Hoping to see more of those. I'd suggest you get better mics and publish those as a podcast as well. I'd be happy to listen to such chats without the visuals as well. Cheers.
Definitely a learning process and much to improve. For example, this gym was super loud so the audio needed a lot of repair/editing to be usable - should be able to get quieter filming locations in the future and improve recording quality (I hope, haha)
Love this type of content, insta is mostly fast paced so some stuff flies over my head. Here you can really focus on explaining the proces, ideas, methods… Hope to see more👍
This was a great vid, thanks for making this! Loved the convo about the value in body comp goals and the pitfalls of long term insufficient effort. I think that’s definitely the zone I’ve fallen into.
2:30 when you said progressive overload isn't about adding weight week, after week, but it's about staying in the 'proper challenge zone'; that gave me a huge sigh of relief. I've never tracked my weights, sets, or reps. I've always made sure that my sets were sufficiently difficult and stopped my sets when I felt I could no longer generate the same amount of intensity.
Tracking can be useful to make sure you're making progress, but meticulous pre-planned weekly progressions definitely aren't necessary. I don't track every detail these days, I just keep mental tabs on where my main lifts are so I have a sense of if things are moving in the right direction.
4:26 “The most expensive belief is a belief that isn’t true” What a 💎 A great reminder to stay conscious of your thoughts as they control your actions. Have the courage to weed out beliefs from your thought garden 🪴 Loving the new format!
Like the concept! The subjects were a bit too basic and general, when we are used to your extraordinary feats of strength. With that said, i will keep watching.
Love to see your content here. I started following you on insta after your collab with Eugene Tao* nut I really prefer long form content as it's easier to accomodate into commuting etc. I see you have a bunch of exercise demos in this channel, mixing them with the pods means followers will get both even if they want just one kind. That will in turn hurt the algorithm as engagement will be lower on average, in case you care about such things. (If you really care, there's many simple things that can improve the attractiveness of your content without going into clickbait territory) * I was investigating how to train core to help my snowboarding and climbing. Most content I found was "5 minutes of plank variations" style - which made no sense to me given that we don't train other parts of the body that way. Seeing your approach and attitude was really helpful so I was a bit sad that you had no RUclips presence.
Thanks for the feedback! I’m obviously no RUclips expert 😅 You think a separate account for demo videos is a better idea? Tbh though I don’t think I’ll make many more of those
Kinda made up this variation so I'm not sure there's a formal name but If I had to make one up it'd be a "rolling DB shoulder internal rotation" or "DB shoulder IR (abd to add)"
@@briancompton2079 not familiar with the first thing you mentioned. I do like the general idea of anti-fragility laid out by Taleb but wouldn’t consider myself a fan of his work overall (mostly because I haven’t explored it all enough to have a strong opinion about him beyond a few of his basic ideas)
@@alecblenis, man, you are my favorite "fighter", I watched all your videos :) Limit length in 6min and do format like GASP did 10 years ago and you are on the way!
This format is lit.
@@roycegarvin thanks! Some room for improvement on the technical / recording side but I really look forward to making more of these.
@@alecblenis This format is nice because it feels like we are right there. Keep it up! I picked up a lot from this.
Hoping to see more of those. I'd suggest you get better mics and publish those as a podcast as well. I'd be happy to listen to such chats without the visuals as well. Cheers.
Definitely a learning process and much to improve. For example, this gym was super loud so the audio needed a lot of repair/editing to be usable - should be able to get quieter filming locations in the future and improve recording quality (I hope, haha)
Love this type of content, insta is mostly fast paced so some stuff flies over my head. Here you can really focus on explaining the proces, ideas, methods… Hope to see more👍
Separation of “approach” and “deficit” is brilliance. Good stuff here.
@@beyondfit578 such a helpful concept, Max is so great with this stuff and just behavior change in general
This was a great vid, thanks for making this! Loved the convo about the value in body comp goals and the pitfalls of long term insufficient effort. I think that’s definitely the zone I’ve fallen into.
Thanks for listening!
Love it. More please.
If possible, less cuts/snips would be good, it makes the convo seem to flow better.
Great convo. I started working as a personal trainer this year and a lot of this resonates with my experiences.
Appreciate the longer form video! I need to see you try that TB2 in the background :D
Glad you liked it - very excited to make more of these. I'll get on the tb2 one day :)
Very nice to get more content from you personally! Great video
Love this, Alec!
2:30 when you said progressive overload isn't about adding weight week, after week, but it's about staying in the 'proper challenge zone'; that gave me a huge sigh of relief. I've never tracked my weights, sets, or reps. I've always made sure that my sets were sufficiently difficult and stopped my sets when I felt I could no longer generate the same amount of intensity.
Tracking can be useful to make sure you're making progress, but meticulous pre-planned weekly progressions definitely aren't necessary. I don't track every detail these days, I just keep mental tabs on where my main lifts are so I have a sense of if things are moving in the right direction.
4:26 “The most expensive belief is a belief that isn’t true”
What a 💎 A great reminder to stay conscious of your thoughts as they control your actions. Have the courage to weed out beliefs from your thought garden 🪴 Loving the new format!
Every time I hang with Max I'm always like "I gotta write that down" every 30 seconds - he's full of gems!
More of this please and thank you
Great stuff and got a new exercise from you ad always
Like the concept! The subjects were a bit too basic and general, when we are used to your extraordinary feats of strength. With that said, i will keep watching.
Love the format! Looking forward to more.
Two of my favorite fitness peeps.
Thanks so much!
V excited about this!
Love this stuff!
🙏
this is a great channel...nice work...subscribed
I appreciate that, thank you! More coming soon :)
Love this long term stuff, but you gotta hit the barbershop soon ;)
haha yeah that is long overdue
Love to see your content here. I started following you on insta after your collab with Eugene Tao* nut I really prefer long form content as it's easier to accomodate into commuting etc.
I see you have a bunch of exercise demos in this channel, mixing them with the pods means followers will get both even if they want just one kind. That will in turn hurt the algorithm as engagement will be lower on average, in case you care about such things. (If you really care, there's many simple things that can improve the attractiveness of your content without going into clickbait territory)
* I was investigating how to train core to help my snowboarding and climbing. Most content I found was "5 minutes of plank variations" style - which made no sense to me given that we don't train other parts of the body that way. Seeing your approach and attitude was really helpful so I was a bit sad that you had no RUclips presence.
Thanks for the feedback! I’m obviously no RUclips expert 😅 You think a separate account for demo videos is a better idea? Tbh though I don’t think I’ll make many more of those
This is awesome!
Thanks for the support!
that high pitched squeal during the flat bench 🤣🤣🤣
😂
This is great! What's the name of the last exercise (internal rotation) ?
Kinda made up this variation so I'm not sure there's a formal name but If I had to make one up it'd be a "rolling DB shoulder internal rotation" or "DB shoulder IR (abd to add)"
Curious about the name! Are you familiar with Optimize/Heroic or just a fan of Nassim Taleb?
@@briancompton2079 not familiar with the first thing you mentioned. I do like the general idea of anti-fragility laid out by Taleb but wouldn’t consider myself a fan of his work overall (mostly because I haven’t explored it all enough to have a strong opinion about him beyond a few of his basic ideas)
Sweeeeet
Algorithm
Good format! Just maybe better quality of video, 1440 or something I am not into it.
Definitely - ended up having to crop & zoom way too much (poor set-up on my part) but this should improve for sure. Thanks for watching!
@@alecblenis, man, you are my favorite "fighter", I watched all your videos :) Limit length in 6min and do format like GASP did 10 years ago and you are on the way!
i'm new - saw you from your little shoe friend - that ff
@@trixie9867 thanks for tuning in!
Colors or saturation or whatever it is was too much, too shiny etc, it didn't look good, but otherwise great video
@@TheKupko thanks! Agreed - I’m going to get some portable lights too that should help!