Congratulations on your 250th podcast. The consistency of quality of information is as or more impressive than the number. On the MAPS front; I don’t suffer from it, even while doing fairly high numbers of pulls like 7 on every other minute alternated with full range ring dips for ten sets each. I use handles for the pulls which allow for rotating from pronation to supination on each rep. That is easier on the elbows than a fixed bar. Beyond that, another few reasons, I think, are, firstly, because of my doing two minutes of hanging every morning while moving through multiple positions from passive hang, L-sit pullup, active hang, swan hang, open tuck front lever, skin the cat to German hang, then reversing each step back to passive hang. Secondly, I do two hundred doubled-up rubber band extensions on each hand every day - one hundred with 90 degree elbow and one hundred with locked elbow. Alternate hand after each version. And thirdly, twice a week I do 3x20 weighted lever supinations/pronations. These are done seated with the working hand elbow on my knee. These cover the balancing of tendon strength and length and agonist/antagonist muscles which has kept my elbows, wrists and shoulders happy at almost 67.
Thank you for your work coach, I am the one who pops up on your comments from time to time to say that I watch your podcasts for their humour. Hope to do that for episode 1000 of your podcast too. I bought the ABC book and I was not disappointed with the humour (to say the least) The reference on page 22 to iron object that keep doors open especially hit the "mark"
Regarding MAPS, your PT friend is correct. There were some studies by orthpods 20+ years ago that showed shoulder pathology can cause common extensor tendon issues (i.e., tennis elbow). I am a repeat sufferer, and have tried everything including Tenex micro-surgery. The braces do help. I have used many, and the Band-It appears to be the best. Wearing them prophylactically to prevent the stress on the tendon that will lead to symptoms is key. Once you have had an episode, if you are hammering, raking, using a chainsaw, anything with repetitive motion with weight in your hands, brace up. Looking forward to the next 250!
Congrats on 250 episodes , I have to say that I take something away on every episode , thanks for the content you provide, ps enjoying the books as well .
My "pre lifting" warmup things are coffee, then 6 point rocks and clam shells, a few sets of each takes me about 4 minutes. I train first thing in the morning and I have found, at 59, these moves loosens me up nicely after getting out of bed.
Thanks for answering my question Dan re: KBs and Olympic lifting. You were dead right, no the loads are heavier 3 days is enough! Been doing ABC too which is great
Sometimes, simply walking for a few minutes to my grocery store, and coming back climbing my stairs while carrying all my food and stuff, is my warm-up... Just move some sort of light weight ("loaded carries" ? 😁) and go step by step. I like to do rep and weight ladders, in that way the warm-up is the workout, like Dan explains sometimes 👍
@@DanJohnStrengthCoach Sometimes i help my mom with the garden and it can be so exhausting... I couldn't agree more ! Everyday activities can be good movement and cardio with a bit of creativity. Love your podcast Dan !
This is the first time I ever heard of Rusty Moore. So I started looking in to his books. And a lot of it seems like a rip off of Lyle McDonald. His PSMF recommendation, his other stuff was like listening to Lyle. Well not exactly, Lyle is way more knowledgeable. However, the potato diet seems kind of fun so might try it.
@@DanJohnStrengthCoach Very much enjoy it look forward to it . I’m so tired of training solely for huge muscle and nothing else . Keep up the good work 💪
FYI…I’m 60 , pretty healthy guy, not big. I did the mass made simple program with a few mods. I used dumbbells versus bench press because I don’t have a spotter. press and back exercises as directed, etc… I used the ABC, 20 in 22 minutes I started 25lbs * 2 finished with 35bls * 2 . Squats as directed . Finished off with some farmer walks 53 lbs . It was TOUGH and I had to nap after the work out ( had too! ) . I ate more but probably not as much as directed, took creatine. Lots of PBJ and gained 8 pounds (168) I also ran a bit on my off days ( sorry Dan!). Awesome program, will keep doing the ABCs and some extra stuff until I'm too old 🤪 to lifts! Going back to running as well. Thanks
250! And what a day to hit it, June 6th 2024 (D-Day +80 years)! Which really helps drive home your first topic. I've found I likely held the worst of my post traumatic stress at bay over the years with athletics (running, kettlebells, barbell, etc) long after leaving the military. Sounds like the first person you gave advice to is right on track already, and just needed that extra tidbit or two (along with the rest of us). Thaks!
apologies for off topic comment (someone mentions sauerkraut and kimchee in the same sentence I get excited): German style sauerkraut definitely gets made & used more than kimchee at my house, but I've had good luck applying the sauerkraut salt to veggie weight ratios to kimchee. I don't have a Korean grandma to show the traditional way, which is to learn how to eyeball it. With silicone jar airlocks & glass weights, anyone interested in gut health owes it to themselves to DIY a few batches a year, then supplement with store bought. As far as the smell, it is what it is. If you DIY you can turn down garlic and ginger knobs or maybe open the jar by the stove and turn the hood on if you've got "sensitive receptors" in the house. Or just eat it young. The more mature kimchee definitely has an increase in bouquet, to put it nicely, and is only appropriate in stew or fried rice until its gone past that point.
The biggest mistake I make with making my sauerkraut is I keep trying to make it better and better and better instead of just letting the process happen
The “I smile before I throw” part mirrors something I heard Bud Jefferies mention in one of his videos. He said he had tried both, and lifting with happiness resulted in more strength than lifting with anger.
Yes, I also had MAPS, the only thing that helped me was rest, strength exercises for the forearm, bottom press, loaded cary and massage. Definitely a break from pull-ups for almost a year. During the break from pull-ups for almost a year, I only did rowing, then for a few months I just hung on the bar, then for a few months I only did the monky bar. I think the full recovery took a year and a half.
Greetings from Croatia from Marko the coach. Thanks for the answered comment on the previous podcast. I read the new book and realized where I went wrong with the ABC program before the book came out and the answer is simple, people don't add too much and do the program as written. Namely, while I was doing the ABC program on the day of the ABC complex, I did pull-ups at the end, but as the intensity increased from week to week, the number of pull-ups suddenly dropped, I assume that because of the clean, otherwise I'm good at pull-ups, my max is 25 correct pull-ups, I'm 39 years old and 90 kg. Now that I read the book and decided to play with one kettlebell for two weeks, after each workout I decided to do pull-ups only 3x3 but increase the intensity every week and I must admit that I feel much better than when I did 50+ repetitions after only ABC days. I'm thinking of adding a short rope jump for the calves on the day of the press, and for the press when I do 2,3,5 I have to connect kettlebells so that I have some strange but good pain in my hands and forearms, my hand grip has increased. Once again, thank you to the coach because I enjoy training.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I’m always fascinated how people can come back to the basics. Experience is a hard teacher, but thank you for sharing it.
Congratulations on 250 Dan really appreciate all the advice you’ve given. Currently week four of the armour builder from the new book. Really enjoying so far and can already see great progress. Managed to push press double 40’s last night 😀💪💪. I’ve been stuck on 32’s for ages. It was a shaky rep but i know at the end of the eight weeks I’m definitely going up a bell size.
I also congratulate you and your team to your 250th podcast. The quality has been increasing noticeably over the years. Please keep this markings in the videos! It really helps me to get back to certain topics and questions. As for the MAPS problem: I feel the ab-wheel or the TRX-Fallouts train much of the same movement/muscles but without the need to bend the elbow. That can also help to keep the back/lat area up to par. And of course good old rows and/or cleans.
Dan-thanks so much for the answer to Mass Made Simple! I sort of knew how you’d feel, actually you were a bit kinder than I expected. But armor building it is, will ping back with results.
250 is a very solid podcasting standard
I appreciate that. Thank you so much.
Congratulations on your 250th podcast. The consistency of quality of information is as or more impressive than the number. On the MAPS front; I don’t suffer from it, even while doing fairly high numbers of pulls like 7 on every other minute alternated with full range ring dips for ten sets each. I use handles for the pulls which allow for rotating from pronation to supination on each rep. That is easier on the elbows than a fixed bar. Beyond that, another few reasons, I think, are, firstly, because of my doing two minutes of hanging every morning while moving through multiple positions from passive hang, L-sit pullup, active hang, swan hang, open tuck front lever, skin the cat to German hang, then reversing each step back to passive hang.
Secondly, I do two hundred doubled-up rubber band extensions on each hand every day - one hundred with 90 degree elbow and one hundred with locked elbow. Alternate hand after each version. And thirdly, twice a week I do 3x20 weighted lever supinations/pronations. These are done seated with the working hand elbow on my knee. These cover the balancing of tendon strength and length and agonist/antagonist muscles which has kept my elbows, wrists and shoulders happy at almost 67.
Thank you for sharing this. Over on the forum, Nate is doing a whole bunch of hang variations and it's nice to see you two align so much.
Thank you for your work coach, I am the one who pops up on your comments from time to time to say that I watch your podcasts for their humour. Hope to do that for episode 1000 of your podcast too.
I bought the ABC book and I was not disappointed with the humour (to say the least) The reference on page 22 to iron object that keep doors open especially hit the "mark"
I appreciate that! And...I see what you did there...
Congratulations on 250! Looking forward to 250 more!
And away we go. I am already sneaking up to 260...
Congratulation on 250 ! thank you for your time knowledge and wisdom
My pleasure! It's been a journey!
Thanks so much Dan, Excellent podcast :)
My pleasure!
Regarding MAPS, your PT friend is correct. There were some studies by orthpods 20+ years ago that showed shoulder pathology can cause common extensor tendon issues (i.e., tennis elbow). I am a repeat sufferer, and have tried everything including Tenex micro-surgery. The braces do help. I have used many, and the Band-It appears to be the best. Wearing them prophylactically to prevent the stress on the tendon that will lead to symptoms is key. Once you have had an episode, if you are hammering, raking, using a chainsaw, anything with repetitive motion with weight in your hands, brace up. Looking forward to the next 250!
This is just a great response. Thank you for this...
Congrats on 250 episodes , I have to say that I take something away on every episode , thanks for the content you provide, ps enjoying the books as well .
I really appreciate this, thank you.
Thanks Dan! You are source of inspiration.
I appreciate that! Thank you.
My "pre lifting" warmup things are coffee, then 6 point rocks and clam shells, a few sets of each takes me about 4 minutes. I train first thing in the morning and I have found, at 59, these moves loosens me up nicely after getting out of bed.
We are very close in what we do to get going.
Great questions and excellent answers Coach.
thanks
Nate
Much appreciated.
Thanks for answering my question Dan re: KBs and Olympic lifting. You were dead right, no the loads are heavier 3 days is enough! Been doing ABC too which is great
My throwers are doing the ABC with some O lifting complexes now and they are starving after every session. It's a lot of work.
Sometimes, simply walking for a few minutes to my grocery store, and coming back climbing my stairs while carrying all my food and stuff, is my warm-up... Just move some sort of light weight ("loaded carries" ? 😁) and go step by step. I like to do rep and weight ladders, in that way the warm-up is the workout, like Dan explains sometimes 👍
Love that! I find some gardening and basic housestuff to be enough for easy days.
@@DanJohnStrengthCoach Sometimes i help my mom with the garden and it can be so exhausting... I couldn't agree more ! Everyday activities can be good movement and cardio with a bit of creativity. Love your podcast Dan !
The 10,000 podcast challenge!!
500 a day for 20 days!
😂
This is the first time I ever heard of Rusty Moore. So I started looking in to his books. And a lot of it seems like a rip off of Lyle McDonald. His PSMF recommendation, his other stuff was like listening to Lyle. Well not exactly, Lyle is way more knowledgeable. However, the potato diet seems kind of fun so might try it.
I will reach out to Lyle and ask him. I’m very good friends with Lyle Mcdonald.
👍
Well, thank you.
Congratulations on 250! 🎉
Thank you so much. It’s been a lot of fun.
@@DanJohnStrengthCoach
Very much enjoy it look forward to it . I’m so tired of training solely for huge muscle and nothing else .
Keep up the good work 💪
FYI…I’m 60 , pretty healthy guy, not big. I did the mass made simple program with a few mods. I used dumbbells versus bench press because I don’t have a spotter. press and back exercises as directed, etc… I used the ABC, 20 in 22 minutes I started 25lbs * 2 finished with 35bls * 2 . Squats as directed . Finished off with some farmer walks 53 lbs . It was TOUGH and I had to nap after the work out ( had too! ) . I ate more but probably not as much as directed, took creatine. Lots of PBJ and gained 8 pounds (168) I also ran a bit on my off days ( sorry Dan!). Awesome program, will keep doing the ABCs and some extra stuff until I'm too old 🤪 to lifts! Going back to running as well.
Thanks
Those are excellent adaptions...good reasoning here.
250! And what a day to hit it, June 6th 2024 (D-Day +80 years)! Which really helps drive home your first topic. I've found I likely held the worst of my post traumatic stress at bay over the years with athletics (running, kettlebells, barbell, etc) long after leaving the military. Sounds like the first person you gave advice to is right on track already, and just needed that extra tidbit or two (along with the rest of us). Thaks!
I mentioned the same thing today on a podcast. For me, it’s hard to believe it’s been 80 years because I knew people who who were there.
Thanks for all you do, and congratulations on 250!
Oh thank you so much. Much appreciated.
I'm not overweight, but reading Fat loss happens on Monday. Loved the story of the farmer, his son and the horse. Greetings from Hungary!
It’s a good story. And I really think it helps us understand the role of weightlifting with performance.
apologies for off topic comment (someone mentions sauerkraut and kimchee in the same sentence I get excited):
German style sauerkraut definitely gets made & used more than kimchee at my house, but I've had good luck applying the sauerkraut salt to veggie weight ratios to kimchee. I don't have a Korean grandma to show the traditional way, which is to learn how to eyeball it. With silicone jar airlocks & glass weights, anyone interested in gut health owes it to themselves to DIY a few batches a year, then supplement with store bought. As far as the smell, it is what it is. If you DIY you can turn down garlic and ginger knobs or maybe open the jar by the stove and turn the hood on if you've got "sensitive receptors" in the house. Or just eat it young. The more mature kimchee definitely has an increase in bouquet, to put it nicely, and is only appropriate in stew or fried rice until its gone past that point.
The biggest mistake I make with making my sauerkraut is I keep trying to make it better and better and better instead of just letting the process happen
250!! Yes Dan John, and here's to the next 250!
I really hope so. It would be fun to get to 1000.
@DanJohnStrengthCoach ABC A Better Complex.
Many would agree.
You may leave ABC but ABC will never leave you!🤣🤣🤣
That's something I should put on my gym wall.
The “I smile before I throw” part mirrors something I heard Bud Jefferies mention in one of his videos. He said he had tried both, and lifting with happiness resulted in more strength than lifting with anger.
Bud was a good friend. Thanks for sharing this with all of us.
Yes, I also had MAPS, the only thing that helped me was rest, strength exercises for the forearm, bottom press, loaded cary and massage. Definitely a break from pull-ups for almost a year. During the break from pull-ups for almost a year, I only did rowing, then for a few months I just hung on the bar, then for a few months I only did the monky bar. I think the full recovery took a year and a half.
It's hard for a lot of people to believe it's a year and a half recovery!!!
Greetings from Croatia from Marko the coach. Thanks for the answered comment on the previous podcast. I read the new book and realized where I went wrong with the ABC program before the book came out and the answer is simple, people don't add too much and do the program as written. Namely, while I was doing the ABC program on the day of the ABC complex, I did pull-ups at the end, but as the intensity increased from week to week, the number of pull-ups suddenly dropped, I assume that because of the clean, otherwise I'm good at pull-ups, my max is 25 correct pull-ups, I'm 39 years old and 90 kg. Now that I read the book and decided to play with one kettlebell for two weeks, after each workout I decided to do pull-ups only 3x3 but increase the intensity every week and I must admit that I feel much better than when I did 50+ repetitions after only ABC days. I'm thinking of adding a short rope jump for the calves on the day of the press, and for the press when I do 2,3,5 I have to connect kettlebells so that I have some strange but good pain in my hands and forearms, my hand grip has increased. Once again, thank you to the coach because I enjoy training.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I’m always fascinated how people can come back to the basics. Experience is a hard teacher, but thank you for sharing it.
Congratulations on 250 Dan really appreciate all the advice you’ve given. Currently week four of the armour builder from the new book. Really enjoying so far and can already see great progress. Managed to push press double 40’s last night 😀💪💪. I’ve been stuck on 32’s for ages. It was a shaky rep but i know at the end of the eight weeks I’m definitely going up a bell size.
Nice work! Those are good lifts. And I appreciate and I thank you so much too.
I also congratulate you and your team to your 250th podcast. The quality has been increasing noticeably over the years. Please keep this markings in the videos! It really helps me to get back to certain topics and questions.
As for the MAPS problem: I feel the ab-wheel or the TRX-Fallouts train much of the same movement/muscles but without the need to bend the elbow. That can also help to keep the back/lat area up to par. And of course good old rows and/or cleans.
Thank you very much. Thanks for sharing this extra information also. Much appreciated.
Dan-thanks so much for the answer to Mass Made Simple! I sort of knew how you’d feel, actually you were a bit kinder than I expected. But armor building it is, will ping back with results.
In my perfect world, people would do programs as they are written.
Congratulations on your 250th Episode!
Thank you so much.
Thank you for everything Coach! You are one of the few who I like the video before I even watch lol.
Thank you for saying this. I enjoy the podcast here...
Congrats on 250!🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much.