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Supersets and pyramids are called overload systems. If you create metabolic stress in muscle tissue, it will grow bigger. However, this type of training does not hit the sweet spot for strength increases. Strength requires neuromuscular activation, which responds best to heavy loads, low reps, and sufficient rest between sets.Ideally, you want to aim to superset opposing muscle groups and motions.
That insures that you train your entire body evenly, and it’ll help you build total-body strength and muscle.Working the Hips: Workouts to Build Strength and Muscle Stamina. If you select the 1-20 pyramid, you will get 210 total squats during the 20 sets (with 2000 meters of running).Of Supersets & Pyramids: 7 Simple Training Tips to Bust Through Plateaus & Banish Workout Boredom.
While a straightforward weight lifting program is more than ideal, training methods such as supersets, drop sets, and pyramids have the ability to inject your workouts with the oomph needed to overcome muscle-building stalls and banish boredom.Muscle and Strength Building Program: 5-4-3 Opposing Muscles Method. RELATED POSTS. Training Legs Twice A Week: How to Build Bigger.1 day ago · This Workout Program Uses Supersets to Build Full-Body Strength You’re more active than ever now.
And that makes you want it all: strong abs, less body fat, more back muscle.42 minutes ago · 4 Day Superset & Timed Set Muscle Building Workout This is a 4 day workout variation of one of the most popular training systems on M&S. You will hammer your muscles into effective growth using timed sets and supersets.
“I need to know the way to construct lean muscle with out getting too massive.” If you’ve ever mentioned this to a coach and seen them cringe, there are a few causes. First of all, getting “too big” doesn’t simply occur after just a few journeys to the fitness center. It requires adherence to a [ ].The Muscle-Building Resistance Band Workout To Make Huge Strength Gains At Home Bodyweight not pushing you hard enough?
Dig out the bands from the garage and use our three supersets to overload.So if building lean muscle is your goal, what you actually need to do is increase muscle mass and lose fat — thereby achieving a lean, toned physique. That being said, most fitness pros will understand exactly what you mean when you say, “Show me how to get lean muscle.” We asked a few to share their best tips.
1. Mix Light and Heavy Weights.If you’re aiming to pack on lean muscle and increase your strength as effectively as possible, there is literally no reason to ever perform supersets as part of your training plan. The goal of a muscle building workout is to place the muscles under maximum tension within a hypertrophy-based rep range (usually somewhere between 5-12) and focus.Ascending pyramids are best suited for those seeking strength gains.
Many powerlifters and other athletes seeking absolute max strength don’t take nearly as many sets to muscle failure as bodybuilders do—maybe only 1-2 per exercise. This allows them to generate maximal power on those last 1-2 sets in which they need to move the heaviest weights.Supersets are excellent for developing muscularity, but are not, however, overly effective for building strength. They are not effective for building strength due to a reduction in the amount of weight you can handle.
This reduction in weight is caused by.Explore Lori Reimer’s board “exercise: pyramid”, followed by 457 people on Pinterest. See more ideas about Exercise, Pyramid workout, Fitness body.
Pyramids involve picking a number of reps and working down from there on each subsequent set. There are different pyramids with different rep ranges for strength, generalized hypertrophy, and bodybuilding combos or supersets. At my gym, we do a variety of what.
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156 comments
Great video Matt! I’d like to hear your take on bodyweight drop sets? Thanks!
this is just great fuaark i love updates from Helms, such informative content
Correct correct!!
Basic principles always works
These kids want the magic pill to be jacked in 12 months
I got told before I started that it takes 7 years to get close to your body limit and it’s true
No magic pill here
is there any trap building pyramid workout? please share I’m having tons of problem with building them
A youtube video hasn’t made me this happy in a while. Real good to have ya back Eric:)
Jerry can the rest pause method be used in place of forced reps if you don’t have a spotter?
But isn’t constant progression needed to get bigger? How do you keep progressing/build muscle if you keep switching up the workout style??…
What if you do unilateral training and say if you finish on your left side and went on to bilateral movements on your next exercises your left side would be more fatigued than your right side because your right side already started getting rested as you were finishing off with yout left side
Been staying up way late because of gf related stuff and I’ve changed as a person and now can actually miss training days because it’s fullbody 3x a week and adjust when i know the planned day is going to be a rough training day because of a fucking up sleep session.
I’ve been in your program for a month and holy shit it’s nice.
Hey man have you stopped doing videos? You should make more of them…
Thumbs up from Brazil
Sorry, first time I’ve heard these expressions. So a straight set means you do for example 3 sets of one kind of exercise, whereas a superset means that you do one set of an exercise, move on to the next exercise till all exercises are finished then you start your second set for the exercises? If this is true then unless they were all working the same muscle group it would mean less time under tension due to longer breaks. One thought I have is that if you do a really tough exercise and rotate between tough exercises then this would make it a GTG exercise workout, so maybe it would lead to strength gains rather than muscle bulk gains. Does this make sense? At one stage I was doing this by doing 3 reps of close pull-ups, 3 reps archer squats and 3 reps archer pushups, then rotating back to the pull-ups, and doing the whole thing 5 times. I found I gained considerable strength after doing it for 2 weeks, and to be honest people commented that I was looking more “pumped”, even though I told nobody what I was doing. It also meant I could do this several times a day as my muscles weren’t fatigued.
I saw your workout plans from the website. Chest/Back on Thursday and Shoulder/Bicep/Tricep on Friday??? You are working the same muscles two days in a row? Doesn’t make sense
Could you do a video on straight sets vs drop/cluster sets? Might be interesting because of the recent research regarding “effective reps” when using short rest periods!
I totally agree with you. This video is a good explanation, but maybe too long time.
Please note that there is no special ‘hypertrophy zone’. All rep ranges work for building muscle.
Would you mind posing a link for the volume-matched study you mentioned in the video? I would like to pursue that subject further. Awesome information. Keep up the good work.
You say negative trauma affects training‚I say lifting weights suppresses the negativity from the trauma
Hey Matt, I feel like if I were to stop exercising for months or possibly years I would be able to go right back on day one and start suddenly doing the same amount of reps and just exercising the same way I have been. So, this may be a stupid question, is exercise a waste of my time?
Jerry I love your channel how do you feel about opposing muscle group super sets, with progression?
What if you are doing reverse pyramid for 1 year, can we change it to straight sets?
Please dont posting bro! You have good charisma and knowledgeable I can see you go far on youtube!
i train at home and dont have much weights so i do straight sets and do more reps.
For example me
I am a novice lifter, with good strength gains. But my Chest fucking laggs and my benchpress is veeery weak. Would straight sets be better, Like im doing now(but not progress really well), or a reverse Pyramid Like 3 6 10 or something Like that?
Totally agree. I also find that the longer you stick with supersets the better you get at them physiologically (localised conditioning) and neurologically (task switching) so that strength output is minimally affected. In the interim however there is a trade-off of some strength for sure.
I like how you focused on getting as best results as possible in a world where roadblocks will always get in the way of training. Youre saying ‘its better to have a flexible program which will keep you training and make moderate gains, than a perfect program which will fall apart when it reaches a speedhump.
Mix and match. Look at the cyclists vastus medialis. Light reps heavy reps all on the bike. Train consistently and hard, go with the feel.Variety is the spice of life. Hope this makes sense.
how many times should i perform this? or any direct arm isolation for max gains??
Dude your video on abs and thicken waistline I know you use progressive overload on squat and deadlift and you don’t need to do any ab training this will give you a thick waistline and is enough stimulating for your core
Hey man, great vid, Quick question for the dummies. If you do a straight set scheme, say 4×10, if the weight you choose you hit failure on the 4th at 10 reps wouldn’t the first 3 sets be a waste of time? where as a reverse pyramid you could reach failure every set? i like straight sets but cant help but feel the first 1-2 sets im just warming up. thanks for you help.
Finally,it’s good to have you back Eric,solid video.Hope to see more,keep it up!
if the muscle is fucked from a hard set then doing a drop set is still stressing the muscle to respond even if it’s not progressive overload on the scales surely. it’s just as hard as the first weight was for the muscle because it’s fucked. the muscle doesn’t know it’s lighter when it’s in that state is my thinking
Could you speak faster I couldn’t follow you at 4 times normal speed… really please slow down when you talk are you on something if you are i get it!!!!
I hope you respond
I truly enjoyed this introduction and planning on watching the rest. you said that stress decreased the gains. I’m a doctor and my life is very stressful. What should I do?
Hi what’s the best 4 day split? Focusing on muscle growth, also what’s your opinion on Rest-Pause sets Kinobody recommends? (12-6-6-6)
Funny thing that some of these principles don’t only apply to training, but to the life generally. I feel *illuminated*😀 Thank you for sharing the wisdom, Eric.
honestly love pyramid sets, I can’t explain all the science behind it but it has really worked for putting on size along with my joints feeling MUCH better compared to straight sets or reverse pyramid. I don’t think I’m ever going back as my goal is to purely put on as much size as I can while keeping joints healthy.
Jerry but even when you drop weight it feels like if it’s heavy so eventually you will get stronger bigger and be able to do more reps
Hey bro what’s your sodium intake or do you not track it at all? Would like to see a video about this but a reply is always nice too instead
Have you heard of the playing card method? A prison thing. Deck of cards, flip first card do whatever reps it says and keep going through the deck, face cards are 10 reps.
Now that’s how you make a comeback!! Welcome back Eric! Great content
Keep in mind pyramid training is great for people that has shoulder problems as it allow proper muscle to warm up and engage prior to weight increase. One drawpack of reverse pyrimid training is that there is a higher risk of injury if not warmed up properly.
push pull supersets, like doing back and chest back to back, how do they work? do set of chest, then go right to back and THEN rest like a minute) and then repeat or no rest at all?
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Straight sets works better for me but something that makes me doubt is that processors in computers always benefits from more cores. 1 single cpu core never did the job that great. So I keep wondering if straight sets is the way to go or not
658 likes 0 dislikes…. must resist…. tempted… so tempted to destroy this perfection!” AAAAAAHHHHHH!
So no one in this fucking fitness and vanity industry has the joints health into consideration.
You should do “Dismissed!”:D like this comment if you agree
Your videos are awesome and very informative. But some feedback: you beat around the bush too much in the beginning, dive into the topic and speak your knowledge right away. you lose the attention of your audience in the first 3-4 minutes. if you cut all the nonsense and leave whats important, you’ll be left with a 6 min video full of nothing but knowledge. great stuff nonetheless.
I think supersetting agonist-antagonist muscles are ideal. Keep intensity up, don’t fatigue adjacent muscles by doing similar exercises, and give worked muscles a nice rest due to active insufficiency. So superset vertical push with vertical pull, horizontal press with horizontal pull, etc. I skip this approach for legs and other already intense exercises though, like farmers walks, as they’re just too demanding.
I wonder how much reps shall I do for my bi/tri, because there are a lot of opinions on how much they are involved in lat pull downs / rows or benching and so on.. I´m talking about hypertrophie training for bodybuilders only, not for power lifting. I´m trying to isolate the back as much as possible while pulling/rowing, but how much work is done by my biceps? I tried to do flys only for chest, but it seems to be worse for hypertrophy and strength both than dumbbell or bar bench and incline. for example in a push/pull/leg split i´m doing 40 reps of press exercises and 30 of flys, how much tricep and front delt reps should i add?
btw: it´s so sad to see how much people are following useless entertaining channels and you have only 50k:(
I currently weigh 220 and I want to cut down some body fat and get shredded all around. Do you recommend I follow your 4 month routine? I would like any knowledge you have! I have been working out for 4 years now. I never really cut or dieted much, if I did I lost a lot of muscle.
You have a lack of knowledge in what Kinobody teaches. You’ve clearly not read any of Greg’s programs, if you had done then you would know that RPT isn’t the only style utilised. Standard pyramid, straight sets and rest-pause are all used. Pointless hating
Jerry is absolutely right. I came to him from a trainer that had us doing super sets, tri sets, quadruple sets and we’d be exhausted thinking that we got the most intense workouts. Yet I NEVER looked the way I wanted to look until I met Jerry and bought his program. I spent over 2 years “spinning my wheels” with this trainer and I got what I wanted from Jerry in 18 weeks. Jerry KNOWS.
Kinobody does not have a bodybuilding physique. He is like a skinny weightlifter.
Hey Eric, just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate all the great information you put out for free. After watching the lecture series multiple times I now have a pretty solid understanding of how to lay out my training and diet.
I still just bought the books, printed them out and am really glad to have them on hand for quick references or to look up details I forgot, so even though these videos already are a fantastic resource I can’t recommend the books enough, if only to show your appreciation of someone who is not just passionate about helping people but also incredibly knowledgeable and all around just seems like an awesome guy.
Hats off to the rest of the team and all the best from Germany!
Jens
The day I see a dislike on an Eric Helms video is the day I quit Youtube…
Very well laid out, I look forward to the rest of the series
@muscleNMind can the same results be obtained from a classic hard gainer? Ectomorph
I’ve been lying on the couch playing video games for three days. I thought it was time to go back to exercising lol.Good video. Greetings from Brazil.
OMG YOURE BACK!!!!! i divorced my wife and quit my job just to hear your lecture!!
What kind of upload frequency can we expect with this series?
In this video and Kinobody’s nothing is mentioned in regards to reverse pyramid training what kind of warm up sets you should be doing before you hit the first heavy set, you can’t just go to the heaviest set first the risk of injury would be very high.
Both flexibility with training and nutrition has been my focus over the last 8 months or so. I am finally feeling like I have something I can adhere to long term. Great video coach! Nice to see you back to making videos.:)
When doing your program should I be increasing the weight that lift each week? If I should how much?
i’m guessing you have deteriorated quite a bit now because of the vegan diet and that’s why you haven’t uploaded in a while
Just now finding this channel. Big fan. Wish you would come back
Awesome!!
I really enjoy this video.
Thank you for sharing something very interesting to watch
This might be a good day for you
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Great to see a focus on adherence. This has helped me a lot already; cannot wait to see the rest of the series.
so underrated channel…giving tons of information for free respect from India
thankyou Eric very nice of you to take the time to teach us man. god bless you
I live by reverse pyramid!!! But I’m listening smh get your plates up bro!!!! I love max strength and duh you do reverse before you do cardio or any other foolish stuff get your main dinner out the way then add your dessert
Do you think people who have just started can do super sets? (Not drop set)
Looking forward to seeing more videos!!! You need more views. Did you know that you could use SMZeus??? You could use it to help increase your subscribers!!!
Really appreciate your originality in a profession full of contradictions… Keep it going my man
just realized, there is a typo in the title “.. and Strenth…”
Awesome content as always!!! Looking forward to the rest of the series.
I increased my bench press by a lot by doing pyramid sets. Started at 135lbs Max effort on each set all the way up to 335lbs at the most. Then I would come back down the opposite, back to 135lbs with Max effort. Sometimes after my last set; I would go back to 225lbs and the weight literally felt like 400lbs was on top of me.
Just personal experience, but I did see some really good improvements with doing so.
I have a question: A lot of vegan foods are pretty carb dense and as a college student with a part time job, I don’t have a lot of money so things like dried beans, oats, and frozen dark leafy greens are where I try to get most of my protein but, again, they’re also carb heavy. It seems I’m getting more carbs than protein. Is there anything you recommend? (Open for others to help as well)
Yay, found a new vegan YouTube-channel:) Hope you’re still active:D
Just finished 10 sets of 10 pull-ups, 10 sets of 15 dips and ten sets of 20 pushups. Thanks so much for that routine Adorian it’s amazing! Keep killing 2020
I can already tell I’m going to agree with everything in this series. Good stuff, as always.
One of the strongest channels that give me a lot of information unlike the modern channels paid for ads and sales
Using Kinobody’s name to generate views, how about focussing on your own shit programs
Great to see you back Eric, and on behalf of the whole fitness community…..Thank you sir!
Dude, where did this guy go? BEST VEGAN BODYBUILDING INFO ON DE NET. Then…disappeared? Hope you’re ok my man!
I will work my way on this pyramid to become the horse cart creature you are describe. I will have the legs of a horse with the arms and face of a cart. All will be awe of my power.
I do double split day 6 days a week 5 sets, reps of 10,8,6,4,15 at 1rm 50%,75%,85%, 85%,50 for 3 weeks then in my 4th week i max out for last week of the month while doing double split days and I see great gains. I feel as though it’s a type of hybrid and my goal is to gain lean mass and a great pump
I’m confused.. I do what I suppose is reverse pyramid training, my goal is hypertrophy, but even though the weight reduces slightly from the 1st to the 4th set, my rep range is always 8 reps or above, so that would be hypertrophy rather than strength right?
So I´ve watched all of the videos and I think you haven´t even mentioned intensity (as rpe). Is it really that unimportant? Because in my experience it makes a huge difference for your recovery.
For reverse pyramid, do your first few sets (which are heavy weight / less reps) really define your true strength? If I started my first set with lifting a heavy weight without warming up to it, I won’t be able to lift it. So my follow up question is, is there a warmup set prior to starting your reverse pyramid set?
Make a Tension-Thursday! You could do videos about how to improve muscle tension in this specific muscle
The only person I know in the fitness industry who can have 549 likes without having a single dislike!
Man, I started to go vegan 2 months ago, fells great, but I think I’m eating too much fiber (+ or 140g day) and I don’t know if this is bad or not, cuz at high levels fiber can hold the nutrients absorption, but I’m just a beginner and probably I’m doing all wrong right now Hahaha
A point to be mentioned in favor of “reverse pyramid” training which I think are basically drop sets is that it’s possible to go through your sets with minimal/no breaks. So for the same amount of time in the gym, you don’t spend about 1/2 your time waiting between sets and you can get WAY more done. For me, this is a huge advantage.
you are wrong. Reverse pyramid is the most optimal for hypertrophy. Let me tell you how to do it by example: If I can do 10 reps(yourmax) on the bench press with 100 kg. I will start with that so 1st set 100kg-10 reps, Then you are fatigued so you get more from less weight.All your sets are maximized -) 2nd set 90kg-10 reps, 3rd set 80kg 11 reps, 4th set 75kg 12 reps 5th set 70kg 15 reps. If you would choose a straight set maybe you would go with 5setsx10reps with 80-85kg. In comparation you have less volume and less stimulation with straight sets. Because when you do like the first 2 sets with 80-85 kg x10 you still have alot of energy left in the tank.
The internet and YouTube is so overloaded with info about fitness that it does get confusing, I needed to hear this because I’m doing all this mistakes, I def need to change it, u are spot on, at least it applies on my case, thank u for this video Jerry
excellent video…goig through this myself..for me..some exercises like Hanging Abs…mixing it up..no reaching for reps…just go to failure..4 sets
floor situps just focusing on 1 particular exercise at a time 8 sets of 20 reps
Can you do planches and front lever? Or do you train for them?
Have you seen that study 10 x3 3×10 same 1rm % having the same hypertrophy results
Mr Helms, Thank you so much for this great info and its freeeeeeeeeee. Glad to see you back on youtube.
I feel that there is something to add, that is directly relevant to your last point, namely doing “roughly the same” amount of work: When you superset more than two exercises, you can actually have MORE rest between sets for one respective muscle group and as a consequence do more total volume, even if you keep the number of sets the same. Say you superset 4 Exercises and take a total of 2 minutes per set. This gives you more than 7 minutes rest time between sets. This way you can take every set a little bit closer to failure without too much interference on subsequent sets. You could of course take a 7 minute break between sets with straight sets, but you will take ages for your workout…
Serious risk of injury if you’re first set is heaviest. I always pump the muscle with a high rep warm-up set before upping weight and dropping reps.
Wooooooot! Welcome back, Grandmaster! (I almost came!) Edit: just watched the video and I came. Eric, I’m not sure you’re aware of it, but man o man, the quality of your content is just ridiculously good. So clear, so condensed, so to the point, so relevant, so useful… It’s just mindblowing. Your content is so much better than most of the inforproducts out there costing hundreds of dollars.
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No such thing as a hypertrophy rep range, or strength range, or hypertrophy range. One could go on…
is there any scientific proof of this? because I use the regular pyramid, and my lifts have increased
Great to have you back Eric. I found the nutritional pyramid phenomenally helpful and am looking forward to the rest of this series
Dear Mr Paquette more Boxing workouts please!!! I really enjoyed the last one you did “Death by Kicks”!! loved it!!! More like those pleaseeeeee
Does anyone have his training schedule form his site… It unfortunately went offline and was very helpful to me…
Your thoughts on splitting push and pull workouts? Supersets are super taxing and I feel recovery takes longer.
Slowly & surely you’re becoming my go to guy on the Internet.
Where did you go?!?! I just find your channel and I’m seeing you haven’t been active for 7 months now? Your content is amazing! Hope you get this and come back soon!
hey @Team3DMJ that’s a really good drawing.. when other fitness YouTubers try to draw anything it ALWAYS comes out like a 3 years old’s attempt lol. GJDM.
Great video as usual Eric, look forward to the rest of them.
What about RPT with same number of reps? How fits the people ( like me ) who wants to build muscles and losing weight in the meantime?!
Erics videos are better than some head on a Sunday afternoon. N-n-no homo..
here they are! uploading the stuff just the right time..!! tried this up today morning.. felt like working conditioning and growth the same time! huge respect to you guys! keep up the good work
“Hypertrophy rep range” Please pick up a few quality exercise science books and learn that what you thought was a fact is really a lie. There is no such thing as a hypertrophy rep range. What matters is total workload, meaning how much work you did in a week.
If you’re going to do RPT do you think you should always push your sets to failure? Or just follow the regimen like greg recommends like 4-6, 6-8, 8-10 for set size as you drop weight??
Another very informative video Adorian. Bottom line: stop overthinking it and do the work. The results will come
Bro you got 18k subs and you stopped uploading… fuck yo couch you a disgrace to the Beach!!! LB
Thank you so much for this video Eric! I loved the previous series and I’m really looking forward to the coming videos!
Dude, thanks for making this. Will be sharing this vid on my podcasts
Mr. Helms it is great to hear your advice again!! great video!!
Another great, informative video bro. Glad to see you uploading more frequently now! Keep the good content coming.
This is what 3DMJ is all about. Thanks for the high quality informative video Eric, and keep doing the good work!
yo why do you hate so much on kinobody? tbh his phsyique is just as good if not better than yours lol
You just hate on kinobody cause you’re jealous. Have you never thought that you can do RPT with 8,10,12 reps for focus on hypertrophy? There is no cookie cutter programs, but hypertrophy is hypertrophy is hypertrophy.
How should our weekly training look like? If we want to shred some fat
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I’m doing antagonist supersets for a couple of weeks like Dips/Pull-Ups, Body rows/Push-Ups and more.. i think it’s great system of building workouts.. I’m student so i don’t have much time for working out. It was one of reasons why i began with supersets..
My experience with supersets is more work in less time, it’s very useful for busy people.
You feel more tired, more destroyed because you’re fighting with your condition.. It will make you more athletic.
I think pyramid sets are the most ideal in strength training. what do you think?
Great video again man, just a quick question.
What are your thoughts on alcohol and bodybuilding? I’ve been told time and time again that it will hinder your results severely, but I’m at the age when everyone is going out partying and I feel like if I’m not going out and drinking with them then I’m missing out! Do you drink? If so how often, and Is it only small amounts? Thanks man, keep up the good work!
He right. I have his program and kinobody. Both are great. However once the gyms shut down it’s a lot hard to do Greg’s routine with a home gym. Unless your using his new Hollywood body weight program
Who’s the one person to dislike this? Great video as always Eric.
Good video. I personally love reverse pyramid training i built good strength and mass for a few years doing it.
Can you guys make a calculator that will help us get those % easy to set when we want to workout as explained? I like what you do and how easy to understand but I get lost when it get those numbers:). Thanks.
Just purchased the Muscle and Strength Pyramids Ebooks, definitely worth the investment!
I just found your channel like a month ago and you already are my favorite fitness YouTuber. You’re that good. Keep it up! Today it’s me, tomorrow it’ll be many more. I’m positive.
@Team3DMJ is it still worth buying the PDF files if I watch these videos?
Great video out of curiosity have you always split your training up for hypertrophy? And used full body training for fat loss?
More video like this Jerry please,it is simple epic..
.well said.
Hmm..I go for the opposite on superset which I believe give more time to recovery like pull up superset with pike push up. If similiar group of muscle I found that I cant perform as well.
awesome progression with drawin horse!:)
really good job, will benefit whole next natural/science bb generation, I’m sure.
Agonist Antagonist pairings are amazing imo. Rest a bit longer so you won’t compromise performance if you have to or are new to this style of training, plus you get some conditioning from performing them A1-A2, B1-B2 etc.. Have an awesome day!
Not really true. A low rep strength set actually activate your nervous system so you can do more reps for a high reps hyopotrophy set. Im surprised you dont know this.
Can anybody hit the dislike button pls.. It feels alone out there!
The details of the horse and cart drawings have improved so much since the nutrition series! One thing that I always consider when I think of ‘optimal’ training is how quickly you can progress while staying healthy. Higher volume (VIF, in general) may lead to faster progress but if you train to the point that you injure yourself, you’ll end up making the same, if not worse, progress than if you had taken it slower and made more consistent gains. Adding 100lb to your squat in 6 months then getting injured and losing 50lb on your squat in the following 6 months is the same as adding 50lbs to your squat slowly over the course of one year.
Helms do you have a pyramid fetish? Haha in all seriousness, great vid, and can’t wait for the rest of the levels.
Awesome video Jerry! I always go back to the program you made for me. Works every time.
Thanks
Come out and tell people you quit being vegan. BY NOT APPEARING HERE, YOU’RE DECEIVING PEOPLE.
Dude. You can’t make your own channel without trying to roach off of and shit on someone else’s channel because you choose to train a different way?
The summary of pretty much every “debate” in general fitness is two sides talking past each other and ignoring specific applications of the other side because the presenters are ideologically beholden to a particular tool or method. You do a good job presenting the answer that most of us should be listening tothat both sides have a truth, but not a monopoly thereof.
My workout has four phases that I tend to mingle. Warmup, main training, practice time, and cool down. I tend to prefer kettlebell flows and bodyweight training with straight sets in the warmup. My main training is most frequently supersets or circuits of kettlebell training, though I do like phases of straight sets. Practice time is always straight sets to focus on new movements. Cooldown is a few movements of stretching with tensionkettlebell windmills and arm bars, and a few yoga poses, as well as a few weighted carries. I’d consider those to be straight sets. So supersets and straight sets have different applications even within a workout.
Great to have you back Eric! Really looking forward to this series.
I accept this challenge and will upload on my channel! Gains Certified!