Cooking internet and lifting internet have the same problem
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"Lifting is all about doing the same motion over and over and over and over again until you lose all your gains or die, at which point you lose all your gains." This line murdered me
RIP your gains
Oh no, you lost your gains
his delivery was so good
"lifting is killing ur gains"
Gym bros will discover immortality. Just so they never have to lose their gains
This guy just got me to watch a 20 minute lifting video about why it is a waste of time to watch lifting videos. Hats off to him.
😮😢😂 dang
You, and him, are likely watching the absolute wrong people. Dr. Mike from Renaissance Periodization and Alex Bromley are both science-oriented creators who display intricate knowledge of lifting principles and have enough room for nuance that the advice is nigh-universal. And their channels date back multiple years before this video.
@@kman9884im more of a Bald Omni Man enjoyer🍷
@kman9884 I think that's the point of the video though. For every science oriented person making a video there is another science oriented person making the opposite claim. TH-cam tends to come down to who you're most comfortable believing.
Essentially the amount of crap that's on TH-cam, to decipher it all to get the truth you may as well conduct your own experiments and research. It will probably take the same amount of time if not quicker.
I watch dr mike and he's fine, but he's exactly the sort of person this video is referring to. Gotta do the perfect scientifically proven exercise or your an idiot. He all about maxing gains and all that. But most people just need to do an exercise that's enjoyable enough to keep doing and if it's the perfect thing or not doesnt matter.
This is the quintessential Adam Ragusea video that turned me into a habitual watcher.
Mixes two activities I’ve been into for decades and plus it’s hilarious to watch.
Well, i think the reason why we obsess over these small things is that they eventually add up, in our attempt to create a less time consuming training for us and for the future generation.
I think its because we eventually start wanting to get the most of the effort we put in. So i mean, yea, its fine to get some general tips on what to focus on, as long as we dont obsess over it(which was another one of Adams points).
That said. The most important aspect that comes before any talk of maximizing gain is SAFETY. Always always make sure youre doing your weight lifting safely.
Its also true that sample sizes generally are small, but well, thats all money. Investors are not gonna spend that much on it, so there is typically always a middleground.
I dont really like sean exactly because he refutes the rather obvious. I prefer safety talks for each new exercise i do.
Adams idea of asking yourself “what is your goal” is really good. Truly agree with that. Mine is simply looking good and being strong. It brings me self-confidence and makes things more convenient and less strenuous with my day to day activities. I like it.
Some people obsess over safety though which results in them never working hard enough and wasting time doing unnecessarily prolonged warms ups. If you’re warm ups take almost as long as your real workout then there’s a problem.
@@slampest its cool thinking about what and why for your goals
Scientist here. You have done an incredible job of explaining and teaching people how to critically evaluate literature and determine the limitations of a study. I'll definitely recommend this to college and highschool science teachers!
what is your field? Social studies?
@ Public Health/ Environmental Science/Chemistry
sCiEnTisT HeRe
@@danilopedrazaI mean, another scientist with a PhD here, he’s right…
@@TheHeadincharge haha yeah, I just kinda dislike (and make fun of) the expresssion "{thing} here"
As a former cook and now a nutritionist and exercise physiologist this is so spot on. There are so many variables to both food and exercise but at the end of the day just making a small step to a better you is better than no step at all and infinitely better than backtracking.
cookin and eatin and pickin up heavy things 😎
How's work in those fields I'm interested in it but I'm worried about the amount of school I would have to take in accordance to the pay out once I get a career.
@@ballin5192 yea I'll be honest the pool of jobs is smaller than people realize but the upside is that because of covid and social media attention to personal health us growing for sure. I chose my program cause it has both nutrition and exercise physio so right out of college I can get a decent paying cardio rehab physiologist job. But to be a dietician at a school district, hospital, corporate, or w.e now need a masters degree to be a full on registered dietician. So another 2 years added on. My advice is look for programs that plug you into internships as part of the course requirement. Most of these if chosen well end up becoming full time jobs post grad.
You like telling people you're a former cook and now a nutritionist and exercise physiologist don't you
You really do have an incredible ability to lay things out in a highly intelligent manner that’s also easy to digest. I mean duh, we all know that… but it’s refreshing to hear such a reasonable mindset for something like body building and how it relates to cooking. What you said towards the end about the “why” really moved me. Good stuff as always Adam!
What’s your favorite recipe from Adams channel ant
TIL AntVenom watches Adam Ragusea, very cool 👌
I love you Ant
@@Visualize01 yeah it's neat seeing big name guys just chilling and watching random videos like normal people. Like Tom Hanks going to the movies or something and saying "yeah that movie was pretty good". It's cool to see them just being normal dudes lol
Holy shit, suddenly I'm back in 2011.
The kid thing... Yes, yes! The second child didnt sleep past 4 in the morning and my wife had a post natal depression so, it was up to me to fix it. I got so tired, and still dragged myself to the gym and it made me feel even worse. A good friend told me to stop going, just walk with the baby and accept that the kickboxing days were over for the time being. And I felt much much better. Now I started training again.
"Being good at what you do doesn't mean you know why are good at what you do" thanks for putting this in words, I was trying to synthesize this concept for a while :D
It also explains why experts are often not good educators
I've noticed this problem frequently with dance instructors. They're amazing to watch, and they might even be good teachers in some ways, but they commonly instruct people to move in ways that are impossible for either anatomical or fundamental physical reasons.
One of the best examples is the baseball player Barry Bonds. Probably the best at putting a bat on a ball consistently for at least a generation. His steroid use aside, he was just a phenomenal hitter. However, it turns out he cant teach why he was good because at some basic level you cant teach talent or innate ability. He probably has an extremely unusual degree of hand eye coordination and agility, predictive ability within the sport, etc, 'soft skills'.
The team he played for hired him to coach their batters and there was no discernable effect.
I have never been so adequately humbled and struck with a sudden fit of laughter as Adam's delivery of "absolute dump truck."
as the Brits- i mean, the Kids would say
Here comes the YTP's!
14:19
Butts are just inherently funny.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 - agreed
Do you even cook bro?
wha
I am the one who cooks
Montgomery Clift, bro??
Yes
high iq level joke
When it comes to those little optimization problems, I’ve generally stuck with the engineering approach: brief research to see what the options are, pick the one that seems most promising, then just tweak it one little variable at a time. Plenty of things that’s impossible for (hard to perfect buying a car when you hardly ever do it), but for things like cooking that happen all the time, eking out a little better quality just makes good sense. I once slowly adjusted the amount of milk I added to instant oatmeal till I found the ideal consistency for my tastes. Took a couple weeks, but now I can make it exactly how I want 100% of the time. Same with exercise: slowly adjust/try little changes and observe the results over time.
Whoa I did the exact same thing with instant oatmeal, also did the same with how long it stayed in the microwave
Or, with a little statistics, you can do a DOE and test more than one factor at a time, building a numerical heatmap and picking the optimal combination of factors 😉 (engineering student here, going into quality studies)
@@kagitsune What is a DOE? I’m very curious about things like this.
@@EragonShadeslayer Design of Experiments! The name sounds basic but it's actually a very specific way of setting high and low values of your factors (i.e long time vs. short time, high power vs. low power, more water vs. less water), only doing a select few combinations of factors (for example, instead of doing every possible combination of low/high values, you just do a few), and then using a statistical model to infer a range of optimal results. It can save countless hours of experimentation... You can even find an optimal combined effect that you wouldn't have found just through varying single factors! I know that Minitab has excellent blog articles detailing how this works... If I ever find some really good TH-cam videos I'll comment back. 😁
@@kagitsune Wow, I’ve wondered about this exact idea of how to find the optimal combinations of values in complex situations a lot in my life… It’s unsurprising that in statistics there would lie a method for doing so, but I never had a name to use to learn about it. Thank you for the enlightenment, and I’ll gladly watch those videos if you find them.
This video hits all the right spot philosophically for me. Majority of the time people often think "committing" to the gym equates to chicken and broccoli 3 times a day, 7 days a week and no in-between, furthermore it's unthinkable to eat a good piece of pizza of a steak lathered in sauce and pan-seared with butter because the calorie is too much. But like Adam said, it's the "why" that's important, not the "how". Everybody want to look shredded and everybody wants to eat a good meal, why choose 1 and abandon the other when you can have both at a moderate rate and reasonable intervals between each other ? It's not like i hit the weights every day of the week and it's not like i chow down on steak 30 days a month, variety is the spice of life and that goes for both food and fitness. Furthermore, creating a healthy connection between yourself and food is one of the core tips for bodyweight control so committing to a barebones diet will only inevitably become unsustainable, vice versa lack of discipline is also a killer of progress. It's great that Adam's the one to bring up these things especially because fitness is such a fickle thing to advise people to, there's too many variables to a person's body and composition that a good & balance diet & workout to me might be a stomach & body crusher for someone else.
The funny thing about the "starch is cheating" sentiment is that putting pasta water (salty starch water) in the sauce for your pasta is an old technique.
The notion of cheating at cooking is also dumb, make what you want
I think that's why he said "discovered by White people" is that there was a racist overtone to it. When the Chinese do it, it's "cheating."
@@Sir_Bucket unless we're talking about cream
Well it's a valid point to a degree though. Reduction is also a method to intensify the flavor by getting rid of excess water. I'm quite surprised he overlooked that.
I heard once they called that water aqua santi xD
Adam, I really appreciate you not oversimplifying x10 like so many others do. You treat us as if we have your level of intelligence, and it's so refreshing. Also, recognizing a fellow reductionist, I find it incredible soothing to listen to your how and why, related to almost any topic. You operate a few levels deeper than any other cooking-youtube guy I know of, and, well, thanks for you doing you!
Very well said. I have nothing else to add other than agreeing. It’s something I haven’t been used to the past years, and now to have someone like Adam who does things his way.. it’s great.
In my experience, to get people to understand you, i always try to give as much context and depth as i can and not leave out details because those details are actually what makes it make sense
Nah, Kenji or Dan from ATK does a better job.
I was thinking just the same, especially in a world where everything is dummbed down for general consumption..
He's not a reductionist, clearly okay with using starch to thicken sauces.
That garlic bit is super solid. To answer that question for everyone wondering, garlic is fat soluble. You can extract the garlic flavor in any fat you use (lard, butter, vegetable oils) and get the same result from crushed, sliced, and minced. At that point you only make a difference in texture.
When taking garlic raw, emulsifying will round the flavor. Slicing and shingling will create a sweeter sensation in the same vein as pickled ginger. Mincing will be more like pepper. Rough chopping will add an onion-y bite. I use all of these techniques on a case by case basis.
I hope this sparks some creativity in any aspiring chefs online
95% of people won‘t be able to taste the difference other than in a side by side taste test, so it really doesn’t matter unless you work in a michelin starred kitchen
This reminds me, back when I was learning various things at Dominos Pizza, my various coworkers had various ways to prepare a pan pizza. Some spread the oil before putting the dough in, others used the dough to spread the oil, some used lots of oil, some used very little, etc. But in the end, all of their methods worked.
This is a minor thing but one thing that does help which I don’t think you’ll dispute is get oil around the edges do it isn’t as hard to cut it out
It doesn't matter, either way it's a shitty pizza
various.
For most of my life (mid 20s so not much) I have really struggled with being told “this is the correct way of doing it” and then someone else saying the opposite or something different. It always made me feel like I am doing it “wrong” no matter how I did it. This video feels like a breath of fresh air to hear externally that it’s not critical to only do something the “right” way. Honestly, thank you for putting this in words I wasn’t able to for some reason. And to hear it on the two topics I have ALWAYS struggled with learning for that exact reason you pointed out….truly a godsend I needed.
There should always be balanced. Some techniques may not be "wrong" or "correct" but rather "good" and "better". Thus why experimentation is always great. Also both bodybuilding and cooking have some subjectivity in them. Yes, largely they are objective for everyone, but still, taste buds are different, as well as muscles in each human. Overall if you stick to routines/recipes intended for "average", you'll improve up to the point of said average (which is already good enough, and improves life a lot), but experimenting in reasonable ranges allows you to find out what fits YOU best. Different training routines for the same muscle groups, different recipes of the same meal - even if they won't benefit you maximally, mixing them up from time to time is good anyway, because both your muscles, as well as your taste buds, can get used to the same training/recipe and not benefit from them as much anymore.
So, i think, common sense advice would be: educate yourself on what works for majority, implement it on routine basis, then try "exotic" things along the way, as long as it's reasonable.
p.s. Good luck to all my gym and kitchen kings/queens. We are all gonna make it, brahs ❤
The "right" way to do something is to do it in whatever way works for you, because that means you're likely to keep doing it, and you're also not likely to hurt yourself doing it because you're listening to your own limits. The best solution is the easiest one
@@kakhakheviashvili6365 I like your reply as well; although I would appreciate the inclusion of gym sovereigns, who are neither kings nor queens
I always steal the best way I find to do something. Doesn't have to be the objective best, best for you and your use case. This includes lots of cheats for things as well
Plato's theory of form states that everything has a true form in which shining a light will cast a shadow. This shadow is true, but if you shine on the object at a different angle that shadow is also true yet different. Obviously some exercises will objectively be better for increasing muscle mass at a reduced time than a more tertiary exercise, like how a pec deck is simply not as needed as a bench press for chest strength.
I can barely imagine the effort it took to get the continuity of the garage and kitchen scenes to meld so seamlessly, Adam, and the audio was exceptional!
Ragusea just built different
There's some weird noise in the garage. I wouldn't call it exceptional.
@@smutnejajo5149 bugs in the south... it's a thing
@@smutnejajo5149 just some cicadas
Legend 🔥
This is one of the most comforting and affirming videos I've watched in a long time, simply for my realizing I don't have to hold myself to standards that don't work for me. Thank you!
Adam your ability to dissect complex and broad topics, and to verbally walk through it so coherently and thoughtfully is astounding. I laugh all the insights you arrive to, it’s clear you think so long and hard about these things. I was aggressively nodding my head the whole time, awesome stuff, you’re brilliant mate
I love how Adam's videos basically run from the starting point of "This is where food comes from" and ends up at "And that's why we should be alive."
It was a great way to lead into that. The most important is "why you're alive and what you should be doing"
Chad Life enjoyer
Well, we do need food to be alive.
Love this. "If you want your food item less raw, placing and replacing it on a very hot surface repeatedly will always do the trick."
I gotta try this
I appreciate the "everything works" observation. Simple but terrifically true! Effort and consistency.
I can't believe I just stumbled on this video, the dichotomy of conscientiousness and application is just brilliant. This was a very refreshing video and makes me want to take a look at what other videos you took the time to produce.
Adam explaining how his other interests are actually "related to cooking, okay!" Are the best videos on this channel
Next time Adam compares video editing and cooking.
This makes his garage a "home office/studio space" and his gym equipment a "business expense." Brilliant move
My old karate teacher used to say "Everything's karate. Everything is polish polish polish."
Adam transcends the limitations of being a "cooking channel."
When you know the way, you see the way in all things
I’ve been teaching research methods for 30 years and I have tried to make this point every year. Effect sizes are more important than statistical significance. Thanks for spreading the word.
I mean, both matter - if your sample is too small to be statistically meaningful and you have a 300% improvement, you may have just found the outlier. But yes. I suspect this is part of why p-hacking is such an issue.
This concept I learned from econ; marginal benefits, comes to mind for some reason. It’s the concept of per additional units of _something_, what is the benefit of that additional unit?
And even more important than that is asking the right question and measuring the right thing in the first place, as in Adam’s concluding ‘why > how’.
My stats teacher taught us how to calculate statistical significance using r2 (the most common method), then we did an exercise in class showing that it can be extremely misleading: graph a sinusoid, then fit it using r2. The straight line obtained fitted beautifully but looked nothing like the actual function.
Whether the people doing stats actually understand the math involved and the nature of whatever they're studying is something which sadly doesn't get asked enough!
@@NavaSDMB Well the straight line wouldn't have a good r2, either. But it's indeed highly problematic, especially in soft sciences - sometimes you see r2=0.5 cited as "good enough" and "significant" and then there's significance hacking with overfitting because things like chi2/ndf are not common at all (polynomial fits were all the rage before, now it's ML models, works basically the same and editors accept it as a "hot" topic so it must be good science right? Right?!).
In social sciences it's extra hard to get a sufficient sample size going but I get a feeling they don't even teach that. What's worse, I've volunteered to fill some questionnaires for a few degree projects, and they don't hesitate to ask extremely leading questions. Bit wild how it affects human lives way more directly at the end of the day than something like high energy physics yet the scrutiny standards are so much lower.
Dude you absolutely rock. I really admire that you bring these every day nuances to the surface for people to be aware of.
You have a beautifully refreshing way of thinking and articulating those thoughts. Thank you!
As a person who's deeply interested in cooking, coffee, and working out who also watches Sean Nalewanyj, this video feels almost specifically made for me
Felt like I was targeted
Honestly a pretty common overlap. The people who tend to get serious into one thing (lifting) also tend to spread out to other areas (food, coffee etc..).
Sean nalewanyj is a joke Jeff nippard ftw, jkjk seans ok but if u want to look at actual studies go look at jeff
Sean DOES miss sometimes, but he does try to correct them if he knows he is on the wrong side, which is the right attitude and I support that. But if I really want more in-depth information, Jeff Nippard and Renaissance Periodization are the way to go. Sean's shorts are very enjoyable tho, props for that
@@raymondhuang277 OH, trust me, I love Jeff Nippard's content, I probably trust him more than any other lifting creator. I just also enjoy Sean's content, especially some of his shorts.
I feel like this applies to many communities. Gardening is another one I'm in - I find almost every gardener believes that planting something in a tiny container and incrementally moving it into larger and larger containers can make it "easier to water" but also adds a lot more time transplanting, where just putting some seeds right in the ground seems to work pretty well for almost everything I've grown. Tiny differences may help, but making it seem like "it's important" creates barriers for others to enter the space
@@huejastle ?
@@huejastle They make a decent point. You're not contributing anything.
@@huejastle yeah, small things like that are debated and touted as the "right way", when they dont really make much of a difference to the result. almost like thats the point of the entire video??? did u even watch it lmao
I don’t think pot resizing isn’t something up for debate since there is empirical data showing that most of the plant species success rate increases if it’s repotted when it fills its pot ( roots coming out of drain holes is a big indicator) for the many reason of soil’s water retention and perched water table issues. I believe the video’s gist is about the new and quite frankly insignificant informations’ effect on everyday people’s outlook on a new hobby or life style.
TL:DR- Please start small and repot your plants if you want better success and there’s enough data to show that it’s necessary for potted plants’ health and longevity.
PS: It also maddens me when world feels like there are certain people gate keeping interests but in reality they are trying to improve it by going dinky deep into details.
if it's too much effort to repot conventionally, it's way easier to just do it with a series of increasingly large paper containers. Just go buy a couple paper cups in different sizes, some paper bins, lay one in the other badda bing badda boom you're pretty much done. just gotta make sure that the water saturation doesn't get to the point that your paper breaks. cardboard boxes can also help with this sort of thing, and it also depends on how fast your plant progresses before your cardboard will decompose, but it works.
This video randomly came up on my feed. It sparked my curiosity so I watched it to its entirety. Never have I came across something that hit the nail directly on the head! I am now subscribed and looking forward to the rest of your past/future content!
dude excellent video, i love the way you format it all and it flows like a well written essay with a point to prove!
Great video! A slight caveat that actually clarifies something for me. The one way you can really lift "wrong" is if you're doing something that's going to injure you. So, with that in mind, we should really be prioritizing not injuring ourselves over all other aspects of lifting. Which seems obvious but I think everyone has those times when they push a little bit harder than they should to "get more" out of the workout.
Yeah but look at all the people saying front raises are bad and will injure your shoulders. Then go back and look at Arnold and he did them all the time. Even the injury stuff is subjective.
@@nollix and yet he injured his shoulder before the 1980 mr. olympia.
biomechanics, joint range of motion, proper form, listening to your fucking body when it protests a movement are all paramount. lifting big is cool until you rip, tear, impinge something.
cmon
@@itsdox7433 the only thing that will get you injured in the gym is improper load management. everything else is second to that. the body adapts, but only if you let it.
Same with cooking, don't cook rare chicken
@@TheMortalKombatent amen.
This is a really great one, Adam. The way you wield actual science without for a second forgetting to pair it with no-nonsense, sensible conclusions is for my money unparalleled on The Cooking Internet. Frankly it's pretty damn uncommon on the Everything Else Internet too...
Didn't know your channel before, but this was a great video. Really refreshing to hear someone down to earth but audibly intellectual. I will be thinking more of my goals from now on.
Amazing video! You really hit the nail on the head and gave everyone much to think about. And not just in cooking and lifting but in all activities, I would say. The "why" seems to be more important than the "how" in most scenarios.
This is like the ultimate Adam ragusea video. It's like a culmination of every aspect of your TH-cam persona rolled into 18 minutes.
Well damn, if this isn't the ethos of this channel boiled down into 19 minutes. My only thought is that, unlike Adam, I enjoy both working out and cooking for similar reasons- they're over-learned to the point that I can shut my brain off for an hour and just flow.
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@@Broockle 🌰
Beautifully put, and I absolutely agree, a lot of the enjoyment comes from not thinking about whatever worries you in your live right now and just "flow" for an hour or two.
That’s the state that I think most people miss when it comes to why lifting feels so good. They usually stop before they reach the point of that flow state
This was such a fun video, that made me think about certain aspects of both cooking and working out. Having an end goal can definitely make the journey more enjoyable
Always loved that you try out all the different versions of a recipe, thanks Adam!
Bro I seared a flipflop and it tasted amazing! You should try, but make sure you rotate your pinkey outwards while searing!!
As a father who struggles to 'stay fit' and an amateur cook, I found this to be a really insightful and kinda beautiful video. Cheers mate
The next hurdle is when the kid(s) grow up and you have to manage cooking for two adults and however many picky little kids u got.
@@moodycxnt yeah, and one day broccoli is the kids favorite thing on earth and the week after he won't give it a second look ;)
I was thinking the same thing.
I don't agree with the premise, his argument is that worrying about "small things" is not as important as nutrition or going to the gym while doing hard sets, that doesn't mean that talking about ways to improve the results you get are a waste of time, it would be like saying "Don't worry about doing a controlled rep going slowly on the way down and with an isometric pause at some point of the movement or doing fast explosive reps, just go to the gym", yeah ok, that is a very simplistic and amateur way of looking at things and I can say that as someone who regularly works and has watched probably hundreds of hours of content that allowed me to optimize my workouts, if you stack a bunch of things that give you a tiny percentage of improvement then it's no longer a tiny percentage.
For example compare a guy that:
-does fast uncontrolled reps
-doesn't care about the total number of calories or the number of carbs/protein/fats he consumes
-Doesn't do a weighted stretch in every rep
-Always does the same numbers of sets
-Doesn't know how to properly progressively overload
-Always does the same exercises
-Always trains within the same rep range
-Does the less number of exercises per muscle possible
-Does nothing in between sets other than check his phone
And compare that to someone who:
-Does controlled reps on the way down and with a pause at some point
-Eats enough to have a caloric surplus to build muscle, has the ideal amount of protein, has the minimum required number of fats for perfomance and the rest is carbs for more energy and better pumps
-Does a weighted stretch in every rep (like losing all tension on a pull up since the weighted stretch is where you grow the most)
-Starts with a low numbers of sets and adds sets every week compared to how he recovers
-Knows how to progressively overload, not just with weights but with reps and time under tension too
-Rotates the most amount possible of exercises every training block that the equipment available will allow to keep the stimulus new
-Rotates rep ranges every 2 or 3 training blocks (mesocycles) to stimulate both slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibers optimally
-Does 2 or 3 exercises per muscle in every workout to have variety
-Stretch in between sets or does antagonistic super sets
You can see by this examples that while every single point is not that big of a deal when you accumulate like 10 then yeah, it is kinda of a big deal.
@@moodycxnt that's why you teach your children basic cooking skill so they can cook for themselves and for the family when they get old enough
Love how you lay things out without sneering or judgement. You make a great case!
Holy f*** I've missed your videos! Idk if you haven't been posting as often or what, but I just got recommended you again... so happy. The intelligent, nuanced takes on research (that could put academics to shame...) the VERY thoughtful and critical self-reflection... I really find this channel so educational, but also like you help me grow in my thinking as a person. You give so much perspective to things I've often only briefly thought about... really appreciate what you do thank you. :)
This really seems like a video you enjoyed making, letting you combine your passions of food, muscle, and intellectual questioning. I definitely enjoyed it.
Fantastic video, Adam!
I'm a fitness instructor (not a body building trainer, that's different!) and I am SO glad you said all of this. We absorb this message that "fitness" is really only one story, i.e. that of the guys whose videos get popular. What they're doing is not the majority of exercise activities being done by most people, nor is looking like them everyone's goal.
I'll be adding this video to the list for my student-instructors to watch!
Why are you not fit yourself then?
@@TerenceChiII I feel this was already answered in the video we were just watching.
Surprisingly rare to find serious thoughtful discussion of two of my simple hobbies. Good stuff!
Wow, I had never heard of you before seeing this video pop up on my recommended feed and the topic of the video was really compelling. You said something that I intuitively always thought in my head, thanks for the great video man!
I agree with your point that in lifting most stuff works. However the reason for “do x instead of y” isn’t necessarily because x works better, but because x is safer, which is a huge reason to have these discussion.
80% of internet fitness influencers have amazing bodies because the y exercise also works, but it is less safe than x, which will lead to problems in the future. So the rest have to make videos on how to do the exercises safer.
Agreed. After watching the vid i was itching to comment that lateral shoulder raises with external rotation was more about avoiding potential shoulder injuries, which could benefit many people.
@@dare2liv_nlove As someone who's previously dislocated both shoulders, watching those internally rotated lifts was triggering
@@SeraphimCramer Ouch! I hope your shoulders were able to fully recover & then grow stronger after that experience. 🥲
Care to share some examples to illustrate your point? Of course you should be lifting in a way that doesn't injure you purposely but almost everyone I run into who worries about safety takes it way too far to where their workouts are not very effective because they don't try hard enough out of fear of injuring themselves. Lifting is way safer than playing team sports. even at the competitive level and injuries are way more rare than you would think, especially serious ones. The people who obsess the most over getting injured tend to be those who are least likely to get injured and shouldn't be worrying about it. Yes, some exercises are less safe than others but those are the exercises that are gonna net you way more progress with way more efficiency. Easy, "safe" exercises tend to be not as effective.
@@Soccasteve I believe the opposite of what you said is also true, it's not either-or. Just some quick examples (that most _good_ fitness TH-camrs have already covered in detail):
1. There are multiple ways to exercise the same joints/muscles, you can still have great gains while choosing forms with less risk of injury. Relevant example to this video: Lateral shoulder raises with wrists externally-rotated, with body slightly leaning forward, carries less risk of shoulder injury than with wrists rotated downward (i have personal experience with rotator-cuff shoulder injuries from this).
2. Yes, team sports can be dangerous, but lifting also has great potential for crippling injuries & debilitating long-term tendon/joint wear & tear due to that action being performed frequently & continuously over a long period of time, IF the form used is incorrect or is less safe.
3. Yes, some people go overboard being "obsessed about getting injured", but that doesn't mean prioritizing one's safety is bad (see previous point). Sometimes, being safe just means adapting/improving your form slightly, & making sure to slowly/incrementally increase resistance or weight lifted (tendons take a longer time to strengthen vs muscles), rather than jump ahead to weights that are too heavy too soon.
The "playing on the floor with my baby" story was really touching, thank you Adam
This video was about cooking and lifting and other stuff but it REALLY helped me dealing with my ocd. I always do reaserch to much rather than doing the work, but now my mind is more free of internet experts. tnx man. great video
This is an excellent video that tackle frankly a real phenomena that put more people out of the kitchen and the gyms. I'm really glad to hear someone talking about why are we doing this and what is the most important stuff.
Now I can't stop imagining Adam watching More Plates More Dates, the crossover I didn't know I wanted but I did.
Also you should try to do some sort of collab video with Sean or get him on the podcast, that would be golden
Great observation, Adam. It's easy to see now how this happens all over youtube - for example, 95% of videos about photography are about the minutia of equipment specs and lens sharpness, instead of composition, artistry, or taking meaningful photos in the real world.
makes you wonder if one's hobby is doing the thing, or if one's hobby is acquiring and talking about equipment to do the thing. The latter is of course valid, for example, Personal Computer enthusiasts.
happens in some fandom discourse too!
Great video! Even greater vocabulary! Nicely done, you deserve your subscriber count more so than many content creators on this platform. Thanks for the informative entertainment!
Thank you for the video Adam! Why vs How is something I haven’t thought of in a long time if ever. That insight has many applications outside of the gym and kitchen!
As someone with both intersecting interests in Cooking TH-cam and Fitness TH-cam, this has to be one of my favorite videos from you, Adam. The entire thing is just philosophy that's seriously impactful. Thanks Adam, please keep up the good work. The 70s has Bruce Lee telling us about "The Way," and now the 2020s we have Adam Ragusea telling us about "The Why."
English is my second language so it's amazing how Adam's videos make my vocabulary much richer, on top of all the knowledge from whatever topic he is discussing of course. Thanks Adam.
Beautiful job on your English there, by the way. 👍
And today you learned about 'dump truck'. Vocabulary enriched indeed.
@@anyascelticcreations thank you so much.
Se eu querer fazer o mesmo com português?
@@bri1085 podemos nos ajudar 😃
i feel like this is one of the best videos you have made so far and i thank you for making it! :)
This is great! I'm an artist/ designer by profession and a lot of what you've shared in this video can be applied to the challenges involved with the creative processes and other fields of study too. Such a great video essay with good food for thought!
Cheers from me (and my hobbyist chef dad who has really enjoyed your videos like this one helping him with his culinary experiments too!)
I really like all the easily digestible history and scientific information paired with food practices of this channel but I think what I realized I love is how aware of context Adam tries to be. It's his grounded meta commentary which is charming
Adam is the Venn diagram intersection of lifting and cooking, being a gym bro and a cooking enthusiast I'm in for it all.
Put me in the cooking circle that had no idea about the lifting circle...
Question: can one really be a gym bro without being at least mildly interested in cooking?
I'd also add in that he's pretty good at respecting the science and critiquing specifics of a study. I'm in medical school and it's a big thing that we try to focus on, since incorrect generalizations based on limited studies can lead to harm for our patients. For someone who's not in a science-related field, he does an amazing job at breaking it down for a lay person
@@smellypatel5272 I'm guessing the reason behind that is because he comes from academia
@@WanderTheNomad what's his background? Any idea?
adam I truly appreciate your videos about your curiosity for minutia. its so human so concern ourselves with things that don’t really matter that much but satisfy our curiosity
this video has actually made me feel motivated because I now realise that I don't have to be perfect at coosing what exercises i do in the gym as long as I just try my hardest
thank you
I was so happy to see Adam is a Sean Nalewanyj fan, two of the best creators on TH-cam for their respective topics, talent really does recognize talent.
Yeah Sean is one great fitness youtuber.
The greatest is prolly jeff nippard
14:19 "Is my goal to grow an absolute dumptruck as the kids say?"
Adam truly is a blessing on TH-cam lol! Jokes aside though, I think this discourse about the little details of something is a benefit/consequence of us not having to worry about the bigger things as you mentioned in the video, so we think about the smaller details now instead. We went from asking "what to do while we're starving" to "what to do to hide from being a war victim" to "what is the meaning of life and how to find our own identity".
I think VSauce covered it in on his video about why we play games. He showcased something akin to a food pyramid but with human needs. At the bottom you have essential needs like avoiding starvation, avoiding injury, and things at the top are more about "what we do for fun" and "what philosophies should humans ponder about". If your needs lower down the pyramid aren't met, you're less likely to think about the needs higher up on the pyramid.
I feel like with lifting and cooking, the big stuff is less of a worry now. The gas we use is safe and not gonna make us feel like drowning like mustard gas, and we can trust that most lifting equipment is manufactured well and safe to use. So now that we don't have to worry about those things and the things we *are* doing are so repetitive that it doesn't require much thinking, we tend to gravitate towards the little details and obsess over them, even if they have little to no effect no matter which way we decide to change them. We think about those smaller things because we can, it's just in our nature to think about something and form a conclusion, rather than to repeat something mindlessly without pondering about at least something.
But hell what do I know, I'm just some dude on the internet who spent way too much writing this whole thing that could be completely wrong anyways lol. Feel free to say I'm wrong, because maybe I am and I'll learn something! Or just say I'm wasting time and I should shut up, that's probably true too lol. Either way, great video Adam!
The pyramid you're talking about is called Maslow's hierarchy of needs in case anyone wants to look it up. As you said, it's a pretty good way of thinking about what people need to live a fulfilling life, but it's better to think of it more as a guideline than as something to be followed religiously.
@@patrickmattin9609 Thank you, Maslow's Hierarchy is the one I was talking about! And yeah that's true, its not a solid rule that everyone follows but def gives a good idea of how it usually goes!
I think it's also worth noting that sometimes these things can really matter! 2 ways in particular come to mind:
1. Details can sometimes make qualitative differences, ie if the creator here knew higher frequency lifting was just as good but gave less doms, which is true, he would have been able to keep maximum dump truck. This is a 'medium rock' as opposed to 'big rocks' like consistency, but niche knowledge.
2. Specialists! If your why is to be the greatest, or even just elite more broadly, get kicking those little rocks in addition to the medium and big ones, because the competition is stacked. Or have a coach do it, whatever.
@@jonjones5092 Good points, I totally agree! I'd like to add sometimes they also have quantitative differences on a large scale too!
Adam did a video about doing things like chopping onions faster. For most people, they can take their time because it barely makes a difference. But for career chefs working in restaurants, those small time savings add up to minutes and sometimes hours that would've otherwise been wasted had they not chopped as quickly as they did! It's similar to driving, where for most people speeding up 2mph-3mph doesn't do much on normal commutes, but for truckers who travel across the country it adds up to a lot of time being saved on those 100-200 mile journeys. Whether those little details are worth doing or not depends on the situation I feel
My man, you need a diary so you can feel listened to.
Awesome cook, guitarist, and now fitness guy! World needs more people like Ragusea
Never seen your videos or channel before but this video came out of no where and is soooo true. Very well said!
Hi Adam, one of your best videos ever !! I particularly appreciated you sharing your Eureka moment when realized that you were "fit" but not fit for the purpose of playing with your kid on the ground. A lot of food for thoughts there. Thank you very much !! p.s. Don't ever die !! We need your videos :)
5:23 if that bar slips it's going to crush you, you should wrap your thumb around the bar. what you're doing right now is called the suicide grip and is SUPER risky to use to bench if you don't have a spotter.
I love the way you formulate your arguments and are careful not to say anything wrong, and the way you explain things clearly without claiming too much. It's clear from the way you speak that it's a topic you know well and have thought a lot about before and during the making of the video.
First video I watched, was hesitant given 18 minutes. Watched it complete. Great perspective! Subscribed
I absolutely adore this video. As a constant overthinker who watches TH-cam, every so often I feel defeated in the gym. Is this program good enough? Am I lifting enough? Am I eating the right things? Am I eating too much? Too little? Bringing it back to basics is incredibly helpful. So thanks for doing that.
That was way more interesting than I expected it to be. I mean I'm never bored with your content at all but lifting isn't a thing that's important to me right now. I don't even currently own weights of any kind but I absolutely agree with everything you concluded 👏👏👏👏
I don't normally leave comments on videos, but I just wanted to drop this here on the off chance you see this: I'm glad I watched this video. It was really entertaining and insightful, as a guy who mostly circulates in the gym internet it was fun to hear about cooking dilemmas and the note you left off on was perfect, thinking of the why instead of the how. Actually very cool kind of philosophical content, made for a good start to my day
Adam, been watching for a while, but really thank you for this one. Great video.
I came looking for a cooking video and left with an early mid-life crisis, body dysmorphia, and introspective questions that will keep me up at night. The hallmarks of a good video.
Abandoning the search for perfection has been very helpful for learning to be a better cook, which is something I love about your channel.
This made me realize I've been doing the same thing with my approach for exercise, and because of wanting to be "perfect" I've basically not been exercising - same thing that kept me from cooking for years.
Thanks for making that click Adam!
Ditto. I spent so much time eating like trash and being overweight because I was obsessed with perfect cooking. Then I realized simple, basic foods we're plenty tasty (albeit not amazing) and I wasn't as much of a foodie as I thought.
Something i realized was the plating is stupid, just put all the food on the plate and ignore visual aesthetics, its tastes just the same and all i care about it making the not junk food taste good. Salmon is way easier when you don't care that when baking it all the fat comes out and looks kinda weird compared to actually pan frying where the same thing happens but you remove the fat immediately. (But now i don't have to baby sit it, i also add some baby carrots to the oil and get a vegetable incorporated to the meal)
@@jasonreed7522 I dunno, I'd usually not bother too hard but it's definitely a part of the experience for me. Plus it affects how you eat it, so can impact the taste - otherwise you could just throw everything in one bowl and mix it real hard.
Then again, in that salmon example the difference to me is minimal and some of the plating "tricks" is restaurants using specialized tools you won't normally have or use at home (it's one thing to make a dish for 2 and then wash every bit of equipment and completely another when it's food for like 50 people). Somewhat funny also, they've managed to convince us it's "fancy", so now throwing whole bits of veggies without dicing them is not a lazy cost-saving measure, it's for you the consumer to appreciate the naked beauty of the food as it grows and feel that connection to nature... or something.
@@Lodinn its probably best to be slightly more specific, things like garnish or puting half the sauce for a cheesecake on the plate in drizzle lines vs on the cheesecake itself are the worst.
But for food i make myself i generally try an keep it in noncontaminating piles because i decided to "plate" once by putting salmon ontop of rice and in order to cut the salmon with my fork i still had to reach the plate and the result was rice and cocktail sauce mixing which was unpleasant. So yes it does affect the flavor/experience but normally i have found it detrimental as it causes undesirable mixing of foods i prefered separate or otherwise makes the eating process less convenient.
Its probably better to rephrase as plating for looks is dumb, just plate for flavor.
Great video ❤
Woah
Funny seeing you here
Adam woke up this morning and was like "hmmm how can I anger two completely seperate youtube communities in one video?" lol
A really smart bro would note that the “medial deltoid” is actually the “lateral deltoid” and the fact that made it trough peer review with no one noticing is hilarious.
Of course everyone knows what is meant by “medial deltoid” and a really really smart bro would say I’m being pedantic, and perhaps that’s the problem with lifting internet 😳
Also, "side laterals" is kinda funny because I've not heard this one myself. It's always been "lateral raises".
I can see why some might call it that though.
You raise the weight to the side, for the lateral deltoid. You could probably also do a lateral raise with the elbow bent (I do) and they might make a distinction for a bent elbow lateral raise and a "side" lateral raise.
I dunno, I'm a powerlifter. I call things what they are.
Had a p.e teacher who called military push ups, tricep pushes.
went to the gym and befriended a dude. He calls squatting with weights "heavy squats" because "squats" are actually just describing leg squats without weights.
It's interesting what you may run into when you work out, or cook. People give everything names and the dictionary and doctors are always ignored. Ah well, am I right?
@@daoyang223 People tend to describe things rather than deciding they need some sort of unique word combination that will result in a 2nd individual knowing exactly what they're talking about without any context. If both people know that unique word combination then great its super effective and can be relied upon as a descriptor within a field which is where you get corporate jargon. But if you have 2 laymen then a description will allow the second person to figure it out themselves without asking the first person "what?". Just like in the early days of literacy, its not always going to be the exact same but it allows the point to be conveyed.
Besides, a lift bro would just laugh at you for reading a dictionary.
Why assume no one noticed?
@@daoyang223 what the hell is a military push up?
I know of like 40 pushup variations, none of them called that lol🤔🤔
As someone who also loves cooking and lifting I'd love to see more lifting related videos from you!
same, never clicked a video so fast
How much you bench
On a second channel, but yes I would like one also!
I do both as well. But not very well.
@@jasondeblou6226 I bench like 350kg maybe 360
This is my first video of yours I've seen.
I've never seen such a perfect take!
I have never watched any cooking or lifting videos but this title intrigued me and I learned something. Thanks
"They may be very good at what they do, but that doesn't mean they're good at knowing why they are good at what they do."
This is a great point. One which Tim Ferris satirised when he said if you want to get big, go to the gym and find the biggest guy, ask him what to do and then do the opposite of everything he told you.
I heard that exact part of the video as I read this.
@@thesavageone8685 trippy whenever that happens xD
If Tim said that, then it's highly ironic and possibly disingenuous how he came to write "Tools of Titans".
This is also why savants tend to be lousy teachers. You need the guy who struggled to get good at whatever it is they're doing because they had to sit back and analyze their approach rather than just intuiting it like people with more of a "natural inclination" tend to do.
It's kind of like how great athletes often fail as coaches. And some of the best coaches are failed athletes. Doing the thing well is not the same as explaining and imparting the thing.
I’m seeing a lot of parallels with guitar internet.
Fancy seeing you here! Its fascinating man, you know Adam and Kenji Lopez are also both musicians… small worlds, creative spaces seem to all share similar problems
On the note of "what am I training for", my dad had a similar reaction when he was playing golf at 8am one weekend about 9 months after my birth. Realzing he was spending money to miss being with his first child. All the great fathers get that sensation and i always love hearing what their "a-ha" moment was.
wow, this is surprisingly deep. You are the type of those few people who really think about thinking and actually make sense out of it. Really good stuff here
May be one of the best, most well thought out, and eloquently articulated videos I've ever watched. Fantastic analysis, even better delivery.
I freaking love these kinds of videos from you. I first started watching you because of how relatable your problems with the kitchen were. And as a fan of both cooking and lifting myself, I loved this video. I'm sure it seeps into other aspects of life as well. Please do more
Amazing video, Adam! Really great point at the end as well.
I did not expect this video to have a valuable moral in the end. Great Video!
Once again you deliver!
Adam, among the thousands of TH-camrs, your perspective is what makes you so special.
Yes, I very much like your recipes; however it’s not mainly for the recipes that I subscribe and that I look forward to each new video. It’s for your mind.
You go further, you go deeper. Basically, you continuously go back to basics, which is how my mind functions as well. You question the received wisdom, you experiment, you check, you doubt, and that makes for
1. Fascinating video’s
2. Food for thought (yes, pun very much intended 😉)
And all this goes for weight training as well, 💯!
PS, I’ll bet that making these video’s takes a lot of time. The attention to detail, editing, volume, lighting and all the rest, are very noticeable. Thank you for your dedication 🙏🙏🙏
5:30 the suicide grip 💀
He's absolutely correct and what he's saying extends to pretty much everything on the Internet these days. Another good example is dating advice for men, which is rife on platforms such as Tiktok. Forgetting that 95% of humans before us managed to get laid and find a partner just fine without all the overly analytical and exaggerated advice that is now thrown at young men.
or you know, in the past there was rampant rpe 😂
Especially with bad faith actors like Andrew Tate, who, despite being deplatformed, probably did a lot of impact on the lives on potential young men than the talks they had with their parents on dating and relationships.
@@flash1face1 you are recalling incorrectly I hate to tell you but far more than 1/15 men reproduced historically in fact in the 1700s and 1800s the vast majority of men married (in the 90s percent) and more they did it at a far younger age than they do now. Just talk to a bunch of girls and you will probably get into a relationship even today you are overcomplicating it.
You have a point, yes, but women then had much much much less opportunity and choices compared to women today. Obvious things such as dating sites, but also..have you seen how just fairly average looking women are seen as out-of-this-world goddesses on sites like 9gag etc? 9gag might be an exception, I don't know, but last time I was there the amount of thirst over normal looking women were insane. Not saying that this is the womans fault, 9gag is filled with depressed, lonely guys who dont have much of a life outside their computer. If I just register myself on a free dating site in my country, and create a fake profile and filling out basic information implying I am a woman I can guarantee that within 1 day I'll have at least 10 messages and 20 likes. Again, this is the fault of those men who write to her and mentions sex, suggesting to meet up after only 20 minutes of writing but then again, those are very far from quality people or quality men. I went on a bit of a rant, and got off track a couple of times but I was bored so felt like writing some. I could write a lot more to be honest, lol.
@@sampletext9426 that still happens, but much less than there were before that’s for sure
I just recently got into your videos Adam! I love them! It reminds me a little bit of Alton Brown when he did the show "Good Eats!". It was one of my favorites and I like these even more! Thank you for taking the time to give us the "why" behind all things food and fitness.
This exact phenomenon occurs in esports/competitive gaming as well. People obsess over peripherals and small techniques because the basic motions of pointing and clicking w/ a mouse leave a lot of extra brain space. Interesting video!
This is the first time in my entire history of watching TH-cam that I’ve watched a video twice in a row. I already knew all of this but the incisive clarity and charm of the presentation just really hit the spot. Not into cooking vids but I’ll be hitting up the back catalogue
This video about 'what is important' is a VERY GOOD ONE - Thanks!
This is a very good point. We often get lost in the journey obsessing over minute details in the journey, completely forgetting about the destination that we set out to reach.