonalTrainer OK, thanks for the comments, at least they help the algo.
@@GVS yeah no problem I like your content man, but I also like to fuck around lol 😅
@@CharliePersonalTrainer lol no worries banter is encouraged
Is it really that your weak muscles stay weak?
Do they stay relatively weak or absolutely weak?
I thought about this a lot in regards to my benching. I can bench 30-40lbs more right now with a closer grip and more elbow flare, resulting in less chest involvement.
But due to moving higher weight this way, my chest is still handling a relatively higher load compared to using a different technique with less total weight.
Bringing up my chest in this scenario would mean sacrificing some triceps gains for chest gains, right?
In that case I would not concern myself with weak point elimination until after several years of massing/ getting stronger. Seems like a waste of potential for a novice or intermediate to focus on.
Rather use additional isolation and save the technique modification for later stages
Should i have a day dedicated to training my lagging parts like 2 to 3 exercises to both my quads and chest? I train 4 days a week so I'll still have plenty of rest if I do this
How to find out if we are doing too much volume for muscle group. For example my training is always high intensity and Im doing decent amount of volume. I can always recover fully in few days. If I knew training more (upping volume) would help I would do it, but I dont want to overtrain. Thanks jeff!
Takes some experimentation. I'd say overtraining is something that is so incredibly rare in bodybuilding training that it's not a worry. So perhaps worth a try gradually scaling things up.
Alternatively, it might be better and more surgical to alter exercise selection or execution to target an area better, rather than just piling on volume.
@@GVS thanks I will experiment, I will let you know if I destroyed my body🤫
Awesome
I've never felt any engagement or soreness in my biceps despite their apparent size (I have a literal point of reference as a paraplegic what it feels like to feel nothing and that's what's happening with my biceps), I always knew, my PT told me, the FFMI calculator confirms that my forearms are significantly more developed (99%) than my upper arm (92%).
I can not for the life of me find an appropriate biceps exercise where my forearm wouldn't take the brunt of the work, not allowing me to engage my biceps at all. I have no sensation in my biceps regardless how isolated the exercise is. No lying/incline DB curls, no cable curls, no preacher curls, nothing makes me feel my biceps and any of these only make my bicep tendons(?) in my forearm sore at most. Even when I deliberately overtrain my forearm so my biceps would be forced to do more of the work I don't feel a single thing (and I might have screwed myself with this attempt, because my forearms haven't stopped hurting under tension for 2 weeks).
Use cuffs man!
Really helps
@@muhammedminhaj9418 In what way do they help? You mean for my biceps?
That pain by the way I was complaining about toward the end of my comment was tendonitis and it took me 8 months to recover.
@@dominic.h.3363 You cuff them to your wrists and attach it to cable machines.
That way you dont have to hold the dumbell, so no way for your forearm to take over
@@muhammedminhaj9418 Interesting, I will try that, thanks!
@@dominic.h.3363 Welcome man. Isaw them from a channel named jpg coaching
Hey Geoffrey, I love your channel, and the content you put out. However, you really need to cover Connor Murphy’s latest videos recommending the consumption of what he calls the divine protein shake.
Not going to give him attention, it's just clickbait bullshit. I try to put out helpful content, there's really nothing educational there, it's just pure fluff content.
@@GVS I agree that it’s most likely clickbait, unless he really did crack up, but he has a huge outreach, and he’s actually trying to pass this off as a healthy nutritional practice that offers a myriad of benefits. Who knows how many impressionable people are going to believe him and load up on the stuff. I don’t know how much of a crossover there would be between his viewers and yours, but if you discouraged even one individual, it would be worth it, as I think there are inherent risks in indiscriminately consuming the protein shakes of others who might be passing an easily transmitted disease.
Also, if you have to wear a tie for work, be prepared to buy new shirts as your neck gets yoked!
Bro says he doesn’t care for calves then has those massive calf thangs out there thangin in his deadlift video
What do you think about those hand grip for development of forearm?
I will use this to get jacked everywhere
32:58 dang got me. Hahaahh
*watches the whole video because my whole body is a weak point*
@22:35 I feel like the demographic of natural evidence based fitness viewers do all the rear/side delt work as a result of it being such a popular talking point.
Hi i have just stumble on power walking and wondering if you could do a video or provide some information on it please
I have a video on walking in general planned. Power walking isn't anything crazy, it's just...fast walking.
@@GVS cool cheers I'll check it out
2nd I think (I need to work on my hamstrings)
I used the tool and it said I'm 95 % at my genetic potential, I'm only 17 though lmao definitely not going to be convinced by some calculator
Geoff, do you think Chinese people have generally good calf genetics? I live in a ethnically Chinese majority city and see lots of defined calves. (That sounded weird)
Yes, for sure.
Shiiiiii, im trying to keep my arms under 16" so my forearms can overtake them.
Lookin to squeeze open my canned veggies like Popeye.
Dunno why I'm here, I have no weak-points
*only
@@GVS That is cold, Geoff. There was no need for that and you know it😔
This ignores shoulders and lats completely unfortunately, the most important parts for the V shape.
For clarity, I'm talking about the link for self measurement, not the video.
your mandarin is really good! wow!
Just OK :)
@@GVS okay now you *really* sound Chinese with this one
Bro all of my muscles except my lats suck not my back but just my lats every time I do a bicep pose my lats just make me look trash
Haven't seen the video yet, but just regarding the thumbnail: have you too noticed The Vitruvian Man (Leonardo) 's got the chest wrong? It looks relaxed and brought out/ not-flat even though he's in a full abduction and as we know from the double biceps pose, the chest should thus flatten :p It always irritates me on the picture, reportedly Leonardo might have been drawing it from his own image in the mirror, I suppose his arms weren't abducted whilst drawing the 'chesticles' :D (but then, he performed countless autopsies to get the anatomy right, so, maybe, he should have done better than that!) Some images of Jesus Christ on the cross have it wrong too occasionally... (especially, when they strive to make him look jacked)
Me: training traps, side and rear delts like beast, isolating them and making at them a priority for months.
friend: youre looking good man, really good, id say do some more trap and shoulder work though and you would look even better.
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Hey Geoffrey I just bought your book SWEAT. I emailed you about a question about delivery address
Sure, it's an ebook, though, so don't worry about a delivery address.
@@GVS cool look forward to reading your book
@@calvinunroe2462 enjoy :)
Calf 7% underdeveloped
Ouch
any tips on training in ramadan
Might do a video.
Damn his Chinese sounds really good
Where do you live? Are you in US? I always see Asian people around you, maybe Japan?
China