Progressive Overload vs The Mind Muscle Connection
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Progressive Overload vs The Mind Muscle Connection
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In this video, I discuss the research behind attentional focus, the benefits of the mind muscle connection and progressive overload, the reason why I believe the latter is more important than the former, and the black or white fallacy.
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I tend to do both. Generally with compound lifts like squats, deadlifts, chin ups, bench i focus on progressive overload. And with isolations i focus on mind muscle connection.
I think you're videos are the best of all UA-cam. Please keep them coming
I'm a house keeper and lately I've been benefiting a lot from usinf mind muscle connection while working. Lifting heavy objects moving around furniture , I'm trying to make sure that I'm doing the movement from the right place, and not just dumping all the load on my upper body for example. I really need to be mindful to use my glutes.
Also, I would say it all depends to what end. Some of us don't want to be built up like that power lifter twin. Some of us want to be a little leaner.
Always feeling low-key proud of myself when I predict Bret's conclusion correctly. 😄
So whats the right answer then ?
I respect whatever bret says👌🏻
Dr. Contreras, I have learned so much from you over the years. I started my lifting journey with your Strong Curve book many years ago. I really appreciate your effort in spreading the scientific strength training information! Please keep it up! I never skip or speed up when I watch your video , I always watch at from the very beginning to the end. You did a fantastic job on this video too! Also kudos to the video editor!! Phenomenal job!
I agree with your chart. As an athlete who played 3 sports where your form determined where the object would land, I learned the importance on what my body was doing to hit the target, but once my form was perfected I could concentrate on the target.
A lot of people say that band around knees during hip thrust is a waste of time, could you please make a video about that?
Just started my fitness journey and these videos that explain the mechanics/form and different strategies are so helpful. So essential to know not just what I’m doing but why.
I always learn so much listening to you. Thank you. I am 38% done with me Strength Certification-BC Academy :). Hoorahhh !!!!
What a teacher Bret is. Explained it so well
As I'm starting a new cycle, I really appreciate this info and your opinion 🥳
We absolutely need these videos. Ig is ok but the platform is not friendly with this type of long, informative content. And yet it's so necessary
He should go to Rumble
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Yayyy! I enjoy the full length videos.
Whole video I was thinking "Well that's why we use both" and then you mentioned it at the end, soooo that's why we love you ✨
This is amazing, Bret, I was always confused by contrary views on that, but it seems that the answers, pretty much as always, seems to be depends and that balance is the best way to go! Progressive load is probably the best and pretty much only way when working with beginners. I think it was Charles Poliquin who said "if in doubt, get stronger"
I am really enjoying your new content! Keep it up! And please make a video on how to progressively load the glutes without heavy weights!
Great info coach 💯💪🙌
Great! Such detail. Ultimately, do both.
I feel like I use a mix of these. Like making sure I can feel whichever muscle I am working on but also pushing that muscle to its max or near it. Or in other words working on my PRs without breaking form.
Same here I don't think doing one means missing out on the other
I'm always excited when a new Bret video comes out! I always learn something.
We need more videos like this!!! Excellent content 💪
I have been using this in practice somewhat. Since I have learned the muscle's OIA (origin-insertion-action), I focus on what muscle I am contracting and trying to focus on. So it's like I progressively overload as a body builder.
I’m signing up for Booty by Bret now! Love your info
Smart, balanced and informative knowledge and delivered effortlessly. Thx You🙏🏼
Great video. Love the research and thoughtful discussion.
Absolutelly great videos, Brett.
I love your video Bret!
Keep doing more man, you are incredible 🤩
solid info!!
So appreciate your videos and knowledge. My only wish is that I found out about you 10 years ago! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for the amazing video 🙏🌹❤️
I would love it if you could talk about developing the quads and hams
Profound!
Thanks for your advice
Amazing content. I often have these questions. What is better for muscle devolopment? The conclusion you've done is great! I believe consistency will always do a better job. I often see in the gym people doing exercises incorrectly, but still having progress because they are consistent even doing exercises with bad form. Can we have a video discussing this? Thank you Bret, you're the man!👌
How is it that a bunch of channels with over a couple mill in subs are all using this guys research yet he’s not even at 500k?
Is this channel new? Or does he not have cool fancy editing?
Whatever it is I’m subbing
thank you brett!!!!!!!!
Great info!!! Very helpful! Thank you 😊
Pleasant greetings to you Mr. Contreras the percentage of diet to exercise in terms of which is important in seeing progress and general well-being, which is more inportant? In your library of encyclopedic knowledge.
Love your rootsy and very undestandable and relatable video formats.
Explanation(s)...... understandable.
Thank you.
Your doing great👍
Great topic and discussion Brett! I've found progressive overload to be better with weights. Mind Muscle has tremendously benefited my bodyweight exercises (in particular working up to a 4,000+ pull up day). Lots of sets of 5-10 in training with focus vs chasing a total number.
However completely anecdotal. I don't know for sure.
Love this!!
Thank you for the information! 🙏🏽
I will do both! 💪🏽
My anecdotal experience contradicts this. I was mountain biking 3-5 times a week, getting faster, stronger, and longer. By every external measure I was getting better. 2 hour climbs 3k feet, etc. Faster up climbs, using higher gears so I was getting stronger. I was also in the gym doing squats and deadlifts golf swing speed. One day however, wife asked me why my butt was getting flatter. I didn’t know but I was very active.
One day my knees started to hurt after 9-10 miles. Rested up, same thing 3 weeks later. And again and again. Took 3 months off, same thing. Around 10 miles = knee pain. Went to a sports doctor, imaging of knees said they were 100% healthy. 2 physical therapists didn’t help. Found a bicycle focused PT, and ran tests and my glutes were sheeyat. I was recruiting my lower back, legs for my exercises and minimizing my glutes. They were smaller, softer and flabbier. I also work a desk job. Even my calves were shrinking.
All we did were banded glute activation exercises. Not even body weight as these were on the ground. Focusing on feeling my glutes working and relaxing my quads and hammie’s. Especially the gluteus medius. A few other knee strengthening exercises, and 2-3 months later I was back up to 20-30 miles with no pain.
So yeah, maybe my experience is atypical, but activating the glutes is not the same as
So informative
Good Jovi Brett. I also agree the long vídeos are better. The shorts also had their space too, Not Black or white here too. I think that mirror experience you told us, could lead to a vídeo about teatching strategies, specially for the newbies at the gym, whants hypertrophy bit didnt haver a proper form for many exercises.
Thank you for the science, God bless you and I hope to learn more from your content
How important is myofascial release in the glutes?
That's what I was going to say you have to have both MMC and PO you have to focus on the muscles you are working .
Quality stuff. (Was this clip from 2021 or 2022? The clapper said 2021...)
Hello Bret,
I know you are the glute guy, but would you mind doing a video about the upper body muscles (as well as exercices) that women can do to achieve a look similar to the girls in the glute lab? Thanks!
As a dancer, I’ve always wondered why some ballet dancers looked ripped and others who are just as strong but don’t have as much definition. Classically trained dancers don’t use weights, they use the floor and their mind body connection to build pure strength and power via precise movement and perfect form. I can always tell a dancer with perfect form not by the height of their jumps but by how much I cringe when I watch them move. If I cringe a lot it’s because I’m worried they will hurt themselves because my eyes see nothing but impact on their bodies from bad form. A dancer with pure form will last longer in their career than a dancer who goes for maximum flexibility or height but pays no attention to their form especially as they land. They blow out knees, shins, backs, ankles, etc. but someone with pure form lasts much longer, some into their 40s or 50s because their training is so precise in how they move. That mind body connection is so strong in them. They generally don’t have the advantage of using weights in a dance class. Strength must come from their resistance against the floor. For example, Dancers who don’t use weights with good form also tend to have a lot more muscle definition than dancers who also don’t use weights with less attentive form. Thanks for these videos. I love your Strong Curves book! It’s helping me a lot in my ballroom dancing in terms of building better stability and my glutes feel great! I just started out in resistance training for the first time in my whole athletic life. I’d been a cardio junkie and my body can’t sustain that anymore now in my 50s. I may not see much yet, but how I feel is how I’m gauging it and I feel so good in my posterior chain! I’ve had too many back injuries and too much hyper mobility injuries to keep doing the same thing over and over. I’m really loving my workouts again, 3/5 -4/6 of them are strength resistance workouts, Only two cardio, and it’s made a great impact on how I move as a dancer.
Super interesante. Gracias
Por que no los dos?
Hi I have a question, when is it best to increase taking protein ?
I love this videos:) i'm a member on your program and the in the only exercise i have'nt improove is in chin up.... i cant even do 1/2 :( ... any suggestions?
I might be a good person for research, I had a brain aneurysm so I have to work hard on that connection. Left side brain damage, right side disconnect. Any tips would be great 💪🏻
Hey Bret, do you think lack of calf strength/muscle can affect the bigger compound lifts like DL and squats? Much thanks
I started doing your workouts for my glutes a few months ago and my glutes are tight but I want to make them bigger. How much weight should I add to my workouts each week?
Can progressive overload achieved by doing reps till failure with light moderate weights?
Yes, progressive overload can be done in several ways and with all rep ranges
Great Video Brett… I’m 61 (gulp) & still lifting heavy… I’m thinking of adding BFR bands to lessen the stress on my joints… & implementing these suggestions.. 👍🦾
Why does it have to be one or the other? I'm a proponent of progressive overloading with M/M connection.
...which he mentions at the end...
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So it's not so bad if I not feel glutes doing squads or deadlifts
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How can I train with you?!
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you can follow whatever protocol you wish. Unless you have been fat before. Your calves will be diminutive. And everyone will make fun of you for having baby calves. Ive been fat, and now I have glorious Calves.
Coulda done without that random, loud ass cheer sound effect at the end. Sounded like a buncha demon children were about to drag me to hell, man 😬
Excited to have the full length videos back! 👏 you have so much more invaluable information than what can fit in a tok tok video!
I just finished my NASM CPT course work. Taking the exam this time next Monday. I read Glute lab over the past 3 years as I was rebuilding after bilateral knee replacements. Fusions as well. I keep watching influencers and comparing them in my head to Bret. I am a retired teacher and applied for 3 gym jobs this morning. Wish me luck!
I have a question !! Everyone always says that RDLS are great to grow the glutes but when I do them I don’t feel any burn on my glutes just a lil bit in my lower back I checked correct form videos but I can’t find what’s wrong when I do it. Is it essential to do deadlifts or good mornings? Or is it okay if I just do sets of bulgarian split squats, hip thrusts and leg raises?
Not yet a cpt but on my way..my opinion, you might be using a weight that is to heavy your glutes might not Be that strong yet or Your not doing mind muscle control and your picking up the weight with your back try a lighter weight or no weight at all.. I was able to activate my dormant glute medius with good mornings as warm ups! caution as both rdl and gm work the erector spinae. Hope he responds as theres more info to this question and your form
Good luck on your fitness journey
you might be going too low. try stopping just below your knees and focus on pushing your glutes to the back of the room
make sure you bend your knees as you bring your glutes back then thrust the weight up
all you just said works only for the newbees! But not for adv or pro athletes! There is limit how much weight you body can tolerance plus youre age counts! I doubt you can constantly increase weights in your 40-s!)) as for me. right now im not using progressive overload on a regular basis - but mostly focused on reps - high volume and mind misce connection! i can easily squat 15 reps with 190kg with BFR bands and im not on a drugs or HRT. Will i increase weights? No. Im going to beat 20 reps and then will beat 5 sets with 20 reps! Than i wlll start using super sets or pre exhaust and only than i will try to rise my weights a little bit.
Exactly. I’m hitting 40 and I don’t plan on increasing weight. Not tryna injure my self I just want to be healthy and look good. I’ll stick with medium weights and mind connection.
@@olaines9154 , eventually, high volume could lead to higher injury risk too. Eventhough the proposed progression looks Fine, there are may ways in wich fatigue could increase the risk of injury.
I want your brain in my brain 😂 so knowledgeable and everything you put it out is easy to follow and understand!
To me it's such a simple question and answer, you should have both, you definitely need progressive overload but good form and feelin' the worked muscle matters too so have both, but if you don't get stronger than what are you tryin' to achieve.
Exactly
Bret every time I got heavy, I lose mind body connection
I am hearing You. 🙋♀️🇦🇺❤️🔥❤️🔥
Been doing Progressive overload and mixed routine plans for two years. I warm up with chin ups and pull ups and dips every second day, mixed variation, band assisted and no bands, well dips are still challenging, the arms don’t won’t to flex atm.🤷♀️🙆♀️
Love this video. So great to hear someone thoughtfully articulate a topic as essential as this.
Slightly off topic but as far as internal vs external focus - when you apply this to a sport like rowing, we've found that internal focus is good for training sessions. But on raceday, it's all external. The last thing you want to do is remind a rower of what their body is experiencing when they're grinding out that last 500m.
Thanks for the video!
Thank you for this video! I didn't know this two options existed. Though, recently I do both: I focus on going heavier, if possible, and at the same time I focus on how I'm performing the exercises and I kind of use it as a way to keep myself in the present moment.
Thank you Bret! You explain things so well. I’m 5 weeks in to my fitness journey and was wondering this very thing. Thank you thank you! Abs I agree that both are needed! 😘
Challenge Accepted on that Perfect Athlete performance. Wish me luck
always educational & taking away some of your knowledge to use in my own training for myself and clients. thanks for all you do!!
What if progressive overload with mind muscle connection 😎
Norm Mcdonald is yoked!!
Hola Bret, I think your work is great and much needed. Bought your book to be able to understand all the technical language. Greetings from Plymouth, UK
I always watch and learn from you and your video..
I learn a lot...I really do. Thank you.,,👍👍👍
Hi Bret ! Thanks for your videos and explanations ! I was exactly asking me this question today ! Best timing 😄
I feel more confident with overloading and trying new things now that i didn't dare before thanks to you. Kisses from France ❤️
Sir im just reading your book titled "Bodyweight Strenght training anatomy", so excited to keep reading it and apply it in daily basis...
So I can feel frog pumps and bridge thrusts on light weights such as barbell or dumbbell yet when I go to hip thrust and I load my Olympic bar with heavy am not feeling my glutes burn I feel them burn more on light weights
Love the video, but did anyone else absolutely crap themselves when the kids cheered at the end?! 😯 Don’t listen with headphones! 🤣
I don't do Chin ups due to elbow issues but I can do rope or towel pull-ups and I can attest to the fact that they do also work the abs!
"This whole video is nonsense because..."😂 You're the funniest scientist!
Mahalo nui Bret! Excited to pack on more mana`o on my journey! 🤙🏾
Thank you 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hi can you please share how my wife can get an hourglass shape appearance?
Best explanation!!!
Great videos!
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Excellent video
Excellent Brett