Should You Invent Your OWN Exercises? (Like Ryan Humiston, Athlean-X, Joel Seedman, etc)
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Is this a truly terrible idea, or is there actually some shred of value hidden behind the marketing here?
Timestamps:
00:00 Geoff Snaps Hello
00:16 The First Humiston Video
01:01 Inside An Influencers' Brain
01:58 PROS 1 Feels
03:08 2 Safer
03:30 3 More Variations
04:05 4 Bring Up Weak Points
05:05 5 Strength Curve Manipulation
05:38 6 Overload
05:54 7 Fun
06:27 CONS 1 Excessive Variations
07:48 2 Less Effective
08:27 3 Unsafe
09:15 4 Progression Is Difficult Sometimes
11:15 So...Should You Invent Your Own Exercises?
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Snap snap. Grab my book, there's DEFINITELY something in it that'll help you on your lifting journey! 👊👊👊
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Your book is very informative and covers a great deal of areas! Before reading it i was stuck in a plateau but now my Beard has grown an extra 2 inches ;) Keep up the great work Geoff.
Make a video about Blaha
Relax bros. He's from a planet called fegeta. Where your facial hairs grow as when you hit the next level. So basically he just hit the new pr in deadlift that's why the beard suddenly came back. Once he is relaxing it goes back in..right Geoffrey?
Yea sure.
Jon Meadows is the only RUclipsr who introduce unusual lifts that i've actually found useful. Geoff has introduced me to some good variations i wasnt familiar with also, of course.
Beginners definitely fall for flashy & over the top advice. A couple years back even I used to think Athlean X is the be all, end all!
Only when you start questioning the advise & do your own research is when you learn.
Same lol. Back in the day i used to think AthleanX was the only deal here. All you need is AthleanX and he's always right.
It's difficult for people walking into anything new, you don't know enough to separate real information and nonsense and hyperbole. I remember trying to figure out why my pec hurt right at the side from doing bench, I tried looking it up here and the first 20 results were all (not to name names) "one weird trick to fix BLANK" "20 BENCH WORKOUTS YOU NEED TO DO" "Bench isn't growing? TRY THIS!"
It took me a LONG time to really figure out a lot of stuff because at the time I didn't have anyone I could trust to ask so I flopped about with all these weird *tricks* to fix my problems.
i used to think kali muscle was natural when i was still in high school back in 2017 lmfao. i was listening to his ''more reps is better'' advice and stayed small doing 15-30 rep sets LOL until i found the hodgetwins and i started making gains finally. their advice was pretty good back in the day and i'm glad i also found this channel now.
I invented my own exercises just to save time in the gym by working muscles simultaneously. Here's an example:
Grab 2 dumbbells.
Stand on 1 leg with the other leg bent and raised up ( hip flexors, glutes, ankle muscles working). Now with 1 arm perform a shrug - bicep curl - overhead press and repeat x10. At the same time with the other hand perform a lateral raise - hammer curl - tricep kickback while doing a 1 legged RDL.
It's probably the best 10 minute workout in existence. I now pity all those suckers doing so called 'compound lifts'.
Hope this is a troll
@@hipdrive I guess I should be spending my trolling time on vshreds to be fair. Just commenting for the algorhythm.
I get all kinds of mires at the gym when I do my patented trap bar shoulder flys
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Aren't trap bars like 80 lbs? Hell I'd be mirin too
I'm glad I accidentally found this channel a while ago. Great stuff.
There's very little reason to invent new exercises simply because there's already so much out there. You think you need to invent something to meet a particular training goal? Have you looked at what the kettlebell sport folks are doing? What about the gymnastics/calisthenics folks? Modern competitive strongmen? How about old-school strongmen? Oly lifters? I can almost guarantee that there are multiple already existing tried and true ways to meet that training goal, most likely better than whatever you'd come up with yourself. And that way people have already studied and improved the exercise, you can learn from their experience. That's my main criticism of Seedman. I think he correctly identifies important things to train, but then he insists on inventing some dumb new proprietary exercise instead of doing a little research and using an already existing and superior way to meet that goal.
@@jugheadsrule You're overcomplicating it, man. I just take hikes and bring rocks back home, to ensure proper progressive overload.
I started out watching his videos. I quickly discovered yourself and folks like Steve Shaw and Sean Nalewanyj and just recently Alex Bromley. I'm so glad I did. Thanks for videos, Geoffrey. I always look forward to watching them!
@@veekayveediem2690 why do you say Steve Shaw and Sean are grifters?
Did you just re-grow a beard by sheer willpower?!
Obviously not, it was by sheer snapping power
Thanos gauntlet, thingamajig
Geoffrey is on TRT. There's proof he's not natty
He sneezed really hard between takes.
@@eddie8096 could I see it?
Love that you covered this topic! While I’m all about incorporating some minor tweaks to make an exercise more effective or difficult, there’s a point where it goes too far & even becomes less safe & effective.
While I actually like Ryan as a person, he’s the poster child of coming up with endless silly variations just to keep the views coming in. The issue is that a good amount of his creations are less effective & less safe than the tried & true exercises, with even small tweaks made to their form. And totally agree that most of his viewers are beginners who will build muscle strength & size doing just about anything in the beginning, so attributing their gains to his exercise creations is far from an accurate way to measure how effective his advice is.
@@veekayveediem2690 tbf he still uses basic movements but looks terrible doing it, lol.
As an impressionable lad, the ideas of muscle confusion and exercise variation definitely messed with my progression and contributed a lot to pains and injuries that I experienced along the way. If only I knew to focus on optimizing my form with the basics! RUclips fitness has come a long way. There still may be many shysters out there, but there are also a lot more real ones as well 💪🤓
Happy to see your channel growing man. Keep up the good work we love your content
Damn, the long game w/ the beard clip. Nice one!
Yeah tren made me instantly grow a beard like that too
Feel that contraction of the subscriber count😂😂🤣🤣
That beard intro was very good 😆.
I’ve started doing Lu Raises as well! Alec Enkiri turned me onto them💪🤓
Funny Lu turned me onto them
@@langleytrained6950 🤣🤣🤣 that killed me
Great video! 💪
Good advice for beginners to wait. Keeping targeted assistance in reserve for when compound progression has stalled is way better than having already stalled that assistance in the quest for random variety.
Keep the solid content coming G 👍💪
So true. This needed to be said!
I just love your videos Geoff. Seeing you do these little joke things and thinking how you probably laughed when you came up with it to yourself.
I just ''invented'' an exercise few days ago. Wanted to feel my outer head of the biceps more during dumbell curls so i fully supinated it and ''stayed with the tension'' and actually felt the difference. Used it as a ''finisher'' on pull day after doing all my heavy work. Have no clue if it did anything but it felt like a nice burn.
amazing intro as always
this channel is sooooooo underrated
100% most underrated channel
Having variety in your training past the beginner and early intermediate stage is necessary to make you more durable, some people take it too far though
thumbs up for the beard joke :D that's the real Thanos snap
Bonus points for the hodge twins reference. Yeeeeeaaaaaauuuuhhhh!
Real shit, I started as a powelifter and always low bar squatting. I just started high bar squatting, I usually hit sets of 365 or so for working sets, but a couple of weeks ago I started high bar for a bit more volume and quad focus and 275 tears my ass up and over that it’ll definitely compromise my form
I did it for the Algo. Let's go 40K!
I love you 😘. Daily reminder that Geoffrey slaps Athlean-X.
Since my shoulders and knees creak from swimming hundreds of miles and biking and running 1000s, I modify a few movements to I can work on the body parts I want to work on. For example I do single kettlebell floor chest presses while in the bridge position. Seems to put less stress on my shoulders. The way the KB hangs down positioning the weight directly behind by wrist works well for me as the lateral movement is minimized. Being in a bridge position I can squeeze my glute on hamstring on the working side to seemingly take more stress off my shoulder.
Works for me at least.
Them beard gains!
4:00 this is so true with pushups for me. Every time I do pushup I have to use different hand positioning.
Skateboard rows. I put my feet against a bar across the open end of the home squat rack and use the low cable like a C2 Rower. In public gyms I use the C2 for a couple of minutes to start my warm-up. Make sure to use a board with a flat deck, and don't sit so far forward that you flip it. Don't ask me how I know. It's a fun exercise: speed and noise. Safe so far (a year or so). Highly variable: light for warm-up, a little heavier for strength endurance in back and quads. Lat pulldown bar for rear delts, double rope hack for extended lat ROM and ability to simulate real (on water) rowing motion. I row on Long Island Sound and its tidal rivers, so that's good. I still have the money and space the C2 would have taken up.
I'm jealous of your beard sir i can't get any
Agree, we got hip thrust and meadow rows from elite lifters.. I wonder what else we can get that can be efficient and effective
Zercher Upright Row (barbell or Smith machine) is the only new exercise that I use, shout out Kyriakos Grizzly
Only exercise*
Such a good programme, got a template?
Lol! The best intro!!!
That beard regrowth was sick
Regarding the 'feeling the movement' philosophy: a personal great example of a compound exercise that when I do it I almost never feel the lats but the next day they get destroyed like nothing else is the Front Lever (albeit the Advanced Tuck variant as that's what I can pull off for now). I'm a firm believer that FL is a better exercise for developing the back than the majority of 'newly invented' exercises out there.
Face pulls are killing your beard gainz!
If the muscles are still the same muscles why do you need to create new workouts when the old ones have been working for decades or even centuries?
You should grow the Leonidas beard, before I got a job I had to shave. By far the best style I had it
I have such a hard time feeling back movements when I go heavy, but I get nowhere always going light
Don't go too heavy nor too light. Just the right weight where u can feel it, then increase slowly.
Sometimes you strike magic. People looked at the weightlifter dude doing RDLs like he was a mutant and now look at us. To this day it’s a top tier deadlift accessory. Fairly new too. Only about 40 years old.
Yup, lifting in the grand scheme of things isn't THAT old especially with all the new equipment, so it's best never to totally discount everything. On the other hand, a lot of stuff is definitely crap and just done for attention/views. Can be difficult for a beginner in particular to sort through everything!
The rdl has come on so far now that's its primary role is no longer and accessory. In the vast majority of programmes, rdl is the primary mover for the hip hinge. I'd say RDLs are a favoured movement over a conv dead. I'm not saying rdls are better than conv deads, I'm not a believer in 1 movement over the other but I personally think the rdl trumps the conv dead in terms of risk reward and general progression.
This doesn't apply to powerlifters or strongman, of course, more so to the general man or woman whom lifts seriously/recreationally.
Good mornings are light years better than RDLS. Around the same stimulus, but much easier to recover from on good mornings
@@rabbigoldbergsilverstein2899 not in my opinion nor in my experience.
They’re far less fatiguing, but the stimulus is objectively far lower as well. You can’t really compare the two. RDL can be a main movement, Good mornings are accessory work at best
They’re good though! If someone can’t do hyperextensions for some reason, good mornings are a good option.
@@BaldOmniMan obviously you should do both. I still do rdls now and then. But I primarily squat over deadlifts. And I’ve found good mornings being one of the best accessory for squat. You use much much less weight with the good mornings. That’s why I find them very easy on your cns.
I guess I like Ryan's "new exercises" because I have crappy equipment and some of his strange movements actually work well in conjunction with my equipment. That being said, of course I prioritize the main compound lifts, Ryan's videos do well as end-exercises once I've pooped myself out from the main lifts.
Geoffrey, what do you think of Athlean x’s waiter curl. He says that it emphasizes the biceps peak by eliminating the involvement of the forearms
Try it, see if you like it, and if it's in your top few biceps exercises, keep it. If not, toss it.
Maybe you'll like it, but I felt like it was way harder on my wrists, because of the weighted extension with full supination (anything with that wrist position feels like shit to me, which is why I say you might still like it). Personally, I prefer doing drag curls with a cable. Or just normal dumbbell or EZ bar curls (again, my wrists keep me from liking barbells for curls).
Good video Geoffrey! I quietly deactivated my Quora account last week…but the videos are more helpful now anyway…
I've do they regularly, and I like them but curls are just curls add them in for a little while and see if you like them
This reminds me comments on AthleanX videos when I used to watch the channel a few years ago, where people were saying they'd seen smeone doing new weird AX exercise at their gym after a new video had been published. And they feld like members of some elite secret society of people in the know :D
Geoff is so cool 😂 trust me I don’t say this about anybody
Are you implying that my resistance band bowling ball curls on a unicycle might not be optimal or even potentially dangerous? BLASPHEMY! Unsubscribed
That beard transformation was epic lol
Quick answer: No; why would you modify a winning team?
Yea. Good analogy. Or, just change one or two players to see if any bench riders are actually good. But don't change the whole team, for sure.
Geoff, I know this is a fitness channel, but are you willing to make a video about what life in China is for a foreigner? I’ve been really interested since I heard you saying you live there months ago.
I've thought about it but I'll probably keep the channel as fitness-focused as possible. I see some channels go into politics or crypto or other stuff and long term it kind of kills the momentum of the channel. Of course, I'm happy to answer any questions you have.
Geoffrey Verity Schofield gotcha. Well I got so many questions. Like how easy is it to find a job without degree? Because if I remember correctly, you used to be an English teacher and you didn’t use your university degree? Or if you know about engineers lol. are the salaries good? Is the night life good? Parks? Walkability? What city are you actually in? Are people welcoming to foreigners? How do you rate the food and lol I have so many questions
Hey Geoff, can you finally hope on the juice to check if it is really a better to switch to pump training or doing training that also works better for naturals 😂
"contraction of the subscribers" 🤣🤣🤣
alex mentioned those power shrugs with the hex like a long tiem ago. pree cool. B)
cant remember the guys youtube channel name, but somebody mentioned the lu raise, and he was doing it with weight plates, up to 45.
Enkiri Elite Fitness. Shouted them both out on my Instagram yesterday, both excellent movements from excellent creators :)
indeed
Seeing relatively less lean Athlean X in the thumbnail is terrifying
I’m so confused about the beard thing. What year is it?
so who is the inspiration for the fixed barbell hammer curl?
I got a Maybe silly question,do they make standard olympic bars? When I search I get crap results. Any help from anybody would be nice.
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In trying to figure out how the intro is metaphysically possible
lol he prolly recorded this video earlier, or just shaved a roadkill beaver and glued it to his face since that's what his beard usually looks like
@@cimi93x the roadkill beaver theory is solid
i was thinking to invent the standing on toilet biceps curl my toilet paper...
"they don't debate you, they just hate you"... Remembers Jonni Shreve video about GVS 🤔
That guy is a nocebo who believes in chiropractors .
I unsubscribed to him right after that video. It was a load of crap. The dude fell in my eyes that day. It was because of him and Greg that I found Geoff and I have no regrets.
Like the video. So I'm commenting on the wrinkled backdrop to help the RUclips algorithm get you more views ;)
Wait
The beard
Im way to high for this
Honestly I'd like to "invent" a good foot eversion and inversion exercises lol. My feets arch isn't as good as it used to be but arch presses is enough for that, Id still like to do sumin extra just to make sure tho
Love the beard but did it srly regrow in like a week?
What about the case of inventing exercises due to equipment limitations? E.g doing bicep curls with plates instead of dumbbells because all the dumbbells are being used for example
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"Rack pulls above the knee" lol
Thanos is that you🤔🤨
Grow your beard in just 22 days!
Maybe you should pause work on the current book and instead start a new one that focuses on beard hypertrophy?
Use beard tonic like in Red Dead Redemption. *Oh God, he did!
Humiston makes me laugh halfway through some vids it’s suddenly an ad for Viagra
15:25 LOL, too late friend, I already did. 🙂
ive seen people doing sideways leg presses at my gym smh
Considering Ryan Humiston’s videos are usually catered towards beginners, it makes sense on why a lot of people say that his stuff works and how his knowledge is so good. The exercises could work if done with enough intensity, but aren’t as good when compared to the fundamentals. When I played football in high school our strength training coach gave us really shitty workouts (probably less effective than Humiston’s exercises) and I still made progress since I had only been lifting for 4 months prior and was new to the gym. I thought he was a genius and that his advice was the holy grail of gains. I didn’t realize it was bad until I learned how to properly train and had made way better strength and muscle gains when experimenting and going really hard at my workouts in just a matter of months.
Beginners eventually have to smarten up, they won't make progress on only 20-30 rep fluff isolation work very long. It's always nice having a 14 year old tell me I'm an idiot for doing compound movements because they consumed too much Instagram content.
@@GVS 😂Very true, beginners most of the time have to learn from their mistakes (some more than others). It’s just another part of the journey.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that" -Seinfeld Inventing new exercises as long as they are safe and effective. Can make a workout more interesting...and keep one motivated.
I didn't believe in magic until I saw you
paused at the start of the vid and u look like u gonna sneeze harder than last time
Do you think i should reduce the weight on my pendlay row? I see it as a power movement and do low reps but i use a little leg drive and don't feel it too much. It is also hard to progress. Should i reduce the weight, do higher reps (8-12) and feel it more or continue as is. In a beginner btw.
Depends on what you want. I tend to do rows from the floor as heavy as possible with lots of leg drive. Maybe stay strict as a beginner though.
@@GVS ok, thx
Long live the Colina Press
#FreeCarlosColina
#notreallythough
When you get to 150kg minimum, you can start inventing your own exercises: high pulls, zercher traps, zercher shrugs and zercher front raises. Twinklean-X has no business doing so.
150kg?????? Do you mean FULL?
Nice vid once again. Also, will you ever collaborate with Greg someday?
I think one more point to consider is that you can modify an existing exercise to suit the equipment you have available.
At least you should tell us what exercises did you invent to train your facial hair follicles.
What about Jeff's waiter curl? I have personally tried this and it felt like it worked. Could have been where I had never tried it before
If you like it, and if it's in your top few biceps exercises, keep it. If not, toss it.
that's the only fancy variation ive actually liked and felt it well
Hi Geoffrey, I started lifting in November. It is now in july and my weight is now back to what it was when I first started. I am at a lower bodyfat percentage now and I am more muscular. Is that how muscle is usually built? I was at 147 when I started then I went down to 138 and over the months, I am about at 146-147 pounds now.
Sounds like you're on the right path.
@@GVS thanks I appreciate it. People like you, Greg doucette and others have given us invaluable knowledge. Thank you for the videos!
Hey, joke's on you. I do reverse Bosu ball Squats. To failure. And my physiotherapist says I've just bought her a second yacht.
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I don't know what is real anymore
Did you glue that beard on or something?
Ryan's hair has noticeably thinned since he's been on TRT!
Well yea, he's shaved it off actually. The right move IMO, it looks pretty badass.
I liked the video but i wanted to let you know i liked the light stubble way more than the full beard
8:09 lmao
Tbh I think that beginners should just stick to the basics and train hard.
Not related to the video but have you ever had a major injury?
Nothing requiring surgery or that really took me out for a while.