For the last year I've been battling plantar fasciitis. Through trial and error, listening to my body, research, and common sense, I've managed to minimize it. But my ankles and arches are acting up from compensation, and things below the knee are mildly messed up now. I finally realized (with the help of your vids) that instead of focusing on coddling the bottom of my feet, I need to work on strengthening what drives them from above. I've always had bad posture and a bit of a turnout; I need to strengthen my legs and core to not just heal my feet but correct and prevent the root of how I got PF in the first place. That said, I would love any tips on training specifically to strengthen walking mechanics. OR, even better, please make a video on it! (PF is such a common in jury.) I'm not expecting a cure, I just need some guidance through this paradigm shift. Gracias, as always.
Brilliant! often we tend to say too generic question/comment. how to run faster, best exercise, I want I travel.. I want to make.. and because it's too generic we improvise without really knowing what we are doing (especially in training). but at the end you're absolutely right. Limiting factors is the key!!! cheers Essop
Essop man I really have to thank you for doing what you do. The videos you make have given me a new perspective on life in general. So I guess you can say you've changed my life. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos. (I'm going to utilize every bit of information I can) Biggest limiting factor: Top speed endurance. - time to get to work.
This video is really good especially the limiting factors part where I can "testify!". Got back to lifting after a long break and wanted to improve my deadlift which really sucked. I have long limbs and larger than average hands with long skinny (weak) fingers. In the past, I never really took an objective look at my bodytype and the advantages/disadvantages for certain lifts until now. So then I realized that I was looking at the deadlift all wrong AND had the really big limiting factors of scraping up my shins, losing grip as well as not focusing on keeping tension in the back and "leg pressing" the weight off the floor. I tried deadlifting with a "trap bar" from a deficit and it seemed to solve all my problems in one go since it accommodated all my limiting factors instantly, in no time I was deadlifting with a trap bar 100kg more than I attempted with the deadlift years earlier.
I'm disappointed in the TH-cam fitness community, they sit there and subscribe and like all of these unnatural people on steroids, who say "if you take x supplement and follow x routine you will be like me one day" meanwhile there are channels like yours, who have content that is not only true, but informative and entertaining, please keep up the good work because channels like yours are hard to come across, cheers
I wouldn't doubt that you've (probably) covered this before but I find that the questions about "best" exercise are (kind of) like the cousin to the "perfect" training approach. Lots of people advocate for HIIT over steady state cardio, or heavy weight over high reps, without any consideration for the individual who is doing it. In my opinion, when you take a 30+ year old man who is overweight, out of shape, has significant muscle imbalances, poor running form, and poor neuromuscular control and get them to do HIIT on a treadmill you're (essentially) trying to cause an injury. Similarly, if you take the same person and have them do 80% of their 1 rep max on an exercise they will likely "snap" something. A large portion of training (in my opinion) is creating the physical foundations to be able to achieve a higher level of training. Using your school analogy, calculus isn't a better form of math than algebra but it is more advanced are requires a fundamental understanding of algebra. Similarly HIIT running isn't a better form of training than steady state running but it is a more advanced training approach which requires the fundamentals built from steady state running.
I found your channel last week and I really have been enjoying your videos. Thanks for the great info! I have a question about training. I'm not a serious athlete and I'm not trying to achieve an austhetic goal, I just enjoy being active and try to stay healthy so to make things entertaining I sometimes set a goal for myself ie I want to work towards doing 20 push-ups in the next three months. How should someone like me set short term and long term goals and how should I train towards those goals? I know you don't like cookie cutter programs for everyone and that is a logical point so how should the average non competing person without access to a personal trainer approach these things?
Im a two sport athlete in ther US. In the fall I play football (soccer) and Im a sprinter in the Spring. This has been my worst year for sprinting, but best for football. Do you have any suggestions as to how to improve in both at the same time.
Excellent video as usual. I think a video on why sprinters tend to have ATP would be pretty cool - considering that the academic arena suggests that ATP is messing everyone up, athletes or not. But then again you have entire demographics with genetic ATP who are fine. I mean, I just don't buy into the scholars and scientific assertion that 'ATP is evolutionary backward' and that a 'posterior tilt is evolutionary advantageous '. I mean eugenicist rhetoric never died, in science or otherwise, and in athletics - boy are they going hard in the paint... but that's a different discussion entirely I guess...the anti-black rhetoric prevalent in sports and athletics is crazy. Anyway, I just don't buy this evolutionary 'disadvantage' talk...it stinks of scientific racism...you just gotta have some critical thinking skills and an understanding of complex racism. Anyway your thoughts would be appreciated.
clarence seedorf not too sure on any of this but when it comes to discrimination, it is hard wired since birth. Yes, forms of ethnocentrism will never die.
not relevant i know but just wondering why sprinters tend to have AP Tilt as i have it and have also heard you mention it in other videos. Every place i read just says its due to tight hamstrings but mine are very flexible.
Hamstring ar not tight in APT, they are weak alongside the glutes. The quads and hip flexor are tight whilst the abs (lower abs) hamstring and glutes are weak.
Can you give examples of limiting factors? and how one might solve these. It might help the noobs get in flow a little quicker. Btw I don't run... unless I'm late for the bus but I love your lessons as they can be applied to many different areas of life. Cheers.
great video! just wanted to ask your view on pusher and puller when it comes to sprinting mechanics. quad dominant sprinters who push the floor (chambers, klity) to hip dominant sprinters who have greater posterior activation (gay, Blake)?
Hi I really like your videos and they make complete sense. You talk a lot about anterior pelvic tilt which I have and causes pain when I squat.so how do I fix this with corrective stretching and exercise?
Dragon flags, essop. I do dragon flags twice a week and i have the strongest core between all my friends. What's your opinion on it? Love your channel by the way! Edit: let me explain my question a little more; is intense ab training for sheer strength more important for a sprinter, or do you have any other favorite ab exercise that you think i could benefit from instead of just doing dragon flags all the time?
Yo Essop, I have discovered my limitation is my frustratingly low amount of fast twitch muscles. How can I work around this to sprint faster and jump higher?
I wish youtube channels were a market place and you could buy stock in a youtuber like a company. I'd invest in this channel hardcore. Sky's the limit Essop!
pull -> push -> twist -> flex -> bend -> squat -> lunge -> sprint Sir, can elaborate these in one of your videos. I'm a newbie here and some are not available in youtube. Thanks a lot!
Hi essop.. during my last question regarding training as we grow older you said to focus on eliminating the limiting factors to speed .. how to we find the limiting factors and how do we eliminate them? thanks..
Out of curiosity: Has Dr Peterson made such claim somewhere that there is no physical intelligence? All i've heard him say is that our whole body is intelligent unit, not just our brain. But beyond that i've not heard him speak anything about the matter. As a long time listener of Dr Peterson: I believe that he has bias towards social side of our psychology (career, family, friends etc) . While Carl Jung was more on personal transformation (dreams, balanced being, individuation). Both ignoring our physical side, which i believe to be third major contributor to healthy human life and transformation of individual. And i think they failed to see how important athletes are to our culture.
No offence but please try sticking to giving excellent athletics info and leave out the lame jokes, they are extremely unfunny and sometimes not even understandable so it makes for uncomfortably cringey viewing when you're presenting the channel with an overly contrived aura. Im not hating im subbed. Keep up the astute work Essop!
What a great video. Thanks for posting (PS, I love your editing style...but maybe I'm old school as well, lol;-)
For the last year I've been battling plantar fasciitis. Through trial and error, listening to my body, research, and common sense, I've managed to minimize it. But my ankles and arches are acting up from compensation, and things below the knee are mildly messed up now. I finally realized (with the help of your vids) that instead of focusing on coddling the bottom of my feet, I need to work on strengthening what drives them from above. I've always had bad posture and a bit of a turnout; I need to strengthen my legs and core to not just heal my feet but correct and prevent the root of how I got PF in the first place.
That said, I would love any tips on training specifically to strengthen walking mechanics. OR, even better, please make a video on it! (PF is such a common in jury.) I'm not expecting a cure, I just need some guidance through this paradigm shift. Gracias, as always.
Brilliant! often we tend to say too generic question/comment. how to run faster, best exercise, I want I travel.. I want to make.. and because it's too generic we improvise without really knowing what we are doing (especially in training).
but at the end you're absolutely right. Limiting factors is the key!!!
cheers Essop
So basically what you're saying is the bench press is the best exercise and it will decrease my 100m time by a second?
Nope
Essop man I really have to thank you for doing what you do. The videos you make have given me a new perspective on life in general. So I guess you can say you've changed my life.
Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos.
(I'm going to utilize every bit of information I can)
Biggest limiting factor: Top speed endurance. - time to get to work.
No dislikes. Excellent job
Another great video Essop. very hlpful. thanks buddy. like #71
This video is really good especially the limiting factors part where I can "testify!". Got back to lifting after a long break and wanted to improve my deadlift which really sucked. I have long limbs and larger than average hands with long skinny (weak) fingers. In the past, I never really took an objective look at my bodytype and the advantages/disadvantages for certain lifts until now. So then I realized that I was looking at the deadlift all wrong AND had the really big limiting factors of scraping up my shins, losing grip as well as not focusing on keeping tension in the back and "leg pressing" the weight off the floor.
I tried deadlifting with a "trap bar" from a deficit and it seemed to solve all my problems in one go since it accommodated all my limiting factors instantly, in no time I was deadlifting with a trap bar 100kg more than I attempted with the deadlift years earlier.
I'm disappointed in the TH-cam fitness community, they sit there and subscribe and like all of these unnatural people on steroids, who say "if you take x supplement and follow x routine you will be like me one day" meanwhile there are channels like yours, who have content that is not only true, but informative and entertaining, please keep up the good work because channels like yours are hard to come across, cheers
Congrats on 8k subs Essop.
so true my friend. Beyond just lifting, logic
Yes thats true.
I wouldn't doubt that you've (probably) covered this before but I find that the questions about "best" exercise are (kind of) like the cousin to the "perfect" training approach. Lots of people advocate for HIIT over steady state cardio, or heavy weight over high reps, without any consideration for the individual who is doing it.
In my opinion, when you take a 30+ year old man who is overweight, out of shape, has significant muscle imbalances, poor running form, and poor neuromuscular control and get them to do HIIT on a treadmill you're (essentially) trying to cause an injury. Similarly, if you take the same person and have them do 80% of their 1 rep max on an exercise they will likely "snap" something. A large portion of training (in my opinion) is creating the physical foundations to be able to achieve a higher level of training.
Using your school analogy, calculus isn't a better form of math than algebra but it is more advanced are requires a fundamental understanding of algebra. Similarly HIIT running isn't a better form of training than steady state running but it is a more advanced training approach which requires the fundamentals built from steady state running.
Absolutely and great examples.
Bro I love your vids make some more please 👑💯
Great framing of the training and exercise paradigm - I like to use "neophyte" for the passionate newbie.
Lol liked the Jordan Peterson joke, Im in the University of Toronto as well
"Sanitizes the wickedness" - Quoted for truth.
I found your channel last week and I really have been enjoying your videos. Thanks for the great info!
I have a question about training. I'm not a serious athlete and I'm not trying to achieve an austhetic goal, I just enjoy being active and try to stay healthy so to make things entertaining I sometimes set a goal for myself ie I want to work towards doing 20 push-ups in the next three months.
How should someone like me set short term and long term goals and how should I train towards those goals? I know you don't like cookie cutter programs for everyone and that is a logical point so how should the average non competing person without access to a personal trainer approach these things?
sensory overload!!! Spectrum plus fundamentals too much flashing lights lol.
Im a two sport athlete in ther US. In the fall I play football (soccer) and Im a sprinter in the Spring. This has been my worst year for sprinting, but best for football. Do you have any suggestions as to how to improve in both at the same time.
love the content essop keep it up! :)
Wow no dislikes! And yes, you make good points
Excellent video as usual. I think a video on why sprinters tend to have ATP would be pretty cool - considering that the academic arena suggests that ATP is messing everyone up, athletes or not. But then again you have entire demographics with genetic ATP who are fine. I mean, I just don't buy into the scholars and scientific assertion that 'ATP is evolutionary backward' and that a 'posterior tilt is evolutionary advantageous '. I mean eugenicist rhetoric never died, in science or otherwise, and in athletics - boy are they going hard in the paint... but that's a different discussion entirely I guess...the anti-black rhetoric prevalent in sports and athletics is crazy. Anyway, I just don't buy this evolutionary 'disadvantage' talk...it stinks of scientific racism...you just gotta have some critical thinking skills and an understanding of complex racism. Anyway your thoughts would be appreciated.
clarence seedorf not too sure on any of this but when it comes to discrimination, it is hard wired since birth. Yes, forms of ethnocentrism will never die.
not relevant i know but just wondering why sprinters tend to have AP Tilt as i have it and have also heard you mention it in other videos. Every place i read just says its due to tight hamstrings but mine are very flexible.
Adam Firth Stretch your quads and hip flexors and it will help.
Hamstring ar not tight in APT, they are weak alongside the glutes. The quads and hip flexor are tight whilst the abs (lower abs) hamstring and glutes are weak.
Can you give examples of limiting factors? and how one might solve these. It might help the noobs get in flow a little quicker.
Btw I don't run... unless I'm late for the bus but I love your lessons as they can be applied to many different areas of life. Cheers.
great video! just wanted to ask your view on pusher and puller when it comes to sprinting mechanics. quad dominant sprinters who push the floor (chambers, klity) to hip dominant sprinters who have greater posterior activation (gay, Blake)?
Sanchez Bredwood well research states that quad dominant sprinters have good starts not good top speed or speed after 30m
Hi I really like your videos and they make complete sense. You talk a lot about anterior pelvic tilt which I have and causes pain when I squat.so how do I fix this with corrective stretching and exercise?
Check out my 'Fundamentals' series, my 3 'Hip Flexor video' series and my 3 video 'Back Pain' series. Hope that helps.
That's me pal, great at endurance and suck at strength
Dragon flags, essop. I do dragon flags twice a week and i have the strongest core between all my friends. What's your opinion on it? Love your channel by the way!
Edit: let me explain my question a little more; is intense ab training for sheer strength more important for a sprinter, or do you have any other favorite ab exercise that you think i could benefit from instead of just doing dragon flags all the time?
i love your videos, but i think it would be good if you could normalize the volume on the video. the video inserts are way louder than you talking
Sorry. Will do.
they are not that bad really ☺ ... in the big youtube picture context
Kaitlin Barrington they are not bad, i feel the inserts make for more interesting videos, just some constructive criticism regarding the loudness
Yo Essop, I have discovered my limitation is my frustratingly low amount of fast twitch muscles. How can I work around this to sprint faster and jump higher?
I wish youtube channels were a market place and you could buy stock in a youtuber like a company. I'd invest in this channel hardcore. Sky's the limit Essop!
What's up? Gettong that early watch on, it's 6:25 here
pull -> push -> twist -> flex -> bend -> squat -> lunge -> sprint
Sir, can elaborate these in one of your videos. I'm a newbie here and some are not available in youtube. Thanks a lot!
Check out my Fundamentals Playlist. All the info you need is there.
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Hi essop.. during my last question regarding training as we grow older you said to focus on eliminating the limiting factors to speed .. how to we find the limiting factors and how do we eliminate them? thanks..
WAIT YOU FOLLOW JORDAN PETERSON TOO OMG
Anyone else think he sounds like will from the inbetweeners haha
10 minutes ago!!!
GEOMETRY! The Greeks were right!
Out of curiosity: Has Dr Peterson made such claim somewhere that there is no physical intelligence? All i've heard him say is that our whole body is intelligent unit, not just our brain. But beyond that i've not heard him speak anything about the matter.
As a long time listener of Dr Peterson: I believe that he has bias towards social side of our psychology (career, family, friends etc) . While Carl Jung was more on personal transformation (dreams, balanced being, individuation). Both ignoring our physical side, which i believe to be third major contributor to healthy human life and transformation of individual.
And i think they failed to see how important athletes are to our culture.
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Essop, seriously dude. The intro music is too loud bruh
whay u dont make voiceover, u have agood voice
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Your title doesn't make sense
No offence but please try sticking to giving excellent athletics info and leave out the lame jokes, they are extremely unfunny and sometimes not even understandable so it makes for uncomfortably cringey viewing when you're presenting the channel with an overly contrived aura. Im not hating im subbed. Keep up the astute work Essop!
Well you sound like you'd be a lot of fun at parties.