Is Elite Strength Worth it?
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2020
- I'm all for it.. but is getting elite strength really the right path for you? This video explores SERIOUS considerations.
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I have come to the conclusion that not getting injured and staying healthy & safe is more important or just as important as intelligence, effort, consistency, diet, sleep etc.
That’s been the mindset I’ve shifted to lately, injury prevention has officially taken priority over everything else, the other stuff will only work if you’re healthy and injury free.
Intelligence is, not a factor that can be changed tho - sadly
absolutely, but i'm still pushing myself and i'm not holding back because of fear of an injury, that being said, i do everything that i can to prevent an injury
I agree 1000%...NOT getting hurt keeps you in the game working out on a regular basis. Risking a potential injury so you can say "I got 11 reps" instead of a solid hard set of 9 ...or throwing on an extra 20 lbs on the bar when you shouldnt have makes no sense to me...like...who cares?
Work out hard but smart and it keeps you in the game. Cant get a great pump when you blew your knees or back or shoulders out goin for "1 more rep"
Agreed. Not trying to go the Ronnie Coleman route, especially when there's no upside personally.
The journey. Going from a skinny, unconfident 17 year old to now being a muscular, confident 21 year old. All because of the gym & working on my strength/athleticism, year after year, rain or sunshine. The human body is capable of so much if you stay disciplined
Your journey is only beggining my friend. Keep it up!!
That's awesome bro. I got more confidence and results from studying spirituality and meditation and being more disciplined and focused on my practice routine as a classical musician, than I did from working out. It's a fun hobby
Great video Alex.
As Arnold once said. A well built physique is a status symbol, it reflects your worked hard for it and no money can buy it, you cannot borrow it, you cannot steal it, you cannot inherit it, you cannot hold onto it without constant work. It shows discipline, self respect, patience, work.ethic and passion.
A big house can represents hard work too! a relationship with your father or mother can't be bought or stolen
You can cheat with PEDs tho and look far better than natties who are doing everything right.
Stop settling. Not just in bodybuilding and getting stronger but in other aspects of life as well.
Word!!
Sometimes settling in one area can lead to greater success in your general live. For example: languages! You could spend 20 years on learning one language to get to a native speaker level or you could settle for a 90%-Level in more or less 5 years, which would in every scenario of live suffice and go on to study 3 different languages in same time frame you'd get on native level. There plenty different examples to this.
@@luk303 that's not what settling means to me imho. That's specializing. It's a fact that in life we dont have the capacity of knowing everything, so we do have to pick a path that we can progress in and then strive to be the best we can be at the path we chose.
Is it really worth it to spend a year or 2 of strict eating plus 5-6 days at the gym a week with no missed workouts just to get your bench from 315 to 335, or from 365 to 375? When you could train half the amount and maintain a top 95% body and be socializing smashing chicks and doing other hobbies and activities? For me it’s not worth it
It's fine to be average. Especially with bodybuilding, like come on guys, being 40 pounds stronger than majority of men on deadlift is absolutely useless and nobody cares. You must really love the iron but it's for 0,0001% of you
It's true that nobody cares. The other day an in-law asked me if I was bicycling or running. I said no and was looking forward to telling him about my lifting and how well it was going. The guy just changed the subject as soon as I said no! No interest in any other kind of excercise!
After 9 years of training I'm now more concerned on where I put the muscle rather than how big it is. If your glutes, core and lower back are weak, you're gonna have a bad time.
Also the rotator cuff has to be able to take a hit
That's some great advice
Indeed, the posterior chain should get the most attention
@Adolfo deadlift and good morning
My Fitness goals:
400 lb bench
600 lb deadlift
500 lb squat
run a mile under 5 minutes
dunk a basketball
complete a marathon under 4 hours
I'm 5'7, 160-170
Fuck yes bro these are similar to my goals. I want to be a stellar athlete. Except for the marathon cause fuck that🌜 maybe that’ll change tho.
@ilumix led Train harder than last time
ilumix led conjugate method has done wonders for my bench man.... rotating between 6 movements (over 6 weeks) and maxing out every single max effort day. I was doing 3-5 reps of 3-4 sets every workout for 1.5 years and my bench didn’t move. I’m now certain it’s a couple of more months until I hit 315 doing conjugate
I watched too many Ufpwrlifter videos, my goal was to reach that level..I trained only bench for a year, stalled at 230x1, then gave up and cried.
I’m 5”7 150 and have those same goals except for the running and basketball stuff
Pure fire and love the message, 100% agree. Great job.
You’re bringing some of the best fitness content on UA-cam these days Man. It’s motivational in an organic kind of way, not in some generic UA-cam fitness bullshit way, and you’re always Informative without being dogmatic. I really enjoy hearing your perspectives on less talked about issues like this.
Keep up the great work.
Thank you Nash, I really appreciate that. Always trying to provide unique content to the best of my abilities. There's so many things we can talk about in this fitness community.
I agree +1
Bro how tf didn't I know this channel existed, you're really smart and your way of explaining things is one of the best in youtube
To me it’s just that after training for 5-6 years now, lifting weights has just become a hobby. I have more important goals in my life to me now that the gym has just become an accessory to keep me in shape.
I still push for PRs and try new regimes out, but I’m much more focused on having a good workout than killing myself to add 30lbs to my bench.
I think the biggest reliever for me was running. I like to combine running and the gym to become an all round athlete and not just a dude who lifts weights. I think it’s all about where your priorities in life lie. I’ve just cane to realise that I liked the gym because I’m competitive and have always been into sports. So looking the biggest and lifting the heaviest has just become less important over time. Now I’m more focused on health, longevity and training to be one a better athlete.
This is a good mindset. I have some goals in the gym and when I hit them lifting will take a backseat to other fitness goals. Strength training will always be important for many reasons but that extra 15% of strength and muscle it’d take a decade to grind out isn’t worth it when you can go see 100% improvements in other untrained areas.
Same here, it’s still very important to me, just not all consuming like it used to be.
Yep same here after 315 bench i started focussinf on other stuff because i know it takes so long to gain another 20lbs
This. I have been lifting for only about 2 years at this point and i'm slowly coming to relalise that the weights in the gym aren't even close to being the most important part of my life. Healthy prioritisation is definitely the way to go.
I feel that. Lifting used to be my life. But things change and goals change. It’s just a hobby now to stay in shape and relieve stress. Still love it, but it’s not everything anymore.
We are going to the gym anyway why not just improve
Exactly. If you're already going, why not strive for more?
That's a key distinction though, improvement VS elite strength. Increasing "strength" is a way of improving but it's a blanket term, it's not necessarily the goal though it's often an unavoidable and beneficial result anyway. Focus on improving something...either reps,sets,time,rest, flexibility... whatever (yes, doing better in those means you got stronger by some definition), but don't tie your time to maximal tonnage. The diminishing returns and fact that you can't do it indefinitely starts approaching injury territory the avg person doesn't need to be near. The avg person doesn't lift, maybe we focus on improving and being fit, not fitness gods. Also, when you get older you'll likely sing a different tune when you realize you can't increase tonnage anymore and have a minor identity crisis in figuring out why you're at the gym anymore.
@@jasontenorio5354 definitely .. you are a human being and you have many limits , don't let any tough guy on youtube make you feel bad for it .
self-immolation for a tiny margin of gains is not heroic or disciplined .. it's a choice , and quite possibly a poor one at that , like many other decisions can be .
Great video man. Just got back into the gym after being sick for a few weeks and felt pretty down about some stupid shit. This video gave me a boost I needed. Time to keep moving forward!
Love that mentality brother. I concur with your approach and dedication. I'm always looking to improve my 50 year old body in a safe and intelligent way.
Love these topics. Muscle Maintenance, trusting the process, questioning things. Not often addressed topics.
Prolly the single best video I've ever seen of you Alex, felt amazing watching this, real talk
This man hit that mic with some truth harder than a baptist preacher on Easter Sunday.
I have always thought negatively of you because I've never watched your videos and have only heard your name from watching Jason Blaha's. Your channel and content is dope and super helpful. Keeping rocking it dude, I have alot to catch up on. I started watching cause you have the best video on pain relief /advice on dips.
I needed this video today. Summer always screws up my gains and goals but not this year. Keep grinding bros
Man, I just moved into a new house and I’m totally gunna make a home gym
I made concrete plates myself, now doing Alex's novice program for 0$ and train when I want, in what I want, can listen to whatever music I want.
I did it, got lots of stuff cheap on ebay. Never looked back.
Fantastic video Alex, it's your training philosophies that revolutionised my training and opened the floodgates of training knowledge for me. You deserve all your success bro.
I want to show guys they can attain a physique that stands out while staying natural. Barely anyone from the recreational lifting world has the physique I want and that motivates me to "go my own way" if you will
Man you really speak from the heart and its with real knowledge . I respect what you bring to the exercise and fitness game. Keep up the great work!
"No regrets no wonders of what if...just excited of what to be" Greg Plitt
"train insane or remain the same" - Greg sPlitt
@@disturbed911 “train” 😅
Thanks to you I've been doing bulgarian. You're doing a great job. I never wanted hypertrophy just strength and I love you for it. All the respect alpha
Lots of people need to heat this. Thank you so much for this video bro. Make more videos about the psychological aspects of fitness.
This year is my 3rd and worse training year. The moment i get some good strength gains on my lifts either the gyms get closed or i get quarantined for half a month. But in the end this only motivates me to work harder than last time and fight trough the corona shit! Great vid Alex!
One of your best videos man! Can relate 100 percent 💯
Man, i see all these guys/kids just wanting that 100 kilo bench, that they all get stuck at around 85/90 because they dont even think about 120.
When i started i litteraly couldnt unrack the bar, skinnyfat, machine shoulder press i couldnt even do the lightest weight for 3x10.
Kept pushing because i hated being insanely weak for daily life, now im goaling for 160kg bench, but in the back of my mind i am already thinking about those magic 4 plates 180, i know not 4 plates in lbs but heck, someday il get that to, because everytime i went and trained bench even before i could do 1plate each side, i was already thinking about 100 for a single.
Same goes for box squats/squats/ssb/deadlift etc.etc.
Your bench press motivation vids where you slingshot bench 180 and do crazy pin presses with or without slingshot have boosted my mind thinking theirs so much more i can do.
I envy you I have been stuck doing 100kg for between 6-8 reps for over 2 years now. Best single was 120kg :( .it just won't improve
@@-nath-7837 Get a coach. A lot of people who get stuck just keep doing the same stuff expecting to still improve but very often it doesn't work like that.
@@-nath-7837 @ilumix led
You guys are litteraly on the channel i used for bench progression information, i never mentioned how long ive been training, i started when i was 21, im now 31, ive been stuck at certain weight points a bunch of times, pre all this insane great information on youtube, we had scooby, that was about it.
Lean bulking, and follow Alpha's idea about rotating lifts, and focusing more on your weaker lifts that could transfer to your bench, and figure out whats weak.
@@Hirooshii1 I have been trying to do coolcicadas ppl routine for awhile now but I stalled at 102.5kg 3x5 . If you're not familiar with his routine a quick Google search will help . Anyways I find its a great routine but I've definitely gone as far as I can with it. Nonetheless I'm sticking with ppl split and doing 3x8 on all lifts going up on weight each set whereas on his program its 3x5 with the same weight. Second ppl of the week im working on different exercises to see if that'll get me over me hurdles. I'll report back in a few months and see if my 1rm on bench has improved
@@-nath-7837 try increasing bench to 3x times/week.
Ive been watching you since early 2017. Ive seen you grow and Ive grown myself. You are one of the few youtubers Ive seen move forward constantly. Great stuff brotha!
Much love Francisco!
alex: some ppl bench 135.
me living in a country where gyms have been closed since april: Well, that's probably me right now.
why are you watching videos about lifting if you cant lift. that must be depressing lol
What country is this??
Calisthenics bro
@@DaniellMilton
That’s what I’m wondering also lol
@@basedabdu8653 India probably
Keeping it real Alex, good stuff.
Really you're a legend and you give me nothing but inspiration and something to look up to !
Massive iron hooked me on to you; he coaches me. I’m glad he did I study most of your content and get inspired by you
I remember when 3plate bench meant everything to me. I always got 310 but failed on 315, then I finally hit hit! And went from it being a PR to doing it for reps in the same year.
Now Alex got me eying that 4plate.
Thanks a lot for the video man answered a lot of questions that were on my mind for a while.
Another great motivational video and realistic view. Thanks mate
Amazing video alex, cant wait to see the next vid. Personally i want a 100kg dip and a 600 pound deadlift for ego 😤😂
You were right about good mornings. I had been doing them all year substituted them out today for rdls and hit an all time pr of 8 on rdls without even doing them. It wasn’t even too hard either like RPE 7
One of your best videos, Alex.
Some months ago I quoted Epictetus' "Enchiridion" on one of your videos (maybe you don't remember), because his writings were very similar to your thoughts. Now I'm doing it again, but another excerpt (chapter 29). It's kind of a long paragraph, but it sure is worthwhile. Both of you speak a very similar language, man. As I said before, he who thinks weightlifting and philosophy are different sides of a coin is deadly wrong...
Here's the quote:
"29.1. In every affair consider what precedes and follows, and then undertake it. Otherwise you will begin with spirit; but not having thought of the consequences, when some of them appear you will shamefully desist.
29.2 [You might say] "I would conquer at the Olympic games." But consider what precedes and follows, and then, if it is for your advantage, engage in the affair. You must conform to rules, submit to a diet, refrain from dainties; exercise your body, whether you choose it or not, at a stated hour, in heat and cold; you must drink no cold water, nor sometimes even wine. In a word, you must give yourself up to your master, as to a physician. Then, in the combat, you may be thrown into a ditch, dislocate your arm, turn your ankle, swallow dust, be whipped, and, after all, lose the victory.
29.3 When you have evaluated all this, if your inclination still holds, then go to war. Otherwise, take notice, you will behave like children who sometimes play like wrestlers, sometimes gladiators, sometimes blow a trumpet, and sometimes act a tragedy when they have seen and admired these shows. Thus you too will be at one time a wrestler, at another a gladiator, now a philosopher, then an orator; but with your whole soul, nothing at all. Like an ape, you mimic all you see, and one thing after another is sure to please you, but is out of favor as soon as it becomes familiar. For you have never entered upon anything considerately, nor after having viewed the whole matter on all sides, or made any scrutiny into it, but rashly, and with a cold inclination.
29.4 Thus some, when they have seen a philosopher and heard a man speaking like Euphrates (though, indeed, who can speak like him?), have a mind to be philosophers too.
29.5 Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things. Do you think that you can act as you do, and be a philosopher? That you can eat and drink, and be angry and discontented as you are now? You must watch, you must labor, you must get the better of certain appetites, must quit your acquaintance, be despised by your servant, be laughed at by those you meet; come off worse than others in everything, in magistracies, in honors, in courts of judicature.
29.6 When you have considered all these things round, approach, if you please; if, by parting with them, you have a mind to purchase equanimity, freedom, and tranquillity. If not, don't come here; don't, like children, be one while a philosopher, then a publican, then an orator, and then one of Caesar's officers. These things are not consistent. You must be one man, either good or bad. You must cultivate either your own ruling faculty or externals, and apply yourself either to things within or without you; that is, be either a philosopher, or one of the vulgar."
Salute!
Great points dude. I’m finally in mid 200’s lifting and I’ve always been a weak bencher. I’ve been lifting for 8 years- I do lots of different “gimmicks” (pin press, partials, negatives etc) to keep adding strength- it IS a slow process
Love the video alex, some hard truths that people need to hear. Personally, I am very happy with my physique and my strength BUT I treat training as a sport so I continuously want to improve, I want to hit those PRs because its how I play the sport and it's very satisfying.I know that if I quit training I will feel like dog shit since its needed to be healthy so I taught myself to love training by treating it this way.
I’ve accepted that top-tier strength is not in the cards for me. BUT I am very happy with how much I’ve improved compared to when I started.
I’m not even at my aesthetic goals yet but I’m well on my way. And that already makes me much more satisfied as a person overall. Training has been stress relief and a great test of how much I can improve myself physically
Gyms open tomorrow and I can't bloody wait!!! Got a 12 week plan ready to go. Time to get stronger baby!
Where do you live that they've still been closed?
No. Global pandemic is declared again. Everyerhing will close.
@@BillyBob-wx6kj Regional Victoria, Austrailia. They've been closed for the last 11-12 weeks
@@kristijansusnik1297 yep, UK gyms closing in 3 days time, but I'm somewhat prepared at home this time, lol
Love the video Alex, thank you so much
Depends on a lot of things but I ll take aesthetic over freak strength every time . It’s not like any of us use the extra strength for anything other than doing it and risking an injury. I do think it’s good to lift heavy though . Just not crazy freaky strength
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Most of elites are doing it because they are very insecure. Another part are people who are doing this for a living. But who pays for their living? Those who are insecure, it's just a vicious circle. Really not much pride in being elite. Must really exceptionally love the iron
@@Joji_14 I think he's just saying that, in any way we are doing it to get respect from other people, to get praised, in any way if our desires are so selfish to begin with, why would you go for strength when it takes so much more effort. Only if you really LOVE iron, and it's not 99,9% of you. If you didn't have low self esteem and need for approval you wouldn't care less for your bench to go from 225x5 to 315+x5
Same. Lol at all the people in the comment section roasting you. I small jealousy and insecurity
Agility is important, what's the point of being strong when you cant move like Naruto
Watching video like this gives me hope to stay natural and keep on grinding.
Great topic. Let me state a personal observation, I have NEVER known anyone on a very advanced/elite level of strenth who hasn`t had some kind of an injury over the years. This doesn`t have to be a great injury, mostly bicep tears, back pulls etc. You have to decide for yourself if you are taking that risk or not. You also have to decide whether you want to be a bit more ( or a lot more) banged up than your peers by the time you hit 40. Don`t be delusional in thinking you are going to feel so amazing & joint pain free after decades of chasing strength. If this is your livelihood, perhaps you do want to take that risk. Alex is providing great info, taking into account both sides of the coin.
I lift because I love it. Training allows me to focus on myself and get better every day. I liked your point on injury down the road, put things in a diff perspective for me. Love this type of content keep up the great work man!
Great video as usual bro
i was just watching this guy and i got a notification that he posted
A Video with your top recommendations would be great
DAMN IT MAN!!! YOU ARE SPEAKING TO ME!!!!! THANK YOU!
As usual best content on UA-cam fitness
Longevity and stability is the goal while still progressing. For this to happen, knowledge, experience, and a proper foundation is needed. Whenever an incoming injury is coming, lay low before it happens.
Really love this video. I've only been training for 3 months now but I've managed to hit Intermediate level on the big 3 lifts so I'm super hyped. I'm amazed, especially considering I've been in a calorie deficit for most of that time. The goal is to hit elite level but I'm gonna give that a good 5-6 years 🤣
You’ve inspired me to push harder. Thank you
You're a beast! I love it. 32 currently, and by God's good grace we'll all keep improving,
Looking forward to the recommended channels vid :)
Make an updated video on your home gym setup. There's A LOT of interest in home gyms now with more and more gyms partially or completely closing.
Definitely do video on your top fitness youtubers .
So, i have to say this once. Your new content is so damn good bro.
I absolutely didnt like your old videos. I always thought of you as a manchild who needs to talk about manliness all the time.
But now i rewatched your new stuff and its so good. You are so patient about what you do and you seem now like a mature, wise man.
Keep that one.
Ps. Your leaner physique is so much better than in bearmode. Thanks for the motivation buddy
Hey I really appreciate that Reto! Glad to have you here, going to keep doing my best to provide the best content possible.
Great vid Alex seriously but the reason why I work out is Cuzz I really injoy it man I do it for myself I understand what you mean as a Natural lifter it kinda sucks man working so so hard just to look good but it will never look crazy like a Unnatural lifter. But ya man I just personally love seeing the numbers go up no matter how long it takes getting that Half inch on your arms idk it’s just fun ya it takes so long. But you got to love it ?
As long as I'm improving on who I was yesterday, that's all I can ask for. I used to obsess about my numbers until I realized I had no hobbies outside of the gym. While my goal is still to get stronger and more aesthetic, fitness now adds to my life with hiking and snowboarding. I'm no longer the guy who just lifts weights and runs out of breath going up the stairs.
Really appreciate this video. You earned a resubscribe.
I needed to hear this.
Rule #1 motivation 💪. If you don't feel it I suggest preworkout cranks it up but you got to put the work fosho. I want more workouts content 😩 new stuff.
BE #1 FOR YOU! YESSIR.. NATTY OR ENHANCED RESPECT TO EVERYONE OUT THERE GRINDING!
The hardest thing I've found in 10 years of lifting is trying to be good at multiple disciplines. In order to reach elite strength you can't also be an elite competitor of another sport. Even the top athletes that ONLY train for a living don't become champions of two sports. For regular guys that work, going after elite strength means you give up being good at something else by default. How many elite powerlifters can run 5 miles at even an intermediate pace? Some of them get winded walking up stairs. It takes way more effort and time to go from 400 → 500 Squat than from 45 → 400. This only gets harder and harder the stronger you get.
I realised this early on. That's why I like Crossfit and it's what got me into regular barbel training and exercise. I dont care about Elite performance in a single domain, I'd rather be well rounded. Look at Fergus Crawley ( former elite power lifter) or Adam Klink as a few examples.
I'm only focusing on Strength training/ Powerlifting at the moment to improve my overall crossfit performance and Olympic lifts. I'd be happy with reaching 90th percentile overall ( or average) on BTWB or in the crossfit Open, whereas at 97th + are the Elite competitors and most are naturally gifted and some probably using on top of that. For example being an intermediate for strength in general means advanced or close to 90th percentile for Crossfit, then it's a matter of tiny improvements or maintaining strength while learning other skills and improving metabolic conditioning/endurance. My Deadlift is already top 9 %.
Why does lead strength matter so much dont you have other goals in life unless ur like an athlete or something
I love how you quantify and share how real life affects the iron lifestyle. Based!
I sure want to make gains and keep progressing and take lifting cardio and nutrition seriously but there’s definitely a place where I just go to the gym because I love it. Weather I look my best that day or not, Pr or not I’m just happy and better off going to the gym and enjoying it.
I'm part of the counter-point crowd. For me, the mindset of pushing for elite powerlifting strength created ruin rather than happiness and achievement. At the end of the day working out is a hobby for me and I go to be a little bit better and healthier every day. My end goal isn't elite strength but just being better and pushing further than I think I can. I know that for me, craving elite strength would be settling for less in happiness and that it wouldn't be worth going through just for its own sake. If others have that as that goal, however, then I fully respect their decision and journey.
It's really a matter of what you love and are passionate about. I don't care so much about the big three, but I love weighted callisthenics and I'd always love to get stronger at that. But again, my goal isn't elite strength, just to be stronger, pushing myself further than I think I can.
Tore my spinal erector in 2017, allowed to deadlift and squat again in 2019 but from scratch (deadlifting 40kg was hard). Then couldn't train for 6 months because the gyms were closed haha. Back in from today.
My first goals are squat 100kg, deadlift 140kg (I am 6'2 and 220 lbs)
My end of 2021 goals are 140kg squat and 180kg deadlift (I have hit those numbers before my injury, so I want them back).
LETs GO!
I like these videos Alex great job feels like were actually talking to you. Could you recamend us what excerise science book or what books you recomend we read for the gym so we can learn how to really program for beggining to advanced
Your videos have gotten to the point where I can’t miss them... and it’s not me
Preciate that homie
Awesome words!!!!
Learning to enjoy the process is probably the most effective way to get you there.
That's a fact
The gyms in my country closed again and i bought now a rack, a barbell and weights up to 170kgs. Im coming back from a small ankle injury and i am taking one week completely off training to let my body recover. Then i will do a bodybuilding phase where i dont push for prs and just workout in the 6-20 rep range. I am really hyped and excited about it. Also i will do each day bit of cardio, like cycling in the beginning and when my ankle is completely healed, i will start running because i never was a big runner but i like the idea to be able to run 10km. I will experiment a lot but i will do a lot of basics like bench, incline bench, pull ups, rows, ohp, and so on. The Squat will be kinda painful because i really like to squat heavy and push for maxes but for this reason i bought weights below my 1 rep max squat and there i will start with really high rep sets to get my body used to the weight again. But i love lifting and i guess i will spend a lot of time with it but at the moment it is quite difficult to do anything else then work, train and hangout with my family.
Can you start doing weekly Q and A again, was very informative and fun to listen to, was like a weekly fitness podcast to many of us if that makes sense, if not its cool brother your channel.
Keep up the good work🙏
It's every two weeks now homie! Once a month was too spread apart, and thank you.
Having an elite OHP, deadlift and squat are problably my fitness goals.
Hey alex, been following you for a while and i cant thank you enough for all the good you provide , i may have missed the video touching upon this but i just wanted ur take on isolation exercices, i plan to train at home and cant afford a chest flyes machine whatsoever , are those isolation exercices really making a difference on a physic? Thanks for you time, love from France.
My goals are lined towards bodybuilding but absolutely elite strength is fucking worth it.
Yes do recommendations. Looking at you buff dudes
Maybe the best thing is to only go after the elite numbers in safe movements. Like I don't train heavy in any leg exercise because I know how shitty it is to have knee pain. Also, I never try to do one rep maxes because that's just a great way to snap shit up. I don't think you can get so strong on overhead pressing that you would snap something so I consider that a safe movement, and the same goes with strict bicep curls, and some other accessory movements.
Because I do shot put (and eventually to professional wrestling entertainment), it is essential for me to get elite strength to get the necessary distances or ability to work in the sport without struggling massively in some areas. In shot put, you need multiple factors such as power, speed and strength to improve your distances for championship or meet competitions.
If you have one or two without the remaining factor, it's going to drag your performance down significantly.
Appreciate you man 👍🏻
This video make me want to find my inner David Gogen. Great video.
You should make video on favorite exercises
Stopped going to the gym for 3 years, now back and just trying to better myself and enjoy the training. Deadlifted 180kg with relative ease last night...200kg here i come!
I'm a simple man I see alpha destiny post, I click
OF COURSE IT IS. YOU HAVE TO LIVE IT!
Really interesting points. I've previously thought that I chased strength and mass to simply have the highest functioning body that I could have, as you only have one body. But the numbers that I'm lifting have become separate in my mind to all that and more tied to my ego, not sure if that's healthy
WTH? Are you me? Lol That sounds exactly how I’ve been transitioning into intermediate status
just feed your ego, without your ego (well ego is "you") you would have no drive. Why do you wan't bigger muscles? why do you want to look certain way? why do you respect yourself and want other people to respect you? it's all only because of your ego, nothing else, so embrace your ego and feed it and stop being hypocrite
There are other ways to further your fitness, than just strength. Watch the bioneer, he elaborates on this
@@ollviif they're the reasons you train then fair enough, but they're not the reasons that I have so there's no hypocrisy. Ego & drive can be good in healthy amounts as long as they're for the right reasons in my opinion
@@ahmarcamacho8404 I'm finally glad someone finally mentioned him, people are too focused on strength, there are other aspects of fitness too, not just that. Like learning how to fight and improving your techniques, improving your cardio, strength endurance, etc. There are many things that lifting doesn't train that bodyweight or gymnastics does like straight arm strength etc. Just lifting by itself can get boring, you need to do a variety of things to become an all around physical specimen. Do rock climbing/rope climbing, swimming etc.
Lifting is developmental, therapeutic, and more. But dont scrutinize every detail so much or it'll begin to take from you in all phases. No matter what you do, there's always gonna be a bigger, badder fish in the sea somewhere. Just lift.
exactly
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As someone that specializes in bodyweight strength, I personally do heavy deads once or twice a year at most. Last year, 1RM was 495 conventional, no straps. Just try to get strong as fuck generally or how you want! The rest will carry over in ways you can't imagine.
I'm going to try it! :D been lifting for a decade and i believe i can be elite!
I have found I get the best results training full body 3-4 days/week.
Training hard on those days and reflecting on my programming periodically is definitely worth it to me to max out my genetic potential.
Appreciate your "motivational rant," myself. :)
yes, can you do that video about who else you would recommend to watch?
Short answer: yes
Long answer: absolutely
Everyone should just work on getting stronger just to do it for themselves. Not for external validation or for girls or to be the tough guy who thinks he can take anyone in a fight just cause hes bigger , how many times I saw (I worked doors ) a strong gym guy get cocky and get one in the chin by 60-70kilo something scrawny ass guy who probably never lifted and thats all it takes. Stay safe ,lift to better yourself for you and to stay healthy.
i do this shit, because it's the only thing that keeps me going, to have goals and hit that pr, to be better than last week or the last month