IS Lifting Consistently Key?
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90% of being a good lifter is just showing up!
Well, no. It's a good start, and indeed a necessary one, but past a few months of training you're gonna have to get your shit together!
"But I've been consistent" is something I've heard during consults but that's not much of a guarantee of anything. WHAT you are doing is essential. Consistently shit training and lifestyle will provide an equilibrium that dumps you at a very low level in most cases. The volume, the exercises, the technique, the effort, the diet, the sleep/stress management...consistently nailing most of the big variables is what gets you those sweet-ass gains that we're looking for.
I would rather have you be LESS consistent in terms of showing up but crushing it when you do, than being extremely regimented and disciplined but not training hard or ignoring the other variables. I've spent the last 2 weeks at my wife's hometown, and I think I got in 1 run and 1 ring workout during that time.
*LONG TERM area under the curve of QUALITY TRAINING is what matters!*
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Hey Geoffrey. Thank you for your consistency! 😉
I was wondering if you track your data only in BoostCamp, or in another Excel sheet or something as well.
Sounds a bit like Jeff Alberts talking xD. I mean showing up is half the work, the other half is being sensible I think. Don't train like an idiot. Train close to failure. Use sensible amounts of volume you and your history and peioritise sleep and stress management LIKE ANYONE SHOULD. That said I've been struggling with both as full time work+ college kinda.... Hard xD
I like the 80/20 rule for this. 80% is just showing up, everything is 20%. However that 20% will take 80% of your effort and is the difference between average results and exceptional results.
Maybe the key was the friends we made along the way
Started the gym with 4 friends, now I'm the only one left.
Ok, Mr. Anime Protagonist
“How are they so strong?”
“It’s…the power of friendship!”
Maybe the key was made of metal
What friends?
@@skyre2039That’s how it usually goes. My gym buddy was “motivated” at first, then he was the first to quit because he said he’s lazy lol😂
I always thought the key was to just watch enough videos saying “stop doing THIS, do THIS instead” until my entire program was eliminated then starting again
Confusing the muscles only works when you’re confusing your brain.
It has gone full circle
haha
Uploading consistency is surely key Geoffrey.
I wouldn't know anything about that!
@@GVSit's true, look at uncle Dom, uploading every week.
@@GVS Gotta confuse the subscribers, right babe?
naa quality is better in this case.
you take a shower regularly, you do the same with brushing your teeth, you do the same with lifting it is for life forever to the time you are dead
but the quality is equally important because pouring water from the tap on your head is not a shower, same showing up at the gym and do garbage volume
Ding ding ding!
You can pretty much maintain your first 5 years of bodybuilding gains with a lot of pretty crap training programs. As long as you hit protein and sleep.
Most people never achieve elite levels of cleanliness because they don't try to shower better every time. Consistency alone won't do the trick.
@@MarianoGrande1 yes, but what would people around the world look like if everyone took a shower poorly compared to if no one ever took a shower?
if you lift Consistency for 10 years you will build muscles no matter what and you will be in the 10% of best fit people when you walk through the streets you will look better than 90% of the people who pass by you and you will die as a strong person who can take care of himself instead of on a hospital bed
@@WiecznieNieNasycony That's a fair point. I guess it depends on the goals and how seriously you take it.
Intensity is key, but consistency is the doorknob.
good way to put it
i am the key , ur mother is the doorknob
@@temonix9504 your mom joke get old
You know who else it the doorknob? @@temonix9504
@@temonix9504 Absolutely MOGGED.
First Gf wants me to put more thoughts in my gifts and now GVS wants me to put more thoughts to training
Buy her his book...win win
Give her the gift of get the heck out of your house. You don’t need spongers, soldier!!
It is consistency over the span of a few years, a few weeks off every once in a while can actually help you grow even more. High persistent effort is key over the long term.
Geoffs physique has transcended into the superhuman/anime realm x.x
Consistently getting in that minimum (atleast) threshold of effort required to stimulate muscle growth is key. That being said, someone doing 70-80% of the things right over a consistent period of time (given that they put enough effort into their sets, not necessarily failure but atleast close to it) will surely be vastly better off than 80% of the gym going population even. Majority of the people who lift do not look like they lift. Consistency is definitely extremely important bcoz by the time you get to that advanced stage (when things require to be especially or excessively dialed in if I may say), well you are advanced. Most people will be satisfied with even a true, proper later intermediate physique (not that these terms mean anything). That also being said, sometimes even if we tick all the boxes our mind still has that tendency to believe that we aren't doing enough, we could be doing better or we are doing something wrong, bcoz the changes are slow, even before you turn "advanced". In times like these, consistency is definitely key. Sticking to a solid regimen and believing in it, even though it may temporarily seem that we are going nowhere, is what that separates the successful from the rest.
Currently recovering from surgery and the body dysmorphia is setting in, this video made me feel a little better
Get well soon. Stay strong my guy, you will get your gains back in no time after you start lifting again.
Don't worry mate, muscle memory kicks in faster than gear
Think back to when youve had to miss three, four days in a row. And when that happened a few times in a row. You dont remember, but those were your best most effective workouts.
For those in the know, NOT going to the gym on purpose is the discipline we struggle with. You do not gain muscle while working out. You do not add muscle while still recovering, in the 48 hours afterward. You recover. Then you grow. Never any other possible way for it to occur. The body prioritises repair. It will never ever build an extension to your “temple” if there are cracks and flaking cement to attend to first.
Let those who have ears, hear.
Let the rest carry on making cracks and patching and going nowhere.
Well said and much needed.
I think it's more of a case of "consistency is one of the key factors" than "conistency is THE key". Progressive overload, a good diet, good sleep, and consistency in the gym, are the 4 most important factors but genetics is also obviously plays a huge part and I have a couple friends who train harder than me and still have less muscle.
Progressive overload not that important, especially if you just want to maintain your first 5 years gains, or you're on whore moans
With your very high frequency, and somewhat high volume with good intensity, it’s only normal you need a break here and there. However, the body doesn’t lose hard earned tissue like that (except if total immobilisation like an injured member in a case).
If anything you actually recovered from months of abuse and potential progressive less and less healthy endocrine profile and now can rebound easy.
Feeling weaker or « out of focus » is just a nerve thing. In two weeks you will be back like nothing happened.
I needed this so bad. Always love to hear your thoughts in general too.
Love your gym advice along with your gym face, it actually really inspires me
Great video, thank you Geoffrey Verity Schofield!
Very good video Geoffrey. Remember my first big plateau after ~1.5 years of lifting (like most people) and definitely the biggest factor wasn't staying consistent, but actually not pushing my self/ experimenting and learning. Staying consistent is the key to doing good, but constant learning and experimentation is the key to getting better.
I have found as years gone by that the body gets used to the constant stimulation particularly if you kept to a certain frequency, and time off is needed as an advanced lifter to "de-train" the muscles but not enough to lose muscles or strength, makes them receptable again to stimulus for them to grow further.
Yep, made a video about that last year, around the same time. I don't think it's essential but certainly could be useful.
So, essentially a form of “de-loading”?
@@AZeneki No, that's different. De-loading just means ligthening the weights for a period of time.
It doesn't necessarily just mean that. Just like "progressing overload" doesn't just mean adding more weight progressively; which is why I said " a form of de-loading,' referring to what you described in your comment.@@IronWarrior86
@@AZeneki Progressive overload means adding weight, reps, sets or decreasing rest time between sets to or during any particular exercise. And yes to be very specific, de-loading means all those things in reverse. It shouldn't be difficult to comprehend this simple concept. Taking time off, is not de-loading. Time off means de-training the muscles. Because the idea is that the muscles should not recieve any stimulus whatsoever from weight resistance training. So no, it's not "a form of de-loading".
Not to piggyback, but I feel like the hardest plateau for the average lifter to overcome is when the newby-gains start to slow down and anything/everything no longer just suddenly puts on muscle. Now that you have to really WORK, and borderline strategize what you're doing some people just can't get over it and quit. Doing what you love is so important.
For sure. In some ways it's good because it gets people some sort of semi-instant gratification, then some stick with it.
That’s exactly right, or they pull the “natty limit” card and use it as an excuse to start juicing.
Sad to see so many young lifters nowadays taking PEDs when they’re barely out of the newbie stage.
The Return of the King of Tricep Gains 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I have training adhd and i have never done the same workout 2 times in a row. I needed to hear this.
thank you ! Also great book, I always reffer to it (the first one) from time to time
Great video the analogies are 👌🏻Consistency is key as long as you can open the door to quality training while being consistent 😊
Makes perfect sense GVS don’t just show up Do a good job!Even though consistently is good it will take more than that to achieve what you want.its a good start but what you do really does matter while you are there💪🏽
I have been going to the gym daily for 3 years and have made no progress…no one told me I had to go inside!
yeah, I feel you, invested around 10 000 euros in a home gym and only now being told that you need to actually USE the stuff to get stronger😮
Consistency on the foundation of a PLAN and INTENSITY is key 💪
Let's donate some cash for our boy Geoffrey to buy some sexy gymshark compression shirt, he's been wearing the same 3 shirts for years now they are hanging for their LIFE
No, the more homeless Geoff looks the stronger he gets
Loving the faces on the hybrid lat pullover/ tricep pushdown! Try hard or not at all. Go team go
I like the comparison, your training reflects how you do in your life
Your gym has such variety of equipment, It genuinely looks great.
Bro is looking freaky 💪🏿💪🏿
Training with low intensity for a week, or even taking a full week off from time to time, best after a full mesocycle, is important and what most hobby athletes don't do. I learned this the hard way back in the days and when I switched to properly planned mesocycles, my gains skyrocketed.
Oh man so much of this rings true for me. As a REAL lifetime natty I was stagnant for years until I started getting better at getting better again and again and again. Just showing up works for a few years at most.
Damn, new video of GVS
I think consistency matters in the context of consistently getting an adequate stimulus. You can't just chase one of the lifting variables in a vacuum, there needs to be some semblance of balance. All the effort with no technique isn't as useful as a balamce of both.
Using a lifting logbook was extremely helpful in finding what was working for me (plus occasionally getting a tape measure out). I learned fairly quickly that I could allow my personal preferences to influence my training style quite a bit... as long as I was getting the right stimulus and recovery. When things click and you stop spinning your wheels, training reallly becomes enjoyable. 💪
New GVS and NH videos on the same day.....we surely are blessed by the gods of gainz.
The true God of Gainz is genetics.
in a world where obesity is steadily climbing to 50% of the population and 75% of the population being overweight, consistency in exercise is probably a better thing to teach to the general population than telling them to put everything they have into their lifting session. People also have different goals when it comes to exercise, it may not even be to accrue the most amount of muscle in the shortest time. The examples you brought up, the consistent dyel and the inconsistent likely roider, are generally the exceptions to the rule, not exactly the rule and again, goals are important to know. Research shows us that it really doesn't take much to grow muscle (the mayo clinic states that 1 set of 12-15 reps taken to near muscle failure is enough) , and it takes phenomenally less effort to stimulate the physiological benefits of exercise. Also, the more consistent someone is, the less amount of fatigue they need to accrue in each bout of exercise to stimulate growth. The reason why volume is seen as superior to intensity is that volume can be adhered to consistently, intensity by its very nature cannot.
Consistently exercise ? Who wants that ! Its way more important that our schools teach kids how to find the unknown side of an obtuse triangle or to memorize the periodic table. Thanks education system !
@@ShawnGetty-eb1gj our schools don't even teach kids how to properly hip hinge in order to sit down or do things. Not engaging the core and back properly while bending down leads to disc herniations and back pain. Back pain costs us $100 billion a year. We already have gym, so its not even something that would take extra time, we just need gym teachers that understand fitness. We also force our children to take health class and that is where they can learn how to count calories, again no extra time spent here. I have no idea what you are talking about and I don't understand your point. Tell me how the average person applies trigonometry throughout their daily life. I can tell you that you and the average person bends over multiple times a day, and even using your own argument I can say that learning how to hip hinge is more valuable to the average person than being able to find the hypotenuse of a triangle.
Appreciate the comment section on your videos, its allways many thought out things, not just your regular "this is video i needed today, geuf is such a dow to earth guy blablabla"...you really builded up some good comunity there, maybe we could bring up back the forum days and discuss about training somewhere :D
perfect video for me i'm really stuck in the intermediatis phase of just showing up
i know i need to count my cal, macros etc
but right now i'm focusing on really pushing my sets to failure
I wish I found this video when i started lifting 2 years back. On social media all I heard that showing up to the gym is all that mattered, but I made very few improvements over the 1st year of lifting.
I didnt have any clue about nutrition and recovery, I got the advice to bulk and only got fat put on 10kgs but didnt get stronger.
Finally after a year when I realised that only showing up is not enough and started to look into things more minutely, then I started making consistent gains.
I always push myself and I’m consistent. I was just telling my wife that people that workout all the time but don’t get results aren’t putting in the effort, they’re just going through the motions. I think people that work hard just take it for granted that everyone does the same.
99% its their diet and not how they're training, if they're in the weights section.
Take a week off every 6 to 8 weeks. Let your tendons recover and your CNS too.
@@-whackd Maybe for men, but not for women. I do have to say though, when I was younger my damn metabolism was so high that I couldn’t gain weight. Talking high school days.
@@GUITARTIME2024 I’m 57. I’ve got my workouts down to 30 minutes a day. It’s mostly maintenance although I do add weight or reps if things get easy. I’ll take a week off once in awhile if needed.
There’s a woman at my gym who’s been going there consistently for 7 years. She’s looked exactly the same since day 1, hasn’t lost a single pound of fat, hasn’t gained a single pound of muscle. She basically shows up and socializes for 2 hours, does a few sets and takes off. Consistency doesn’t matter alone, the other half is effort.
watching Geoffrey's facial expressions is one part hilarious and one part intimidating like def not gonna say hi to that guy at the gym kinda thing XD
Get better at getting better❤😈
Sounds like recovery is a factor😊
You look like depressed peter parker from the multiverse
New GVS vid, instant watch and like
On a side note is this rag of a tee-shirt/tank top patched up with white strap??
We are not going to get the next gym shark from this hero guys, keep on buying his books, they are good.
Isn't patched, I just wear them till they break.
I needed to hear this bro 😅. I’ve been going to gym for 2 years or more and I have gained weight and gotten some progress but I’m afraid recently that I’ve wasted a lot of time not progressing aggressively enough
Consistent effort
Get stronger
Make improvements
Eat better
Move more
FIND exercise you have the best results with most enjoyment.
Great idea explaining what most coaches are trying to say when they say consistency is key 👌
Just walking through the door is great but make sure your progressing at some point or you will start to be in maintenance mode for the long term 💪
Great video 💯
In the long game this is the number one factor
Consistently autoregulating and not overdoing or underdoing it is key.
"Consistency is key if you don't have consistency. If you already have consistency, consistency isn't key anymore." Cool.
"Life is the ultimate ponzi scheme" too true🤣😆😁🙂😐☹😫😭
“Practice makes perfect.”
I heard someone correct this once. He said “Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
Good morning Geoff
Morning!
I've been consistently going inconsistently.
Hard to get me to the gym more than twice a week, but it's all business when I'm there. Maximum effort. I went back to back days this week, for the first time in years. I'm super sore lol. But I broke a working set PR, so I'm happy. Trying to get back into cardio is the hardest part, though.
I really want to invest into a small home gym inside the next couple of years. Just a bench, some dumbbells, and maybe a barbell if I can clear enough space.
💯 KUH
I just want Geoffrey hair genetics, everything else is consistency
Yeah its just not fair 😭
I mean, this topic of "what is the key" is an endless fountain of content since you can make a video about every single piece of the puzzle not being the key just because you need all of them to have the key.
Consistency?
Effort?
Diet?
Trad wife?
Sure you can become huge with any one of them, but combined they are the answer
Progression and improvement is key. I aim to be more consistent every session.
I found the key to unlocking new gains after year 5 for me was just to start recording every workout. I bring my notebook with me and write everything i do down and try to match or beat it week after week. It helps keep me accountable for my efforts especially when im tired and dont "feel like it" towards the end of the week or a workout.
Lifting consistently and smart > lifting smart but missing some sessions here and there > going to gym everyday, doing dumb shit and not progressing.
I've done all three. As a begginer I was young with loads of time, but I had no idea what I was doing and I quit after months of seeing barely any progress, despite training 4-5 times per week. When I learned how to lift and I had a period when I couldn't do my main sport after breaking my arm I was going to gym almost everyday, this time with focus, dedication and a good plan. My progress was amazing, I gained 10+ pounds of muscle and all my lifts skyrocketed. Nowadays I have more responsibilites, less free time and I've gone back to kickboxing so I am not that consistent, but by training smart I still progress, although slowly. Training two times per week with a good plan, progressive overload and correct technique has better results than training everyday but incorrectly.
I started lifting in 2007 to compliment basketall training at the age of 12 and I got stuck on bench with just the bar. I hit 185 x 5 bench in 2011 when I was 16 after newbie gains. I consistently lifted "secondary to basketball" for 9 more years and my bench in 2020 was 225 x 5 only. After Covid Hit gyms locked down I did some home training to maintain and in 2022 when I came back to gym was Benching 225 x 4. Now from 2022 to 2024 February I put Weight Training as Primary Goal (Basketball Secondary) and in 18 months my bench went from 225 x 4 to 350 x 5 and 225 x 30. And in those 18 months I had take 1 month off each for 3 times for 3 total months due to few minor surgeries. As a Natty, it was strange to see my bench took 9 years to go 185 x 5 to 225 x 5 but it went 225 x 5 to 350 x 5 basically 15 months out of 18 months but I trained like mad man for those 15 months. TLDR i agree 100%.
i took 4 years off over a year ago (bad mental health) and after 2 or 3 months of training i immediately put on 15 pounds of pure muscle( that i lost) and got my bench from 150 to 250. its been 14 ish months now and im bigger and stronger than before my break. bench now at 320 and can strict concentration curl 65 lb dumbbells for 7 reps each arm. after the break though i would train for over 3 weeks or more with no breaks.. basically until i physically got sick and had to stop. so i think that helped
If you are bothering to show up, go hard! Leaving gains on the table is a crime. My problem is the opposite, I have trouble stopping before I descend into an extra hour or two of junk volume. After 30 years, I would say I'm not intermediate anymore, lol, but my numbers are still going up.
I do the opposite of everyone and i stop lifting in January lol. That's my rest month after going hard during the holidays and putting those extra calories to good use. January i just go for walks.
im consistently getting soar, week after week
Geoff is there a methodology/reason behind you moving your elbows as much as you do on the cable press down? Seems like a lot of unnecessary lat involvement taking tension off the triceps, just curious if I’m missing an explanation for this being superior? Love your content.
Consistency is key as a beginner and even more so through the next levels of your training, where u log food and train 4 to 6 times a week for 1 to 2 hrs or more.
You learn alot through these phases. Once you build a decent physique and understand training well its different.
i go through training phases of 2 days a week. even 1 day a week full body and 2 day splits. im 41 with kids and work long hours. can still bench 100 kilo easily for reps and squat 120 kg fairly easy with lower volumes of training.
but i have put in lots of work previously and am pretty decent with my protein intake still.
Life is a ponzi scheme is 🔥.
Can you do a video on a lagging chest? We both suffer from one but it'd be nice to see what you've done to bring it up
Yep, it's planned.
Ive been working out for 20 years. I have take 1-2 weeks off all the time. As I’ll be too damn sore to continue. Then come back stronger. First or second workout back. And people are blown away. I’m the most consistently inconsistent consistent lifter.
I think the elusive obvious thing is that most intermediates would be better off specialising and not trying to get better at everything all at once. Israetal has suggested this for advanced lifters, certainly powerlifters talk about it at advanced levels, but the meta-meme is still IMHO 'you can have it all'. Maybe some people can, but truthfully will is actually kinda finite at a particular moment in time (not saying you can't cultivate more over time, which I guess could be part of getting better at getting better), and ppl need to actually be able to spend their will on their priorities. Whilst I'm not saying Bugenhagen is right about everything by any means, when he talks about picking 3 or 4 exercises and really going ham on them....well I think that's an idea that can be refined, but he is somewhat onto something that I think a lot of the fitness community is missing right now.
What do you think of MTOR RESET ? which also recommends 2 weeks off for recovery & coming back stronger more motivated & to resynthesize the muscles
You, GVS get handsome overtime
Using the same principle with your content is key 😂
It's all about consistency vs intensity.Common sense if your intensity or weight vs sets is high turn down how often lift based on how you feel.The more consistent you are over the long term.Building a good physique takes time some may be able to obtain faster than others.Lift as consistent as possible with just enough intensity to not go too far into your recovery abilities,for any give session.Read your body.
If you already have the result you were training for, then consistent maintenance of that for many years may be your goal. If you still desire to improve your performance/physique, then it will take consist stimulus for adaptation to a new shape/fitness level, so it must be progressing in some way over some period.
Any plans for a video on abs?
This came at the perfect time. I’ve been trying to listen to my body and I’m currently taking an extended period off (like a month) as I lifted consistently for over 5 years straight. It’s hard because I start deflating real quick.
Yes can lose glycogen and bloat, the fullness goes in a couple of weeks. But muscle loss is generally slower, and comes back fairly fast.
I feel like my glycogen and extra water retention is gone if I get sick for a week. Last time I dropped like 7-8 pounds over a week and it was really noticeable. But within a month I was back to my usual weight so it wasn't that bad. I think if you're a bit more active and eating well, it's probably less drastic 😅
Letting the tension off at the bottom of those db curls, is that the best? This year i lifted during the 6 colder months, not the warmer months. I am pretty active, so not much loss, but i am healed. About to start lifting again, when it gets wet and cold. An elbow issue, covid then an ear infection forced this. Maybe its the way to go.
For those of us with auto immune disorders we'll take GOOD anyday Hell let me feel JUST good 😂😅
i do bro split like this 4 day
1 Incline curl 3 set 8-10 rep
2 Preacher Curls 3 set 6-8 rep
3 Bench press 3 set 4-6 rep
4 Incline DB bench 3 set 8-10 rep
5 weighted Dips 3 set 6-8 rep
6 DB Flye 3 set 10-15 rep
7 Push ups 3 set to failure
1 Hatfield Squat 3 set 4-6 rep
2 RDL 3 set 8-10 rep
3 Leg Curl 3 set 8-10 rep
4 Hammstring Curls 3 set 8-10 rep
5 split squats 3 set 8=10 rep
6 Jefferson Curl 3 set 8-10 rep
7 Neck cable Curls 3 set 12-15 rep
1 Cable push downs 3 set 8-10 rep
2 cable overhead extension 3 set 8-10 rep
3 Barbell Row 3 set 8-10 rep
4 Weighted Neutral grip pull ups 3 set 5-6 rep
5 DB-Shrugs 3 set 8-10 rep
6 Seated Cable Low-Row 3 set 8-10 rep
7 Cable pulldown 3 set to failure
1 Single Arm Dumbbell Press 2 Sets x 4-7 Reps
2 Behind the Neck Overhead Press 3 Sets x 8-10 Reps
3 Seated pin press 3 Sets x 8-10 Reps
4 Dumbbell Lateral Raise 3 Sets x 8-12 Reps
5 Single Arm Cable Side Lateral Raise 2 Sets x 8-10 Reps
6 Lying Face Pulls 3 Sets x 8-12 Reps
7 Ab wheel 3 Sets x 8-12 Reps
Geoff can you make a video on how to specialize? Like a specialization phase of 8 months on the delts
If you give yourself 8 months to bring up your shoulders, I wouldn't really specialize too much, but rather at least start off with a very broad range of pressing movements and shoulder exercises. In 8 months, any strength gains from ohp, dips, incline bench, power gains from high pulls, push presses or whatever and size gains from whatever isolations you did, will show up. if you were talking about trying to bring up shoulders in 6 weeks or something, you might consider doing something different than usual, but over 8 months, just keep going with what you have so far. maybe switch priority from bench to ohp in terms of exercise order, volume, intensity or whatever.
@@dasdasdiamlasdasdsada9717I was thinking of running a nucleus overload cycle on delts and triceps (long head specifically) for the first 2 months (separately). And just trying to get to certain strength goals: like 185 lbs OHP, 45 lbs lateral raises for 10 etc. Just putting everything else on the back burner, if bench raises that’s good, otherwise no problem for example, just throwing max recoverable volume on the delts on a lean bulk.
Thoughts? Should I switch somethings up?
If I stop training for a week my strength dips and I feel like I'm starting from scratch again.
Hey geoffrey i like those overhead tricep extension with a cable you do you leaning but with an ez bar attachment my triceps litterly blow up in size and i almost doubled my strength in that movement and still progressing also have you ever tried incline push downs like basement bodybuilding does them there also great
The only way I feel a good stretch in my triceps on pressdowns is if I keep my elbows back and the cable right next to my chest. I bet the incline pressdowns really help keep that kind of form as the weights go up. 💪
@@nmnateyes indeed they do and when you fail you can easy add in some partials and with the overhead extensions i didnt feel at first but after a couple of months i felt it more when my form got better plus when you fail you can keep going with some body english and those last reps really slow that negative and i swear the growth and the pumps i got from them are out off this world when you do them and you look at your triceps you cant see the definetion anymore for sime reasons because there is so much blood in them its like there are triceps over your triceps or something 😅
Consistancy is definitely the foundation. Seeking improvement is probably the other half, though. I havent missed a week of training (1 upper, 1lower minimum) for 14 years but I think people forget that the gym is supposed to imporc3 your wuality of life and you should take that self improvement into all aspects of life, also I bench 485 natty which usually helps my argument.
I started lifting seriously in June last year. When I first started my squat was 35kg (8 reps) now it's 80kg (8 reps). My deadlift was also 35kg and now it's 100kg. six months ago it would’ve killed me and now... it nearly kills me. Just got to keep upping the weight, when they feel less heavy, up the weight!
Hey Geoffrey! I have anterior pelvic tilt when I work out. I tried stretches for 3 months but they haven’t done anything. Is this genetic? It sucks so bad bro!
Hey mate, how much can you lui raise I'm upto 45lbs dB now 4 sets of 15 just wondered how much you can do thanks
Consistency but with effort. I’ve been consistently going 2.5 years and I’ve seen tons of ppl come and go. Consistency will set you apart from most ppl.
quick question, I'm a newbie. coz I reached failure on 8-10 reps with no worries in being injured but I can heavy more with 4-8reps but I'm scared that I will get injured.
Consistency is key when it comes to effort in the gym instead of just showing up
can I ask how can I grow my quads with horrible proportions for sqatting?
I train at home because all the gyms in my area are super expensive with horrible equipment, so it's not worth it. I have tried doing platz squats and front squats but I just can't keep the movement in the quads, if I stay upright I have to use babyweights and I can't progressivly overload, while if I actually push the sets hard I end up doing a good morning and only train my glutes and back. same thing with lunges and bulgarians. As soon I have to grind a rep the hips shoot back and I can't stay upright if my life depended on it
Consistency is not the only key, but it's one of the most important. I think the only other equally big key might be training intensity.
When it comes to making training logs Id suggest also dating them, along with any progress photos.
especially if tend to fall prey to body dysmorphia at times (which lets face it as lifters we all do at times)
Often I know for myself at least in that moment (say those 3 months of a training program) you might feel one way and look good but then months later or even a couple of years alter when doing a different training program or having played around with several elements and made changes its often hard to look back objectively and remember accurately what was working optimally and what wasn't.
There have been times doing full body where Ive felt amazing, felt like Ive made some of the best progress in a long time, yet looked back at older photos and correlated them with training logs of that same time period to realize doing the full body split I was doing I was barely making maintenance.
And visa versa, there have been times where Ive felt like I needed to revert back to another of my splits to eek out some more gains as felt like im loosing muscle and in my head what I was doing 12 months ago was more beneficial, yet when I looked back at photos and logs Ive realised im actually bigger and a lot stronger than I was then (although i thought the opposite)
There are far too many keys to this one door, aren’t there?? 💪🔑🗝️🔑🗝️🔑
@8:25 also you'll get better at the lifts if youre mindful that every lift ts a skill which will make you better at exerting effort.
Yes, consistency is key. Everything else, which is also nessecary, is useless if only done eh, every other week or just when I feel like it. Like sleep, imperative for recovery but only works if it's consistent. Progressive overload is essential for gains but only if done consistently. Intensity is also 100% needed for gains but only works if applied consistently.
These things will not do what is promised if not done consistently, it's the bare minimum because it's the most important factor with the success of everything else hinging on that factor.