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I’m looking to drop from 198 back to 181 to break a few bench records. The ultimate goal is I want to break the national and world record in both 181 and 198 weight class. At 198 I’ve benched 446 in competition and 452 in the gym. I’ve got a long way to go but I need to change something up in terms of training. I think I might add speed work, but obviously the right way, whatever that means lol.
Combat athlete. Just moved up 15 lbs in weight class. 155 --> 170 Tryna get even stronger without making my weight cut grueling again or having to bump up another 15 lbs to fight absolute giant freak athletes like Paulo Costa and Yoel Romero lol.
The content I was looking for as a track cyclist. Bulking worked great this winter but didn't make me much faster on the track. Time to convert that mass into strength without getting above the weight limit for my bike frame.
Nice! Chad Cilli regularly notes how the higher body weight that comes with lots of strength sports, the harder it is to sustain high level performance at endurance endeavors. There are fewer dudes running a sub-4 mile who weigh 185+ than 150 or so, but there’s like no one above 200 who runs sub-4. The extra mass is really costly when your sport doesn’t directly profit from size (like contact sports where sheer mass is an advantage)
And as we all know on the bike, frontal area (i.e. slimmer bike and body) is more aero. Above a certain speed aero dominates over strength. So Robert Förstemann's legendary legs probably generating considerably more drag than, say, Chris Hoy. It's a balancing act. But track racing is more forgiving when training for pure power and the mass that come with it than road racing where power-to-weight is often more critical esp when climbing mountains
IMO this is more difficult than simply gaining size/size and strength. Staying in my weight class while adding 300lbs to my total over the last 4 years or so was much more difficult than if I were to just be In a surplus the whole time. Maintaining bodyweight while getting stronger is really when programming matters most.
In a few months, my plan is to bulk slowly up to 175 lbs to max out my weightclass in Armwrestling, then apply these principles to maximize my explosivity and power at that weight. I'm not very experienced at all when it comes to "optimizing" myself with little to no hypertrophy, but I imagine it will be an exciting opportunity to learn to get good at something new. Thanks Bromley.
Strength to weigh ratio is King for the majority. At least for those who live a life beyond posing at the beach and certain team contact sports. Being a lot stronger than you look can also add a helpful element of surprise when forced into unavoidable “contact sport” incidents.
I recently started track cycling (as a sprinter) and need to convert the strength and muscle mass I've built from weight training into power -- perfect timing!
@@isaarunarom7830for track cycling hills imo aren’t that useful simply because in track cycling there’s no hills to go over, steep hills are mainly good for being able to high intensity intervals but it’s possible to do those types of intervals on track already. Also mainly just commented bc I love overwatch and it’s surreal to see two interests of mine together like this ☠️.
I want to look like Bromley! I'm 5'9 and weight just under 270 - just going down the giantizing road right now without changing the diet much outside of getting more protien. Need to work on the diet at some point, but right now just enjoying strength gains - thicker thighs and broad chest.
@@xgamermudkip7154false dichotomy. the absurd excess calories people claim they need is a result of not tracking properly and lack of patience. a modest superávit is not hard to achieve and will lead to gains. gymbros are just majorly bad at planning.
Very useful information. Regarding the isometric work, should we implement them throughout our strength phase, or have them kind of be a separate phase of their own ?
Thank you thank you thank you for giving partials and isometrics some credit. Easily the most overlooked and shat upon method of training thanks to the "full ROM at all cost" crowd, despite there being people who've used the stuff with great success. Paul Anderson, Bill March, Bruce Lee....probably many others I'm not thinking of.
I know this is all sports specific but out in the wild i feel like strength dont mean shit if someone bigger can just pick you up amd slam you on the ground.
13:13 he mentions "having a lot of extra tissue because you have a lot of artificial compression because you are bigger. If you take that away you feel exposed" Can anyone explain what he is talking about? I have never heard of artificial compression.
This is actually huge for me coming up soon so I like the video idea and execution. I’m about to cut down to ~190lb at 10%bf so I can slowly get up to 210lb and then cut down to 200lb ~10%bf. Once I’m at that weight and really strong with a great body composition for my height/weight-class, I don’t see any purpose to train for hypertrophy. At that point I need more strength, power, speed and conditioning. So doing this stuff once I have already packed on the size I need will make me better at my sport and keep me competitive at my weight class. Plus I’m 5’10 and simply can’t fight above the 190-199lb weight class while staying natural and at a reasonable bodyfat%
@@lloyd011721 well recomping as a natural is very hard to do and extremely time consuming to reach a goal. I would rather build up all my weak areas for the sports I practice and then maintain my bodyweight while doing power and strength training. I have tried to recomp before and it never really amounts to much change for me, ime. Maybe for others that option would be better.
Could have used a bit more on tendon work; my biggest limiter tends to be biceps tendonitis and wrists. Or are you recommending people use wrists wraps?
Why the hell?😂 Honestly interested to know what sport would not benefit from more strength? I mean even if you don’t benefit from it How can it hurt you?
Gettin dummy strong at unga bunga lifts absolutely transfers over. Super technical lifts? Debatably. High pulls, back squats, OHP, curls, core isolation... the technique requirements are low enough that it barely matters.
@@Jmack7861 Even outside of that. Not having to be 140 kg to be competitive at your regional heavyweight powerlifting meet can be huge for your health while still allowing your to compete.
If you do a lot of work with real life physical objects, yeah that matters. A lot. For about 10 years I lived in a rural area, and most of our home heating was from wood. If I didn't cut the trees down, buck them, haul it to the drying rack, stack it, \split it, then haul it inside, my family wasn't warm.
Good points all. The guy with the strongest grip I ever worked with , (and I've spent twenty years practicing trad jujitsu, where people tend to have very strong grips), was a 64 year old bloke, who worked as a handyman before he retired, in a local amusement park, where he used hand tools, not power, all day, every day, for about 30 years.
And you believe that? That simply cannot be true unless person who said that never met a single athlete that trains grip, which might happen with anyone else but this guy? He himself was a pretty good strongman, he certainly has strongman friends and those a one group that train grip very hard. Everyday people can be really good at something but never the best, because they do not train to progress, they train/work to adapt to certain level of load but not more than that, always remember you become what you train, if you grip heavy you can grip heavy, but athletes like strongman like climbers like grip specialists they train to grip heavIER, it's never enough there's always more.
Yepp farmer and handyman strength is real. All of my family that has hany jobs have some real grip and tendon strength from that. And they have not set foot in a gym.
From Josh Bryant. 1 - Nutrition. You cannot be in a meaningful calorie surplus, not for long amounts of time. Eat at maintenance calories. 2 - Compensatory acceleration. Do things FAST, with low amounts of time under tension. Do more sets, less reps. 10 sets of 3, not 3 sets of 10, (and do them FAST and EXPLOSIVE). 3 - Concentric only movements, squat from the bottom pins, dead stop bench etc. Remove some muscle damage and thus some hypertrophy by eliminating the eccentric. 4 - Plyos. Focus on jumping, clean and jerks, snatches etc, rather than the pump and time under tension. Calisthenics for low reps works too. 5 - Periodize your training, split it into different training blocks. It's winter, and now is the perfect time to eat a lot, sleep a lot, and move heavy weight for lots of reps. In the spring you could start to slim down, do more of what I've suggested above, and do more cardio (cardio, when done right, allows you to eat more to build muscle, but it can be a tricky business to balance. That takes practice). Having said all that, unless you've got a weight class to stick to, and / or you want to be a twig, NOTHING works better for getting stronger than eating lots of food and doing lots of reps with lots of weight (and taking lots of drugs, if you're in to that). You may feel that you don't want that "get big" training just now... but.... you probably wont find out what you're really capable of, what kind of a monster you could be, until you get a lot bigger. You do that with lots of weight, lots of food and lots of reps, periodized with the things I mentioned above.
Learning trampoline skills and acrobatics in my early 30s means that I'm stepping away from trying to gain as much mass as possible. It is cool to see a video like this from you!
@@AlmostlessThanHuman I did parkour for 6ish years and quit after I had a kid. He is 6 now, and we both have the same tricking coach. I also just got a job at a gymnastics gym teaching little ones parkour. It is a lot of fun
@@AlmostlessThanHuman to give you a sense of where I am and where I want to go: I can do my basic side, back, and front flips. I just got a flash kick and j-step back tuck yesterday. Right now I’m working towards my gainer flash and b-twist outside, a back full on the trampoline, and a few minutes ago I hit my first side flip outside since my son was born
@@LucasDimoveo I'm also into acrobatics and you're 100% right - you don't want much weight because it can be really easy to develop overuse injuries in the joint tendons. I've built some basic pure muscle which made me almost 100kg at 188cm and although my flipping skills did not suffer, I immediately developed tendinopathy in both achilles tendons and my right knee. And I'm 19 btw Right now I prioritize strengthening the tendons and becoming as strong, powerful and explosive as possible without going beyond 100kg bodyweight.
How do you rate speed work to "classic" lifting. I tried to change my lifts to the "as fast as possible" concentric, to gain more explosive power. This leads to a significant drop in possible reps and much more fatigue and regeneration. Is this just because I am not used to it, or do I have to plan explosive reps even with ~60% 1RM similar to e.g. triples for my programming?
Well if you consider the whole weight moved in a movement like the chin-up, so added weight+bodyweight, you clearly see that the biggest guys usually move the most weight in these exercises too.
Anatoly- like that would be nice. I have to work around a ton of permanent injuries from being "stupid" in my 20s unfortunately. Gotta do what you can and have realistic expectations, right.
I love being strong at a lesser bodyweight. I reached a size that i like and i can wear the clothes i like. Im very stocky naturally and if i get too big i look like a stump.
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Just started on your app. It’d be nice to have an option to see examples of the exercises.
I'm 5'8" and 270 around 18% Bf don't think I want much more mass my shoulders are 28in width so doors are starting to become narrow
I’m looking to drop from 198 back to 181 to break a few bench records. The ultimate goal is I want to break the national and world record in both 181 and 198 weight class. At 198 I’ve benched 446 in competition and 452 in the gym. I’ve got a long way to go but I need to change something up in terms of training. I think I might add speed work, but obviously the right way, whatever that means lol.
Combat athlete. Just moved up 15 lbs in weight class.
155 --> 170 Tryna get even stronger without making my weight cut grueling again or having to bump up another 15 lbs to fight absolute giant freak athletes like Paulo Costa and Yoel Romero lol.
train as a powerlifter, and use bands
As a rock climber this is exactly what I needed
same dude. I value functional strength and flexibility over muscle right now.
I don't have easy access to a climbing gym at the moment. So I started Olympic weightlifting, and gained 5 kgs!
@@someasiankid6323as a girl, you probably would gain much muscle mass 💀💀💀
@@khmak9387 And most of that is in your thighs and ass, where you DON'T want it for climbing. Lol
The content I was looking for as a track cyclist.
Bulking worked great this winter but didn't make me much faster on the track.
Time to convert that mass into strength without getting above the weight limit for my bike frame.
Nice! Chad Cilli regularly notes how the higher body weight that comes with lots of strength sports, the harder it is to sustain high level performance at endurance endeavors.
There are fewer dudes running a sub-4 mile who weigh 185+ than 150 or so, but there’s like no one above 200 who runs sub-4. The extra mass is really costly when your sport doesn’t directly profit from size (like contact sports where sheer mass is an advantage)
And as we all know on the bike, frontal area (i.e. slimmer bike and body) is more aero. Above a certain speed aero dominates over strength.
So Robert Förstemann's legendary legs probably generating considerably more drag than, say, Chris Hoy. It's a balancing act. But track racing is more forgiving when training for pure power and the mass that come with it than road racing where power-to-weight is often more critical esp when climbing mountains
The Goon Cave is making a come back!
WHAT?
IMO this is more difficult than simply gaining size/size and strength. Staying in my weight class while adding 300lbs to my total over the last 4 years or so was much more difficult than if I were to just be In a surplus the whole time.
Maintaining bodyweight while getting stronger is really when programming matters most.
In a few months, my plan is to bulk slowly up to 175 lbs to max out my weightclass in Armwrestling, then apply these principles to maximize my explosivity and power at that weight. I'm not very experienced at all when it comes to "optimizing" myself with little to no hypertrophy, but I imagine it will be an exciting opportunity to learn to get good at something new. Thanks Bromley.
Strength to weigh ratio is King for the majority. At least for those who live a life beyond posing at the beach and certain team contact sports.
Being a lot stronger than you look can also add a helpful element of surprise when forced into unavoidable “contact sport” incidents.
I recently started track cycling (as a sprinter) and need to convert the strength and muscle mass I've built from weight training into power -- perfect timing!
Do steep steep hills? Heavy lunges?
@@isaarunarom7830for track cycling hills imo aren’t that useful simply because in track cycling there’s no hills to go over, steep hills are mainly good for being able to high intensity intervals but it’s possible to do those types of intervals on track already. Also mainly just commented bc I love overwatch and it’s surreal to see two interests of mine together like this ☠️.
Finally a video that appeals to my interests
We need a video on how to be a 400lb weakling
FDOE video from a body positivity movement icon is what you need. AB does not have this advanced knowledge.🤣
The Bioneer has touched on this subject. Might be worth having a conversation with him?
That would be cool! I hope Bromly sees this
Pavel Tsatsuline wrote a great book about it 20 years ago.
(Power to the People).
as a female trying to get stronger, this video is gold, thanks!!!!
Embrace the size/muscularity!
@@JosephQPublic difficult at 5'1" hahaha
@@valeskacidjofre3109people who are that short get huge and stocky quick, I don’t think it’s too difficult if you’re that short
Never thought I'd see this video from Bromley... Traitor! (I know you explained the actual use cases and they're completely valid)
I want to look like Bromley! I'm 5'9 and weight just under 270 - just going down the giantizing road right now without changing the diet much outside of getting more protien. Need to work on the diet at some point, but right now just enjoying strength gains - thicker thighs and broad chest.
Watching so i know what NOT to do
Having more strength in certain places without an abundance of mass getting in the way can be very usefull
Fr
@@karelenhenkie666 yup, I got them super small but powerful 1RM obliques >.>
You're telling me you've never wanted to lift more without eating an extra 40,000 calories?
@@xgamermudkip7154false dichotomy. the absurd excess calories people claim they need is a result of not tracking properly and lack of patience. a modest superávit is not hard to achieve and will lead to gains. gymbros are just majorly bad at planning.
Very useful information. Regarding the isometric work, should we implement them throughout our strength phase, or have them kind of be a separate phase of their own ?
isometric is strength so imagine strength same way gymnasts utilize them
Wondering if you could make a video on overcoming isometrics.
Thank you thank you thank you for giving partials and isometrics some credit. Easily the most overlooked and shat upon method of training thanks to the "full ROM at all cost" crowd, despite there being people who've used the stuff with great success. Paul Anderson, Bill March, Bruce Lee....probably many others I'm not thinking of.
would love a part 2: how to get FITTER without LOSING size
Low volume, high frequency, moderate to high intensity.
I have a hard time planning isometric work. I know I need it I am over 50 and my tendons get very painful
I wonder if this can be applied to competitive dumping
I know this is all sports specific but out in the wild i feel like strength dont mean shit if someone bigger can just pick you up amd slam you on the ground.
BGC - Bromley's Goon Cave
13:13 he mentions "having a lot of extra tissue because you have a lot of artificial compression because you are bigger. If you take that away you feel exposed"
Can anyone explain what he is talking about? I have never heard of artificial compression.
I love this presentation
This is actually huge for me coming up soon so I like the video idea and execution.
I’m about to cut down to ~190lb at 10%bf so I can slowly get up to 210lb and then cut down to 200lb ~10%bf.
Once I’m at that weight and really strong with a great body composition for my height/weight-class, I don’t see any purpose to train for hypertrophy.
At that point I need more strength, power, speed and conditioning. So doing this stuff once I have already packed on the size I need will make me better at my sport and keep me competitive at my weight class. Plus I’m 5’10 and simply can’t fight above the 190-199lb weight class while staying natural and at a reasonable bodyfat%
is there an advantage to going up and down like that rather than just going straight to 200 and "recomp" there, focusing on strength?
@@lloyd011721 well recomping as a natural is very hard to do and extremely time consuming to reach a goal. I would rather build up all my weak areas for the sports I practice and then maintain my bodyweight while doing power and strength training.
I have tried to recomp before and it never really amounts to much change for me, ime. Maybe for others that option would be better.
This video is a wealth of knowledge
As a 5’6” featherweight thank you for making this video finally I can’t weigh more than 180 I’m never making weight that way lmao
Smolov on overhead press ?
Could have used a bit more on tendon work; my biggest limiter tends to be biceps tendonitis and wrists. Or are you recommending people use wrists wraps?
Very heavy isometric holds with maximum contractive effort for tendon strength.
My first thought was why in the hell would you wanna do that.
If you're a decathlete or compete in any sport based on weight classes.
Rock climbing is another.
If you want to do a double cork or something
Literally anyone competing in anything that isn't bodybuilding needs to stay in a weight class while maximizing power
Can you make something on how to build thoracic erectors? Everything around upper back development lacks focus on them
Anatoly entered the chat
For chest I do set's of 2 and 3 reps for 8 split into for reps each and another day 15-20 reps 8sets for example
Finally back to making good quality videos...
Was squating 3 plates
Any additional clarity or breathing between reps for squat? (Within a set)?
Like a 1-3 is legit?
Flexibility is also something you should max out
Yeah, trying to do this again now as an old man is fun. 🤣
I want be really strong in an insect body ratio
Great video
I want to build size but not strength, is there a way to do that?
Always use machines instead of free weights
@@koftli8997that doesn't make any sense, but the other option is to never go below 5 reps and use self limiting variations
If you eat more than 5000 calories you will get big
Why the hell?😂
Honestly interested to know what sport would not benefit from more strength?
I mean even if you don’t benefit from it
How can it hurt you?
@@lime7152 A lot of people just want some buff muscle, but not interested in maxing huge numbers.
Does getting strong from getting good at the lifts build strength that's transferrable to other sports though?
Gettin dummy strong at unga bunga lifts absolutely transfers over. Super technical lifts? Debatably.
High pulls, back squats, OHP, curls, core isolation... the technique requirements are low enough that it barely matters.
Yes some of them.
But always make your main training the actual activity you’re looking to get go at. And supplement weights on the side to that.
Become a bricklayer or do physical work
I just want giant spinal erectors, traps, and serratus anterior everything else skinny strong
shot out the the master bruce lee
Now, how do I get explosive SIZE without strength?
What is explosive size?
Do you mean exploding in size?
For the algorithm!
Okay now answer this: How to gain size (not muscle) WITHOUT building strength?
Just get fat, millions do that every day.
FDOE video from any body positivity movement icon has the specific knowledge you seek.🤣
IMPOSSIBRUUU!!!
Eat as much caloric dense foods as humanly possible
Lb4lb is like playing make believe
Those crazy Sovets know a thing ot two
I want to work like a cyborg until im 90.
I never needed a guide for this
1th
Green screen much?
getting bigger= higher food bills
Kyriakos Grizzly needs to watch this and take notes!
Why would I want this
Weight class sports
Watch the video before you comment maybe
If you want to do a double cork
@@Jmack7861 Even outside of that. Not having to be 140 kg to be competitive at your regional heavyweight powerlifting meet can be huge for your health while still allowing your to compete.
@@Jmack7861I could never
Why do all these unicorns use other people for exploitation and cant even recognize them >?
Finally, the video us strength femboys needed to multiclass from pure dex build into that Griffith game without getting too carried away
Ah so a list of things not to do
Strength without size? No thanks. But I'll throw an algorithm comment
@ Ukrainian Defender
Major takeaway: learn to do cool s***
“Impose your will upon the world.” Really?
If you do a lot of work with real life physical objects, yeah that matters. A lot. For about 10 years I lived in a rural area, and most of our home heating was from wood. If I didn't cut the trees down, buck them, haul it to the drying rack, stack it, \split it, then haul it inside, my family wasn't warm.
Great video!
Good points all. The guy with the strongest grip I ever worked with , (and I've spent twenty years practicing trad jujitsu, where people tend to have very strong grips), was a 64 year old bloke, who worked as a handyman before he retired, in a local amusement park, where he used hand tools, not power, all day, every day, for about 30 years.
And you believe that? That simply cannot be true unless person who said that never met a single athlete that trains grip, which might happen with anyone else but this guy? He himself was a pretty good strongman, he certainly has strongman friends and those a one group that train grip very hard. Everyday people can be really good at something but never the best, because they do not train to progress, they train/work to adapt to certain level of load but not more than that, always remember you become what you train, if you grip heavy you can grip heavy, but athletes like strongman like climbers like grip specialists they train to grip heavIER, it's never enough there's always more.
@@therocklauyou’ve never interacted with a farmer/tradesman and it shows.
Yepp farmer and handyman strength is real. All of my family that has hany jobs have some real grip and tendon strength from that. And they have not set foot in a gym.
From Josh Bryant.
1 - Nutrition. You cannot be in a meaningful calorie surplus, not for long amounts of time. Eat at maintenance calories.
2 - Compensatory acceleration. Do things FAST, with low amounts of time under tension. Do more sets, less reps.
10 sets of 3, not 3 sets of 10, (and do them FAST and EXPLOSIVE).
3 - Concentric only movements, squat from the bottom pins, dead stop bench etc. Remove some muscle damage and thus some hypertrophy by eliminating the eccentric.
4 - Plyos. Focus on jumping, clean and jerks, snatches etc, rather than the pump and time under tension. Calisthenics for low reps works too.
5 - Periodize your training, split it into different training blocks. It's winter, and now is the perfect time to eat a lot, sleep a lot, and move heavy weight for lots of reps. In the spring you could start to slim down, do more of what I've suggested above, and do more cardio (cardio, when done right, allows you to eat more to build muscle, but it can be a tricky business to balance. That takes practice).
Having said all that, unless you've got a weight class to stick to, and / or you want to be a twig, NOTHING works better for getting stronger than eating lots of food and doing lots of reps with lots of weight (and taking lots of drugs, if you're in to that). You may feel that you don't want that "get big" training just now... but.... you probably wont find out what you're really capable of, what kind of a monster you could be, until you get a lot bigger. You do that with lots of weight, lots of food and lots of reps, periodized with the things I mentioned above.
Where are you from for it to be Winter in May haha?
My thoughts exactly... other Kevin@@kevinsj99
@@kevinsj99 Southern hemisphere but two weeks in the future.
@@kevinsj99 It's an old comment from Bryant.
Don't read a history book, or your head will explode, lol.
Tyson was a real monster. No one thinks the fat guy from the gym is a monster, even if he can deadlift half a ton.
Learning trampoline skills and acrobatics in my early 30s means that I'm stepping away from trying to gain as much mass as possible. It is cool to see a video like this from you!
How do you get into that nephew's birthday party
@@AlmostlessThanHuman I did parkour for 6ish years and quit after I had a kid. He is 6 now, and we both have the same tricking coach. I also just got a job at a gymnastics gym teaching little ones parkour. It is a lot of fun
@@LucasDimoveo cool I just imagined a 30 year old man flopping on trampoline with a bunch of kids at a party and calling it trampoline skills lol
@@AlmostlessThanHuman to give you a sense of where I am and where I want to go:
I can do my basic side, back, and front flips. I just got a flash kick and j-step back tuck yesterday. Right now I’m working towards my gainer flash and b-twist outside, a back full on the trampoline, and a few minutes ago I hit my first side flip outside since my son was born
@@LucasDimoveo I'm also into acrobatics and you're 100% right - you don't want much weight because it can be really easy to develop overuse injuries in the joint tendons. I've built some basic pure muscle which made me almost 100kg at 188cm and although my flipping skills did not suffer, I immediately developed tendinopathy in both achilles tendons and my right knee. And I'm 19 btw
Right now I prioritize strengthening the tendons and becoming as strong, powerful and explosive as possible without going beyond 100kg bodyweight.
Any plans to release a program around this?
I want as a bjj athlete 😍
What would you recommend for top end isometric work?
- front rack holds?
- partial overhead presses?
- heavy rack/block pulls?
Exactly what I need as a rock climber
Its nice seeing armwrestling get recognized as a sport in the strength coaching world.
I was literally just thinking to myself about this and asking myself this question over the past few days.
I guess you could call my dream that of a gymnastic sprinter. To be able to run at speeds that beggar the mind and control my body the same.
It’s so funny how heated he gets EVERY time he brings up HIT and all the Mentzer fanboys. And quite honestly, I’m right there with him too lol.
I approve of this. Very well put together Alex!
Also, come to 105k ASM in Austin July 27th!
How do you rate speed work to "classic" lifting.
I tried to change my lifts to the "as fast as possible" concentric, to gain more explosive power.
This leads to a significant drop in possible reps and much more fatigue and regeneration.
Is this just because I am not used to it, or do I have to plan explosive reps even with ~60% 1RM similar to e.g. triples for my programming?
Well if you consider the whole weight moved in a movement like the chin-up, so added weight+bodyweight, you clearly see that the biggest guys usually move the most weight in these exercises too.
I was ridiculously strong when I was Olympic lifting. I could jump through the roof too. At 38 years old , 5'8" I was dunking.
Anatoly- like that would be nice.
I have to work around a ton of permanent injuries from being "stupid" in my 20s unfortunately. Gotta do what you can and have realistic expectations, right.
I love being strong at a lesser bodyweight. I reached a size that i like and i can wear the clothes i like. Im very stocky naturally and if i get too big i look like a stump.
I went from 185- 165lbs and I’m just starting a strength cycle. Wish I had that extra weight but still gonna crush 😎
Im going to try and apply these techniques to armwrestling for sure
Are you a world champion? No? You should be actively trying to put on muscle
The problem with doing a lot of “practice reps” is that it starts to look a lot like hypertrophy work…
A good example is John Haack
!!
how strong do you need to be for 1 gf
Need money not strength 😂😂😂