Thank you, Maxim, for another great video! Your explanations on the purpose of movement and muscle activation are inspiring and thought-provoking. My question: There’s obviously a wealth of information on UA-cam about movement, efficiency and there are many styles and schools of thought. One aspect contrary to efficiency could be hypertrophy. While movement efficiency focuses on effortlessly involving as few muscles as necessary, bodybuilding and hypertrophy seem to lean toward active, strong contractions-even isometric ones-for building muscle mass in specific areas. I’d love to hear your thoughts on balancing these two worlds. Looking forward to your perspective, as always greatly appreciated and with Greetings from Switzerland, finally back😉🙏
Thank you very much for your nice feedback and a very interesting question Pascal. I will be doing another video on hypotrophy and muscle strength. For now, I can tell that hypotrophy is not actually contrary to efficiency. Quite on opposite, efficiently is the reason causing hypotrophy in the muscles the body is using. Yes, I was talking about using as few muscle cells as possible to accomplish the goal, but remember, no matter how many muscle cells were used, we always use them at 100%. So the workload for those muscle cells are always 100%. Therefore, given the right chemical circumstances in the body, in terms of right nutrients and vitamins and else, with time, the body will increase the strength of those cells used in a very efficient and consistent way by increasing the size of those cells inners to give you even more efficiency (more powerful engagement due to an increase in size) for the next time you execute the same movement. And that is what the bodybuilding is focusing on. The bodybuilding limits the functionality of the body to the point where only one or two muscles are needed to accomplish a very simplistic movement (so that everyone can do it with no prior experience), and those muscle cells that are engaged on the regular basis, week after week, with no changes in that activity, get some growth of their inners, given the right nutrients and other chemical elements present in the bloodstream. The difference between gymnastics, calisthenic, dancing, and by the bodybuilding is that the bodybuilding has a lot of simplistic movements, but they are not put together into a routine in synchronized and coordinated fashion. Those movements exist on their own, not connected to each other. Whereas in gymnastics, we connect the same simple movements into one seamless routine, switching effortlessly from one activity to another when needed, creating an impression of one fluid complex, coordinated, and balanced movement . 🙂
I am focusing on the Turkish get-up because I want to learn to move my leg from unsupported position to leg supporting. The get-up requires that move. After your video I understand that the purpose of the get-up is to balance a weight overhead while shifting support legs. I practiced without weights. I'm going to keep working on this as a conditioning exercise. Thank you for helping me to analyze my goal. I will have questions about the core as this movement is broken down in my practice.
Another great video!! Your ques in other videos have helped me in the ways you are speaking of, when to relax and when to tense. Helping to work with myself instead of against myself, body/limbs becoming lighter. Our bodies are amazing, the power of the mind as well. I enjoyed working out with you yesterday 🙂 did better than I thought I would. Made it through your new core work out, wasn't as grateful as you 😉 but in time. I had to pause video a couple of times to slow down, so I wasn't just flinging myself through. Got a few laughs out, I think I find pleasure in a challenge. I hope to one day do that straddle pike, can't remember what you called it. Always trying to remember to relax and breathe 🌬🩵 Thank you for the encouragement to learn and understand!! I will be thinking about these concepts (laws of nature) you speak of. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Wishing you a great day 🍀 ✨️
Thank you Anne for such a great feedback! It’s always good to know that it helps some get a bit better and feel a bit better. 🙂 Keep it up remembering that any great journey always starts with one little step and continues only due the next little step taken. 💪❤️
I would like to compliment you on your production quality. I like the standing format with the clean angled background in front of the stall bars. Of course, great training info as well.
✅️ There are plenty of trainers telling viewers to always recruit more muscles, even flex the entire body to enhance workouts. For me this both exhausting and like thinking about walking...suddenly i am clumsy.
And that is the point of efficiency to use as few muscle cells as possible to accomplish the goal. Thereby we save resources to make your movement more complex and more complex. If we aim to safe resources at every stage of the movement development, then our potential of the complexity for that movement is greatly MAXIMazed 🙂
Thank you, Maxim, for another great video! Your explanations on the purpose of movement and muscle activation are inspiring and thought-provoking.
My question: There’s obviously a wealth of information on UA-cam about movement, efficiency and there are many styles and schools of thought. One aspect contrary to efficiency could be hypertrophy. While movement efficiency focuses on effortlessly involving as few muscles as necessary, bodybuilding and hypertrophy seem to lean toward active, strong contractions-even isometric ones-for building muscle mass in specific areas.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on balancing these two worlds.
Looking forward to your perspective, as always greatly appreciated and with Greetings from Switzerland, finally back😉🙏
Thank you very much for your nice feedback and a very interesting question Pascal.
I will be doing another video on hypotrophy and muscle strength.
For now, I can tell that hypotrophy is not actually contrary to efficiency. Quite on opposite, efficiently is the reason causing hypotrophy in the muscles the body is using. Yes, I was talking about using as few muscle cells as possible to accomplish the goal, but remember, no matter how many muscle cells were used, we always use them at 100%. So the workload for those muscle cells are always 100%. Therefore, given the right chemical circumstances in the body, in terms of right nutrients and vitamins and else, with time, the body will increase the strength of those cells used in a very efficient and consistent way by increasing the size of those cells inners to give you even more efficiency (more powerful engagement due to an increase in size) for the next time you execute the same movement.
And that is what the bodybuilding is focusing on. The bodybuilding limits the functionality of the body to the point where only one or two muscles are needed to accomplish a very simplistic movement (so that everyone can do it with no prior experience), and those muscle cells that are engaged on the regular basis, week after week, with no changes in that activity, get some growth of their inners, given the right nutrients and other chemical elements present in the bloodstream.
The difference between gymnastics, calisthenic, dancing, and by the bodybuilding is that the bodybuilding has a lot of simplistic movements, but they are not put together into a routine in synchronized and coordinated fashion. Those movements exist on their own, not connected to each other. Whereas in gymnastics, we connect the same simple movements into one seamless routine, switching effortlessly from one activity to another when needed, creating an impression of one fluid complex, coordinated, and balanced movement .
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Fantastic, thanks so much
Always welcome!
I am focusing on the Turkish get-up because I want to learn to move my leg from unsupported position to leg supporting. The get-up requires that move.
After your video I understand that the purpose of the get-up is to balance a weight overhead while shifting support legs.
I practiced without weights.
I'm going to keep working on this as a conditioning exercise.
Thank you for helping me to analyze my goal.
I will have questions about the core as this movement is broken down in my practice.
Happy to hear I was able to help a bit! 🙂
Another great video!! Your ques in other videos have helped me in the ways you are speaking of, when to relax and when to tense. Helping to work with myself instead of against myself, body/limbs becoming lighter. Our bodies are amazing, the power of the mind as well.
I enjoyed working out with you yesterday 🙂 did better than I thought I would. Made it through your new core work out, wasn't as grateful as you 😉 but in time. I had to pause video a couple of times to slow down, so I wasn't just flinging myself through. Got a few laughs out, I think I find pleasure in a challenge. I hope to one day do that straddle pike, can't remember what you called it. Always trying to remember to relax and breathe 🌬🩵 Thank you for the encouragement to learn and understand!! I will be thinking about these concepts (laws of nature) you speak of. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Wishing you a great day 🍀 ✨️
Greatful... graceful 😉
Thank you Anne for such a great feedback! It’s always good to know that it helps some get a bit better and feel a bit better. 🙂 Keep it up remembering that any great journey always starts with one little step and continues only due the next little step taken. 💪❤️
Danke!
Appreciate it a lot Pascal! Thank you. 🤝
I loved your workout for core.
Can you please make similar work for : Push, Pull and Legs Days ?
Thank you🤝 I’ll put it on my list and work on it soon. 🙂
I would like to compliment you on your production quality. I like the standing format with the clean angled background in front of the stall bars. Of course, great training info as well.
Thank you very much Ricky for your kind words! Appreciate it a lot! 🤝🙂
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There are plenty of trainers telling viewers to always recruit more muscles, even flex the entire body to enhance workouts. For me this both exhausting and like thinking about walking...suddenly i am clumsy.
Yes indeed! 🤝
And that is the point of efficiency to use as few muscle cells as possible to accomplish the goal. Thereby we save resources to make your movement more complex and more complex. If we aim to safe resources at every stage of the movement development, then our potential of the complexity for that movement is greatly MAXIMazed
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