Hot take: direct bicep training is heavily underrated by strongmen, given the prevalence of bicep tears and movement patterns that rely on the biceps from picks, cleans, stones, carries etc. counterpoint: no matter how much one trains their biceps, they will always be the weakest link. Having strong biceps may ingrain an overreliance that would lead to more, not fewer, injuries and what one should actually be doing is ingraining movement patterns that take the biceps out of the equation as much as possible, such as getting an efficient clean. synthesis: having bigger stronger biceps is an insurance policy, it provides a little wiggle room, like having stronger shoulders on bench even if you are a chest+tricep dominant bencher, it can increas the margin of error.
I love the idea of RDLs and SLDLs as a cyclically changing movement. Currently I’m not super concerned with my conventional pull, so I’ve settled into a pattern of taking between 6 months-a year of alternating between each lift and treating them as my primary hinge variation during that time, and I’ve consistently made great gains on each movement with every single rotation. Coming off of 4 plate RDLS for reps, and hoping for a low 400s SLDL this year🤞
It would be interesting to get a community take on like developing a lifer over a long period of time it would be cool to see everyone general ideas about that topic
I very much value your approach to content, and to be honest I probably wouldn’t be here if the majority of the content wasn’t focused on the nuts and bolts of training. All my favorite lifting RUclipsrs focus the bulk of their content on training: you, bald Omni man, GVS, NH, basement bodybuilding, alex bromley, Alex Leonidas, etc. Most of the chose channels are more focused on bodybuilding for sure, but I’m only 3.5 years into lifting and like you said the thing keeping me from deadlifting as much as the big boys is the muscle mass difference!
Great and informative video, big thank you for this. For me personally, the main issue with accessory work has been trying to decide whether I want my accessories be more squat or deadlift specific. Had to give up trying to raise both of those at max speed at the same time and focus on one of them at a time.
What I personally usually do is have one lower body day that is followed by squat assistance work and one that is followed by deadlift assistance work!
I like doing 90/90 breathing at the beginning of all my lower body days to practice bracing, it honestly is a great proprioceptive tool. When I was first learning to brace correctly after years of doing it wrong, using a Breath Belt on my warmup sets was really helpful.
@@Kyle111 I get it but sometimes it’s so bad that I have to end the set bc of further worse injuries ☹️(I never end sets, even if I feel my squat is RPE 10 with one rep left)
Ive noticed some strongmen roll the bar towards themselves for deadlifts instead of setting the bar at the midfoot to start. is there a reason for that?
Fair question, its because most strongmen are on the heavier side (and also many of them are deadlifting in a suit which further restricts breathing), so when they are strapping to the bar with the bar over the mid foot they cant get in enough air to brace well so they roll the bar forward to create space to get in a big breath of air and then roll it back in to begin the pull!
Awesome video, I'll definitely take some of this on! I have a question about grip strength for deadlift. I recently got a pretty good PR for my deadlift (triples too!) My grip failed on the second rep first set but luckily I had my climbing chalk from one of my side hobbies (bouldering) and managed to complete the 3 sets. Will my grip improve alongside my deadlift or would you recommend taxing it further with heavy farmers carries, rack pulls, heavy finger rolls etc? I know I'll need straps at some point but trying to put it off until it properly is the bottleneck to me improving. Thanks. :)
Okay so: the use of chalk is super normal for deadlifting bare hand to the point that I almost wouldn’t even consider a miss on grip without chalk a true miss on grip (so long as it’s allowed at your gym of course!). Grip will improve alongside the deadlift but if you want to do additional work for it things like 5 second holds at the end of each deadlidt set, farmers walks, and hangs from a bar that is up high accords catches (that way it can rotate) can all be used as really effective extra work. And you don’t necessarily eventually need straps if you pull either mixed grip or hook grip!
Yea I find based on people I talk to the issue of a lot of younger lifters now isn’t a lack of information, they can repeat back to me a bunch of really good talking points, it’s the lack of ability to practically apply it in a simple and repeatable way
Hmm hard to say without knowing anything about ya but generally the more often you can do something to a productive level and sustainably recover the better results you will see, though each incremental increase in frequency will probably be a bit less significant in impact than the prior
The Green Rubish convo was excellent. I learned a ton. Glad to hear they're doing a part II.
Hot take: direct bicep training is heavily underrated by strongmen, given the prevalence of bicep tears and movement patterns that rely on the biceps from picks, cleans, stones, carries etc.
counterpoint: no matter how much one trains their biceps, they will always be the weakest link. Having strong biceps may ingrain an overreliance that would lead to more, not fewer, injuries and what one should actually be doing is ingraining movement patterns that take the biceps out of the equation as much as possible, such as getting an efficient clean.
synthesis: having bigger stronger biceps is an insurance policy, it provides a little wiggle room, like having stronger shoulders on bench even if you are a chest+tricep dominant bencher, it can increas the margin of error.
MSTsystems has started prescribing a metric of "your incline curl needs to be x% of your max log" for this reason
What I heard from a Pro Strongman, with big biceps you can't grip stones better, because your arms not fitting around
I would love to see an Incline Curl vid from Sam, coming from a strength training perspective
And this is why I smoke biceps off-program daily 💪
I love the idea of RDLs and SLDLs as a cyclically changing movement. Currently I’m not super concerned with my conventional pull, so I’ve settled into a pattern of taking between 6 months-a year of alternating between each lift and treating them as my primary hinge variation during that time, and I’ve consistently made great gains on each movement with every single rotation. Coming off of 4 plate RDLS for reps, and hoping for a low 400s SLDL this year🤞
0:01 Nice deadlift, bro!
Thank you Sam! God bless you! 🤠🙌❤️
Really loved this video! Tons of great info thanks so much man
Glad you enjoyed it man!
It would be interesting to get a community take on like developing a lifer over a long period of time it would be cool to see everyone general ideas about that topic
Really good and useful info
Thank you!
I shall listen while gigapumping incline curls
I really like my incline curls they make my shoulder health good!
Love the natural lighting!
I very much value your approach to content, and to be honest I probably wouldn’t be here if the majority of the content wasn’t focused on the nuts and bolts of training. All my favorite lifting RUclipsrs focus the bulk of their content on training: you, bald Omni man, GVS, NH, basement bodybuilding, alex bromley, Alex Leonidas, etc.
Most of the chose channels are more focused on bodybuilding for sure, but I’m only 3.5 years into lifting and like you said the thing keeping me from deadlifting as much as the big boys is the muscle mass difference!
Great and informative video, big thank you for this. For me personally, the main issue with accessory work has been trying to decide whether I want my accessories be more squat or deadlift specific. Had to give up trying to raise both of those at max speed at the same time and focus on one of them at a time.
What I personally usually do is have one lower body day that is followed by squat assistance work and one that is followed by deadlift assistance work!
I like doing 90/90 breathing at the beginning of all my lower body days to practice bracing, it honestly is a great proprioceptive tool. When I was first learning to brace correctly after years of doing it wrong, using a Breath Belt on my warmup sets was really helpful.
Great video
Video idea: how to deal with back pain/prevention once and for all.
“Pain is a part of the human experience”
@@Kyle111 I get it but sometimes it’s so bad that I have to end the set bc of further worse injuries ☹️(I never end sets, even if I feel my squat is RPE 10 with one rep left)
@@ceoofh1153 does the pain get worse throughout the set?
@@Kyle111 typically yes, especially when I feel it coming and it’s not something that just happens randomly
I just saw a thumbnail of your DL, how fucking dare you bro!
That’s like 4 plates more (a side) than my PR.
We’ll done you fucking Ox!
Thank you man!
Ive noticed some strongmen roll the bar towards themselves for deadlifts instead of setting the bar at the midfoot to start. is there a reason for that?
Fair question, its because most strongmen are on the heavier side (and also many of them are deadlifting in a suit which further restricts breathing), so when they are strapping to the bar with the bar over the mid foot they cant get in enough air to brace well so they roll the bar forward to create space to get in a big breath of air and then roll it back in to begin the pull!
I'll give you a pass this time
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Awesome video, I'll definitely take some of this on!
I have a question about grip strength for deadlift. I recently got a pretty good PR for my deadlift (triples too!)
My grip failed on the second rep first set but luckily I had my climbing chalk from one of my side hobbies (bouldering) and managed to complete the 3 sets.
Will my grip improve alongside my deadlift or would you recommend taxing it further with heavy farmers carries, rack pulls, heavy finger rolls etc?
I know I'll need straps at some point but trying to put it off until it properly is the bottleneck to me improving. Thanks. :)
Okay so: the use of chalk is super normal for deadlifting bare hand to the point that I almost wouldn’t even consider a miss on grip without chalk a true miss on grip (so long as it’s allowed at your gym of course!). Grip will improve alongside the deadlift but if you want to do additional work for it things like 5 second holds at the end of each deadlidt set, farmers walks, and hangs from a bar that is up high accords catches (that way it can rotate) can all be used as really effective extra work. And you don’t necessarily eventually need straps if you pull either mixed grip or hook grip!
Algo 🤝
For the algorithm
Is the objective in a Pin Press to release all tension when the bar touches the pins, or should I aim to lightly touch the pins and maintain tension?
speaking generally the point would be to dissipate that elastic tension and be forced to create force from a dead stop in my opinion!
Really liked your deep dive, I mean it's all thinks we heard allready but as with the cues, sometimes other explanationa stick better
Yea I find based on people I talk to the issue of a lot of younger lifters now isn’t a lack of information, they can repeat back to me a bunch of really good talking points, it’s the lack of ability to practically apply it in a simple and repeatable way
Is there any major strength benefit to deadlifting 2.5x per week (Conv, Pause, RDL) if I can recover from it?
Hmm hard to say without knowing anything about ya but generally the more often you can do something to a productive level and sustainably recover the better results you will see, though each incremental increase in frequency will probably be a bit less significant in impact than the prior
Everything good with you samwise?
Yessir just a busy week, hopefully going to have something up today!
Algo gains
Thank you!
455 on bench is not nothing dawg 💀 you’re a house.
algo af
First!