MAXIMIZE YOUR Muscle Fiber Activation!
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The brain dictates what percentage of muscle fibers can be used at will. This is a protective mechanism to ensure that the joints are not damaged by utilizing too much strength at once. Muscle spindles and golgi tendon organs supply the brain with the sensor data that allow it to determine what level of strength is appropriate for each situation. Stories of hysterical strength in which mothers lift cars off their children are examples of these protective mechanisms being overridden, allowing the body temporary full access to the individuals strength capacity. In this video, 4 different methods of increasing the conscious activation of muscle fibers (motor unit recruitment) are investigated.
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Can we all appreciate that when Eddie did that deadlift, he recruited so much of his available muscle, it nearly killed him. When he went down on his knee after the lift, he was blind in both eyes and struggled to stay conscious. He then began bleeding out of his nose, eyes, and ears. When he got back stage he was barely coherant and had neurological symptoms that almost hospitalized him. He reported that it was difficult to think clearly for the 2 weeks after that lift. People are capable of great feats of strength but there is always a cost.
EVERYTHING has a cost. Some are too small to notice.
it was his great feat of stupidity. It would've been admirable and something to be honoured if it was done to save a meaningful person's life
@@TREE3-ph4sr it produced a small quantity of wealth, which allowed him to pay for the necessities of training to win the world's strongest man comp, which he then leveraged into attaining generational wealth for his family. It might nit have been something you would do. It doesn't make it stupid. He took calculated risks to leverage his specific talents to provide the life he wanted for his family. Cost and reward. The reward (for him) was enough for the risk (for him.) Ya dig?
@@TREE3-ph4srmatter of perspective
Because he put so much strain at his neck muscles, that his nerven and bloodvessels are compressed hard af. He basically had a selfmade stroke. So this is probably what you can call muscle activation 😅
I have zero doubt that anyone can lift a car if someone dear to them was in danger but i also have zero doubt that 95 % of them would say goodbye to their shoulders,back or hips after such a monumental task
That’s the sacrifice. Also goes to show how much more powerful the mind is compared to the body.
@@spinnerboyz i would like to know what happened to people after they did such a gigantic task/lifting car,did that girls passed with injuries or maybe adrenallin or something that releseas after that Hulkish thing prevents bigger injuries
@@Nemanja-v2rno it doesn't help with injuries it just removes the mental block and gives slightly more blood to muscles
@@thunderred5263 perhaps,but remember when you fight i mean in actual street fight you dont need to warm up,adrenalin kicks in and you just start swinging.
But when you sparr (i sparr reguraly) you need to warm up or you joints,shoulders will suffer.
@@Nemanja-v2r as I said more blood to the muscles which makes things loose
Max Sick used to practice muscle control, and he was incredibly strong for his bodyweight! Even Bruce Lee used to say that there must be a fusion of the mind and body, and he is arguably the strongest martial artist pound for pound. So that means that the more your mind is connected to your body, or the more control you have over your body, the more muscle fibres you can recruit!
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This is exactly the type of video I was looking for! Thank you Mover's Odyssey!!
@@rigby007 how to activate it? Please 🙏
Isometric training is a pretty straight forward and effective way to train your nervous system to activate more motor units. Also great for rehabbing injuries.
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Body weight iso has its limitation. There’s a reason why they have overcoming iso and yielding iso.
@@jacklauren9359 You can add weight do iso exercises bro
Dude your videos are INCREDIBLE! And yes I was going to mention the Eddie Hall example but you covered it too. Can't wait to the next video
Glad your enjoying the content! Eddie is a beast and seemed like the perfect example, though I've also heard of other powerlifters who would imagine all kinds of things to help them during the lift. One I had heard claim he imagined he was a bear standing on it's hind legs with every deadlift because he liked the tales of the old viking berzerkers.
@@moversodyssey Very cool! I might try that next time!
Bro Your anatomy drawing is something else
Glad you're enjoying it!
Chalistenic skill training helped me a ton to get mind muscle activation it feels like il learning how to move the muscle before training it to the max strength
I love that you give the sources in the explanation. It's been very helpful so far.
A big thank you for your work !
The only little detail missing for me is a visual summary like a board or a sheet to screen shot at home at the end of the video 😁👌
I think I've personally witnessed two techniques described here, working.
First, when bench pressing dumbbells, if when tired I allow the dumbbells to drop at the tail end of a controlled eccentric descent, the recruitment of extra muscle to stop the drop makes the next contraction easier/possible.
Next, repetitions to exhaustion while juggling. Juggling 5 or more props quickly exhausts muscle fibers in succession, until all of the relevant fibers are depleted. If you look at the biceps of any 5 ball juggler, you realize that large biceps can be developed using just 3-4 oz balls.
The eccentric contraction helping to activate more fibers is very likely. I've noticed the same thing, especially when it's taken to a nearly fully elongated position.
I've never juggled but I know what you mean about developing strength from light loads. I think it's a topic that many people will debate, but I've seen the same thing in people who just swing a small hammer all day or hobby martial artists who spend a lot of time training with hand held weapons. It creates a very dense and controlled type of muscle quality.
@@moversodyssey
Agree totally. I did heavy steel construction for years, swinging a 4lb hammer and dragging welding leads around….though hard on the body, we all were so strong! Stronger than anything I’ve ever accomplished in a gym.
This is the most amazing, enlightening channel available!!
Now I know why every time I imagine a fight, dark scenarios, and how I will do the exercise, it makes me perform better.
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Ditto
Absolutely brilliant as usual. So much great information packed so tightly. Watched the video twice in a row.
your content is always so so awesome. brilliant piece of (art)work, as always.
Thank you for your unique and refreshing perspective. As always much appreciated. Love this video ❤
It's all about nerves
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He did not see a woman lifting a car off of her child, if you read the actual article in the newspaper she called out for help from Three Boys from the neighborhood and they were able to lift the car, all she did was lift up on the wheel well basically releasing a little bit of tension from the struts. Maybe somebody depicted her in a picture and that's where he's claiming he saw that but that did not happen. She did not lift that car on her own.
So that's what you got out of the whole video?
@@orlanskimer no I posted another comment which led to a brief conversation with the host. The whole story has been debunked multiple times by multiple people so yes I had to bring it up because it's just not true
@@orlanskimermy thoughts exactly! Lol
@@LatimusChadimus you're confusing this with a different story. I'm always confused why people get so defensive about this. It's not that hard to imagine. I personally have an experience similar when I was a kid and I was a very small kid. I saved my little cousin from getting hit by a car. Very unlikely story and the adults didn't believe me but my sister and other cousin vouched for me. It was hard to believe but our bodies can do amazing things under the right circumstances
I appreciate your explanation regarding a variety of strategies anyone can make use of to tap into the neural pathways to increase the motor units recruited when attempting to maximize our power output. Powerlifting, Plyometrics, High Volume Calisthenics, Embodiment/Visualization. I've usually focused on the 3rd strategy and integrated the 2nd every now and then. Thanks to your video I'm interested in a program that would make full use of all these alongside a flexibility/stretch routine!
I love your work on the channel.
So educative, I always learn something useful that I can incorporate in my routine. 👍
Glad it's been helping out! Feel free to leave suggestions for future videos if there is something you would like to see as well. All the suggestions go on a list.
Interestingly, Eddie Hall recently chose to try a carnivore diet, and as of writing this he's been on it for 7 weeks or so. He reports so far that he has experienced a reduction in GI distress, reduced inflammation, a lower bodyfat percentage without deliberately trying to do so, improved sleep quality, and claims that his strength performance has increased significantly. He has been consuming around 10,000 calories per day while on this carnivore diet experiment.
Perhaps there is something to be gained from such a diet in terms of strength output and performance. Eddie Hall has to be one of the best case studies we could've asked for too.
Dude these videos are amazing! Thanks for all you share!
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Love the artwork!
Your ability to compress complicated movements is extremely helpfull.I wonder if you could expand on the dand and bhaitak,and the 5 tibetans,as these are complex movements.I find new aspects in these exercises such as tension,relaxation and breathing as tools to improve,daily.thanks a lot for your efforts.yours Henrik Denmark
Great suggestion!
Very informative video for training
Thats why we need to Train Every day
This reminds me of when I would do my sets starting light at ten reps and continually doing ten reps with small increases in weight until I could only hit eight, then continue doing eight and adding weight until I could only do six and then keep doing six until I couldn't do the lift, all as one set (so for example I could start bench at 95 pounds and eventually go finish off at maybe 200 pounds)
Just out of curiosity, how do Type 2x fibres play into Hysterical training? I ask because since they have a high explosive and strength ratio to endurance rating, you want to lift heavy and explosive but for a low number of reps per set (3 - 4) with about two minutes of rest between sets since they burn out faster.
Either way, this vid was awesome. Very informative and I learned something new.
So ultimate strength boils down to Family
As always, fantastic content thank you! You left me curious about some quesitons:
- Which one is the best way to gain MVC (therefore strength) plyometrics, long sets with medium weight or just lifting heavy with small number of reps?
- Do you have any video deeping inside how to and benefits of long sets exercises?
Really it just depends on your particular goals. They will all increase MVC but in different ways. If you're looking for lifting strength, then power lifting and overcoming isometrics are the best way to go. For explosive strength, plyometrics and ballistics will do well.
The long sets are interesting because they don't really increase MVC but instead create a much more efficient use of motor unit recruitment, so you get more out of the MVC you have. It's great for strength-endurance, the cardiovascular system and the joints if your form is good. The high reps really bring a lot of blood flow to the joints to help nourish the tendons and ligaments.
I don't have a video yet, but I'm going to do one sometime soon about hindu squats and hindu push ups and discuss it.
Great video! Thumbs up for the Ultimate Warrior drawing! 😃
Used to be a huge ultimate warrior fan as a kid, he had such a crazy level of energy.
@@moversodyssey Haha! Same here! 🤭
Ayy! Excited to learn some more amazing and useful information!
"Awaken, my dormant muscles!"
*A Y A Y A Y A plays in the background*
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Thank you!
He is going to make America lift again
dude this video and the 3 recommended videos thank you wtf bro
Could you make a video on fascia? Thanks brother. Love your vids
Day 2 of asking for and benefits of front and middle splits video
Alexander Bromley has debunked twice, to my knowledge, the myth of “hysterical strength”, it just doesn’t happen.
Of course that won’t stop me from trying these strategies, good vid.
Yea he left a comment on this video, he was pretty unhappy with the examples. Seems it's a topic he takes very seriously. Lol
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Good video! I missed overcoming isometrics being mentioned though.
you could make a video on how to maximize the strength mobility flexibility of the hips?
Talk about muscle fascia in your next video 👍
Can't in 1 short video?
Let me get that part 2!
I'm honestly surprised that overcoming isometrics and similar techniques weren't mentioned. If I recall correctly, using those techniques is how Bruce Lee acquired his absolutely monstrous strength at such a relatively small and lean size
I almost put it on here, but decided to hold off and put it on it's own video. Once of the limitations of these videos is they can't be too long because the hand drawn illustrations are so labor intensive. Overcoming isometrics are very powerful though, one of my favorite training tools.
@@moversodyssey Could you mention the Mighty atom and Dennis Rogers in your isometric vid? They used allot of isos to bend steel.
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Why do so many people almost die or get seriously injured benching and fail to raise the bar off their necks when it very much could mean their life?
Usually, they are already fatigued and don't have enough motor units in reserve to call upon.
@@moversodysseyWhat about when fresh, attempting a PR? -and thanks for responding!
@@frederickdebian370 I can't speak for every incident, but usually it's still the same thing. They are usually attempting a max which means the body is using nearly all of it's fast twitch motor units almost immediately, and fast twitch muscles burn out fast. So if they can't complete the max attempt within 10 seconds or so, they are already running out of motor units.
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Basically. workout till muscle failure.
Although I watched the full video can someone plz summarize how to exactly exercise..... 😅
"I'm always erratic."
Power of adrenaline
What really is isometric exercises and can it really make people superhuman or close to it.
Can you do a video on it?
Surprised you didn’t mention overcoming isometrics
i am 17 but when i was 1 or 2 years old i got stuck under our car and was loudly crying and my mother was home alone so what my mom did was she piked up the whole car with one hand and slide me out with the other one........
This is one of the most bizarre modern myths to persist so aggressively. Some things to consider:
- Moving one end of a 3000lb car a few inches is not superhuman; a fraction of the total load plus the assistance of the suspension equals a few hundred pounds, maybe.
- No one ever claimed to pick the car several feet off the ground (Angela Carvahlo guessed she budged it 4"), yet these illustrations show it and people believe it.
- Watch the 2012 interview and tell me you can draw a diagram of how she actually got her dad out? (the car stayed levitated? she pushed it over him without crushing him more?)
- Why is it always a car and not anything anywhere else?
- Why do we have a million videos of bench fails with people going unconscious with a bar on their neck because they couldn't summon 1% more strength to press it?
- Why don't these women suffer ANY tears or ruptures from lifting 5x what they are acclimated to? Lifters with the bone structure of a rhino would still suffer sprains doing a max effort lift cold.
The easy answer is because "Hysterical Strength" is Bigfoot, the result of journalists (and unfortunately in this situation, yourself) presenting the extremely vague scenario "lifted a car" without a single critical thought so that the sensationalism can take center stage. In reality a panicked woman pushes on one end, feels the suspension, and reports to a journalist who intentionally keeps details vague to skew the story.
I don't know the answer to your questions but I do know I don't consider hysterical strength the central topic of this video, but rather the concepts we actually know about and that are explained with some level of detail in the rest of the video. I consider hysterical strength just an inspiring and eye-catching start of the video to lure you into the actual informative part. Having said that, I'd rather believe hysterical strength to be real. Because believing you can do more than you think you can is a tactic that works to reach your maximum potential (unless you bring yourself into dangerous situations like the neck example you give).
Good point mate, I think the channel is focusing on the potential itself, no one recommending lifting bizarre weights.
@@panhuragan4388 Watch videos of people doing 8000 pullups a day and 1000+ pushups. Just search on RUclips. Those people have trained their bodies to have an insane amount of endurance. I recentlly watched a guy do 1000 pushups in 30 minutes. So 4000 squats a day is very believable.
What I don't understand is how the tendons of those women didn't detach from the bones? Women under very high sudden panic and adrenaline definitely have moved cars. But as the OP suggested, maybe the weight on one side or one tire is far less than the total weight of the car.
Car lifting is bullshit but the point is learning to adapt your nervous system for better strength output that is legit
Hysterical strength is something that can't easily be studied because it's nearly impossible to ethically put someone in such a situation in a lab. So as far as I'm concerned its still a big question mark. However, it is interesting and if it's true then motor unit recruitment certainly has something to do with it. The video is about the real strength based effects of increased motor unit recruitment. Hysterical strength is just an interesting anecdote to lead into the subject.
Though I will say, even though I've never experienced hysterical strength, I have experienced emergency induced flow states multiple times in my life. One in particular always fascinated me because I moved so precisely and rapidly with incredible timing and body control. And for me I didn't even feel in control, it was like I was having an out of body experience as I watched my body do it's own thing, and do it much better than I ever had. So, I don't know if hysterical strength is real, but I'm positive that traumatic situations can cause very strange and remarkable reactions in people.
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You don’t believe training overcoming isometrics played a part in the great gamma, Bruce Lee, or Alexander zass’ incredible power and explosion? The ability to maximally contract the most amount of muscle fibers is from these movements I believe if I’m not mistaken but don’t quote me…just curious on your thoughts appreciate the content.
Overcoming isometrics work great for this, but I'm going to do a separate video that is solely about isometrics. It was just to big of a topic to fit everything into this video.
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The demon slayer mark applies in real life
Had to tap out to watch that dunk. In fucking sane
He even said afterwards he didn't even know he jumped over him. He said all he saw was the basket and he was going to get there no matter what it took. Vince was an animal.
What do you think about Matthias Steiner in Bejing, could it be also one of the examples?
Im sure he is using a very high percentage of muscle fibers. He's an incredibly strong individual and trains for short, explosive bursts of power.
Gama phelwan mentioned raaaah !!!
Can you make benefits of surya namaskar please
can you cover muscle irradiation. its in the same area
Heya
If hysterical strength was real, why do people fail on Bench presses. There is nothing more near death than a loaded barbell on your bench. Never seen hysterical strength.
Maybe, they dont think at first,that they life or a lived ones life depends on it at first? And when they do its already late?
@@norbertnagy5514 what?
Usually deaths like these come after the motor units being used are already exhausted. In situations of hysterical strength, it's almost always someone who is fresh and has all motor units available. Even a fresh bench presser trying to max out is usually struggling with the weight for at least 10 seconds before they fail. 10 seconds with a max or near max weight is enough to burn out the fast twitch motor units that you would need.
@@faizalmohammed9874ah yeah, i messed up, maybe tought about other things while writing it, thats how it came out this messed up.
Forgot what i wanted to say.
@@moversodyssey So the fast twitch motor units don't fail when lifting a fucking car.
Motor units*
I would like to hypothesize is this why say like Lenny from Of mice and men had strength or people that are special needs the motor and brain networks are activated differently? Whats your thoughts
can you cover calisthenics
I actually have a book deal for a fully illustrated calisthenics books right now. Probably won't be out until next year but I will definitely be covering a lot of calisthenic exercises between now and then.
Eddie doesn't know a damn thing, except blood withdrawal and thee related symptom.
Question is will this give bad side effects btw can you make a video about ultra instinct or how to be so focus that you move 5x better than you usually do
Only potential side effect is increased chance of injury, as the training methods all increase intensity.
@@moversodyssey ph ok thnx can you make vid about like flow state?
Bro, your channels fuckin sick
Glad you're enjoying it, thanks for the comment!
This is hysterical
Can anyone tell what software he uses for his videos?
It's just screen recordings of me illustrating in clip studio, then the footage is edited in filmora.
I watched and I don’t know how to activate it. I have a slight conclusion to make 4000 Hindu squats a day?😂
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Many people commented on this already, but I feel like you made a mistake by overlooking the risks involved in "recruiting more muscle fibers". If your joints aren't ready, you are going to get hurt, and joint injuries take forever to heal. You should also have presented the exercises one should do (along with the appropriate diet), to safely build up to more muscle fibers recruitment.
I understand the video must be short, but health and safety are so important. I fear people can get the wrong idea from the video, and try to do Hulk things...
4:02 I think this is extremely interesting
2:31 How do recruit maximum motor units though while keeping RPEs low? My thinking is that RPEs have to be at least 8 for this, and that's a recipe for overtraining
And is there merit for muscle hypertrophy in increasing MVC?
Increasing MVC is primarily for increasing strength, which could have an indirect effect on hypertrophy by increasing workout intensity. But the main benefit for hypertrophy from this subject would be making sure you are working as many motor units as possible in your workouts. Whether that's done by lifting heavy weight or by long sets or some combination of the two. I didn't put it in this video, but overcoming isometrics are great for activating motor units as well.
@@moversodyssey Sure, but what about the idea of RPE?
As much as I want to incorporate plyometrics to my training, I worry about the specificity issues. To increase a squat, one must do squats. And in the case of powerlifting, it would be with loads of at least 80% 1RM
Great man