Hope you're all having a good day! This one ended up longer than I expected, but since the purpose of the video was adding context, I decided not to reduce the discussion too much. Later this week, I might post a video that has a Kickstarter. It won't be sponsored and I'm not being paid to make it, but I just want to help a friend with his project (plus I think it's cool). Will keep you all updated! Also, we'll be making some improvements to the speed and functionality of the app over the next few weeks. All current planned changes will be free, so if you use the app, you should see the improvements hopefully soon. I know it's taking some time, but I want to keep improving the app. Just wanted to mention it here! Oh and I'm trying a new hot sauce. I like it.
1:34 A better wording would prob be: “No discomfort, no gain.”? Though it doesn’t rhyme, or roll off the tongue as nicely as the former one does, lol How about: “Gotta step outta your comfort-zone to get into the gain-zone”, but then again someone could misinterpret that and instead think that it means they should do some exercises which are out of their “comfort zones’” and maybe they’re in that zone for good reason, like not being ready for them yet either due to a lack of overall training experience, or uncertainty re: how to safely perform the movement. I’m really not sure what the best, and least ambiguous phrasing is, to be frank. Maybe: “Aching and and a feeling of general discomfort *in your muscles* is normal, and it’s ok to push through it if you’re reasonably confident that doing so won’t result in an injury *(and also assuming you’re familiar with the exercise in the first place, and in the event of it being a new one, to ‘start low, and go slow’ when it comes to gradually increasing the weight/reps/intensity).* Then, once you’ve achieved your goal/maximum exertion, assuming you’ve followed the previous information, you are to only continue just go to the point where you are one or two reps shy of being in a state where you either feel that you won’t be able to perform another rep, or actually cannot do another with proper/safe form, at which point you should slowly lower and/or release the weight, while under control (note: attempting to push beyond it would be considered unwise by most…… *unless* you have a spotter, and are trying to do forced reps or negatives or something… *Begins Part 2: ‘A Tangent On Spotters/Training Partners And Forced Reps‘:* (Brings in Mike Mentzer’s ghost) ‘You see, dear reader, when it comes to time-under-tension we often…….” *Claps dust off hands* There you go! Problem solved! Go and put that on a t-shirt! 😂😂😂 There’s no way ANYONE could misinterpret that! Hmmmm….. actually, *maybe* it could use a few little tweaks/edits. (Just bored, and goofing around y’all. I’m not insane, I swear🤪😂)
I do a full body dumbbell/calisthenics routine for 1.5 hrs mon, tue, thu, and fri morning. I run m-f evening. I do weighted 20 min incline treadmill walks wed morn and sunday night. Sunday morning, I do a hiit workout. After 8 weeks, I don't feel an accumulative fatigue, and I increase the difficulty of each workout often, each week in some cases.
I have a question do ice baths, cold showers or cold compression to the direct site like abs have any benefit to healing, toning or burning fat off faster ?
I go by the mantra "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly". It's against the common phrase but in context I see it as 10 mins of exercise at home is better than none at all. I've seen so many people get demotivated and give up because they try and aim for a full 30/60 minute workout everyday and can't keep up with it. Keep exercise a regular habit, even if all you can manage that day is a 20 second wall sit.
This mantra is actually the only reason I exercise at all, cause I couldn't fit a normal workout in my daily routine. Not even 3 times a week, if it should be consistent. For a few months now I started to do daily exercises of 5-10 minutes. This helped me a lot since I gave up the other way.
Thank you for this! I was being lazy, knowing I should do my full workout, and I saw your comment and got up and did 25 pushups situps and squats. I really appreciate the motivation :)
I do workout 5 days a week, but half the time I'm running late in my schedule and have to rush my schedule and do 1/2 as much as in my routine, I haven't missed a day in forever
I'm glad you talked about pain vs gain. I joined a gym recently, was pushed too hard & now can barely use my arms due to shoulder injuries. Many PTs talk about how it's good to push through the pain whereas I think it's a good idea to know our limits & wish more PTs would factor this in.
I think the point is to distinguish whether the muscles get exhausted (there still can be rhabdomyolysis) and stress on joints and back, e.g. due to wrong load distribution.
@@JoliNatural you should be able to come to believe work around the pain and then eventually through the pain but never pushing through the pain until you are comfortable with the pain
You shouldn't get injured if you push yourself near failures. It's your PT's job to ensure it, if you get injured while on their watch, it's their fault for not paying enough attention to you
@@RikuoNura383 the risk is still higher until the body adapts to the stimulus, and it is harder for the body to adapt if there is a pain signal. Out of all of the injuries I've had out there in the real world, pushing into them and working around them have served me better than trying to work through them. The important factor is blood flow, where most people will think resting is important but hey if your back hurts go for a walk, if your hips hurt dough for a walk, if your neck hurts go for a walk. All of that movement with slight rotation will do people good
I am 60 years old and I want to give advice to all young people - avoid injuries, avoid pain, then you will ensure success for many years. This is my experience. Now at 60 I do exercises that former professional athletes my age cannot do as well as I can now, because their health does not allow them. Watch my videos and get charged with optimism!
Fitness is so personal and it honestly makes me sad how predatory people can be with exercise and beauty standards. Everyone's body is different, and it's so important to listen to yours and remember that progress isn't linear.
You're seriously one of the best fitness influenceers. I hate those big macho muscle men that Think nothing else matters. You're actually helpful and focus on health instead of aesthetics, which is way too rare. Thank you for your amazing content.
This is a tiny thing but it's so nice that you had a small disclaimer on your brushing teeth example. As a person who struggles immensely with regularly brushing my teeth due to mental stuff. We hear this example for discipline so often and it makes you feel really bad about yourself, like you can only fail at anything that requires "discipline". I think for me discipline equals motivation and I just have to figure out how to stay motivated in the long run! As an example: I started figure skating at the age of 25 (over 3 years ago) and I am still completely in love with it and train at least 4 times a week (during winter season ice rinks are not open in summer). Now i will sometime set a teeth brushing timer and do some balancing exercises for figure skating like spirals while brushing my teeth. Cause its like a tiny game or a challenge that will further my fun on the ice, which makes brushing teeth more fun and i can basically hijack my figure skating motivation as "discipline" for cleaning my teeth.
Thank you for talking about "no pain no gain." There are different types of "pain!" I wish I had a penny for every time I had to explain that. There is a difference between "this is challenging my body to help it improve" pain and "my body is telling me to stop before I break something" pain. A lot of people don't know how to tell the difference
I would say a LOT of gym and personal trainers don't know the difference! That is what continually breaks me each time I seek someone out to help me get fit.
Thank you for consistently including sleep and rest when you’re talking about fitness routines. I struggle to get enough, and putting it as a fitness goal helps.
I was the only person my PT had ever seen who tore a specific muscle in my lower oblique by carelessly carrying a heavy backpack in the years after an abdominal surgery. I literally couldn't get out of bed normally for a long time. The recovery was insane.
i just wanna say thank you, thank you so much for being a reliable and honest source of fitness info. as a person without a personal trainer who's mostly just winging it on my fitness journey, videos like this are beyond valuable for how much lying and misinformation there is regarding fitness on the internet
I fully agree to all of this. We can't just search for one-thing-fits-all advice and expect that it works without a little assessment, evaluation and interpretation. It's easy to forget when it sounds so simple, but it remains true when it comes to ANY aspect of life. Finding the right way for oneself needs a little more than 'just do this one thing' without further thinking. I appreciate you spreading the message! 💪
Heck yeah! You two helped a lot with creating a routine focused on health en stability. You two together is overpowered. Wonder what kind of videos youd make @@HybridCalisthenics
I think it’s beneficial to push through discomfort, because pushing yourself is not typically comfortable, but pain is a sign that we should stop. maybe the weights to heavy, or the movement is awkward, or your form is off, but regardless, if it's still painfull and you keep going, injury is almost imminent.
Great addition to the tips ,and I agree with some especially the one about "work while they sleep" debunk and also "we need both motivation and discipline" ,Oh and you are decently Muscular Hampton! ;)
No pain no gain isn't meant to be keep pushing yourself even though you're in intense agony and actively making your situation bad. It's supposed to mean that if something is so easy to you that you don't feel any exertion, then it's not helping you. Unless you're exerting yourself or doing something that isn't easy, you're probably not going to change. For example taking a nice leisurely walk might feel great and you think you've done excercise but it probably won't have much effect. Rather you should do something that isn't easy and makes you feel the effort of doing it like running. But that doesn't mean keep running even if you break your leg.
More than once I've came across the saying that "low rep count high weight for stronger muscle with low growth, high rep count low weight for hypertrophy"
Thanks for explaining the stretching thing! I'd never heard that distinction but it makes sense. Discipline is a struggle for me, but we're getting into arthritis season here in Wales so the motivation is back! 😅
Can talk about - or perhaps if you have already and I missed it point me to it - weight bearing exercises and bone health, particularly as you age. Thank you for all your well thought out videos, I appreciate you 🙏🏼
Even the good interpretation of No pain no gain is nonsense. Many people can gain so much more when they ENJOY the exercise instead of crossing their (psychological / will power) boundaries, especially when already chronically stressed like many people are.
Thanks for the great and informative video! It seems a lot of pain went on making this video judging by how much gain you got 😂 Could you make a video about 6 packs?
When it comes to health, food is huge. It's not just about weight (though being overweight is an independent risk factor for heart disease, diabetes and cancer), it's about the gut, arterial health, blood cholesterol etc. yes, exercise is important too, but it doesn't compensate for unhealthy food habits.
No pain no gain is true, but it requires some base knowledge of your own body, its limits, the difference of pain as it relates to injury and sorenness. Its a progression of understanding your limits and pushing past those limits in a safe and controlled way.
Each week: 1 day weight training, 1 day calisthenics, 1 day isometric holds, 1 day of 45 min exercise bike, 1 day low impact cardio, 2 days of martial arts 🥋
16:17 I’m a night-owl, and I have delayed sleep-phase syndrome so I don’t produce melatonin when I’m supposed to. As a result I typically tend to exercise more in the evening or even late into the night or even early morning (like between 1 and 4). Though I’ve recently been trying to establish a more “normal” schedule, so sometimes I’ll work out around 4 or 5. Saying that also reminds me of the time when I met former pro-wrestler/author Mick Foley, he said that when it came to working out and going to the gym, since he was never known as a big “physique guy” he used to tell the boys: “Yeah, I usually like to bench around 450, 5 o’clock-ish…” 😂😂😂
In my opinion, neither discipline nor motivation is as powerful as pure habit. I once managed to stretch every morning for a full year solely because I made it a habit. Then, I moved and life circumstances changed and I lost the habit, but I really hope to some day get a habit like that again. Motivation and discipline work short term, but it’s habit that keeps us going long term
I interpret "no pain no gain" as needing to feel the soreness of the muscles for them to get stronger. If you lift weights but aren't feeling anything in your muscles afterwards then you probably didn't do a very good job.
You can't out-train a bad diet, for varying definitions of the word bad. You can out train too many calories (to a point), You can't out-train deficiencies or things that are objectively bad for you, like hydrogenated oil.
No Pain no Gain is a garbage saying that's probably led to a lot of people giving up or being injured. We're too obsessed with rhyming. "You have to experience discomfort to progress." Or something similar is way less catchy but much more accurate.
Yeah, agree, "No disconfort, no gain" is waaaay more accurate. Yo wont progress until you leave your zone of confort, this is true for many things in life, not just fitness
I think of no pain no gain like the mountain-feeling crossing of the threshold into a headspace where discomforting can be happily worked with -- am I strategizing based on how I want to feel in the next moments, or over the next years? For example, if I have a warm shower, what do I do when I have to open the door to the colder air of the washroom? Take longer to thoroughly towel off beyond floor drip considerations, then towel over shoulders and scrunch up for warmth on the way out? Or, do I own my full breathing, dance around while I towel off to get loose and start up the cardiovascular system, then take a confident funky step out and embrace the cold as a fun little challenge? Accepting small pain and embracing it as a part of life tends to be a practice which helps a lot. Actually, when my head is all good, that dancing and breathing means I usually take cool showers because they don't hurt, theyre like fun practice for warming someone else up. If the water is hot more than once a week to mix it up, then I'm probably in a slump emotionally.
I assume ads are not selected by the video provider. Clicked on video to get some good feel advice and have a great day but got advertisement for a scary movie instead. Hate that aspect of yt.
Data says 1-5 reps is best for strength 5-30 is best for size. Technically up to 60 reps has been shown to yield good results, but no one is actually doing 60 good reps of anything so 30 is a more realistic cap just for psychological reasons.
Don’t forget drinking water. Having a minimum amount that will work for you each day, could be 500mls or 1ltre but once you can drink that amount without thinking then add more.
I'm watching this recovering from Flu, can barely walk downstairs and back without feeling weary. I asked myself why, why am I watching this now - because he's Hampton!! (I defy anyone to not read that last part and say it in a batman growl!)
According to Kurzgesagt (awesome channel in different languages) research showed that people actually always expand the same amount of energy every day (except for extreme stress, which is not sustainable) so you can in fact not outtrain a bad diet, especially because bad diets also lower the amount of energy at your disposal for working out.
While sedentary, yes. But getting more steps in will burn more calories. depending on the person, the amount is different but around 40kcal per 1000 steps. Resistance training is high effort for miniscule calories burned in comparison. That's why people can eat their maintenance calories, walk more, and lose weight. 10k steps more than your normal day that's included in your maintenance calories is 400kcal burned, creating a 400kcal deficit and losing 363g bodyweight per week, which if you're from the US is almost a pound. And walking won't cause fatigue and hunger response like strenuous exercise. "You can't outtrain a bad diet" is also about how resistance training etc. makes you hungry, so you eat more unless you choose to deny your body's hunger response or find ways to feel full without increasing calories.
They said expend, not consume. They said people *expend* approximately the same amount of energy every day (assuming they are not wildly deviating from their routine). There are some criticisms of this theory (because the difference in food availability between the westernized and ancestral population that were studied also may have played a part in curtailing the more active group's calorie expenditure). It's not established science yet.
@@sudenluola2241 training makes you hungrier, but the reason most people get fat is cravings, not hunger. And exercise can actually help reduce cravings.
One thing about stretches, there has been some research involving peri-workout stretches such as the Bulgiarian Split Squat or Triceps Extension. These workouts are so effective as they naturally include a stretch in the middle of the movement and some people have been using these to shave off time in a workout. Assuming you have at least warmed up, what are your thoughts on this?
I don't like working out because I DESPISE DOMS. It makes my job harder 😢 I have all this motivation but the soreness afterwards makes me want to stop.
So. I have this little problem with grip strength hindering my pull up gain. Sure it's not something I can't push through, but I am sure, if this could be somehow corrected, it would add a bit more to my gains. My pinky finger is not in level proportionally with the rest of my fingers. By that I mean I see people gripping the bar with fully curved pinky fingers, but my pinky is pretty much only able to "sit"on the bar doing practically nothing for the grip. It's like if you did pull ups with only hanging on your fingertips. Like I said, not that I can't do pull ups, but my grip is definitely worse because of this and it alrady duped my motivation, and it starts to dump my tiscipline too. I never used is as excuse for not learning how to do push ups, but I hate it how I know it's hindering me, but I can't be 100 percent sure.
Get a set of straps and use that for your pull ups. Perform pull-ups normally until you feel your grip starting to become the limiting factor, and then put on the straps and keep going until you get the workout you need.
@@Underground_Owl Guys, Thanks for your help, I appreciate it a lot, because now I know, my pinky wasn't even activated during my pull ups. I mean... Imagine your pinky being normal length proportionally to your other fingers, you just don't have the knuckle under it, so it only reaches below the middle digit of your ring finger. So it just holds the place, but doesn't grip. Thanks to your ideas, I realized I have to specially go for that sucker with pinch grip exercises to at least activate the forearm muscle attached to it. So sadly I have to compensate for it with stronger forearms. Holding on the straps where it could curl around it made it worse, as if it had to try gripping stuff for the first time, and holding myself up on the rope showed the same issue, when it had to be fully engaged. While the other fingers managed, the pinky was tired out in no time. Freaky, I know. But hey. Again. Thanks for the good advices. They really did help.
@@madmanarrivednow You might want to try holding a hammer in your grip, only use your pinky and ring finger, and just hold it horizontal, so your pinkie flexor muscle starts to wake up, or put some weight in a plastic bag, and hold the bag with only your pinky, and attempt to curl it, you might need to use very low weight at first. Isometric and curls for pinkie flexor muscle could be the first thing. You could also look at your pinkie extensor muscle. If your flexor is that weak/unused to functioning, then its counterpart is most likely also in bad shape.
@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 there are different kinds of yoga and a lot of them involve lots of dynamic movements versus what we think as westerners as just some sort of stretching protocol with breathing rhythms even though that version is more about having the ability to control your body through the mind which includes being in control of the breathing. Look up hunaman pushups for one example
@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 there are many different forms of yoga, and a lot of them are done as Dynamic movements repeated for hundreds of repetitions, I know here in the west people think that yoga is just a way of stretching and aligning your breathing but that version of yoga is about using your mind to control your entire body which includes being able to control your breathing and your heart rate. Look up hunaman pushups for one example, bonus if you use the word dand in the search hahaha
@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 well there are many versions of yoga, not the bastardized version the West has made for themselves, a lot of these actually include doing dynamic movements over hundreds and hundreds of repetitions. You can look up Hunaman push-ups at one example. Ram murti dand would be another good example
Thankyou brother i needed this video. Just came back from gym that i recently joined. The trainer over there is ignoring me , he is making my fun to laugh others. He teaches everyone completely ignoring me. How should i tackle this situation? Love ❤
hello! i want to know if training to failure is an effective method? cause i've been doing it for 3 weeks now and i've seen great results. but some influencer says it's not recommended. i'm doing pure calisthenics btw
It depends on your goals and situation. If you're short on time, training 2 - 3 sets to failure is fine if you're only doing that muscle group maybe twice a week as in Hamptons workout routine. The one on his site. If you're going for max strength, it can also be a good idea. For strength endurance or hypertrophy (getting bigger) it's usually better to leave a couple reps in the tank and do more sets per muscle group. Maybe 4 - 8 sets in a given day depending on the muscle set. For example I like doing 3 - 4 sets on quads and glutes (bigger muscles), but 6 - 8 on shoulders (smaller muscles). It's still good to occasionally max out so you know how it feels and what you're really capable of. Constantly maxing out on a lot of sets, for example 6 sets in a day on your quads, is where things can get counter productive. These limits are individual, of course. The way to know if your pushing too hard is if your recovered in time for the next workout. If not, either back off a bit or increase the time between re working that muscle group. If in doubt, just follow Hamptons routine and max out your reps. The workouts are short and effective. You can find it on his website which is linked on his channel.
I need some advice. I do 2 sets of 50 squats.I bench a bag of rocks that weighs about fifty pounds 2sets of twenty I do two sets Of 40 sit-ups. And four sets of seventeen Push-ups. What can I do? To improve my workout. Ps im 14
I went from 240 to 150 by starving myself (went from 2500 cals to 800 week and 1500 weekend) so it felt like starving to me, but I felt good you just need the nutriment and of course WILL! Went back up to 185. Im about to start working out again, bought 1k of equipments and that’s why im here now.
It is cool to see someone suffer from the exact opposite problem than me! I am really trying to reach my 3000 calories every day to gain some weight and get above 70 kilos one day 😅 People and people‘s needs are so different and thats why I love Hamptons videos, he really understands this concept ❤
@@Joris-l5r yeah everyone is different. Your metabolism is most likely super fast so you don’t gain much weigh. You’re one of the lucky ones. (From my pov) I agree, Hampton is such a kind open minded dude. He motivates me a lot.
I don't really stretch before heavy lifting, but then my heavy is what someone would consider really light. I don't feel a big difference between stretching and not stretching in my performance. 🤷♀️ For No 3 and generally: there are HUGE differences between gents and ladies, something definitely to consider (24 h vs. ~28 day hormonal cycle!!!). We women need animal protein and more carbs the week before the next cycle starts for hormonal health. A lighter work out during that time is also beneficial for hormonal balance. But from day 1 to day 19 of the cycle be a beast, ladies, especially add in the strenuous workouts around day 11-15 (ovulation). 💪🔥😊
Hampton has a great routine on his website. A couple exercises each day like pushups & leg raises one day and then pulling variation and squats on another. I’ve tried other things but always come back to this.
@@Netero_SK the Hybrid Routine 2.0 is crazy simple and crazy effective. Doesn’t take as much time to get healthy and fit as what most people think. Just really focus and feel the movements; leave your phone alone during the short training times. Training is almost meditative. Move around and stretch a little b/t sets. Wishing you the best!
Hope you're all having a good day!
This one ended up longer than I expected, but since the purpose of the video was adding context, I decided not to reduce the discussion too much.
Later this week, I might post a video that has a Kickstarter. It won't be sponsored and I'm not being paid to make it, but I just want to help a friend with his project (plus I think it's cool). Will keep you all updated!
Also, we'll be making some improvements to the speed and functionality of the app over the next few weeks. All current planned changes will be free, so if you use the app, you should see the improvements hopefully soon. I know it's taking some time, but I want to keep improving the app. Just wanted to mention it here!
Oh and I'm trying a new hot sauce. I like it.
1:34 A better wording would prob be: “No discomfort, no gain.”? Though it doesn’t rhyme, or roll off the tongue as nicely as the former one does, lol
How about: “Gotta step outta your comfort-zone to get into the gain-zone”, but then again someone could misinterpret that and instead think that it means they should do some exercises which are out of their “comfort zones’” and maybe they’re in that zone for good reason, like not being ready for them yet either due to a lack of overall training experience, or uncertainty re: how to safely perform the movement.
I’m really not sure what the best, and least ambiguous phrasing is, to be frank.
Maybe:
“Aching and and a feeling of general discomfort *in your muscles* is normal, and it’s ok to push through it if you’re reasonably confident that doing so won’t result in an injury *(and also assuming you’re familiar with the exercise in the first place, and in the event of it being a new one, to ‘start low, and go slow’ when it comes to gradually increasing the weight/reps/intensity).*
Then, once you’ve achieved your goal/maximum exertion, assuming you’ve followed the previous information, you are to only continue just go to the point where you are one or two reps shy of being in a state where you either feel that you won’t be able to perform another rep, or actually cannot do another with proper/safe form, at which point you should slowly lower and/or release the weight, while under control (note: attempting to push beyond it would be considered unwise by most…… *unless* you have a spotter, and are trying to do forced reps or negatives or something…
*Begins Part 2: ‘A Tangent On Spotters/Training Partners And Forced Reps‘:* (Brings in Mike Mentzer’s ghost) ‘You see, dear reader, when it comes to time-under-tension we often…….”
*Claps dust off hands*
There you go! Problem solved! Go and put that on a t-shirt! 😂😂😂 There’s no way ANYONE could misinterpret that!
Hmmmm….. actually, *maybe* it could use a few little tweaks/edits.
(Just bored, and goofing around y’all. I’m not insane, I swear🤪😂)
Yeah, a long video when contextualizing things makes a lot of sense! Thanks! :)
I do a full body dumbbell/calisthenics routine for 1.5 hrs mon, tue, thu, and fri morning. I run m-f evening. I do weighted 20 min incline treadmill walks wed morn and sunday night. Sunday morning, I do a hiit workout. After 8 weeks, I don't feel an accumulative fatigue, and I increase the difficulty of each workout often, each week in some cases.
You'd made an excellent femboy. Very breedable.
I have a question do ice baths, cold showers or cold compression to the direct site like abs have any benefit to healing, toning or burning fat off faster ?
I go by the mantra "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly".
It's against the common phrase but in context I see it as 10 mins of exercise at home is better than none at all.
I've seen so many people get demotivated and give up because they try and aim for a full 30/60 minute workout everyday and can't keep up with it. Keep exercise a regular habit, even if all you can manage that day is a 20 second wall sit.
This mantra is actually the only reason I exercise at all, cause I couldn't fit a normal workout in my daily routine. Not even 3 times a week, if it should be consistent. For a few months now I started to do daily exercises of 5-10 minutes. This helped me a lot since I gave up the other way.
Thank you for this! I was being lazy, knowing I should do my full workout, and I saw your comment and got up and did 25 pushups situps and squats. I really appreciate the motivation :)
I’m watching this while eating chips and salsa ☹️ lol
@@Pigborg I'm at work and your comment inspired me to get up and do 10 squats and 20 incline pushups on my desk. Thank you.
I do workout 5 days a week, but half the time I'm running late in my schedule and have to rush my schedule and do 1/2 as much as in my routine, I haven't missed a day in forever
I'm glad you talked about pain vs gain. I joined a gym recently, was pushed too hard & now can barely use my arms due to shoulder injuries. Many PTs talk about how it's good to push through the pain whereas I think it's a good idea to know our limits & wish more PTs would factor this in.
I think the point is to distinguish whether the muscles get exhausted (there still can be rhabdomyolysis) and stress on joints and back, e.g. due to wrong load distribution.
@@JoliNatural you should be able to come to believe work around the pain and then eventually through the pain but never pushing through the pain until you are comfortable with the pain
You shouldn't get injured if you push yourself near failures. It's your PT's job to ensure it, if you get injured while on their watch, it's their fault for not paying enough attention to you
@@RikuoNura383 the risk is still higher until the body adapts to the stimulus, and it is harder for the body to adapt if there is a pain signal. Out of all of the injuries I've had out there in the real world, pushing into them and working around them have served me better than trying to work through them. The important factor is blood flow, where most people will think resting is important but hey if your back hurts go for a walk, if your hips hurt dough for a walk, if your neck hurts go for a walk. All of that movement with slight rotation will do people good
I am 60 years old and I want to give advice to all young people - avoid injuries, avoid pain, then you will ensure success for many years. This is my experience. Now at 60 I do exercises that former professional athletes my age cannot do as well as I can now, because their health does not allow them. Watch my videos and get charged with optimism!
Fitness is so personal and it honestly makes me sad how predatory people can be with exercise and beauty standards. Everyone's body is different, and it's so important to listen to yours and remember that progress isn't linear.
I feel the same can be said about life in general, everyone's experience is different so we shouldn't compare. Thank you for the comment
I hate this. I actually want answers for this best path that will give me the optimal answers for my fitness. You are right, but I hate it.
@@SIGE_MUSICI hate this comment, hers, cause it's not about comparison, but for me about answers. I wish I knew the best possible path for me.
You're seriously one of the best fitness influenceers. I hate those big macho muscle men that Think nothing else matters. You're actually helpful and focus on health instead of aesthetics, which is way too rare. Thank you for your amazing content.
I have been a victim of the first one and injured my elbow chronically
what do you mean by chronically?
@@jurajdeket7103 chronic pain; probably means he's suffering from elbow pain regularly.
That it keeps coming back @jurajdeket7103
It's not going to heal too soon
@jurajdeket7103 in medicine, acute is a short term, chronic is long term.
Meaning its not gone back to 100% and may never do.
Putting the lights in your setup was so thoughtful of Sarah. Your wife is such a gem ❤
This is a tiny thing but it's so nice that you had a small disclaimer on your brushing teeth example.
As a person who struggles immensely with regularly brushing my teeth due to mental stuff. We hear this example for discipline so often and it makes you feel really bad about yourself, like you can only fail at anything that requires "discipline".
I think for me discipline equals motivation and I just have to figure out how to stay motivated in the long run!
As an example: I started figure skating at the age of 25 (over 3 years ago) and I am still completely in love with it and train at least 4 times a week (during winter season ice rinks are not open in summer). Now i will sometime set a teeth brushing timer and do some balancing exercises for figure skating like spirals while brushing my teeth. Cause its like a tiny game or a challenge that will further my fun on the ice, which makes brushing teeth more fun and i can basically hijack my figure skating motivation as "discipline" for cleaning my teeth.
Thank you for talking about "no pain no gain." There are different types of "pain!" I wish I had a penny for every time I had to explain that. There is a difference between "this is challenging my body to help it improve" pain and "my body is telling me to stop before I break something" pain. A lot of people don't know how to tell the difference
I would say a LOT of gym and personal trainers don't know the difference! That is what continually breaks me each time I seek someone out to help me get fit.
You’re right if we enjoyed doing the process like working out for health and then it’s like discipline + motivation = Glorious purpose!
Thank you for consistently including sleep and rest when you’re talking about fitness routines.
I struggle to get enough, and putting it as a fitness goal helps.
I was the only person my PT had ever seen who tore a specific muscle in my lower oblique by carelessly carrying a heavy backpack in the years after an abdominal surgery. I literally couldn't get out of bed normally for a long time. The recovery was insane.
i just wanna say thank you, thank you so much for being a reliable and honest source of fitness info. as a person without a personal trainer who's mostly just winging it on my fitness journey, videos like this are beyond valuable for how much lying and misinformation there is regarding fitness on the internet
I fully agree to all of this. We can't just search for one-thing-fits-all advice and expect that it works without a little assessment, evaluation and interpretation. It's easy to forget when it sounds so simple, but it remains true when it comes to ANY aspect of life. Finding the right way for oneself needs a little more than 'just do this one thing' without further thinking. I appreciate you spreading the message! 💪
Dude, what do you think about making a collab with Stay Flexy?
I second this!
I'm open to it! We've talked but are just in different states. I don't do that many collabs but it could be fun
@@HybridCalisthenics!!!!! Defs would love to see a collab if you’re ever in the same state!
Heck yeah! You two helped a lot with creating a routine focused on health en stability. You two together is overpowered. Wonder what kind of videos youd make @@HybridCalisthenics
Podcast!
I think it’s beneficial to push through discomfort, because pushing yourself is not typically comfortable, but pain is a sign that we should stop. maybe the weights to heavy, or the movement is awkward, or your form is off, but regardless, if it's still painfull and you keep going, injury is almost imminent.
Hi, glad I actually got to see your video very shortly after you posted it 😊❤
Consistency beats intensity.
Great video! Loved the lighting near the end with the blue and yellow :)
Thank you for addressing all of these with sensitivity and practicality!
Your a very inspirational influencer
You are truly outstanding among fitness influencers!
Great addition to the tips ,and I agree with some especially the one about "work while they sleep" debunk and also "we need both motivation and discipline" ,Oh and you are decently Muscular Hampton! ;)
I find it easier to work out every day, just because it's a consistent part of my everyday routine, rather than something I only do occassionally.
For me the best time to train is when there are the least people at the gym lmao
Ive had this same discussion in my head several times.
No pain no gain isn't meant to be keep pushing yourself even though you're in intense agony and actively making your situation bad. It's supposed to mean that if something is so easy to you that you don't feel any exertion, then it's not helping you. Unless you're exerting yourself or doing something that isn't easy, you're probably not going to change. For example taking a nice leisurely walk might feel great and you think you've done excercise but it probably won't have much effect. Rather you should do something that isn't easy and makes you feel the effort of doing it like running. But that doesn't mean keep running even if you break your leg.
More than once I've came across the saying that "low rep count high weight for stronger muscle with low growth, high rep count low weight for hypertrophy"
Thanks for explaining the stretching thing! I'd never heard that distinction but it makes sense.
Discipline is a struggle for me, but we're getting into arthritis season here in Wales so the motivation is back! 😅
I always love your background music ❤
I really loved these perspectives, thanks Hampton!
Thank you for this video. Your words are so helpful and necessary ❤
Can talk about - or perhaps if you have already and I missed it point me to it - weight bearing exercises and bone health, particularly as you age. Thank you for all your well thought out videos, I appreciate you 🙏🏼
Even the good interpretation of No pain no gain is nonsense. Many people can gain so much more when they ENJOY the exercise instead of crossing their (psychological / will power) boundaries, especially when already chronically stressed like many people are.
I always say no pain no gain when it comes to life in general
REALLY Cool Video!
Thanks for the pointers!
Great video, thank you Hampton!
Thanks for the great and informative video!
It seems a lot of pain went on making this video judging by how much gain you got 😂
Could you make a video about 6 packs?
When it comes to health, food is huge. It's not just about weight (though being overweight is an independent risk factor for heart disease, diabetes and cancer), it's about the gut, arterial health, blood cholesterol etc. yes, exercise is important too, but it doesn't compensate for unhealthy food habits.
No pain no gain is true, but it requires some base knowledge of your own body, its limits, the difference of pain as it relates to injury and sorenness. Its a progression of understanding your limits and pushing past those limits in a safe and controlled way.
Beautiful words❤
Each week: 1 day weight training, 1 day calisthenics, 1 day isometric holds, 1 day of 45 min exercise bike, 1 day low impact cardio, 2 days of martial arts 🥋
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16:17 I’m a night-owl, and I have delayed sleep-phase syndrome so I don’t produce melatonin when I’m supposed to. As a result I typically tend to exercise more in the evening or even late into the night or even early morning (like between 1 and 4). Though I’ve recently been trying to establish a more “normal” schedule, so sometimes I’ll work out around 4 or 5.
Saying that also reminds me of the time when I met former pro-wrestler/author Mick Foley, he said that when it came to working out and going to the gym, since he was never known as a big “physique guy” he used to tell the boys: “Yeah, I usually like to bench around 450, 5 o’clock-ish…” 😂😂😂
In my opinion, neither discipline nor motivation is as powerful as pure habit. I once managed to stretch every morning for a full year solely because I made it a habit. Then, I moved and life circumstances changed and I lost the habit, but I really hope to some day get a habit like that again. Motivation and discipline work short term, but it’s habit that keeps us going long term
I interpret "no pain no gain" as needing to feel the soreness of the muscles for them to get stronger. If you lift weights but aren't feeling anything in your muscles afterwards then you probably didn't do a very good job.
When I was in the army the drill sergeant would tell us during PT "Pain is just weakness leaving the body".
Sometimes pain can be weakness entering the body, Hampton has a short about that
You are quite the virtuous man Hampton
I've been watching the Ranma 1/2 remake and the way Ranma talks when he's calm kinda sounds like you
You can't out-train a bad diet, for varying definitions of the word bad. You can out train too many calories (to a point), You can't out-train deficiencies or things that are objectively bad for you, like hydrogenated oil.
No Pain no Gain is a garbage saying that's probably led to a lot of people giving up or being injured. We're too obsessed with rhyming. "You have to experience discomfort to progress." Or something similar is way less catchy but much more accurate.
Yeah, agree, "No disconfort, no gain" is waaaay more accurate. Yo wont progress until you leave your zone of confort, this is true for many things in life, not just fitness
I think of no pain no gain like the mountain-feeling crossing of the threshold into a headspace where discomforting can be happily worked with -- am I strategizing based on how I want to feel in the next moments, or over the next years?
For example, if I have a warm shower, what do I do when I have to open the door to the colder air of the washroom? Take longer to thoroughly towel off beyond floor drip considerations, then towel over shoulders and scrunch up for warmth on the way out?
Or, do I own my full breathing, dance around while I towel off to get loose and start up the cardiovascular system, then take a confident funky step out and embrace the cold as a fun little challenge?
Accepting small pain and embracing it as a part of life tends to be a practice which helps a lot.
Actually, when my head is all good, that dancing and breathing means I usually take cool showers because they don't hurt, theyre like fun practice for warming someone else up. If the water is hot more than once a week to mix it up, then I'm probably in a slump emotionally.
Very important 😊
people frequently say exercise, food, sleep, but personally I'd order it as sleep, food, exercise, in order of impact on your life
I think food and movement impact sleep. You’re not wrong though.
Wooho gee Hampton now I can do a push up ✋🏻
I assume ads are not selected by the video provider. Clicked on video to get some good feel advice and have a great day but got advertisement for a scary movie instead. Hate that aspect of yt.
Data says 1-5 reps is best for strength 5-30 is best for size. Technically up to 60 reps has been shown to yield good results, but no one is actually doing 60 good reps of anything so 30 is a more realistic cap just for psychological reasons.
Don’t forget drinking water. Having a minimum amount that will work for you each day, could be 500mls or 1ltre but once you can drink that amount without thinking then add more.
Zup bro! Can you do a tutorial of how to do V Ups. I find you good at teaching!
Wish to get notice. Thanks in advance! Habg a good day!
I'm watching this recovering from Flu, can barely walk downstairs and back without feeling weary. I asked myself why, why am I watching this now - because he's Hampton!! (I defy anyone to not read that last part and say it in a batman growl!)
According to Kurzgesagt (awesome channel in different languages) research showed that people actually always expand the same amount of energy every day (except for extreme stress, which is not sustainable) so you can in fact not outtrain a bad diet, especially because bad diets also lower the amount of energy at your disposal for working out.
While sedentary, yes. But getting more steps in will burn more calories. depending on the person, the amount is different but around 40kcal per 1000 steps. Resistance training is high effort for miniscule calories burned in comparison. That's why people can eat their maintenance calories, walk more, and lose weight. 10k steps more than your normal day that's included in your maintenance calories is 400kcal burned, creating a 400kcal deficit and losing 363g bodyweight per week, which if you're from the US is almost a pound. And walking won't cause fatigue and hunger response like strenuous exercise.
"You can't outtrain a bad diet" is also about how resistance training etc. makes you hungry, so you eat more unless you choose to deny your body's hunger response or find ways to feel full without increasing calories.
They said expend, not consume. They said people *expend* approximately the same amount of energy every day (assuming they are not wildly deviating from their routine). There are some criticisms of this theory (because the difference in food availability between the westernized and ancestral population that were studied also may have played a part in curtailing the more active group's calorie expenditure). It's not established science yet.
@@sudenluola2241 training makes you hungrier, but the reason most people get fat is cravings, not hunger. And exercise can actually help reduce cravings.
sound advice as always
One thing about stretches, there has been some research involving peri-workout stretches such as the Bulgiarian Split Squat or Triceps Extension. These workouts are so effective as they naturally include a stretch in the middle of the movement and some people have been using these to shave off time in a workout. Assuming you have at least warmed up, what are your thoughts on this?
Your amaOng!
Speaking from the perspective of the "exercise paradox", exercise makes virtually 0% contribution to fat loss.
Correct
Life has taught me that in s3x and exercise if it hurts you are doing something wrong
Joint pain, bye gains.
Single rep every set. Got it
Other than IV Therapy, do you have ANY suggestions on HOW to receive "intracellular HYDRATION" when "oral hydration" continues to fail?
Thank you!
i love hampton
I don't like working out because I DESPISE DOMS. It makes my job harder 😢 I have all this motivation but the soreness afterwards makes me want to stop.
Hi Hampton👋🏼
Bob Ross energy. He's the Neo-Bob Ross.
So. I have this little problem with grip strength hindering my pull up gain. Sure it's not something I can't push through, but I am sure, if this could be somehow corrected, it would add a bit more to my gains. My pinky finger is not in level proportionally with the rest of my fingers. By that I mean I see people gripping the bar with fully curved pinky fingers, but my pinky is pretty much only able to "sit"on the bar doing practically nothing for the grip. It's like if you did pull ups with only hanging on your fingertips. Like I said, not that I can't do pull ups, but my grip is definitely worse because of this and it alrady duped my motivation, and it starts to dump my tiscipline too. I never used is as excuse for not learning how to do push ups, but I hate it how I know it's hindering me, but I can't be 100 percent sure.
Get a set of straps and use that for your pull ups. Perform pull-ups normally until you feel your grip starting to become the limiting factor, and then put on the straps and keep going until you get the workout you need.
@@WolfsGamingBlog Wow that was fast. And a good idea. Thanks! Gonna try it!
Grip the bar at an angle such that your fingers aren't fully perpendicular to the bar, but rather point slightly inwards.
@@Underground_Owl Guys, Thanks for your help, I appreciate it a lot, because now I know, my pinky wasn't even activated during my pull ups. I mean... Imagine your pinky being normal length proportionally to your other fingers, you just don't have the knuckle under it, so it only reaches below the middle digit of your ring finger. So it just holds the place, but doesn't grip. Thanks to your ideas, I realized I have to specially go for that sucker with pinch grip exercises to at least activate the forearm muscle attached to it. So sadly I have to compensate for it with stronger forearms. Holding on the straps where it could curl around it made it worse, as if it had to try gripping stuff for the first time, and holding myself up on the rope showed the same issue, when it had to be fully engaged. While the other fingers managed, the pinky was tired out in no time. Freaky, I know. But hey. Again. Thanks for the good advices. They really did help.
@@madmanarrivednow You might want to try holding a hammer in your grip, only use your pinky and ring finger, and just hold it horizontal, so your pinkie flexor muscle starts to wake up, or put some weight in a plastic bag, and hold the bag with only your pinky, and attempt to curl it, you might need to use very low weight at first. Isometric and curls for pinkie flexor muscle could be the first thing.
You could also look at your pinkie extensor muscle. If your flexor is that weak/unused to functioning, then its counterpart is most likely also in bad shape.
2:23 i would say it does as @MovementbyDavid would say "Stay Flexy"
1st! ❤🎉
So close haha
Indian calisthenics includes much volumous dynamic strentching, while strengthening the body
Hey, may I know what you meant by indian calisthenics
@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 there are different kinds of yoga and a lot of them involve lots of dynamic movements versus what we think as westerners as just some sort of stretching protocol with breathing rhythms even though that version is more about having the ability to control your body through the mind which includes being in control of the breathing. Look up hunaman pushups for one example
@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 there are many different forms of yoga, and a lot of them are done as Dynamic movements repeated for hundreds of repetitions, I know here in the west people think that yoga is just a way of stretching and aligning your breathing but that version of yoga is about using your mind to control your entire body which includes being able to control your breathing and your heart rate. Look up hunaman pushups for one example, bonus if you use the word dand in the search hahaha
@@yourfellowhumanbeing2323 well there are many versions of yoga, not the bastardized version the West has made for themselves, a lot of these actually include doing dynamic movements over hundreds and hundreds of repetitions. You can look up Hunaman push-ups at one example. Ram murti dand would be another good example
@@LatimusChadimus Thank you!
Thankyou brother i needed this video. Just came back from gym that i recently joined. The trainer over there is ignoring me , he is making my fun to laugh others. He teaches everyone completely ignoring me. How should i tackle this situation?
Love ❤
Get away from that gym. The trainer is very unprofessional
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hello! i want to know if training to failure is an effective method? cause i've been doing it for 3 weeks now and i've seen great results. but some influencer says it's not recommended. i'm doing pure calisthenics btw
It depends on your goals and situation. If you're short on time, training 2 - 3 sets to failure is fine if you're only doing that muscle group maybe twice a week as in Hamptons workout routine. The one on his site. If you're going for max strength, it can also be a good idea. For strength endurance or hypertrophy (getting bigger) it's usually better to leave a couple reps in the tank and do more sets per muscle group. Maybe 4 - 8 sets in a given day depending on the muscle set. For example I like doing 3 - 4 sets on quads and glutes (bigger muscles), but 6 - 8 on shoulders (smaller muscles). It's still good to occasionally max out so you know how it feels and what you're really capable of. Constantly maxing out on a lot of sets, for example 6 sets in a day on your quads, is where things can get counter productive. These limits are individual, of course.
The way to know if your pushing too hard is if your recovered in time for the next workout. If not, either back off a bit or increase the time between re working that muscle group.
If in doubt, just follow Hamptons routine and max out your reps. The workouts are short and effective. You can find it on his website which is linked on his channel.
I need some advice. I do 2 sets of 50 squats.I bench a bag of rocks that weighs about fifty pounds 2sets of twenty I do two sets Of 40 sit-ups. And four sets of seventeen Push-ups. What can I do? To improve my workout. Ps im 14
Where do you live?))) so pretty out there, forest, etc 🥰 beautiful.
Thanks for the video.
Got your book too
Not Hampton (obviously) but he’s said before he lives in Arkansas.
@@derekhines1078 thanks. Looks beautiful. It's pretty flat here in TX.
@@KeeraRuah in Florida also. Lol
@@derekhines1078 at least you’ve got some water out there :) I heard that Marco Islands is a nice place.
How can i get a hair like your hair
HUNTY here, 👋
Hey Hunter how's life?
@@HybridCalisthenics Good good! Third day of my physical therapist internship today! God bless hamp
wow im early!
Hey everyone a question.
What do you PERSONALLY perform in terms of rep ranges? And why?
It's hilarious that hampton says you can choose to hurt yourself
This guy is making bank
I love to use no pain no gain in massage not exercise😅
Do you have app, I thought that’s what I heard 🙏🏼
Hay i am starting a to learn how to do a push up, cuz i cant do a aingle push ups. Today is day 0. See you tomorrow ☺️
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I went from 240 to 150 by starving myself (went from 2500 cals to 800 week and 1500 weekend) so it felt like starving to me, but I felt good you just need the nutriment and of course WILL!
Went back up to 185. Im about to start working out again, bought 1k of equipments and that’s why im here now.
It is cool to see someone suffer from the exact opposite problem than me! I am really trying to reach my 3000 calories every day to gain some weight and get above 70 kilos one day 😅 People and people‘s needs are so different and thats why I love Hamptons videos, he really understands this concept ❤
@@Joris-l5r yeah everyone is different. Your metabolism is most likely super fast so you don’t gain much weigh. You’re one of the lucky ones. (From my pov)
I agree, Hampton is such a kind open minded dude. He motivates me a lot.
Unless you’re 4’3, 800 cal is not going to help…
@@wuzittooya its wasn’t about muscles, it was about fat.
I skipped teeth day.
I don't really stretch before heavy lifting, but then my heavy is what someone would consider really light. I don't feel a big difference between stretching and not stretching in my performance. 🤷♀️
For No 3 and generally: there are HUGE differences between gents and ladies, something definitely to consider (24 h vs. ~28 day hormonal cycle!!!). We women need animal protein and more carbs the week before the next cycle starts for hormonal health. A lighter work out during that time is also beneficial for hormonal balance. But from day 1 to day 19 of the cycle be a beast, ladies, especially add in the strenuous workouts around day 11-15 (ovulation). 💪🔥😊
Can’t get past the funeral music
You're married. Congratulations.
How’s that stew stew
Guys is it better to do full body or PPL (Push Pull Legs) as a beginner?
Hampton has a great routine on his website. A couple exercises each day like pushups & leg raises one day and then pulling variation and squats on another. I’ve tried other things but always come back to this.
@@derekhines1078 Thank you very much
@@Netero_SK the Hybrid Routine 2.0 is crazy simple and crazy effective. Doesn’t take as much time to get healthy and fit as what most people think. Just really focus and feel the movements; leave your phone alone during the short training times. Training is almost meditative. Move around and stretch a little b/t sets. Wishing you the best!
Strong Men are hot, abs are overrated ngl
A fool ignores their health. A wise person listens to their health.