"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
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!
@@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
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.
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, 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.
@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.
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!
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
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.
"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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Well it can matter if you're sprouting something ahead of time. Can't plant something directly into the ground at the wrong time of year. Other than that, your point is valid. No reason for one method or the other.
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
@@itsdox0006 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.
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.
Plus kickboxing is just a hobby that you can take a break from. Working out for health or physique will be severely regressed if you don't do it regularly
I had to come to terms with this until recently when my kid finally turned four. I’m just now getting the bandwidth to start training again. Maybe I’ll have hobbies again…
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.
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)
@@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 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...
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.
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.
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."
This really seems like a video you enjoyed making, letting you combine your passions of food, muscle, and intellectual questioning. I definitely enjoyed it.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 :)
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.
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'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
This must be one of your best videos man. You once made a video in which you expressed something to the effect of 'I became a good cook when I stopped cooking to be impressive and started cooking to be delicious'. That shit changed my life because I was pushing myself way to hard in gourmet, michelin-starred kitchens for something that wasn't really my aspiration. Since, I've been working a bunch of different but awesome jobs with amazing people that are a bit more down-to-earth and have slowly been finding my way like that. This one hit home as well because I have a serious physical issue that forces me to be fit lest I succumb to chronic pain. But I almost got caught by the pitfall of being big for the sake of it and not for what I need. Just really struck home with me, this one.
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
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.
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 👏👏👏👏
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 🙏🙏🙏
5:23 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 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.
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
I think that this is one of your best videos. Well, definitely one of my favorites. It’s welds together two different things I enjoy doing with a very clear conclusion at the end. Great job, Adam!
Absolutely fantastic way to summarize this issue, an issue that is exacerbated by the fact there's no shortage of people on the internet who don't really know what they're talking about but think they do. And don't worry, it happens outside these two areas of the internet as well!
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
I completely agree, there's so much discourse and discussions about different methods you can use during workouts and cooking but in the end the difference in results is almost insignificant.
Cooking and hypertrophy, my two favorite things. Excellent video Adam, do some more of these types of think out loud videos. And especially, do more things with bodybuilding, it’s so much fun seeing my favorite food personality talking about something else I love.
Great video, Adam! I read somewhere a while ago that one of the key predictors of happiness in old age is being able to get up from a chair on your own. That lead me to think about key things I want to physically be able to do when I'm older: walk up stairs, hike, run a 5k, lift certain things, even wash my back. That's how I judge whether I'm training right.
I’m learning that joint strength is the #1 thing. Speaking of being run 5K… I’m 40 and in the best shape of my life, lowest weight since when I was a teenager but more muscular, been doing calisthenics 4 days a week the last like 2 years… Started running 5K on the beach twice a week, no problem until suddenly an ankle sprain that happened like a year ago suddenly came back for seemingly no reason. Even the other ankle feels kind of sore and stiff. So now rehabbing/strengthening ankles is my top priority. Without an ankle, all the strength in like half your body is basically useless.
Incredible video once again, really interesting stuff, the flow between the kitchen and garage sections was great, they transitioned perfectly into eachother. The part about stopping to think of why we do something was especially important, something I feel we should do more in our daily life.
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!
One of the best talks I've ever heard on workouts (I'm not much of a cook) Something clicked several times when listening to this. Thanks Adam. This is what is called wisdom, not knowledge.
What a fantastic video. Perfectly articulated my thought process that I've always struggled to put into words. Seriously one of your best works Adam well done.
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.
Love seeing my youtube reccomendation streams collide like this. Past the beginner levels there's a lot of N=1 testing in cooking and lifting, I appreciate you highlighting the risks that that entails with lifting.
I have recently been checking out a bunch of videos from the TH-cam fitness community. It is funny because Sean's videos have come up a lot, and he seems like a person who is not steering people in the wrong direction. One of the differences I have seen between the fitness community and the cooking community is that the fitness community seems to eat each other alive more so than the cooking community.
Well the answer is easy for that one; think of all the extra protein you get from eating all those other fitness enthusiasts. Eating each other in the cooking community can only lead to more fat in our already fatty diets
Not a cooking community member but I can tell you the discourse comes from one of three groups shitting on the other. Science bros, gym bros, and beginner bros
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
Adam, you're looking great! Been watching for years and it's crazy how your body transforms! You have clearly put on a considerable amount of muscle in the past 6 months or so! Cheers!
I follow lifting internet a lot too! I like Sean and also Jeff Nippard especially. I like how he looks at scientific reports but still emphasizes the importance of the basics over the small things that barely matter
When I was in highschool I was really into bodybuilding, went to the the gym almost every day and took it very seriously. I did tons of research and experimentation with regiment and diet and ultimately discovered the key things that brought me the best results (diet, adequate rest, and progressive overload). I loved the journey and seeing myself progress, but somewhat like the myth of Icarus I pushed myself too much too fast and badly injured my shoulder. Needless to say I reached my peak just prior to that considering that even after I somewhat healed many months later I still had too much discomfort to lift heavy (hell even moderate) weights without risking reinjuring myself (which did happen and required another long period of recovery). I enjoyed it a lot and I wish I could still do it today. Let my story be a warning to not push yourself too far. Sure I was the biggest and strongest kid my age that I knew, but nowadays I'm certainly not, and with my shoulder being in the state it's in I won't ever be even as strong as that or even probably the average weight lifter. I still deal with the discomfort, weakness, and lack of mobility due to the injury. It's good to push yourself to improve, but be careful you don't push yourself to a point where you ultimately and irredeemably regress.
What happened to the shoulder precisely. Most of those injuries should heal and if not, you should see a good doctor and physiotherapist. Sometimes injuries don't heal on their own. Sounds very serious, what happened?
@@DamianSzajnowski Went to see multiple doctors, radiologists, and physiotherapists. It was originally a partially torn tendon in my rotator cuff, as it healed it became a problem with scar tissue + impingement. Doctors advise was to take antiinflammatories, physiotherapists advised the obvious stretching and light resistance exercises and tried to break down scar tissue through massage and some pulsing machine I forget what it specifically was. Ultimately none of it made a big difference, except perhaps stretching and exercise and lots of time to heal. Never healed back to normal, which from my understanding is fairly typical for tendon injuries. Just two years ago I took a light spill and the mere reaction of swinging my arm to break my fall reinjured it, took at least 6 months until I could move my arm without feeling sharp pain.
@@JohnDoe-rj8nd very relevant to me. I’m 33 and getting into fitness and I injured my rotator cuff as a teenager and over the past few days I have had to accept that I won’t be able to focus on the bench press like I was hoping. Not letting it get me down though, legs always need done and there are plenty of dumb bell exercises too for people like us. We just have to refocus to where our greatest potential lies.
I have a similar story from my freshman year in uni. I just obsessed over the bench press because that’s what everyone cared about. After injuring it several times, I grew discouraged and stopped altogether. It’s been eight years and now I’m finally trying to get back in and slowly work around it again.
As a gym bro, it was hard to not post a comment sounding like a stereotypical gym bro. I support Adam adding 4-6x12-15 sets@10lbs of Lateral raises into his routine 2x a week. Sean is a great and underrated content creator. Adams point about "What am i training for?!" is amazing and so often overlooked. Are you training to look good, to be prepared for an emergency, to be able to endure lengthy physical trials, to run your ass off, to live longer? It doesn't have to be just one thing, but it is a give and take.
Great video about tunnel vision.. This applies to MANY different areas, not just cooking and lifting. Military Aircraft for example: Many modern jets were built for speed, until it became clear that most Jets cannot outrun a missile AND be maneuverable AND have enough gas to stay in the fight.
This is maybe my favorite video by you. You nailed something I didn't even realize I agreed with so much, and I see this all the time -- people wanting to act like they know better when the differences between methods and ideas and traditions are negligible and don't need to be argued about. I see this a lot in non-lifting exercise advice just as much. People claiming you should stop doing cardio, or do sit ups a certain way, etc. And honestly, I have almost the exact body I want and I didn't listen to any advice. I just moved until I got tired a lot and lifted heavy things. No planning. No research. And with food, I especially can never tell the difference between most methods. Often times, I'll make something EXACTLY the same way twice and it tastes different just because... who knows!? Sometimes I had gum recently which dulls the flavor, sometimes my nose is slightly more stuffed up. My taste perception is totally altered by everything that's happened to my tongue that day anyway, so subtle differences between tofu cooking methods are honestly irrelevant to me. I feel that way about fancy restaurants too. Past a very narrow price margin, I don't taste any improvement in flavor. In fact, some of the most expensive food I've ever eaten has been consistently the worst tasting, or at the very least is nothing special. Some of that may be my American tongue being calibrated to salt and sugar where fancy restaurants use more complex flavors, I admit that, but still. I'd rather just cook at home if I'm going to pay $20 for food I don't enjoy.
As a lifter myself, I can say I agree. It doesn't really matter what exercises you do as long as your training consistently and hard enough plus eating well you should be training hard
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
I'm glad you test the hearsay. So much arguing and no one just... _testing_ it. And then they all taste pretty much the same, which means it's not worth arguing over or even bother to consider if you're doing it "the" right way. As long as you're doing it one of the right ways it's fine. And that's a valuable video to see!
In some cases, even, there really is a difference, like the refrigerator-pickled onions. The differences weren't huge, but the conclusion was indeed to use a different method depending on your lead time and the characteristics you desire.
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. :)
I really enjoyed this video, thank you! And holy cow, having a kid kept you in the gym?? You're a machine. I just had my first and I haven't even considered going to the gym for three weeks now (but I've fantasized about it). Been lifting consistently for about ten years, until recently that is.
I appreciate videos like these for multiple reasons; which include (but aren’t limited to): Layman’s terms. Transparency of reason for content creation. Transparency of sponsorship. Providing visual examples. Using scientific sources. Making study biases/flaws apparent. Making personal cognitive biases/flaws apparent. Personal life expirence for perspective. Hand gestures, pauses, tone, volume control, eye contact, and comedic relief. Reinforcing your most important thoughts at the end of a video. Asking and answering your own thought provoking questions.
Very interesting argumentation here. Never thought about the parallels in arguments over cooking vs arguments over fitness, but you are basically spot on. I tip my hat to you, Good Sir!
Adam I’m very proud of you for being able to both teach how we kinda know things but also point out that we’re all mostly guessing and it’s all popsicle sticks and hot glue when you look close enough. And even in the end the questions and the philosophy all breaks down to, what are you trying to do? I lift to try and feel and look better and be more prepared for social interactions. I cook because it’s fun and no one seems to make things I like and I wanna save money lol. When you brought up the moment of clarity you had where you wanted to play with your child and needed to back off from lifting, I think it takes a truly great and honest mind to change course with new information and desires. Great stuff Adam. This is my favorite episode.
"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.
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 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
"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
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.
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
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.
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 🔥
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
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
@@Kvint-kh12345 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.
"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.
Just cause you’re good at something doesn’t mean you will be good at teaching said thing.
That makes no sense, you either noticed it, or you didn’t, how could that take weeks?
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
Do you even cook bro?
wha
I am the one who cooks
Montgomery Clift, bro??
Yes
high iq level joke
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.
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"
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 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
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
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.
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 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.
Well it can matter if you're sprouting something ahead of time. Can't plant something directly into the ground at the wrong time of year. Other than that, your point is valid. No reason for one method or the other.
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.
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
@@itsdox0006 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.
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.
Plus kickboxing is just a hobby that you can take a break from. Working out for health or physique will be severely regressed if you don't do it regularly
I had to come to terms with this until recently when my kid finally turned four. I’m just now getting the bandwidth to start training again. Maybe I’ll have hobbies again…
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 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...
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
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.
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."
This really seems like a video you enjoyed making, letting you combine your passions of food, muscle, and intellectual questioning. I definitely enjoyed it.
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 😃
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
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.
Bro I seared a flipflop and it tasted amazing! You should try, but make sure you rotate your pinkey outwards while searing!!
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.
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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
Adam woke up this morning and was like "hmmm how can I anger two completely seperate youtube communities in one video?" lol
Genuinely one of the best videos I’ve seen this year👏
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 :)
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
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
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?
I appreciate the "everything works" observation. Simple but terrifically true! Effort and consistency.
This must be one of your best videos man. You once made a video in which you expressed something to the effect of 'I became a good cook when I stopped cooking to be impressive and started cooking to be delicious'. That shit changed my life because I was pushing myself way to hard in gourmet, michelin-starred kitchens for something that wasn't really my aspiration. Since, I've been working a bunch of different but awesome jobs with amazing people that are a bit more down-to-earth and have slowly been finding my way like that. This one hit home as well because I have a serious physical issue that forces me to be fit lest I succumb to chronic pain. But I almost got caught by the pitfall of being big for the sake of it and not for what I need. Just really struck home with me, this one.
You have a beautifully refreshing way of thinking and articulating those thoughts. Thank you!
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.
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.
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 👏👏👏👏
Great video ❤
Woah
Funny seeing you here
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 🙏🙏🙏
The "playing on the floor with my baby" story was really touching, thank you Adam
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 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.
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
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
I think that this is one of your best videos. Well, definitely one of my favorites. It’s welds together two different things I enjoy doing with a very clear conclusion at the end. Great job, Adam!
dude excellent video, i love the way you format it all and it flows like a well written essay with a point to prove!
May be one of the best, most well thought out, and eloquently articulated videos I've ever watched. Fantastic analysis, even better delivery.
Excellent video Adam. This is something that applies to so many things in life, beyond cooking and lifting. Really gets me thinking.
Absolutely fantastic way to summarize this issue, an issue that is exacerbated by the fact there's no shortage of people on the internet who don't really know what they're talking about but think they do. And don't worry, it happens outside these two areas of the internet as well!
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
I completely agree, there's so much discourse and discussions about different methods you can use during workouts and cooking but in the end the difference in results is almost insignificant.
Its really annoying though since the discourse takes up all the really good videos. Who cares about the clickbait just give me something interesting.
It's chasing that sweet sweet validation.
People don't want to hear what they are doing is ""wrong"" all this time.
Cooking and hypertrophy, my two favorite things. Excellent video Adam, do some more of these types of think out loud videos. And especially, do more things with bodybuilding, it’s so much fun seeing my favorite food personality talking about something else I love.
Great video, Adam! I read somewhere a while ago that one of the key predictors of happiness in old age is being able to get up from a chair on your own. That lead me to think about key things I want to physically be able to do when I'm older: walk up stairs, hike, run a 5k, lift certain things, even wash my back. That's how I judge whether I'm training right.
I’m learning that joint strength is the #1 thing. Speaking of being run 5K… I’m 40 and in the best shape of my life, lowest weight since when I was a teenager but more muscular, been doing calisthenics 4 days a week the last like 2 years… Started running 5K on the beach twice a week, no problem until suddenly an ankle sprain that happened like a year ago suddenly came back for seemingly no reason. Even the other ankle feels kind of sore and stiff. So now rehabbing/strengthening ankles is my top priority. Without an ankle, all the strength in like half your body is basically useless.
Love how you lay things out without sneering or judgement. You make a great case!
Incredible video once again, really interesting stuff, the flow between the kitchen and garage sections was great, they transitioned perfectly into eachother. The part about stopping to think of why we do something was especially important, something I feel we should do more in our daily life.
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!
Adam, your intellectual honesty is 10/10 sir. Viewer for life here. I'll support you in whatever new endeavors you take on in the future.
One of the best talks I've ever heard on workouts (I'm not much of a cook)
Something clicked several times when listening to this. Thanks Adam. This is what is called wisdom, not knowledge.
What a fantastic video. Perfectly articulated my thought process that I've always struggled to put into words. Seriously one of your best works Adam well done.
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.
Love seeing my youtube reccomendation streams collide like this. Past the beginner levels there's a lot of N=1 testing in cooking and lifting, I appreciate you highlighting the risks that that entails with lifting.
I have recently been checking out a bunch of videos from the TH-cam fitness community. It is funny because Sean's videos have come up a lot, and he seems like a person who is not steering people in the wrong direction. One of the differences I have seen between the fitness community and the cooking community is that the fitness community seems to eat each other alive more so than the cooking community.
Well the answer is easy for that one; think of all the extra protein you get from eating all those other fitness enthusiasts. Eating each other in the cooking community can only lead to more fat in our already fatty diets
@@joeyrhubarb2558based.
Not a cooking community member but I can tell you the discourse comes from one of three groups shitting on the other. Science bros, gym bros, and beginner bros
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
Your wisdom and respectful delivery is always a breath of fresh air Adam! Keep on keeping on
Adam, you're looking great! Been watching for years and it's crazy how your body transforms! You have clearly put on a considerable amount of muscle in the past 6 months or so! Cheers!
I follow lifting internet a lot too! I like Sean and also Jeff Nippard especially. I like how he looks at scientific reports but still emphasizes the importance of the basics over the small things that barely matter
Yeah those are the top 2 for me as well.
When I was in highschool I was really into bodybuilding, went to the the gym almost every day and took it very seriously. I did tons of research and experimentation with regiment and diet and ultimately discovered the key things that brought me the best results (diet, adequate rest, and progressive overload). I loved the journey and seeing myself progress, but somewhat like the myth of Icarus I pushed myself too much too fast and badly injured my shoulder. Needless to say I reached my peak just prior to that considering that even after I somewhat healed many months later I still had too much discomfort to lift heavy (hell even moderate) weights without risking reinjuring myself (which did happen and required another long period of recovery).
I enjoyed it a lot and I wish I could still do it today. Let my story be a warning to not push yourself too far. Sure I was the biggest and strongest kid my age that I knew, but nowadays I'm certainly not, and with my shoulder being in the state it's in I won't ever be even as strong as that or even probably the average weight lifter. I still deal with the discomfort, weakness, and lack of mobility due to the injury. It's good to push yourself to improve, but be careful you don't push yourself to a point where you ultimately and irredeemably regress.
What happened to the shoulder precisely. Most of those injuries should heal and if not, you should see a good doctor and physiotherapist. Sometimes injuries don't heal on their own. Sounds very serious, what happened?
@@DamianSzajnowski Went to see multiple doctors, radiologists, and physiotherapists. It was originally a partially torn tendon in my rotator cuff, as it healed it became a problem with scar tissue + impingement. Doctors advise was to take antiinflammatories, physiotherapists advised the obvious stretching and light resistance exercises and tried to break down scar tissue through massage and some pulsing machine I forget what it specifically was. Ultimately none of it made a big difference, except perhaps stretching and exercise and lots of time to heal. Never healed back to normal, which from my understanding is fairly typical for tendon injuries. Just two years ago I took a light spill and the mere reaction of swinging my arm to break my fall reinjured it, took at least 6 months until I could move my arm without feeling sharp pain.
@@JohnDoe-rj8nd very relevant to me. I’m 33 and getting into fitness and I injured my rotator cuff as a teenager and over the past few days I have had to accept that I won’t be able to focus on the bench press like I was hoping.
Not letting it get me down though, legs always need done and there are plenty of dumb bell exercises too for people like us. We just have to refocus to where our greatest potential lies.
Yeah I took myself too far, I was obsessed with becoming a Greek god “just because” because that is the ultimate way to live life
I have a similar story from my freshman year in uni. I just obsessed over the bench press because that’s what everyone cared about. After injuring it several times, I grew discouraged and stopped altogether. It’s been eight years and now I’m finally trying to get back in and slowly work around it again.
As a gym bro, it was hard to not post a comment sounding like a stereotypical gym bro.
I support Adam adding 4-6x12-15 sets@10lbs of Lateral raises into his routine 2x a week.
Sean is a great and underrated content creator.
Adams point about "What am i training for?!" is amazing and so often overlooked. Are you training to look good, to be prepared for an emergency, to be able to endure lengthy physical trials, to run your ass off, to live longer? It doesn't have to be just one thing, but it is a give and take.
This is a really interesting and thought provoking video. Takes the whole fitness and diet interdependence to a next level. Great work!
This was an interesting analysis of discourse on social media subgroups that turned into a full on deep conversation about the meaning of life
Great video about tunnel vision.. This applies to MANY different areas, not just cooking and lifting. Military Aircraft for example: Many modern jets were built for speed, until it became clear that most Jets cannot outrun a missile AND be maneuverable AND have enough gas to stay in the fight.
This is maybe my favorite video by you. You nailed something I didn't even realize I agreed with so much, and I see this all the time -- people wanting to act like they know better when the differences between methods and ideas and traditions are negligible and don't need to be argued about.
I see this a lot in non-lifting exercise advice just as much. People claiming you should stop doing cardio, or do sit ups a certain way, etc. And honestly, I have almost the exact body I want and I didn't listen to any advice. I just moved until I got tired a lot and lifted heavy things. No planning. No research.
And with food, I especially can never tell the difference between most methods. Often times, I'll make something EXACTLY the same way twice and it tastes different just because... who knows!? Sometimes I had gum recently which dulls the flavor, sometimes my nose is slightly more stuffed up. My taste perception is totally altered by everything that's happened to my tongue that day anyway, so subtle differences between tofu cooking methods are honestly irrelevant to me.
I feel that way about fancy restaurants too. Past a very narrow price margin, I don't taste any improvement in flavor. In fact, some of the most expensive food I've ever eaten has been consistently the worst tasting, or at the very least is nothing special. Some of that may be my American tongue being calibrated to salt and sugar where fancy restaurants use more complex flavors, I admit that, but still. I'd rather just cook at home if I'm going to pay $20 for food I don't enjoy.
As a lifter myself, I can say I agree. It doesn't really matter what exercises you do as long as your training consistently and hard enough plus eating well you should be training hard
And as long as you do them right. You hurt yourself with poor form or lifting more than you can handle and you'll need a 1-4 weeks recovery period.
@@kazuoua Injuries dont matter inthis context
Dude you absolutely rock. I really admire that you bring these every day nuances to the surface for people to be aware of.
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
Man, I wasn’t ready for such a deluge of wisdom on my lunch break today. Thanks, Adam!
I'm glad you test the hearsay. So much arguing and no one just... _testing_ it. And then they all taste pretty much the same, which means it's not worth arguing over or even bother to consider if you're doing it "the" right way. As long as you're doing it one of the right ways it's fine. And that's a valuable video to see!
In some cases, even, there really is a difference, like the refrigerator-pickled onions. The differences weren't huge, but the conclusion was indeed to use a different method depending on your lead time and the characteristics you desire.
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. :)
I really enjoyed this video, thank you! And holy cow, having a kid kept you in the gym?? You're a machine. I just had my first and I haven't even considered going to the gym for three weeks now (but I've fantasized about it). Been lifting consistently for about ten years, until recently that is.
I think he means later. First 6 month are brutal, but then it get’s (a bit) easier.
I appreciate videos like these for multiple reasons; which include (but aren’t limited to):
Layman’s terms.
Transparency of reason for content creation.
Transparency of sponsorship.
Providing visual examples.
Using scientific sources.
Making study biases/flaws apparent.
Making personal cognitive biases/flaws apparent.
Personal life expirence for perspective.
Hand gestures, pauses, tone, volume control, eye contact, and comedic relief.
Reinforcing your most important thoughts at the end of a video.
Asking and answering your own thought provoking questions.
Very interesting argumentation here. Never thought about the parallels in arguments over cooking vs arguments over fitness, but you are basically spot on. I tip my hat to you, Good Sir!
I did not expect this video to have a valuable moral in the end. Great Video!
Adam I’m very proud of you for being able to both teach how we kinda know things but also point out that we’re all mostly guessing and it’s all popsicle sticks and hot glue when you look close enough.
And even in the end the questions and the philosophy all breaks down to, what are you trying to do?
I lift to try and feel and look better and be more prepared for social interactions. I cook because it’s fun and no one seems to make things I like and I wanna save money lol.
When you brought up the moment of clarity you had where you wanted to play with your child and needed to back off from lifting, I think it takes a truly great and honest mind to change course with new information and desires.
Great stuff Adam. This is my favorite episode.
"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.
Been subbed a long time Adam. You're noticably more jacked in the videos now. Keep up the good work!
All these cooking youtubers getting jacked is making me want to do the same lol. Josh from mythical kitchen has become an absolute beef tank
@@mothman4672 and mr babish
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