Depends on your goals and your character. I could never strive to be mediocre at many things. I prefer to focus on one thing only and become the very best I can be in that one thing.
JACK OF ALL TRADES IS A MASTER OF NONE, BUT OFTENTIMES BETTER THAN A MASTER OF ONE” Formerly intended as a compliment, the phrase means that a person is a generalist rather than a specialist; versatile and adept at many things.
I honestly never cared to be a master of one i just wanted to be a well rounded, healthy individual so i think hybrid training for people like me will work out just fine
@@acexae2411 2 or 3 times a week novice program of Alphadestiny. That got me build up. Then 2 a 3 times MMA. After 8 weeks, I always did a rest or light cardioweek.
I had like 2x lifting 2x MMA and 1x casual dancing and still tried to be at least at surplus but with uni I could like eat once per day it was hard xD but felt good
Yes started too hard. Weight lifting, running, and Muay Thai. I’ve done the running and weight lifting together but adding the Muay Thai caused me to sprain my ankle. Took two months to recover.
general fitness is much more useful and applicable to the "real world" too, the unpredictable demands of everyday life require a more well-rounded kind of fitness in order to face them competently
Exactly. My goal is just a healthy life. A strong healthy heart, to keep up with my kids and some day grandkids, and to lift anything I need to without any strain or injury.
@@neco5740hybrid athlete is a "gym term" that doesn't use any sport, but every athlete (with performance between 1 and 10 minutes) is technically an hybrid athlete. (At least swimmers, rowers, dacathlonists and most team sport players, who use their whole body). They are focusing on 1 thing, which requires to be hybrid
ugh the internet and buzzwords , we used to meme them not propagate them. "Hybrid" athlete looks like football practice where you do cardio to warm up, exercises to start....play the sport to practice and end the day in the weight room.
Currently, my goal is losing fat, so I'm only doing high intensity cardio like burpees and sprints, but when I'm done with it I'll focus on calisthenics and weightlifting. Calisthenics for the upper body and weightlifting for the legs.
IMO smart hybrid training is ideal for maintenance periods and/or general health and fitness. But to reach a reasonably high level in multiple different disciplines at once, you have to go through periods in which you specialize in one discipline while backing off on others to make substantial progress. As long as you do at least a little work in the lower-priority disciplines during a specialization, you can maintain the majority of your ability at them, and so you can make long-term progress in all of your disciplines through cycles of different specializations. There is of course an upper limit to how many things you can reasonably juggle even with this approach though.
I do Boxing,Calisthenics and Lifting .Im in the best shape of my life right now,staying at 6 ft /194 lbs shredded and still muscular while having great Cardio.But the problem is its hard to get and stay in that shape,also your diet and sleep needs to be on point to maintain your routine.
I enjoy incorporating various workout styles into my routine. It helps me continuously improve and avoid becoming stagnant in specific skill sets. I'm not focused on building bulk; instead, I aim to reach my peak condition and consistently increase my power level. For me, the art of training is what I truly love, particularly calisthenics. I thrive on the challenge of mastering something I'm initially weak at, and once I do, I'm always eager to tackle the next big challenge that requires significant effort.
what i’ve seen people have the best results in hybrid training from is when they’re training for a specific competition, selection, or sport, so they have specific goals for each area and a standard to meet in them, rather than trying to attain a vague notion of strength, speed, size, etc.
I’m making a response video now! (jk lol, but who knows👀) As a hybrid athlete myself, here’s my opinion on the video: Overall you brought good points, but I do think you focused sometimes in this problem that don’t have to do with hybrid training itself, rather the fact most people LACK THE KNOWLEDGE of how do do hybrid training correctly. Like in the beginning you talked about how many people start hybrid training thinking all there is to it is out a bodybuilding program + a running program on top of that. And this is a big mistake indeed! However, that is not a problem of hybrid training itself, rather people not knowing how to balance the two properly. Does that make sense? Secondly, I do get your point about not “maximizing” your results in neither lifting or running, however, I think people really underestimate how this effect becomes skewed over the long term. Sure, your rate of progress won’t be as fast if you focus on both, but over the long term, you really do compensate that, and you’d be surprised to see that. And finally, you are right that social media only shows the freaks, however this is for any sport. This shouldn’t discourage people from still doing it, cause if you do this seriously you will get good results, it’s not like you’ll make “barely any results”. This is what it sounded like, and I don’t think you meant it, but it’s a bit of fear monger. C’mon, running 5-10K 3 times a week isn’t gonna make that big of a difference. Hope this makes sense, let me know if you agree with my take brother, let’s chat in private too if you want🤝
Basically cardio helps with training capacity, ehich helps with weight training, but too much cardio will exhaust you to the point where it will affect your training. Cardio, in my opinion, should he treated like any other muscle group, and should be reasonably incoporated into a hypertrophy split.
Been basically a hybrid athlete for most my life. Definitely not the best at any single thing, but im pretty good at a variety of things, which is what I want after all. I have many hobbies, and I want to be good enough and fit enough to do them all reasonably well.
In 2022 i had do gym at home, then gym in the gym, and then after like trhee months i started calishtenics and gym.Then i stopped going the gym at all. After a few months i started running, then i injured, cause i was going too fast with calisthenics and running.Now i'm re-starting calisthenics and in the future i had like to pratice boxe, parkour, calisthenics for strenght and gym for estetics.
I think taking it calmly you Will be able to do so, but it takes a lot of work, im just saying that it isnt impossible, because human body has limitless pottential on its extents, its up to you what you do with it
Hybrid programs are almost always the worst designed routines I see. People are also way too fixated on just running for cardio and neglect low impact forms of cardio.
You actually saved me from either doing too much cardio or weights ,and not enough calisthenics, and calisthenics is my number one priority, this is my life, so now I made them in this order : 1# 👑 : Calisthenics, 2#: weighted Calisthenics 3#Weights (mainly isolations for lagging muscles) 4# Cardio Thank you! :]
Hello, advice on your front lever -focus on depression of your shoulders, they are way too close to your ears. Slightly increase retraction too (not necessary, but it'll look way better)
Started hybrid training about a month ago, 3 weeks in (this past Sunday) I injured my calf, my mistake was I added too much mileage too soon. I was running 4 times per week with a total mileage of 35km while still training weight training 5 times per week.
Hope you will post more regularly because your content actually has a lot of value. Always like your insights and perspective on fitness related topics. All the best bro!
I've been a hybrid athlete my whole life. It's the first time that I'm aware that such term exists. I always did different activities just because it's more fun and I enjoy changing... I'm not a master at anything but if I need to run I do better than most, lift better than most, fight better than most, climb better... and the list goes on... It was never about shape or anything in my mind... Just having fun
A huge reason as well is because content creators, well, create content. The more varied the training style, the more videos they can make and the wider swath of sponsors and affiliates links they can bombard you with.
Since Oct 2022, I’ve been easy-pace running 5K minimum every day except for Sunday, and doing weights 4 times a week. Recently, I started recovering slower and slower so then I gave myself a 3 week total stop to the routine. I‘ve done average-time half marathons (2h05min), and can bench a pretty mild 1RM of 215lb. I do take creatine, and have a pretty strict sleep schedule that ensures 10h per 24hr. I also have a mandatory biweekly physiotherapy appointment cycle for maintenance. Week 1 was awesome, I’m like hell yeah I got so much time freed up. Week 2 hit, and suddenly all these joint aches and muscle pains that I didn’t even know I had started healing and I realized how crappy I was used to feeling. But by Week 3, I was salivating at the prospect of running and lifting again; I’d look longingly at joggers on the street and wish I was in their sneakers. So once I came back to it, I felt like how it was at the start. Fresh enthusiasm led to a huge jump in progress, and now I’m looking forward to trying for a new half marathon PB, while also trying to improve my bench & deadlift PR’s. TLDR: the hybrid routine can be taxing if done without rest, so going cold turkey on it for 3-4 weeks can help reset your mental & physical energies, and that seems to be the best way to kick a hybrid routine into high gear if you feel it’s heading towards stagnation.
One more thing to add is. Do those 'hybrid athletes' you see online actually do hybrid training? Because at the end of the day, you'll only see them do their workouts on 'social media'. It could be all they do is lifting weights and little to none of road work. All just for show on social media.
Nu Uh, Skills issue right here. I'm a former Martial Art Athlete, been winning in national competition multiple times. I've been doing hybrid training for 14 years. And no, it doesn't mean we can maximize anything when doing hybrid. "jack of all trade master of one."
I’m not really obsessed with it. I’m mostly a long distance runner and track athlete, but I have to lift and go to the gym to improve in my running. So I might as well get jacked in the process
Well said, it's similar to how people say that they should do crossfit to improve their olympic lifting and cite top level athletes. Those guys are the top percentage of what is possible, and even then their olympic lifting numbers are not the same as top level weightlifters. You are not those guys.
1 is more about people not doing proper research 2 is only an issue for athletes or people with very specific goals 3 is a problem with social media in general The first and last problems you talked about aren't really related to hybrid training and the second problem only applies to athletes or bodybuilders
I hope you don't mind critique but I think you are completely wrong here. A lot of your points, while definitely true, have little to do with hybrid training itself. 1.) Injuries from overtraining come from overtraining, not from the type of training you do. Sure its easier to overtrain if you try to do full workout programs for multiple skills at once but that's a problem with your workout plan, not with the style of training you do to begin with. You can just as easily overtrain on any singular discipline as well if your plan is not properly thought through 2.)Mastery, that's fine and all if you really want to focus on something specific then go ahead and do that, of course focusing on this exclusively will yield you the biggest results. However, I don't think that's for most people. Unless you try to become an Olympian or such then why would you? Your general fitness and longevity as a regular person that's not trying to break world records would definitely benefit more from improving strength alongside of cardiovascular health over "mastering" a singular discipline. You don't need to become an absolute master of any discipline, unless you really wanted to, then go for it. 3.) Hype, again, this bias isn't exclusively for Hybrid Training but anything on social media. Are you going to get as jacked as some bodybuilder on steroids that has their entire day revolve around Gym, Nutrition, Drugs and social media? No of course not, unless you're one of them, so your results are unlikely to be the same, but that doesn't mean you can't make meaningful progress yourself. Just repeating myself here but, this again has nothing to do with the type of training itself.
Is hybrid training worth the hype? Well. As you said, you won't become a spearhead in breaking records with that style - but due to the law of diminishing returns, resulting in the pareto principle (80%results from 20% effort), you can become quite good with much less effort. When you can give 100%, you can reach your potential in one field - or you distribute your efforts and get 80% of your potential in 5 areas. Most of us are bound in other endeavours anyway (family, job, social life, ...) so we won't be world-class anyway. So we'd get the best results (in the sense of broadest general fitness) when we distribute our efforts in sports. Recreational lifting, Recreational running, Recreational hobby sports, maybe Recreational martial arts.
I think for average people it’s better to run and strength train because it going to make them good at strength specific training and good cardio than being better at one of them. In normal activities you need to be decently strong and have endurance not just one this going to make life better. Me personally I prefer strength training but also run 2-3x per week
well i want strength and good cardio fitness, so of course ill train "hybrid", though i would consider this as just overall fitness training. Being decent at many things is better than only having 1 skill.
The body isn't that fragile!!!! I only weight lifted. Did a trifecta weekend which is a half marathon, 10k, 5k in 2 days. It was awesome being anle to incorporate my weight lifting to something. I have mo idea how to climb a robe. I saw super ribbed duded fail at it. They tried 3 times. I went on by pure strength at 20% body fat.
first of all the great majority arent going to be pro bodybuilders or athletes, its just muscle for aesthetic and strength, cardio for health and feeling actively good, and maybe fighting, calisthenics or climbing to have a physical hobbie, now that im 18 im centred on gaining weight specially muscle and doing more frequent cardio so when i want to do another discipline I got the weight, the strength and the cardio, so I can still do 1-2 days a week in the gym and the rest what I want for the rest of my life
Unless you are part of a team, training for competition, or getting paid as a professional athlete, there is almost never a reason to hyperfixate or specialize your training on one single aspect. Ultimately you are in the gym to be healthier, more physically capable, and better looking. Hybrid training achieves all three of those goals.
Not all NFL players have the impressive physique, strength and speed that you think they have. There might be thousands of ordinary people who play NFL who get average results from their training (just as the video explained starting at 4:23)
basically if you have no money for the food the supplements and especially the proteins. you can't afford the hybrid training lifestyle so we need more money for this
Of course you won’t be a champion bodybuilder or win a marathon, but with my hybrid training I get the benefit of both worlds, I think I’ve got 80% of my potencial in strength and fitness
If you want to be a jacked hybrid athlete, it's probably best to start off focussing on bodybuilding then once you've built some decent muscle start to diversify into whatever endurance events you want to do. It's a bit like CrossFit, I don't believe you can build the physique of the top guys by doing so-called Crossfit training, and I don't believe you'll build the physique of a Nick Bare whilst going heavy on meaningful endurance goals. Just my 2 pence
real and true Also some of the best hybrid athletes benefit from performance enhancing drugs Dirty little secret That kind of volume and intensity can demand some secret sauce for recovery and growth
Instantly subscribed! Such an informative, but above all no-nonsense video explaining stuff in the right detail with room for nuance. Keep up the good work bro 💪
That shit is not "hybrid training", though. Going to a commercial gym, using machines, doing a bunch of gym bro accessory work is not going to have much carry over to an endurance sport, so you are just kind making the two things interfere with each other. A hybrid program would be like mixing Olympic weightlifting with a 400 m sprinting program, or 5k/10k training with actual barbell strength training combined with actual plyo (not what you see on youtube usually, but actual plyo). I don't really know about swimming and cycling, but it's a similar situation there. You have to combine appropriate training modalities, and going to Gold's gym to do hypertrophy sets all the time is wasted time. Your performance metrics are the results in your sport. If those don't improve, you are just a gym bro who calls yourself a "hybrid trainer", no offense. If you really love gym bro life, just own it and train hypertrophy every day.
I still do hybrid training cause I want to be healthy, fit, and have a good physique. I'm on the older side so my volume is much lower compared to you younger guys. I don't really care about being the best at something.
Well somehow you managed to make a very strong case FOR this training style despite this video outlining the negatives. Most people are not athletic PERIOD. So resistance training and another sport are a killer combo. Let’s be honest most people who begin lifting do so for looksmaxing purposes…until they become obsessed with size and make getting jacked their life’s goal. Hybrid training trains you to perform well in multiple facets of human endeavors, just won’t get you to the top of any for most people. I believe hybrid training is the best for all people as it makes you fit strong enough (if you need to move 600lbs in real life I’m sure it won’t fit in your hands just right like a barbell so while impressive won’t have as much carry over in real life after a certain point. Diminishing returns). I think videos like this are excellent to actually show people what fitness is and not just bodybuilding. You actually see the effects of the social messaging that bodybuilding is fitness or that one training style is all you need. I don’t want to be built like a runner but i also don’t want to look bulky like a bodybuilder. Anecdotally, I know a guy who made D1 football who also shares in that sentiment.
I do Upper lower split, 2 leg days in gym, 1-2 upper body days in gym and 1-2 calisthenics days at park (5 trainings in total, so eithter 2 calisthenics days and 1 gym upper day or 2 gym upper days and 1 calisthenics day)
@@MalikAbdullah-e2h already doing that bro i have front lever and handstand pushups but i'm insecure about legs and chest thats why i want a good split of gym and cali but don't want to lose My skills
i did this when i did not even know its a thing and the biggest problem was lack of energy. i alway feel good before my cardio and after cardio ( may be bcz i enjoy it so much ) but other thn that i feel sleepy rest of the whole day.
I think hybrid training is gonna be actually a really good option for me I don’t really lift big weights in the gym and i just go 2-3 days a week because lifting isn’t my number 1 goal so combining it with running or cycling seems a really good option for me especially because i’m trying to lose fat if you have some suggestions to boost fat loss please help me i’m kinda struggling
Muscle burns fat. If you really give it your all on heavy compound movements (bench, squat, pullups, rows, etc) you will only need to go once or twice per week for those movements. Do em all at once or spread em out, the noobie gains will carry you for ~6 months, then you're gunna have to up the frequency if you want to progress.
I feel hybrid athletes always prevail in cardiovascular strength, and prevail in applying there training to real life scenerios, why do you think that firefighters/police/military are hybrid athletes. In any high stress situation, its important to maintain strength and thinking.
Should checkout my vlog for bjj, but actually I’ll just tell you. Substitute running for biking I’d say sprints but I actually pulled a hammy. Bill starr 5x5 is a 3 day a week training plan that’s awesome.
the real issue is that cardio inhibits mTOR. It's also that being big is very anti-inertial, one exercise is trying to make you big and the other suffers from your excess of mass. I run and do calisthenics though.
Lifting for strength and power eliminates that issue. Just mixing around the rep range ratios for training so it’s not bodybuilding centric and develops that strength and endurance.
How much cardio though? I heard cardio (in reasonable quantities) helps strengthen the capillaries which help with pump, which in turn helps build muscle.
Jack of all trades is a master of none, *but oftentimes is better than a master of one.*
You can master all of them, but it has to be one at a time
Better to have something of everything and everything of something .....
Depends on your goals and your character. I could never strive to be mediocre at many things. I prefer to focus on one thing only and become the very best I can be in that one thing.
Master all elements, become the avatar
JACK OF ALL TRADES IS A MASTER OF NONE, BUT OFTENTIMES BETTER THAN A MASTER OF ONE” Formerly intended as a compliment, the phrase means that a person is a generalist rather than a specialist; versatile and adept at many things.
I honestly never cared to be a master of one i just wanted to be a well rounded, healthy individual so i think hybrid training for people like me will work out just fine
Doing weightlifting + mma + eating a lil bit above maintenance got me in my prime.
what was your routine like? with liftign weights while also doing mma?
@@acexae2411 2 or 3 times a week novice program of Alphadestiny. That got me build up. Then 2 a 3 times MMA. After 8 weeks, I always did a rest or light cardioweek.
I had like 2x lifting 2x MMA and 1x casual dancing and still tried to be at least at surplus but with uni I could like eat once per day it was hard xD but felt good
100% same
@@acexae2411I’m doing the same, lift in the morning and train in the afternoon. Pretty simple
Yes started too hard. Weight lifting, running, and Muay Thai. I’ve done the running and weight lifting together but adding the Muay Thai caused me to sprain my ankle. Took two months to recover.
Sprained ankle from hybrid too. Get well soon!
You were too soft
Next time try doing prehab
@@eastsidepb8139 no
Specific training just doesnt make sense unless its your career or how you make money. 99% of people just want general fitness
general fitness is much more useful and applicable to the "real world" too, the unpredictable demands of everyday life require a more well-rounded kind of fitness in order to face them competently
Exactly. My goal is just a healthy life. A strong healthy heart, to keep up with my kids and some day grandkids, and to lift anything I need to without any strain or injury.
It's fun to be honest. Putting all your focus in one thing
@@neco5740hybrid athlete is a "gym term" that doesn't use any sport, but every athlete (with performance between 1 and 10 minutes) is technically an hybrid athlete. (At least swimmers, rowers, dacathlonists and most team sport players, who use their whole body). They are focusing on 1 thing, which requires to be hybrid
In my experience most people just want to look good. Good health is a nice side effect.
0:11 - what a gentleman, he poops with his pants on.
Sprinting + Lifting + zone 2 cardio = SUPERHUMAN YOU
Wait what's done 2 cardio?
@@angelocarantino4803 zone 2 cardio is the level of cardio you can sustain for a long time with little fatigue
@@angelocarantino4803 jogging. "zones" are used to measure how hard your heart is beating.
@@Tony-up6rx ah, nice. Thanks buddy 🙂
Add a combat sport and then it's good. Preferably MMA.
ugh the internet and buzzwords , we used to meme them not propagate them. "Hybrid" athlete looks like football practice where you do cardio to warm up, exercises to start....play the sport to practice and end the day in the weight room.
That is not hybrid thats a standard team sport routine
This sounds what Dr. Mike would say in Renaissance Periodization
Football players don’t do nearly as much cardio as a hybrid athlete would.
@@yetekt6953soccer players then.
Currently, my goal is losing fat, so I'm only doing high intensity cardio like burpees and sprints, but when I'm done with it I'll focus on calisthenics and weightlifting. Calisthenics for the upper body and weightlifting for the legs.
IMO smart hybrid training is ideal for maintenance periods and/or general health and fitness. But to reach a reasonably high level in multiple different disciplines at once, you have to go through periods in which you specialize in one discipline while backing off on others to make substantial progress. As long as you do at least a little work in the lower-priority disciplines during a specialization, you can maintain the majority of your ability at them, and so you can make long-term progress in all of your disciplines through cycles of different specializations. There is of course an upper limit to how many things you can reasonably juggle even with this approach though.
I do Boxing,Calisthenics and Lifting .Im in the best shape of my life right now,staying at 6 ft /194 lbs shredded and still muscular while having great Cardio.But the problem is its hard to get and stay in that shape,also your diet and sleep needs to be on point to maintain your routine.
Sounds like stress! I’m getting into Muay Thai as a lifter. 6’0 215, at 23% BF
@@eirikrbloxharaldsson2394 It will be tough as hell trust me,starting combat sports as a big guy is really intense.But you will get there🤌
I enjoy incorporating various workout styles into my routine. It helps me continuously improve and avoid becoming stagnant in specific skill sets. I'm not focused on building bulk; instead, I aim to reach my peak condition and consistently increase my power level. For me, the art of training is what I truly love, particularly calisthenics. I thrive on the challenge of mastering something I'm initially weak at, and once I do, I'm always eager to tackle the next big challenge that requires significant effort.
what i’ve seen people have the best results in hybrid training from is when they’re training for a specific competition, selection, or sport, so they have specific goals for each area and a standard to meet in them, rather than trying to attain a vague notion of strength, speed, size, etc.
Tbh i see training for sports like wrestling and football as the optimal use of hybrid training
Bro, your a hidden gym in the fitness community. Kudos to you bro!
@@MackFogerty-q7n Appreciate you🙏
His videos are bull shit.
I’m making a response video now! (jk lol, but who knows👀)
As a hybrid athlete myself, here’s my opinion on the video:
Overall you brought good points, but I do think you focused sometimes in this problem that don’t have to do with hybrid training itself, rather the fact most people LACK THE KNOWLEDGE of how do do hybrid training correctly. Like in the beginning you talked about how many people start hybrid training thinking all there is to it is out a bodybuilding program + a running program on top of that. And this is a big mistake indeed! However, that is not a problem of hybrid training itself, rather people not knowing how to balance the two properly. Does that make sense?
Secondly, I do get your point about not “maximizing” your results in neither lifting or running, however, I think people really underestimate how this effect becomes skewed over the long term. Sure, your rate of progress won’t be as fast if you focus on both, but over the long term, you really do compensate that, and you’d be surprised to see that.
And finally, you are right that social media only shows the freaks, however this is for any sport. This shouldn’t discourage people from still doing it, cause if you do this seriously you will get good results, it’s not like you’ll make “barely any results”. This is what it sounded like, and I don’t think you meant it, but it’s a bit of fear monger. C’mon, running 5-10K 3 times a week isn’t gonna make that big of a difference.
Hope this makes sense, let me know if you agree with my take brother, let’s chat in private too if you want🤝
Basically cardio helps with training capacity, ehich helps with weight training, but too much cardio will exhaust you to the point where it will affect your training.
Cardio, in my opinion, should he treated like any other muscle group, and should be reasonably incoporated into a hypertrophy split.
This is my goal. To become one of the best in all of them.
Been basically a hybrid athlete for most my life. Definitely not the best at any single thing, but im pretty good at a variety of things, which is what I want after all. I have many hobbies, and I want to be good enough and fit enough to do them all reasonably well.
Great video! A nice dose of expectation-leveling in the social media space is almost always a good idea 👍
Thanks for this remind to always
Keep the things slowly at the start overall.
In 2022 i had do gym at home, then gym in the gym, and then after like trhee months i started calishtenics and gym.Then i stopped going the gym at all. After a few months i started running, then i injured, cause i was going too fast with calisthenics and running.Now i'm re-starting calisthenics and in the future i had like to pratice boxe, parkour, calisthenics for strenght and gym for estetics.
I think taking it calmly you Will be able to do so, but it takes a lot of work, im just saying that it isnt impossible, because human body has limitless pottential on its extents, its up to you what you do with it
let's get you a 4k webcam for christmas my dude :)
@@beatluck9747 ahahah
Hybrid programs are almost always the worst designed routines I see. People are also way too fixated on just running for cardio and neglect low impact forms of cardio.
You actually saved me from either doing too much cardio or weights ,and not enough calisthenics, and calisthenics is my number one priority, this is my life, so now I made them in this order :
1# 👑 : Calisthenics,
2#: weighted Calisthenics
3#Weights (mainly isolations for lagging muscles)
4# Cardio
Thank you! :]
watching this after getting tendinitis on my achilles’ midsection bc i jumped to running 7x a week lol
guess u aren’t completely invincible when young…
@@hex7n been jumping rope 7 days a week. Guess I should take it easy.
@@zhangzongchang1057that’s way too much. You should only do that max 3 times a week. Running especially. Too much tension on your body
Hello, advice on your front lever -focus on depression of your shoulders, they are way too close to your ears. Slightly increase retraction too (not necessary, but it'll look way better)
And there’s me who’s trying to incorporate calisthenics exercices with lifting swimming and running into my routine 💀
Very good content and well spoken buddy 😊👏🏻
Started hybrid training about a month ago, 3 weeks in (this past Sunday) I injured my calf, my mistake was I added too much mileage too soon. I was running 4 times per week with a total mileage of 35km while still training weight training 5 times per week.
Im a boxer... didn't know this was thing. Weight training. Roadwork. Boxing.
I stretch, lift weights, do calisthetics, do road work and do marital arts.
Hope you will post more regularly because your content actually has a lot of value. Always like your insights and perspective on fitness related topics. All the best bro!
@@CliffLawrence7 Thanks man, am definitely trying to work out ways to fit making more content into my schedule
I've been a hybrid athlete my whole life. It's the first time that I'm aware that such term exists.
I always did different activities just because it's more fun and I enjoy changing... I'm not a master at anything but if I need to run I do better than most, lift better than most, fight better than most, climb better... and the list goes on...
It was never about shape or anything in my mind... Just having fun
A huge reason as well is because content creators, well, create content. The more varied the training style, the more videos they can make and the wider swath of sponsors and affiliates links they can bombard you with.
Since Oct 2022, I’ve been easy-pace running 5K minimum every day except for Sunday, and doing weights 4 times a week. Recently, I started recovering slower and slower so then I gave myself a 3 week total stop to the routine. I‘ve done average-time half marathons (2h05min), and can bench a pretty mild 1RM of 215lb. I do take creatine, and have a pretty strict sleep schedule that ensures 10h per 24hr. I also have a mandatory biweekly physiotherapy appointment cycle for maintenance.
Week 1 was awesome, I’m like hell yeah I got so much time freed up. Week 2 hit, and suddenly all these joint aches and muscle pains that I didn’t even know I had started healing and I realized how crappy I was used to feeling. But by Week 3, I was salivating at the prospect of running and lifting again; I’d look longingly at joggers on the street and wish I was in their sneakers.
So once I came back to it, I felt like how it was at the start. Fresh enthusiasm led to a huge jump in progress, and now I’m looking forward to trying for a new half marathon PB, while also trying to improve my bench & deadlift PR’s. TLDR: the hybrid routine can be taxing if done without rest, so going cold turkey on it for 3-4 weeks can help reset your mental & physical energies, and that seems to be the best way to kick a hybrid routine into high gear if you feel it’s heading towards stagnation.
One more thing to add is. Do those 'hybrid athletes' you see online actually do hybrid training? Because at the end of the day, you'll only see them do their workouts on 'social media'. It could be all they do is lifting weights and little to none of road work. All just for show on social media.
Nu Uh, Skills issue right here.
I'm a former Martial Art Athlete, been winning in national competition multiple times.
I've been doing hybrid training for 14 years. And no, it doesn't mean we can maximize anything when doing hybrid.
"jack of all trade master of one."
Love Love Love your take on this
I’m not really obsessed with it. I’m mostly a long distance runner and track athlete, but I have to lift and go to the gym to improve in my running. So I might as well get jacked in the process
Well said, it's similar to how people say that they should do crossfit to improve their olympic lifting and cite top level athletes. Those guys are the top percentage of what is possible, and even then their olympic lifting numbers are not the same as top level weightlifters. You are not those guys.
for random individuals, hybrid training is better than just lifting weight with 0 cardio
Body recomp , now hybrid training... wonder what the new trend will be
1 is more about people not doing proper research
2 is only an issue for athletes or people with very specific goals
3 is a problem with social media in general
The first and last problems you talked about aren't really related to hybrid training and the second problem only applies to athletes or bodybuilders
I hope you don't mind critique but I think you are completely wrong here. A lot of your points, while definitely true, have little to do with hybrid training itself.
1.) Injuries from overtraining come from overtraining, not from the type of training you do. Sure its easier to overtrain if you try to do full workout programs for multiple skills at once but that's a problem with your workout plan, not with the style of training you do to begin with. You can just as easily overtrain on any singular discipline as well if your plan is not properly thought through
2.)Mastery, that's fine and all if you really want to focus on something specific then go ahead and do that, of course focusing on this exclusively will yield you the biggest results. However, I don't think that's for most people. Unless you try to become an Olympian or such then why would you? Your general fitness and longevity as a regular person that's not trying to break world records would definitely benefit more from improving strength alongside of cardiovascular health over "mastering" a singular discipline. You don't need to become an absolute master of any discipline, unless you really wanted to, then go for it.
3.) Hype, again, this bias isn't exclusively for Hybrid Training but anything on social media. Are you going to get as jacked as some bodybuilder on steroids that has their entire day revolve around Gym, Nutrition, Drugs and social media? No of course not, unless you're one of them, so your results are unlikely to be the same, but that doesn't mean you can't make meaningful progress yourself. Just repeating myself here but, this again has nothing to do with the type of training itself.
Is hybrid training worth the hype?
Well.
As you said, you won't become a spearhead in breaking records with that style - but due to the law of diminishing returns, resulting in the pareto principle (80%results from 20% effort), you can become quite good with much less effort.
When you can give 100%, you can reach your potential in one field - or you distribute your efforts and get 80% of your potential in 5 areas.
Most of us are bound in other endeavours anyway (family, job, social life, ...) so we won't be world-class anyway. So we'd get the best results (in the sense of broadest general fitness) when we distribute our efforts in sports.
Recreational lifting, Recreational running, Recreational hobby sports, maybe Recreational martial arts.
I think for average people it’s better to run and strength train because it going to make them good at strength specific training and good cardio than being better at one of them.
In normal activities you need to be decently strong and have endurance not just one this going to make life better.
Me personally I prefer strength training but also run 2-3x per week
well i want strength and good cardio fitness, so of course ill train "hybrid", though i would consider this as just overall fitness training. Being decent at many things is better than only having 1 skill.
The body isn't that fragile!!!! I only weight lifted. Did a trifecta weekend which is a half marathon, 10k, 5k in 2 days.
It was awesome being anle to incorporate my weight lifting to something. I have mo idea how to climb a robe. I saw super ribbed duded fail at it. They tried 3 times. I went on by pure strength at 20% body fat.
I am da master of hybrid training. Crossfit, callisthenics, powerlifting, body building, sprint training, muay Thai and bjj
thanks for doing that, my goal was to train sports,martial arts,weight training all at once but the risk of injuries ia real
True I am a power lifter + bodybuilding, most of the time I have to keep more fat than I would like to keep my power
As a hybrid athletes I drink, smoke, and eat junk food.. does that count?
Very insightful
Hey man, I lobed the video and also the mobility and stability exercises and other showed in it. Could you make a routine of them to avoid injuries?
first of all the great majority arent going to be pro bodybuilders or athletes, its just muscle for aesthetic and strength, cardio for health and feeling actively good, and maybe fighting, calisthenics or climbing to have a physical hobbie, now that im 18 im centred on gaining weight specially muscle and doing more frequent cardio so when i want to do another discipline I got the weight, the strength and the cardio, so I can still do 1-2 days a week in the gym and the rest what I want for the rest of my life
Is it worth the hype? Absolutely. I think this hype highlights the rising awareness of functional performance. But do it with control
Unless you are part of a team, training for competition, or getting paid as a professional athlete, there is almost never a reason to hyperfixate or specialize your training on one single aspect. Ultimately you are in the gym to be healthier, more physically capable, and better looking. Hybrid training achieves all three of those goals.
Don’t place your limitations on us. Very simple upper lower. Off full body could be a way to do this as well . Or whatever works for a person
That’s why nfl players are so impressive. Great physique, speed, and strength
Edit: all while training for a sport
Not all NFL players have the impressive physique, strength and speed that you think they have. There might be thousands of ordinary people who play NFL who get average results from their training (just as the video explained starting at 4:23)
What about Michell Hooper
Music is too loud
basically if you have no money for the food the supplements and especially the proteins. you can't afford the hybrid training lifestyle so we need more money for this
Of course you won’t be a champion bodybuilder or win a marathon, but with my hybrid training I get the benefit of both worlds, I think I’ve got 80% of my potencial in strength and fitness
If you want to be a jacked hybrid athlete, it's probably best to start off focussing on bodybuilding then once you've built some decent muscle start to diversify into whatever endurance events you want to do. It's a bit like CrossFit, I don't believe you can build the physique of the top guys by doing so-called Crossfit training, and I don't believe you'll build the physique of a Nick Bare whilst going heavy on meaningful endurance goals. Just my 2 pence
If your not doing periodization training your training to fail. Im 49 , no pain , in my 20s everything hurt .
You get a follow from me, spitting truth man... tired of the social media shit...
real and true
Also some of the best hybrid athletes benefit from performance enhancing drugs
Dirty little secret
That kind of volume and intensity can demand some secret sauce for recovery and growth
Instantly subscribed! Such an informative, but above all no-nonsense video explaining stuff in the right detail with room for nuance. Keep up the good work bro 💪
Tell that to the ancient Greeks it’s a lifestyle but they had it all
Master of none? You will be master of hybrid
Great video, immediately subbed.
Good man, washed his hands.
thanks for the tip man
Let’s not forget there is an epidemic of ped’s in the social media world
That shit is not "hybrid training", though. Going to a commercial gym, using machines, doing a bunch of gym bro accessory work is not going to have much carry over to an endurance sport, so you are just kind making the two things interfere with each other. A hybrid program would be like mixing Olympic weightlifting with a 400 m sprinting program, or 5k/10k training with actual barbell strength training combined with actual plyo (not what you see on youtube usually, but actual plyo). I don't really know about swimming and cycling, but it's a similar situation there. You have to combine appropriate training modalities, and going to Gold's gym to do hypertrophy sets all the time is wasted time. Your performance metrics are the results in your sport. If those don't improve, you are just a gym bro who calls yourself a "hybrid trainer", no offense. If you really love gym bro life, just own it and train hypertrophy every day.
Logical and realistic
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I still do hybrid training cause I want to be healthy, fit, and have a good physique. I'm on the older side so my volume is much lower compared to you younger guys. I don't really care about being the best at something.
I'll probably get hate for this but isn't CrossFit the same as "hybrid training"?
I run to the outdoor gym then but my pull ups dips and ring work, guess I was hybrid without realising it
Congratulations, you’re training like an athlete
Well somehow you managed to make a very strong case FOR this training style despite this video outlining the negatives. Most people are not athletic PERIOD. So resistance training and another sport are a killer combo. Let’s be honest most people who begin lifting do so for looksmaxing purposes…until they become obsessed with size and make getting jacked their life’s goal. Hybrid training trains you to perform well in multiple facets of human endeavors, just won’t get you to the top of any for most people. I believe hybrid training is the best for all people as it makes you fit strong enough (if you need to move 600lbs in real life I’m sure it won’t fit in your hands just right like a barbell so while impressive won’t have as much carry over in real life after a certain point. Diminishing returns). I think videos like this are excellent to actually show people what fitness is and not just bodybuilding. You actually see the effects of the social messaging that bodybuilding is fitness or that one training style is all you need. I don’t want to be built like a runner but i also don’t want to look bulky like a bodybuilder. Anecdotally, I know a guy who made D1 football who also shares in that sentiment.
Bro I do calisthenics and want to do gym but to prioritize calisthenics so can you please give me some split because I have no idea man
Try weighted calisthenics
I do Upper lower split, 2 leg days in gym, 1-2 upper body days in gym and 1-2 calisthenics days at park (5 trainings in total, so eithter 2 calisthenics days and 1 gym upper day or 2 gym upper days and 1 calisthenics day)
@@MalikAbdullah-e2h already doing that bro i have front lever and handstand pushups but i'm insecure about legs and chest thats why i want a good split of gym and cali but don't want to lose My skills
@@stayontrack thanks man i Will try it
Good video. Very informative indeed.
I wanna hybrid train because I just wanted to get leaner 😅and I’m eating healthier
yes! take it slow. i like it
i did this when i did not even know its a thing and the biggest problem was lack of energy. i alway feel good before my cardio and after cardio ( may be bcz i enjoy it so much ) but other thn that i feel sleepy rest of the whole day.
I think hybrid training is gonna be actually a really good option for me
I don’t really lift big weights in the gym and i just go 2-3 days a week because lifting isn’t my number 1 goal so combining it with running or cycling seems a really good option for me especially because i’m trying to lose fat if you have some suggestions to boost fat loss please help me i’m kinda struggling
Muscle burns fat. If you really give it your all on heavy compound movements (bench, squat, pullups, rows, etc) you will only need to go once or twice per week for those movements. Do em all at once or spread em out, the noobie gains will carry you for ~6 months, then you're gunna have to up the frequency if you want to progress.
I'm already Hybrid because i have the abilities of a Chimpanzee.
2:46 A jack of all trades is a master of none but still always better than a master of one.
I feel hybrid athletes always prevail in cardiovascular strength, and prevail in applying there training to real life scenerios, why do you think that firefighters/police/military are hybrid athletes. In any high stress situation, its important to maintain strength and thinking.
Good stuff!
Should checkout my vlog for bjj, but actually I’ll just tell you. Substitute running for biking I’d say sprints but I actually pulled a hammy. Bill starr 5x5 is a 3 day a week training plan that’s awesome.
I am a specialist
What i do is a hybrid of hybrid training. 😅
And they use steroids to maintain too. Great points
New subscriber here! Great content. Hope to hear moreeee
Best hybrid athletes are probably soldiers, firefighters, or gymnasts.
the real issue is that cardio inhibits mTOR. It's also that being big is very anti-inertial, one exercise is trying to make you big and the other suffers from your excess of mass. I run and do calisthenics though.
Lifting for strength and power eliminates that issue. Just mixing around the rep range ratios for training so it’s not bodybuilding centric and develops that strength and endurance.
How much cardio though? I heard cardio (in reasonable quantities) helps strengthen the capillaries which help with pump, which in turn helps build muscle.
Bro, can i try calisthenics with weight?