Training Basics & Theory | Chapter 1: The Fundamentals Series

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Summary

TLDRThe video introduces a new fundamental series aimed at beginners looking to gain muscle and strength. It offers a structured approach divided into several videos focusing on training, nutrition, and supplementation. The series begins with a two-part focus on training, starting with theoretical concepts essential for building a solid routine. Emphasizing safety and enjoyment as key components, the presenter explains how these build a sustainable practice. Safety should be prioritized by maintaining good form, using appropriate weights, and ensuring recovery. Enjoyment leads to better adherence and effort application during training. The video also introduces 'P.O.P', which stands for Progressive Overload and Prioritization, underscoring how gradually increasing weight, reps, or modifying workout intensity drives progress. With a nod to Eric Helms's work on YouTube, the series is crafted to provide a practical, enjoyable, and sustainable training framework for beginners.

Takeaways

  • 🎥 New video series on muscle building and strength for beginners
  • 📝 Importance of understanding training basics before gym application
  • 🏋️ Training divided into theoretical concepts initially
  • ⚠️ Safety in training prioritized with good form and proper weights
  • 😊 Enjoyment in training leads to better adherence and effort
  • 🔄 Introduction of P.O.P: Progressive Overload and Prioritization
  • 📚 Eric Helms's work recommended for foundational knowledge
  • 💡 Practical tips for designing sustainable training routines
  • ⏳ Training volume and intensity to be covered in future videos
  • 🔍 Encourages a blend of structured and enjoyable workouts

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker introduces a new series aimed at helping beginners and intermediates build muscle and gain strength by focusing on fundamental training and nutrition concepts. The series will be divided into five or six videos, covering training, nutrition, and supplementation. The first video will focus on training theory, emphasizing the importance of understanding theoretical concepts before applying them in practice. The speaker also plugs Eric Helms's training pyramid series for additional insight.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker introduces the idea of a 'training ladder' to structure the fundamentals of training, starting with sustainability, which includes safety and enjoyment. They highlight the importance of safety, emphasizing good form, proper weight selection, and adequate recovery. Good form involves controlling the eccentric movement and using a full range of motion. Proper weight selection and ensuring adequate recovery, such as rest and sleep, are crucial for injury prevention and progress.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Enjoyment is presented as a key factor for sustainable training; if people enjoy their workouts, they are more likely to adhere and push harder. Suggestions include focusing on compound exercises, minimizing workout time, or doing full-body workouts to enhance enjoyment. The speaker mentions balancing variety with consistency, as well as using 'bro' techniques like drop sets and super sets for fun, provided they do not overshadow progress-focused training.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:22:02

    Effort and progressive overload are crucial for progress. The speaker emphasizes working hard enough during workouts and warns against chasing optimal routines without adequate effort. They discourage leaving too many reps in reserve and suggest specific circumstances for training to failure, like the last set of isolation exercises. Prioritization is key—focus on specific goals, like improving a specific lift, and integrate specificity by structuring workouts to address these goals early in sessions. Progressive overload and prioritization drive hypertrophy and should inform how workouts are structured and progressed.

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Video Q&A

  • What is the focus of this video series?

    The series aims to cover fundamental basics for beginners wanting to build muscle and gain strength.

  • How many videos will be in the series?

    The series will consist of five or six videos.

  • What is the first video of the series about?

    The first video focuses on training theory, covering basic theoretical concepts of training.

  • Who is Eric Helms?

    Eric Helms is recommended by the video creator for his training pyramid series on YouTube, noted for explaining scientific literature on muscle building and strength.

  • What does P.O.P. stand for in the training ladder?

    P.O.P stands for Progressive Overload and Prioritization.

  • What are the two components of sustainability in training?

    The two components are safety and enjoyment.

  • What is suggested for safety in weight training?

    Good form, selecting proper weights, and ensuring adequate recovery are suggested for safety.

  • Why is enjoyment important for sustainability?

    People who enjoy their training tend to stick to their programs better and push themselves harder.

  • What should you do if you don't enjoy training at all?

    Design a routine that is efficient and sucks less by using compound exercises and minimizing time in the gym.

  • What role does progressive overload play in training?

    Progressive overload ensures you're doing more over time, crucial for driving progress and hypertrophy.

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    all right what's going on everyone want
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    to welcome you all to the new
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    fundamental series that I'm going to be
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    running on this channel for probably the
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    next couple of months and what I plan to
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    do is basically cover in this series
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    what I believe to be the main primary
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    basics for all of the beginners out
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    there we're wanting to build muscle and
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    gain strength and also for those of you
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    who may not be quite so new to lifting
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    but maybe haven't yet been able to
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    really pin down what the true
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    fundamentals are just because there's so
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    much information out there now so I'm
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    basically going to split this up into
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    five or six videos so we're gonna start
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    by doing two videos on training then I'm
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    going to do two or three on nutrition
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    and the first one is gonna be on how to
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    build muscle how to diet to build muscle
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    the second one is going to be on how to
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    diet to lose fat and then we'll probably
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    do a third one just on how to diet for
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    health in general and then we're going
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    to do a final video one video on
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    supplementation but for this video we're
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    actually covering just part one of the
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    training aspect of this and that's going
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    to focus mostly on training theory and I
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    think that that's really important to
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    understand the basic theoretical
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    concepts before you can apply them in
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    the gym and basically build for yourself
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    a solid training routine and that's what
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    we're gonna cover in part two before we
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    get going I also want to quickly plug
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    Eric Helms's training pyramid series on
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    here on YouTube this is a fantastic
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    video series that I've used a lot myself
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    and I've drawn a lot of inspiration for
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    this series from so if you guys haven't
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    seen it I'll have a linked in the
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    description box below and he does a
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    fantastic job of laying out all the
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    scientific literature to do with
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    building muscle and gaining strength
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    so it comes highly recommended so though
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    further ado let's dig into part 1
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    training Theory the fundamental series
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    all right so guys as you'll see in my
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    effort to be mildly original with this
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    content I decided to set up the training
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    fundamentals as a ladder so we'll
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    quickly go through this here at the
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    bottom you've got sustainability as the
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    the first rung of the ladder and then on
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    these two sides the two uprights of the
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    ladder you have the two components of
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    sustainability you can think of them as
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    the pillars of sustainability and they
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    are safety and enjoyment
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    then round number two you've got effort
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    rung three you've got pop which stands
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    for progressive overload and
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    prioritization and then up at the top
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    the fourth rung we have the acute
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    training variables which we're gonna get
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    to in part two so this will be covered
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    in part two of this video so we're gonna
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    cover all these basics in this video and
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    then all the acute variables in the
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    second video which includes things like
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    training volume intensity rest periods
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    tempo exercises training splits and all
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    that stuff
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    so first let's cover this first up right
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    over here which is safety
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    it may sound boring and it is but trust
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    me if you do neglect it you will regret
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    it I think down the road
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    and I think it's really important to
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    cover safety first especially for all of
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    our beginner viewers so there are three
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    means cook with main components I think
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    - safety within the context of weight
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    training to build muscle and they are to
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    have good form to select proper weight
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    or appropriately selected weights and
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    then also to ensure adequate recovery so
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    as far as good form goes basically what
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    we're talking about here is to control
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    the negative so you need to have
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    eccentric control you'll see a lot of
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    people say doing a bench press they'll
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    allow the weight to just basically fall
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    down and then rely on the assistance of
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    their spotter to get the weight up that
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    is not good form with good form you want
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    to control the eccentric which is
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    typically around a two-second count for
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    the negative or at least be lowering it
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    under your own control not under the
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    control of gravity to control the
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    negative and the other aspect of good
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    form is to have a full range of motion
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    I'm so doing quarter reps half reps well
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    they can't have their place I think that
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    for beginners you want to focus on
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    taking the movement through the full
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    range of motion properly selected
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    weights refers to not using weight
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    that's too heavy also not using weight
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    that's too light this can be a little
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    difficult for beginner to find out you
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    may have to use some trial and error to
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    figure out what an appropriate weight is
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    for you general rule of thumb for
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    beginners we have the two for two rules
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    so this basically means if for two weeks
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    in a row you can perform two more reps
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    on your last set of a given exercise and
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    it's time to increase the weight so
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    let's just say as an example you're
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    doing three sets of ten on the bicep
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    curl and you're using 20 pounds let's
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    say you complete that tenth rep for the
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    first week you or rather you're supposed
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    to do three sets of ten but you can
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    easily do twelve reps or you can do 12
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    reps then the next week you find that
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    you can do 12 reps again it's now time
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    to increase that that weight for your
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    three sets of ten if that makes sense
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    the third aspect of safety is ensuring
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    adequate recovery and there are several
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    facets to this the first being ensuring
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    that you have adequate rest days so for
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    beginners here I recommend one day on
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    one on and one off this of course will
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    be individual but let's just say you're
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    running an upper lower split you can
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    train upper body rest for a day lower
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    body rest for a day and then repeat that
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    cycle through that's a great example for
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    beginners and this just ensures that
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    their joints and ligaments your soft
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    tissues as well as your muscles
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    themselves are recovering in between
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    those sessions this is going to be very
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    individual so for example people with
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    maybe more of an athletic background and
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    certainly get away with a higher
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    training frequency than this and that's
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    why I think it's important to listen to
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    your body so if you're noticing that
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    you're a little more sore than usual
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    maybe you have a little more aches and
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    pains and you typically have I think
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    it's important to listen to that
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    feedback and if you're especially
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    feeling any injurious pain where you
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    think you're at an increased risk of
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    injury I think it's especially important
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    to take a big picture long term approach
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    to this and consider just taking an
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    extra rest day allowing yourself to heal
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    up or maybe just doing some light cardio
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    or something like that to allow yourself
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    to recover sleep is another really
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    important aspect of recovery I think
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    that this is undermined quite a lot
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    amongst trainees especially those of us
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    who are really busy however I think the
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    scientific literature has strongly shown
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    that getting seven to eight hours of
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    sleep per night is significantly better
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    for both performance and body
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    composition than just getting five to
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    six hours per night so if you can get
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    those extra couple of hours I think it's
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    definitely a good idea and it's
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    definitely going to help out your
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    progress in the gym on a side note there
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    is some evidence to support that
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    sleeping even more so say nine to ten
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    hours per night will improve athletic
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    performance particularly in the case of
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    sprinters whether or not this will
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    translate into improved body composition
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    or strength and hypertrophy gains I
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    think remains to be seen but the bottom
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    line is is if you can squeeze in more
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    sleep it certainly is a way to improve
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    your recovery and expedite your progress
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    the fourth aspect to recovery I think is
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    nutrition and this is a topic we're
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    gonna get to in another video so I'll
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    save that for that so this is the first
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    pillar we've got safety and now we're
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    gonna get into enjoyment all right so
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    guys the second pillar of sustainability
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    we have enjoyment and the reason why I
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    bring up enjoyability of training so
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    early on here is because it's been my
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    experience that people who enjoy their
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    training tend to stick to their programs
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    better so they tend to be more adherent
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    and not only that they also tend to push
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    themselves harder on their training
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    program so I think that a lot of
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    beginners are really chasing that
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    perfect optimal training program that's
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    going to get them or the results as
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    quickly as possible and I don't think
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    there's anything necessarily wrong with
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    that mindset but I think that if we're
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    gonna focus on sustainability we really
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    do need to take a big-picture long-term
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    approach and I think that in order for
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    that to be really truly successful for
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    most people you really do have to enjoy
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    your training on some level now I know
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    some people really don't like training
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    at all and there's probably nothing
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    that's going to make them really enjoy
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    weight training and for those people you
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    may want to think of it as designing
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    yourself a routine that's just gonna
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    suck less and one simple way to do this
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    is just by making your workouts more
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    are efficient so basically you want to
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    focus on minimizing say the number of
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    exercises that you can do so one simple
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    way to do that would be by focusing on
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    doing compound exercises squats
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    benchpress presses deadlifts movements
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    that are going to involve a lot of
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    muscle mass and basically optimize your
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    time investment or minimize your time
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    investments in the gym rather than doing
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    a ton of isolation exercises where you
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    have to do so many different movements
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    that your workout takes a lot longer you
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    also may want to consider doing safe
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    full-body training where you may only
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    have to be in the gym two or maybe three
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    times a week rather than say you know
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    four maybe five times a week like you'd
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    see on a split routine ultimately I
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    think that enjoyability is very
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    important for having a sustainable
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    approach to your training over time and
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    a lot of this is going to come down to
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    personal preference and personality and
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    to important points I'd like to bring up
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    here are the idea of variety and
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    consistency in my experience especially
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    my coaching experience I've noticed that
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    a lot of people really do like to switch
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    things up quite frequently it keeps
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    their Trent their training more
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    interesting and it keeps them having a
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    higher level of enjoy ability with their
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    training and I think that that's okay on
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    the other hand you have other people who
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    really like to have a more regimented
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    training plan where the exercises and
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    the sets and you know the reps are more
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    or less the same week to week and they
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    can just clearly track their progress
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    increase you know the weight on the bar
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    week to week and that's very motivating
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    for them and they enjoy that approach in
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    practice I think most people will
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    probably benefit from some kind of blend
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    of this approach where you have some
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    flexible components to your training
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    program maybe there are certain
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    exercises you switch in and out week to
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    week but you also have some level of
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    consistency where you have those main
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    core movements that are staying the same
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    week to week so you can clearly track
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    your progress how much is something
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    we're gonna get to once we get to the
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    third run another thing that I'd like to
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    bring up here is the bro stuff so this
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    includes things like drop sets super
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    sets maybe some sports reps these
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    techniques that guys just really find to
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    be fun in the gym and
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    can sometimes get a bad rap from some
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    members of the scientific community and
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    I'm assuming that's because they can
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    sort of detract from a general focus on
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    progression however in my experience
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    this can make training a lot more
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    enjoyable these methods do have some
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    empirical support and so I see nothing
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    wrong with doing some things like you
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    know drop set super sets occasionally as
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    long as that doesn't take the central
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    focus of your routine basically in my
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    experience this is a way to make your
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    training a little bit more enjoyable and
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    then a final point here is I'd like to
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    distinguish between optimal and
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    practical and I've just alluded to this
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    a little bit earlier but basically I
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    find a lot of beginners are really
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    looking for that most optimal routine
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    whereas I think that in practice you
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    should be looking for a practical
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    routine it's going to allow for
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    sustainability over the long term and if
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    you can do that and keep the rest of the
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    the latter in mind then you're gonna see
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    a lot of progress even if it may not be
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    the single most optimal thing in theory
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    okay so that's gonna wrap up
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    sustainability we've covered safety and
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    enjoyment so once you have a routine set
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    up that is going to be sustainable now
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    it's time to apply effort so that's what
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    we're gonna get into next okay so guys
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    the next rung of the ladder is effort
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    and basically what I mean by effort is
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    you're working hard enough when you're
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    training and the reason that I rank this
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    so early on in the ladder is because I
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    see so many people like I've said who
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    are chasing that optimal routine but
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    they're just simply not pushing
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    themselves hard enough in the gym and I
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    did a video with my girlfriend Stephanie
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    on the channel about this and I'll just
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    link it up here in the cards somewhere
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    if you haven't seen it but the main
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    finding was that so many people who are
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    training in the gym basically just
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    aren't pushing themselves hard enough I
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    think to see significant hypertrophy
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    gains and people are leaving way more
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    reps in the tank than I think they
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    should be and in that study I think they
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    basically found that I think something
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    like 20% of trainees were leaving 10
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    reps or more in the
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    on the bench press and so this is just
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    not enough exertion I think to see
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    significant hypertrophy even if the rest
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    of the stuff is designed in in the most
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    scientific and most optimal way so I
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    think that you need to to work hard you
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    need to have a mindset that's going to
  • 00:13:02
    allow you to go in the gym and put in
  • 00:13:04
    that work and in all of my training
  • 00:13:07
    experience as an athlete and as a coach
  • 00:13:09
    I've never really come across a routine
  • 00:13:12
    that's so optimal on paper that it can
  • 00:13:15
    allow you to get away with having to put
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    in the work so I think that is a general
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    guideline you basically I don't think
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    want to be leaving a whole lot more than
  • 00:13:25
    three maybe four reps in the tank for
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    most of your sets so basically what this
  • 00:13:30
    means is you think you could have gotten
  • 00:13:33
    three more reps with a certain weight so
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    let's just say you're doing a bicep curl
  • 00:13:38
    let's say you go to two fifteen reps and
  • 00:13:41
    then you can't possibly crank out that
  • 00:13:45
    sixteenth rep that would mean that you
  • 00:13:46
    have no reps left in the tank if you
  • 00:13:48
    were to stop at rep 12 that would
  • 00:13:51
    basically mean you have three reps in
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    the tank I don't think that all sets
  • 00:13:56
    should be taken to failure I think that
  • 00:13:59
    failure training should be reserved for
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    specific circumstances and those
  • 00:14:04
    circumstances are here so I think that
  • 00:14:06
    training to failure meaning you can't
  • 00:14:08
    get another rep even if you tried should
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    be saved for basically your last set of
  • 00:14:13
    the last exercise for a given body part
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    so let's say you're doing chest training
  • 00:14:19
    and you've got the flat bench press and
  • 00:14:21
    let's say the incline dumbbell fly to do
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    you wouldn't take any of the benchpress
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    sets to failure you would probably leave
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    at least you know two maybe three reps
  • 00:14:30
    in the tank and then once you get to the
  • 00:14:33
    dumbbell fly you would leave reps in the
  • 00:14:36
    tank until your final set and then you
  • 00:14:38
    would take that one to failure and this
  • 00:14:41
    actually doesn't need to happen I see
  • 00:14:43
    this actually probably more so as in an
  • 00:14:45
    intermediate technique you could always
  • 00:14:47
    be leaving a few reps in the 10
  • 00:14:49
    but as long as you're getting within
  • 00:14:51
    that certain threshold close to failure
  • 00:14:53
    which isn't clearly defined but it's
  • 00:14:55
    probably somewhere around three reps
  • 00:14:57
    left in the tank then I think you're
  • 00:14:58
    pushing yourself sufficiently hard I
  • 00:15:00
    think that failure set should be saved
  • 00:15:02
    for isolation work
  • 00:15:04
    so basically heavy compound movements
  • 00:15:07
    things like squats overhead presses
  • 00:15:09
    bench presses deadlifts you shouldn't
  • 00:15:12
    really be training to failure where you
  • 00:15:14
    couldn't get another rep on those I
  • 00:15:15
    think you should save it for isolation
  • 00:15:17
    movements so these are single joint
  • 00:15:19
    movements things like bicep curls tricep
  • 00:15:21
    extensions lateral raises things like
  • 00:15:24
    that and especially machine exercises
  • 00:15:27
    things where you don't run the same risk
  • 00:15:28
    of injury if you were to actually fail
  • 00:15:30
    and then if you are doing compound
  • 00:15:33
    exercises and approaching failure I
  • 00:15:35
    think it's important to have a spotter
  • 00:15:38
    just in general and this ties in of
  • 00:15:40
    course with with the whole safety pillar
  • 00:15:43
    of the ladder this is basically the
  • 00:15:45
    second rung here you have to apply that
  • 00:15:47
    effort in an appropriate way
  • 00:15:49
    that Doug and doesn't mean that all sets
  • 00:15:52
    have to be taken to failure and you
  • 00:15:53
    always have to go balls to the wall but
  • 00:15:55
    in my experience a lot of people
  • 00:15:57
    including a lot of beginners once they
  • 00:16:00
    have you know their form mastered and
  • 00:16:02
    they've set themselves up on a sort of
  • 00:16:04
    routine that is enjoyable or at least
  • 00:16:06
    they have enjoyment of the routine in
  • 00:16:08
    mind so that they can sustain their
  • 00:16:10
    program over time I think now it's a
  • 00:16:12
    time to get that mindset locked in where
  • 00:16:15
    you're going to be willing to apply that
  • 00:16:17
    effort once you get your routine set up
  • 00:16:19
    in place all right so now we're ready to
  • 00:16:22
    apply effort it's time to move on to P o
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    P which stands for progressive overload
  • 00:16:27
    and prioritization so we're gonna get
  • 00:16:30
    into that next okay so guys on the next
  • 00:16:32
    rung we've got P o P in the stands for
  • 00:16:34
    progressive overload and prioritization
  • 00:16:36
    so progressive overload basically means
  • 00:16:39
    that you're doing more overtime
  • 00:16:42
    typically this will come in the form of
  • 00:16:44
    doing more weight or more reps and this
  • 00:16:48
    is the way people usually think of
  • 00:16:50
    progressive overload so if you're doing
  • 00:16:52
    let's say 100 pounds on the bench press
  • 00:16:55
    in week one
  • 00:16:57
    doing 105 pounds on the bench press Envy
  • 00:17:00
    2 for 10 reps each 10 reps and 10 reps
  • 00:17:04
    that would be progressively overloading
  • 00:17:07
    the weight if you're doing 100 pounds
  • 00:17:11
    the first week and then 100 pounds the
  • 00:17:14
    second week but you're doing 10 reps the
  • 00:17:17
    first week and you do an extra rep so
  • 00:17:19
    you do 11 reps in the second week that
  • 00:17:21
    would be a form of progressive overload
  • 00:17:23
    and I think that this really is what's
  • 00:17:26
    driving progress in training if there's
  • 00:17:28
    no progressive overload in place you're
  • 00:17:30
    probably not going to see much
  • 00:17:32
    hypertrophy or you're certainly not
  • 00:17:34
    going to optimize your your progress and
  • 00:17:36
    this is the I think what's mostly wrong
  • 00:17:38
    with the whole muscle confusion concept
  • 00:17:41
    where you have people changing things up
  • 00:17:43
    so frequently that they lose sight of
  • 00:17:45
    any kind of progressive overload now I
  • 00:17:47
    will say this isn't the only way to
  • 00:17:49
    progressively overload with weight and
  • 00:17:51
    reps you can also overload in actually a
  • 00:17:54
    bunch of other creative ways and I've
  • 00:17:56
    linked a good article on this in the
  • 00:17:57
    description box below if you'd like to
  • 00:17:59
    read it but quickly you can also
  • 00:18:00
    overload efficiency one way to do this
  • 00:18:03
    would be to maybe use the same weight
  • 00:18:05
    and use even the same reps but you just
  • 00:18:09
    sortin your rest period between those
  • 00:18:11
    sets so say instead of resting maybe 2
  • 00:18:14
    minutes between sets you dressed only a
  • 00:18:17
    minute and a half and as such you're
  • 00:18:20
    making your workout shorter and you're
  • 00:18:22
    also making it a little bit harder
  • 00:18:23
    because you don't have quite as much
  • 00:18:25
    time for recovery between sets that's
  • 00:18:27
    one way to apply overload you can also
  • 00:18:30
    overload exertion so one way to do this
  • 00:18:33
    would be by say slowing down the tempo
  • 00:18:35
    of the movement so say you're doing 100
  • 00:18:38
    pounds here in week 1 and we - still
  • 00:18:41
    doing 100 pounds but now you're
  • 00:18:43
    controlling the negative a little bit
  • 00:18:45
    better so maybe instead of having a 1
  • 00:18:48
    second negative now you have you know a
  • 00:18:50
    second and a half or a 2 second negative
  • 00:18:51
    and that's something that you can't
  • 00:18:53
    necessarily measure quite that closely
  • 00:18:55
    and I don't think you need to but
  • 00:18:57
    certainly I think you can overload full
  • 00:19:00
    or overload lifting tempo in this way
  • 00:19:04
    as long as some overloading stimulus is
  • 00:19:06
    in place I think you've got the main
  • 00:19:09
    thing covered so prioritization I
  • 00:19:12
    covered here mostly because it creates a
  • 00:19:14
    neat acronym that's fit to make pop
  • 00:19:17
    wrong over here but I do think it is a
  • 00:19:20
    very important thing that a lot of
  • 00:19:22
    beginners don't realize or they tend to
  • 00:19:26
    neglect the importance of it and it ties
  • 00:19:28
    in very closely to the concept of
  • 00:19:30
    specificity but the main idea here is
  • 00:19:32
    that you want to prioritize according to
  • 00:19:36
    what your goals are so if your goal is
  • 00:19:38
    to increase your bench press then you
  • 00:19:40
    need to put a focus in your training on
  • 00:19:42
    increasing your bench press it sounds
  • 00:19:45
    very commonsensical but you'd be
  • 00:19:47
    surprised at how many people run just
  • 00:19:49
    generic bodybuilding routines but then
  • 00:19:52
    they may talk to me and say that they
  • 00:19:53
    really just want to improve their bench
  • 00:19:55
    or they want to improve the size of
  • 00:19:56
    their homes and so depending on what
  • 00:19:58
    your goal is is really gonna dictate
  • 00:20:00
    what it is that you do up here and I
  • 00:20:03
    think that in order to really hone in on
  • 00:20:05
    those goals you just have to get very
  • 00:20:06
    specific now in practice one way to do
  • 00:20:09
    this I think is bribe by prioritizing
  • 00:20:11
    what it is you're trying to develop and
  • 00:20:14
    so the simplest way to do that is by
  • 00:20:16
    training it early or first in the
  • 00:20:19
    training session let's just say you have
  • 00:20:21
    a lagging chest on your upper body days
  • 00:20:23
    it might be a good idea to train your
  • 00:20:25
    chest first because we have a lot of
  • 00:20:28
    research showing that you're stronger
  • 00:20:30
    earlier in the workout so that's one way
  • 00:20:32
    to prioritize you can also prioritize by
  • 00:20:35
    training that thing that's most
  • 00:20:37
    important for you to develop early in
  • 00:20:39
    the training week so maybe after a
  • 00:20:41
    weekend say you've had that chance to
  • 00:20:43
    recover if your chest is your weak point
  • 00:20:45
    hit your chest
  • 00:20:46
    earlier in the week after a rest day or
  • 00:20:49
    you know if you have general fitness
  • 00:20:51
    goals but maybe your primary goal is to
  • 00:20:53
    build your chest you may want to at
  • 00:20:55
    least space at apart from say a heavy
  • 00:20:58
    leg day so that you're not feeling
  • 00:20:59
    really fatigued going into that chest
  • 00:21:01
    workout so those are just a couple
  • 00:21:03
    examples of how you can apply
  • 00:21:05
    prioritization through the principle of
  • 00:21:07
    specificity
  • 00:21:08
    and that's really all I have to say
  • 00:21:09
    about pop progressive overload is I
  • 00:21:13
    believe the single most important factor
  • 00:21:15
    driving hypertrophic adaptations and so
  • 00:21:19
    this is a very very important one and
  • 00:21:21
    once that's in place now we can start
  • 00:21:24
    talking about things like training
  • 00:21:26
    volume training intensity training
  • 00:21:28
    frequency exercises lifting tempo rest
  • 00:21:33
    periods training splits and all that
  • 00:21:35
    good stuff and so we're going to cover
  • 00:21:36
    that in part two of the fundamentals
  • 00:21:39
    series well that's gonna be a wrap for
  • 00:21:41
    this one guys I just want to thank you
  • 00:21:42
    for watching
  • 00:21:42
    a little bit more of a different style
  • 00:21:44
    of a video from me a little bit less
  • 00:21:46
    scripted a little bit less edited but I
  • 00:21:48
    hope you guys really like the series you
  • 00:21:49
    can let me know what you think in the
  • 00:21:51
    comments below if you have any questions
  • 00:21:53
    I'll do my best to be active down there
  • 00:21:54
    in the comment like the video if you
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    liked it subscribe to the channel if
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    you're new and I will see you guys all
  • 00:21:59
    here in part 2
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