@@jagmbaksvshsh Nah it's a great exercise, he called it that because the other machine (abductor machine) involves you opening your legs against resistance, rather than closing them lol.
Mike is not even a pro. If cbum did all of what Mike said Mike would still critique the lack of pure lengthened partials. Edit: this is based on what he said regarding Jared turning pro. It boosted Jared’s credibility a lot. Mike simply lacks that
The pausing at the bottom of the adductor exercise and then letting the weight take you a bit deeper, is actually a stretching technique that we use regularly in Physiotherapy. It's part of the PNF techniques. 👍
The new editing trick where RP changes the tempo & pauses these athletes during work (or, alternatively Mike or Jared perform the move) to demonstrate the preferred tweaks is really helpful. Love it! Waiting for new RP content feels a little like waiting for a new 'Family Matters' to drop on a Friday night in the 90s.
I think this breakdown shows that its not the most precise technique that makes you the best in the world its the dedication to the training, recovery, and nutrition that makes you the best
Can you do more critiques of bodybuilders like John Meadows, Jay Cutler, etc.? I know critiquing celebrities probably gets more views, but the information in these types of videos is so much better!
I think that would risk making him a unpopular in his own circles. You don't want to be the guy constantly criticising all of your colleagues. That may burn a lot of bridges. And John Meadows is dead, so it would be seen as rather a low blow to criticise the workout advice of someone who isn't there to defend himself and who was generally well-liked by pretty much everyone. Not worth it.
You can go and watch Jay's videos to see for yourself it is majority good genetics and steroids and his work out is nothing out of ordinary and 99.9% population would not get those results even with roids.
@@alaron5698besides that, his criticism here is marginal, so you are better off, generally speaking, just following the bs and training videos. This criticism here is only relevant for top level or advanced lifters. For me, a very much less experienced guy in the gym, this video is just the steps for perfecting technique and training, but not majorly as significant as sleeping well to recover muscle is, for instance.
I tried your way of training legs (squats, legpress) (full range, pause, control on the way down and up), with less weight, it's been 4 days still have difficulty walking to the point where I could barely get to work. I squat 2-3 times a week, but nothing destroyed me like this.
Soreness doesnt mean anything. You can load up on a wall sit and do that over and over for ur workout and youll be sore as fuck but ur not gaining any mass.
@@ryanlowe7315incredibly flawed take. You dont need to be sore to grow, that is true.. But to say that soreness doesnt mean anything? False in so many ways.
@@MaxSoininen I'm guessing he just meant that soreness alone isn't an indicator of an effective workout... however if you're progressively overloading and working close to failure you're going to grow... and you're also going to get sore
Got my degree in exercise science and I’m currently working as a personal trainer and I learn so much about ques and techniques from watching your videos! Thank you!!
For me, this is the best ~ most useful ~ critique video you’ve done. The explanation of form tips, backed by research, could be invaluable for newer (or less clever!) trainees. My son is just starting lifting and this is one I will definitely make him watch. 👋👋👋
I totally hear that. My reservations about such a list are that: 1.) My list is for me and is unlikely to carry over to others because SFR is very individual. 2.) My list changes all the time as exercises get stale and others refresh, so I'd even disagree with my own list! - Dr. Mike
@@carolg6598 Sounds more like content he's not willing to push out if it's not for the benefit of the viewer. There's no benefit to know that he loved doing one exercise and now he doesn't because he got bored with it.
When you brought up the "who are you to critique" line, I was reminded of an old martial arts trainer of mine when he was pulled over constructively criticising some chap or other. He said I don't have to be able to fly to know that the sky is blue.
Man, I never realized it until now, but when Dr Mike said "he looks like the perfect man" and posted that photo at 4:22, CBum indeed looks like a marble statue of a goddamn greek god, so on point with the comment.
5:04 also we're probably getting genetic specimens who are closer to the tail of the distribution because body building has grown in popularity and the recruitment pool is larger
Same. I don’t train to join any bodybuilding contests I just train like them through the techniques from this channel. The vids in this channel is better than having a PT.
Could it be possible that peak contraction training improves the mind muscle connection on stage? Flexing is essentially just peak contractions, so it might be good specificity training.
Don’t remember who talked about it, might’ve been Joni shrieves but it was something along the lines as bodybuilding for competition should essentially be training for posing, so you should be focusing on movements and training that put you in positions to flex muscles in similar ways to being on stage.
I think it has more to do with a MMC, especially that he is doing leg extensions as the first quad exercise. Not only to prefatigue them, but as well work on the MMC for that specific session. But will make posing easier too, true to that.
I was thinking this same thing, does focusing on the contraction and holding it improve posing? One thing most the audience doesn’t understand is just how hard it is to pose on stage for so long, shit is so exhausting
Mike, thank you for all of this free information on training practices. I’ve gotten to the point in my training that just lifting weight doesn’t cut it.
I think it's worth clarifying too, especially with a seasoned lifter like Chris, I'm sure he might have injuries he deals with. What works best for him, might be inefficiency out of necessity and shouldn't be copied by most
and most people don't think about that so it's good dr mike speaks from the basics up. people usually just copy what they say instead of determining what's best for them, because they don't know what's best.
@@Janzer_ oh yea. We don't know exercises CBum avoids or all his injuries. Maybe some of those things are going on, but this training doesn't seem to be aimed at injury avoidance, even if the belt squats do point to that as being possible.
So many pro bodybuilders are clearly devouring and applying RP techniques. Even if they frame it like it's what they've learned over the years... except none of the pros, short of Hunter Labrada, were not focusing on the eccentric part of each exercise. My buddies that follow you will try and tell me 💩 and I'll remind them it took me multiple years to get them on board with RP. RP has changed the way most serious bodybuilders train. Thank you guys... and gals?🤷🏻♂️
This is the first time I heard anybody on youtube talking about plyometric movement patterns in the context of strength training and bodybuilding... Respect! I've been integrating plyometric type of movements for years now while doing regular resistance training (not talking about jumps), and it makes a difference in a lot of instances... :D
At 8:53 you talk positively about him not locking out at the top and summating lactate. Did your stance recently change on this topic? I thought I had heard you say keeping continuous tension wasn’t necessary / it’s essentially negligible to take pauses in between reps if you hit the same overall stress. Appreciate you taking the time to field this and all that you do dr mike
The thing I really respect about CBum is the transparency with everything. He will be the first one to tell you, his techniques aren’t great with a lot of movements, and he is continuing to learn so be can eliminate injuries. He trains more like he’s “polishing” his muscles groups instead of building. That’s why he continues blow away the competition and his cuts/preps go way more smoother then others.
I'd never heard the abductuor/adductor machines called the the bad girl/good girl machines before. My lifting partner called them "girl machines" when I first starting doing legs with him a few years ago. I feel like "good girl/bad girl" is something I should have figured out before this, but I am glad I know now. And I learned some other stuff. Good video!
@@TheNCcope I do a lot of more reps on the abductor than the adductor when I do legs. That fact probably a factor in why I developed an IT Band issue that has morphed into a back stiffness earlier this year. The gym I go to (a commercial gym) has a lot of guys who use those machines so there's not so many looks.Both of the machines are pretty brutal when appropriate weight is used.
Belt squats are the best! I had better results from belt squats than I did from heavy barbell work, and I could finish a workout with my low back feeling awesome. The low axial fatigue let me hammer my low back with heavy RDLs and strongman work too.
Besides that, this also lowers mental fatigue, since you are doing less systemic stimulus, specially if squatting wasn't the last exercise, which for strongman is likely the case.
Hey Dr Mike do you think so close to competition that practising that tight contraction may be more to do with his posing? IE since he's doing tight contractions at the top when it comes to posing it means he's able to squeeze his quad just that bit tighter
Big up for the animations and editing. Improved the quality of the video IMO and makes it easier to follow Mike's points. Noob question: Why the heck would the metabolites be sequestered if you don't lock out your legs? It's not like the blood circulation has stopped, right?
Hearing Mike talk is what I imagine a walking chat GPT robot talk about fitness, critiquing with all available research at his fingertips on immediate recall.
Am I the only one noticing that the pictures he shows when talking about bodybuilders from the 60s-40s at 4:45 are definitely from a much earlier decade? Very possibly one when steroids weren't (so readily) available.
he has a lisp Also, in regard to the work-OUT us canadians don't want to waste time over pronouncing the "out" like a german. So we say "wer-kout" to make it quicker. I've noticed that too. I haven't heard of someone say "oot" though, that's more hicktown canada (up north or prairies for us). The way Cbum pronounced it is how most canadians say it.
@@tamtech4804 Best genetics, close to perfect training (not perfect), very good work ethic, years of experience, close to best nutrition, close to best recovery
Went to high-school with a girl named Chastity and she was absolutely anything but...and I had the amazing chance to be near her when she found out what her name meant and got to listen to "oh no, I hope my dad didn't name me that hoping that would be what happened"
Dr. Mike around 14:20 you talk about Chris’s form how he starts off slow and pausing but toward the end of his set his reps start to speed up and he stops pausing. This is something I’m working on in my workouts and you say continuing to pause will maximize the stimulus and minimize the fatigue. I understand how given the research it would maximize the stimulus but how does it minimize the fatigue? Usually your body does something like that because it’s trying to make it “easier” meaning the slow pause is more difficult and therefore more fatiguing I would think but I’m not a doctor of sports science lol. Hope you had a great thanksgiving.
It minimizes systemic fatigue because you do less total work for the same stimulus. If you're training to a RPE target, then "cheating" with your reps by speeding up or skipping pauses (making it easier as you say) will just result in you having to do more reps which means more total fatigue. If by pausing and keeping eccentrics slow throughout the full set you can hit RPE 9 with 10 reps, but by skipping the pauses and speeding up you hit RPE 9 at 15 reps, you've done more total work and placed more fatigue on your body for the same end result. Speeding up or skipping pauses only actually makes it easier if you're working to a rep target and ignoring RPE, so you're suppoed to be getting RPE9 with 10 controlled slow reps but instead you rush them and that results in something more like an RPE7, so yeah, easier but then less gains.
It's more difficult, but you'll get fewer reps so the fatigue is back down to about the same. But, a deep pause with slow stretch can reduce the total nervous system activity for the same amount of tension imposed, and thus might have a slightly higher SFR. - Dr. Mike
The first time I ever did the abductor and adductor was when I was 14 with my mom and she called them “good girl and bad girls” and until my freshman year of college at 19 years old I called them that thinking that was their real name 😂
Can you make a video on different "advanced techniques" like drop sets, rest pause, long length partials, static reps etc. What are they good for? Do they really work in a bodybuilding context? Are some of them trash? Why are some of them good?
Thank you for the information. Very pragmatic and doesn’t make someone like me who has many side hustles and just wants to stay healthy, gain some size, and not get injured for life!!
Working on peak contraction isn't for growth, yes. But he's not trying to gain mass at this point. You want to focus your training on peak contraction for show. It's how you get that extreme definition and sculpt in poses. Have you ever looked at your calve during a charley horse. Besides the extreme pain, it's probably the most cut and defined your calf has or will ever look. He's training to get the hardest squeeze there,.. at peak contraction.
Dr. Mike had tons more to say about Chris' Training! Extended and Uncensored episodes available to our members! bit.ly/37esL8i
Dr. Mike why do you prioritize quad activation positioning on the leg press over the positioning that prioritizes the glutes???
what did he mean with bad girl? is the other machine bad
Says who?
@@Naldo411for bigger quads......
@@jagmbaksvshshHe was referring to the abductor machine where the concentric phase constitutes spreading the legs farther apart.
Someone said the way he’s sitting at the desk makes him look like a buff baby and I cannot unsee it now
I personally believe he is standing and the rest of the chair is a prop
This is giving me real boss baby vibes
If he moved the table up a couple inches it'd be even better😂
Like a baby in a high chair chugging protein out of Gerber baby food jars
I feel a mind-muscle connection to Dr Mike’s videos.
I as well feel one specifically somewhere in the lower body
Who is this guy. This is a God tier comment
I read comments for this kind of comments
@@VirtualDemoOG fr 😂
Oh that’s weird. I just feel it in my pecker
I think the fact that you can go from sequestering metabolites to unhinged good girl bad girl anecdotes is what makes these videos so great. 😂
That's what keeps me coming back
what did he mean with bad girl? is the other machine bad
@@jagmbaksvshsh Nah it's a great exercise, he called it that because the other machine (abductor machine) involves you opening your legs against resistance, rather than closing them lol.
@@jagmbaksvshsh anti-putang machine
Haha thank you, thank you. - Dr. Mike
Dr. Mike is one of the very few people that has enough credibility to critique a 5x Mr. Olympia.
Mike is not even a pro.
If cbum did all of what Mike said Mike would still critique the lack of pure lengthened partials.
Edit: this is based on what he said regarding Jared turning pro. It boosted Jared’s credibility a lot. Mike simply lacks that
Hahaha good point
Very VERY few 💪🏽
@@soonaherobeing a pro doesn’t give you a right to critique, a PHD in sports science with a lot of experience coaching pros does…
@@3h0wn3dm8 I'm just trying to figure out how to get those mummy abs
That Greg Doucette impression killed me 💀
I peed a little
Same! 😂
Every time!
So funny 😂😂😂
Whats the beef?
The pausing at the bottom of the adductor exercise and then letting the weight take you a bit deeper, is actually a stretching technique that we use regularly in Physiotherapy. It's part of the PNF techniques. 👍
Contract relax my g
The new editing trick where RP changes the tempo & pauses these athletes during work (or, alternatively Mike or Jared perform the move) to demonstrate the preferred tweaks is really helpful. Love it! Waiting for new RP content feels a little like waiting for a new 'Family Matters' to drop on a Friday night in the 90s.
I think this breakdown shows that its not the most precise technique that makes you the best in the world its the dedication to the training, recovery, and nutrition that makes you the best
Can you do more critiques of bodybuilders like John Meadows, Jay Cutler, etc.? I know critiquing celebrities probably gets more views, but the information in these types of videos is so much better!
I think that would risk making him a unpopular in his own circles. You don't want to be the guy constantly criticising all of your colleagues. That may burn a lot of bridges. And John Meadows is dead, so it would be seen as rather a low blow to criticise the workout advice of someone who isn't there to defend himself and who was generally well-liked by pretty much everyone. Not worth it.
You can go and watch Jay's videos to see for yourself it is majority good genetics and steroids and his work out is nothing out of ordinary and 99.9% population would not get those results even with roids.
@@alaron5698besides that, his criticism here is marginal, so you are better off, generally speaking, just following the bs and training videos. This criticism here is only relevant for top level or advanced lifters. For me, a very much less experienced guy in the gym, this video is just the steps for perfecting technique and training, but not majorly as significant as sleeping well to recover muscle is, for instance.
Didn't Mr. Meadows past away last yr?
@@deaddoggyinc I think it was the year before.
I didn't know that I needed the adductors explanation so much.
You are my hero, greetings from Spain.
"You're not CBum, you're A Bum" - Dom Mazzetti
Sometimes we B Bum(s).
B Cum
"Right now you're just A bum, if you want to Bcum Cbum you gotta hit the juice"
@@TheArchiver I believe it was Ghandi who said that.
I tried your way of training legs (squats, legpress) (full range, pause, control on the way down and up), with less weight, it's been 4 days still have difficulty walking to the point where I could barely get to work. I squat 2-3 times a week, but nothing destroyed me like this.
Haha I'm sorry! - Dr. Mike
How many exercises and sets did you do?
Soreness doesnt mean anything. You can load up on a wall sit and do that over and over for ur workout and youll be sore as fuck but ur not gaining any mass.
@@ryanlowe7315incredibly flawed take. You dont need to be sore to grow, that is true.. But to say that soreness doesnt mean anything? False in so many ways.
@@MaxSoininen I'm guessing he just meant that soreness alone isn't an indicator of an effective workout... however if you're progressively overloading and working close to failure you're going to grow... and you're also going to get sore
Got my degree in exercise science and I’m currently working as a personal trainer and I learn so much about ques and techniques from watching your videos! Thank you!!
For me, this is the best ~ most useful ~ critique video you’ve done. The explanation of form tips, backed by research, could be invaluable for newer (or less clever!) trainees. My son is just starting lifting and this is one I will definitely make him watch. 👋👋👋
Hey Dr Mike, you know what might be really sweet? Your own tier list for SFR exercises. I think that would be so good.
Seconded
I totally hear that. My reservations about such a list are that:
1.) My list is for me and is unlikely to carry over to others because SFR is very individual.
2.) My list changes all the time as exercises get stale and others refresh, so I'd even disagree with my own list!
- Dr. Mike
@@RenaissancePeriodizationit sounds like this would be an evolving list that you could talk about on a regular basis.
@@carolg6598 Sounds more like content he's not willing to push out if it's not for the benefit of the viewer. There's no benefit to know that he loved doing one exercise and now he doesn't because he got bored with it.
When you brought up the "who are you to critique" line, I was reminded of an old martial arts trainer of mine when he was pulled over constructively criticising some chap or other. He said I don't have to be able to fly to know that the sky is blue.
“I’ve never seen or talked to a women.” Had me rolling 🤣🤣 @16:35
Man, I never realized it until now, but when Dr Mike said "he looks like the perfect man" and posted that photo at 4:22, CBum indeed looks like a marble statue of a goddamn greek god, so on point with the comment.
CBum looks amazing, but I'd argue that the perfect man is one that is capable of hunting big game (in packs of people), and CBum is far from that
Weird ass comment xD@@defeqel6537
what the hell are you talking about
5:04 also we're probably getting genetic specimens who are closer to the tail of the distribution because body building has grown in popularity and the recruitment pool is larger
I can't express how valuable this channel has been to my training. Great video as always. Ty Mike!
Same. I don’t train to join any bodybuilding contests I just train like them through the techniques from this channel. The vids in this channel is better than having a PT.
18:15 Great Great idea of using footage to explain the technique Dr Mike describes! Instantly understandable!
I would love to see a response/react from Chris
Why would he is a waist of time
Chris responded on instagram and he called Mike some words but Mike liked it since he is a masochist and wants Chris to do stuff to him
@@Nathanathaniel LMAO, any link?
@@yannickwillems1991 dude what
a waist of time? not a chest of time? @@yannickwillems1991
Could it be possible that peak contraction training improves the mind muscle connection on stage? Flexing is essentially just peak contractions, so it might be good specificity training.
Awesome question
Don’t remember who talked about it, might’ve been Joni shrieves but it was something along the lines as bodybuilding for competition should essentially be training for posing, so you should be focusing on movements and training that put you in positions to flex muscles in similar ways to being on stage.
I think it has more to do with a MMC, especially that he is doing leg extensions as the first quad exercise. Not only to prefatigue them, but as well work on the MMC for that specific session. But will make posing easier too, true to that.
I was thinking this same thing, does focusing on the contraction and holding it improve posing? One thing most the audience doesn’t understand is just how hard it is to pose on stage for so long, shit is so exhausting
possibly also on the margins regional hypertrophy and lower risk of injury being warmer for lengthened stuff later
Every DR Mike video should be titled "Exercise scientist critiques X's training routine... And also shares his inner gay thoughts"
Been waiting for this! Please make it a series, maybe tackle different suboptimal training styles. HIT bros look out.
He made one about HIT training pros and cons!
Mike, thank you for all of this free information on training practices. I’ve gotten to the point in my training that just lifting weight doesn’t cut it.
I think it's worth clarifying too, especially with a seasoned lifter like Chris, I'm sure he might have injuries he deals with. What works best for him, might be inefficiency out of necessity and shouldn't be copied by most
and most people don't think about that so it's good dr mike speaks from the basics up. people usually just copy what they say instead of determining what's best for them, because they don't know what's best.
@@Janzer_ oh yea. We don't know exercises CBum avoids or all his injuries. Maybe some of those things are going on, but this training doesn't seem to be aimed at injury avoidance, even if the belt squats do point to that as being possible.
Yessss. That's true very often for very many, myself included! - Dr. Mike
I love watching your videos because I learn and can genuinely laugh at the same time. Thanks, Dr. Mike.
Love your content Dr.mike! Hello from Denmark
I love how impossible it is to talk about CBum without mentioning what a nice chap he seems to be
Your Greg D impression had me rolling , twice the effect that you did there with him 😂🤣💀
0:10 This sounds like Joe Bartolozzi doing an impression of Greg
This validates most of my leg training. Love this channel
love that mike is staying humble and watching chris' video in 480p
Pretty sure your the only one willing to put out a video like this, respectful but with critiques as well. Kudos
My first Dr. Mike vid and I was not expecting the self-deprecating jokes jumping out of nowhere but I'm all for it hahaha. Keep it up!
So many pro bodybuilders are clearly devouring and applying RP techniques. Even if they frame it like it's what they've learned over the years... except none of the pros, short of Hunter Labrada, were not focusing on the eccentric part of each exercise. My buddies that follow you will try and tell me 💩 and I'll remind them it took me multiple years to get them on board with RP. RP has changed the way most serious bodybuilders train. Thank you guys... and gals?🤷🏻♂️
This is the first time I heard anybody on youtube talking about plyometric movement patterns in the context of strength training and bodybuilding... Respect! I've been integrating plyometric type of movements for years now while doing regular resistance training (not talking about jumps), and it makes a difference in a lot of instances... :D
Clicked on the notif instantly
Being this big, funny, and knowledgeable.....you're gonna keep winning man. Dope content!
This is good advice l have learnt a lot from you keep up the good work
This was actually the most respectful critique video I’ve ever watched .
Id would love to see bald omni man doing a full body workout on your channel, he knows a lot about training
At 8:53 you talk positively about him not locking out at the top and summating lactate. Did your stance recently change on this topic? I thought I had heard you say keeping continuous tension wasn’t necessary / it’s essentially negligible to take pauses in between reps if you hit the same overall stress. Appreciate you taking the time to field this and all that you do dr mike
Lmao just got to 15:30 and that makes loads of sense. I’ll leave this dialogue with myself here for another would-be premature question asker.
Yeaa thats my question
@@Skepticalstudent45ah yeaa 15:30 ok
@@mateusznikicik8770yeah I was mistaken more like at 15:00 he elucidates the rationale but still, makes sense! Glad you found this useful
Hey Dr Mike, can you suggest some tibialis exercises for us? Thanks!
Love the humor. Earned a sub for that alone, let alone all the information thats going over my head.
That Doucette imitation was actually spot on!
The thing I really respect about CBum is the transparency with everything. He will be the first one to tell you, his techniques aren’t great with a lot of movements, and he is continuing to learn so be can eliminate injuries. He trains more like he’s “polishing” his muscles groups instead of building. That’s why he continues blow away the competition and his cuts/preps go way more smoother then others.
I'd never heard the abductuor/adductor machines called the the bad girl/good girl machines before. My lifting partner called them "girl machines" when I first starting doing legs with him a few years ago. I feel like "good girl/bad girl" is something I should have figured out before this, but I am glad I know now. And I learned some other stuff. Good video!
I use the adductor machine because it's a weak area for me and I always get funny looks at the gym 😂
@@TheNCcope I do a lot of more reps on the abductor than the adductor when I do legs. That fact probably a factor in why I developed an IT Band issue that has morphed into a back stiffness earlier this year. The gym I go to (a commercial gym) has a lot of guys who use those machines so there's not so many looks.Both of the machines are pretty brutal when appropriate weight is used.
The adductor def fills out your inner leg though 😅
Doing a Coach Greg impression to Coach Greg is more unhinged than last time
0:30 the impersonation never gets old
This is the one I've been waiting for!
11:00 Sadly nearly no gym has belt squat machines
I don't follow the rp app/program, but i do catch myself at the gym lifting with slow proper form thinking... Dr. Mike would approve. 🤣
Belt squats are the best! I had better results from belt squats than I did from heavy barbell work, and I could finish a workout with my low back feeling awesome. The low axial fatigue let me hammer my low back with heavy RDLs and strongman work too.
Besides that, this also lowers mental fatigue, since you are doing less systemic stimulus, specially if squatting wasn't the last exercise, which for strongman is likely the case.
@@VeteranVandal Correct, I generally did compound lifts first to get really warmed up, then strongman, then accessories.
@@jpryan90 my gym has no belt squat and no hack squat and it is frankly saddening.
8:05 "Chris is using all the weight in the gym" 🤣 actually tho
Hey Dr Mike do you think so close to competition that practising that tight contraction may be more to do with his posing?
IE since he's doing tight contractions at the top when it comes to posing it means he's able to squeeze his quad just that bit tighter
double role as extra time warming up
Great stuff as always Dr. Mike. Could’ve done with more innuendos tho. 👍
Big up for the animations and editing. Improved the quality of the video IMO and makes it easier to follow Mike's points.
Noob question: Why the heck would the metabolites be sequestered if you don't lock out your legs? It's not like the blood circulation has stopped, right?
Circulation is much lower when the muscle is contracting, so yes, that actually works! - Dr. Mike
@@RenaissancePeriodization Thanks for the clarification. That makes a lot more sense to me now.
14:15 proper use of Fewer vs Less. A+ grammar, Mike.
The greg doucette impersonation is on point
I love seeing him do smith squats! So many people talk shit about them, but I fucking love them. Glad that Dr. Mike approves.
Hearing Mike talk is what I imagine a walking chat GPT robot talk about fitness, critiquing with all available research at his fingertips on immediate recall.
TBH shitty analogy because chat GPT doesnt have credibility in his random copipasta from internet
This is the single biggest compliment I have ever received. Thank you! - Dr. Mike
@@RenaissancePeriodization you’re very welcome. Love the channel!
Great video!! Super funny and love, the information !!
these videos help me enjoy life
Am I the only one noticing that the pictures he shows when talking about bodybuilders from the 60s-40s at 4:45 are definitely from a much earlier decade? Very possibly one when steroids weren't (so readily) available.
Gotta admit I have started doing more lenghtened partials. Rarely have I grunted and struggled as much as I have been lately
💯
Ive been waiting for this one
I never heard him speak before so I had no idea he had a speech impediment (or maybe it’s just the Canadian accent).
It's a lisp
he has a lisp
Also, in regard to the work-OUT us canadians don't want to waste time over pronouncing the "out" like a german. So we say "wer-kout" to make it quicker. I've noticed that too. I haven't heard of someone say "oot" though, that's more hicktown canada (up north or prairies for us). The way Cbum pronounced it is how most canadians say it.
That’s what I thought. I had one of his energy drinks a few weeks ago and the spelling on it was all weird. Now it all makes sense.
Lol that “Yeah jk, I take that all back” got me for some reason 😂
15:29 Now we know how Dr. Mike paid for his Lambo.
It’s so funny to see dr.mike being all serious and professional 😂
Fair play to Dr Mike for critiquing a 5 time Olympia champion, most would shy away cause of his success. Even the best dont have perfect training!
Then how he is the best
@@tamtech4804 Best genetics, close to perfect training (not perfect), very good work ethic, years of experience, close to best nutrition, close to best recovery
@@tamtech4804he’s not, he’s like 80 lbs under what he’d need to be to win open
Genes.
@@abkonkhe’s not, he’s super light, he’s lucky the classic division started to exist 6 years ago or he’d be a nobody
7:50 cbum chelating all of the iron in the gym lol
Interesting... now let's see Ramon's training
Excellent commentary and amusing delivery!
Dat greg impression lol I'm dying!
Great approach to such a hard video to make. Wont make everyone happy, but fuck em. Good insight, thanks mate
4:48 "from the 40s" shows strongmen from 1910 at the latest
yeah as a historian that kinda drove me nuts for a second lol
yes sir!! I'm so ready for this one
Went to high-school with a girl named Chastity and she was absolutely anything but...and I had the amazing chance to be near her when she found out what her name meant and got to listen to "oh no, I hope my dad didn't name me that hoping that would be what happened"
Hhahahah yikes! - Dr. Mike
Dr. Mike around 14:20 you talk about Chris’s form how he starts off slow and pausing but toward the end of his set his reps start to speed up and he stops pausing. This is something I’m working on in my workouts and you say continuing to pause will maximize the stimulus and minimize the fatigue. I understand how given the research it would maximize the stimulus but how does it minimize the fatigue? Usually your body does something like that because it’s trying to make it “easier” meaning the slow pause is more difficult and therefore more fatiguing I would think but I’m not a doctor of sports science lol. Hope you had a great thanksgiving.
It minimizes systemic fatigue because you do less total work for the same stimulus. If you're training to a RPE target, then "cheating" with your reps by speeding up or skipping pauses (making it easier as you say) will just result in you having to do more reps which means more total fatigue.
If by pausing and keeping eccentrics slow throughout the full set you can hit RPE 9 with 10 reps, but by skipping the pauses and speeding up you hit RPE 9 at 15 reps, you've done more total work and placed more fatigue on your body for the same end result.
Speeding up or skipping pauses only actually makes it easier if you're working to a rep target and ignoring RPE, so you're suppoed to be getting RPE9 with 10 controlled slow reps but instead you rush them and that results in something more like an RPE7, so yeah, easier but then less gains.
It's more difficult, but you'll get fewer reps so the fatigue is back down to about the same. But, a deep pause with slow stretch can reduce the total nervous system activity for the same amount of tension imposed, and thus might have a slightly higher SFR. - Dr. Mike
The first time I ever did the abductor and adductor was when I was 14 with my mom and she called them “good girl and bad girls” and until my freshman year of college at 19 years old I called them that thinking that was their real name 😂
You know what, it might as well be their real name lol! - Dr. Mike
New to this channel and I’m loving the content! 👏🏽🙏🏽
Yo, even if I wasn’t in to fitness and learning how to improve in the gym I would still watch your vids Dr. Mike - you are funny as shit
Absolutely love listening to this guy explain things !
Can you make a video on different "advanced techniques" like drop sets, rest pause, long length partials, static reps etc. What are they good for? Do they really work in a bodybuilding context? Are some of them trash? Why are some of them good?
Already have, sir! Check this one out: th-cam.com/video/V71TGRQaLRs/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUHbXlvcmVwcw%3D%3D - Dr. Mike
@@RenaissancePeriodization 👍
… in the gym listening to this now on a hip sled. The pause on the bottom is crazy!!!
the only open bodybuilding Olympia athlete that subscribed to "full ROM" tore his hamstring off a couple weeks out, the hubris of this video is crazy
Your claim is that full ROM caused the tear?
@@VeteranVandal I don't know anything, but it doesn't seem like a good look 🤷♂️
@@thanehutt3996now you don't know anything? You have to pick one.
Thank you for the information. Very pragmatic and doesn’t make someone like me who has many side hustles and just wants to stay healthy, gain some size, and not get injured for life!!
Working on peak contraction isn't for growth, yes. But he's not trying to gain mass at this point. You want to focus your training on peak contraction for show. It's how you get that extreme definition and sculpt in poses. Have you ever looked at your calve during a charley horse. Besides the extreme pain, it's probably the most cut and defined your calf has or will ever look. He's training to get the hardest squeeze there,.. at peak contraction.
I’ve never thought about this before, thanks for the comment 👍
Oh man unfortunately I don't think peak contractions help with definition at all. - Dr. Mike
Dr. Mike is like if shrek and Mr. Clean had a baby and my distal anatomy is stimulated
Nobody is perfect. Just listen to Chris speak.
LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!!!!!
the greg impression was excellent :)))
I noticed it looks like you got clubbed fingernails. Hope you are aware of that and the implications
That Bass Pro Shops hat animation was hilarious 😂
Imagine critiquing the literal world champion.
Unreal.
Imagine not watching the fucking video where he literally addresses this 😮
8:47 is when Dr. Mike claims that Cbum is lactating