The speaker argues that traditional fitness training, heavily focused on muscle hypertrophy, neglects tendon health, leading to injuries and a decline in strength over time. He proposes a new training methodology prioritizing tendon readiness and longevity through a combination of high-intensity compound lifts and frequent, lower-intensity accessory work.
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All right, friends and foes. It's Eric
Buggenhogen reporting in with another
ultra lowquality video because the
response has been heard loud and
freaking clear. People don't want
highquality videos. So, if you don't
freaking want it, why should I waste my
time and my effort and my freaking
resources? Let's stand in front of a TV.
But just because we have a lowquality
video doesn't mean this is lowquality
information. In fact, this might be the
highest quality information in YouTube
fitness. Okay? Why? Because it's
invaluable. It's groundbreaking. It's
ahead of its freaking time. And I want
you to freaking mark my words.
This video is going to go down as
something, you know, breaking the
freaking glass, the ceiling. You know
what I mean? Like, everyone's doing the
same thing when it comes to fitness.
It's all the same mumbo jumbo BS. It's
all about hypertrophy and whatnot. Let
me be the first to raise my freaking
hand and say, why are we so caught up in
hypertrophy? You know what I'm saying?
And I know other people have said that.
Listen, you don't want to be all
freaking show. You want to have a little
bit of go. Okay. So, yeah, we want
strength. We want size. But you know
what? No one's addressing here freaking
tendons. You know what I'm saying?
Connective tissues, guys. And it hit me
like a ton of freaking bricks the other
day. Where do I even begin here? Where
do I begin?
Okay, I guess I begin from freaking
2022. I snapped my patellar tendon. You
know what I mean? Everyone's going to
have their freaking, you know, thesis or
theories as to why that may be. Okay?
You know what I mean? It's not like it
was a tremendous load I wasn't able to
handle. Freaking tendon just gave up.
You know what I'm saying? Surgeon after
surgery told me my tendons were thick as
freick. So, it's not like they were
weak. You know what I'm saying? They
were thick as freick. So, why did the
tendon freaking rupture? Okay, fast
forward. Um,
it's all coming together now. You know,
when I had a try out for American
Gladiators, it was last minute. You
know, they said we're gonna freaking
we're gonna do push-ups and sit-ups and
pull-ups and rope climbs and tussles and
all that kind of stuff. And I said,
"Well, frick. I got to control what is
controllable." You know what I mean? I
can't train what I can't train, but I
can train what I freaking can train. You
know what I'm saying? So, I found the
nearest gym that had a big rope. And I'm
thinking, you know, we're going to do
this for freaking time. So, what do I
do? you know, I think, how can I climb
this as fast as possible? I jump off, I
catch, I snag my freaking bicep. It was
bothering me for a month, as I told you
guys. Um, it kind of gets better and
then a little bit later, you know, I'm
cooking my bies. I'm doing a big incline
freaking dumbbell curls and I something
pulls in that sucker and freaks me out
for two months, you know, and I noticed
the shape of my delt was a little bit
different. Well, you know what I mean?
uh freaking must have been
I think it was September. I'm doing T-
bar rows for the first time in nine
years, right? And I'm assuming it has to
be the freaking uh bicep is compromised,
right? So, what's going to help with the
load? The freaking lats. Well, I have a
hole right here now, right? Most likely
a tear, partial tear in that tendon.
Okay. So, now everything's all freaking
wonky, right? So, just the other day,
this was last week, you know, uh my
bicep has never been perfect and never
been full strength again. I'm doing
dips. I'm like, damn, I haven't done
dips in forever. This feels great. I do
them one day, I do them the next day.
I'm like, man, these feel good. Let's go
for an alltime weight PR. That's body
weight plus it. So, it's 504 total
pounds. Got a rep with that sucker. Felt
freaking great. Well, you know, the next
day I'm like, man, my pressing is
feeling horse cockery, you know,
freaking powerful. So, I go to bench and
feels awful. It just feels wrong. So, I
stop and I go to put the plate away and
there's a freaking big crater in my
shoulder. And what does that tell me? It
tells me it's a partial tear in the
freaking uh long head of the biceps near
the shoulder. Okay. So, what's the the
theme going on around here? You know,
you're like, this is supposed to be
groundbreaking information. Ricky
freaking, you know, [clears throat] Rick
And it is because
this video sucks. Frick. I'm trying to
connect the dots. I wrote it up to keep
it smooth and we're already all over the
freaking we're already over the place.
This isn't good. No one's going to refer
back to this video. All right, but I had
to tell you why I'm making this video in
the first place. So, just for the past
week, all I did I'm just looking up tendons.
tendons.
Tendons. Like, what the freak, man? I
train hard. I train heavy, you know?
Like, what is freaking going on? Yeah,
you got a cascade effect, a chain
reaction. When one thing gets hurt,
other things start to get hurt. But I'm
also like, why is my knee I had surgery
on my patellar tendon in 2022. Like,
what is going on? Why does it still feel
terrible? And I'm looking up the
freaking research. I have to figure this
out. You know what I'm saying? Because I
want to horse and he till the freaking
day I die. And I'm not. This is why all
the old guys, I'm telling you right now,
the old men said, "I used to bench press
x amount of weight when I was a young
lad." Right? Back when I was in high
school, I did 315. You know what I'm
saying? And now what are they doing now?
Pencil neck shittery. You know what I
mean? Is it THEIR FAULT? LISTEN,
PROBABLY NOT. IT'S THEIR FREAKING
JOINTS, most likely. But why is that?
And it's because I think for the most
part people train how the muscles
respond best. You know what I'm saying?
Big freaking loads, you know, one day
on, a few days off. Some people do one
day on, then the rest of the freaking
week off, you know? But that's not ideal
for tendons. So I'm like, listen, I'm
changing my whole
approach, right? I'm still gonna
freaking horsecock because that's what
makes my life worth FREAKING LIVING.
ALWAYS LIVED HEAVY. You know what I
mean? It's what I want to do. IT'S WHAT
I THRIVE. THE BEST thing you can do is
what you freaking want to do is what
you're excited to do. But
if you're horsing and heaving, you're
not going to get very far when you get
tweaks. You know what I mean? And then
eventually like, frick, I'm so tweaked
up. I got maybe I just got to start
lifting light. Is lifting light the
answer though? It is not the answer,
right? You don't need to train like a
pencil neck. That's why all these like
old guys that you know like, "Oh, I used
to do this and but they don't have any
size. They're not lifting light." You
say, "Ricky, who are YOU EVEN REFERRING
TO?" I'M JUST REFERRING TO THE FREAKING
MASSES that I've seen. I've been lifting
guys. I've been lifting for 27 years.
You know what I mean? Very rarely seen,
you know, the old has been lifters are
thick as freick. They're a shell of what
they used to be because they're still
trying to train their freaking muscles
and not train their tendons, right? So,
anyways, I wrote this out. This video
sucks. I'm sorry. It's all over the
place, but that's what you guys freaking
want. Clearly, the proof's in the
pudding. You go back, look at a high
quality video, it gets less views than
I've ever gotten in my life. So,
clearly, the lower the quality, the
better. Okay? So, I wrote it out just to
freaking be clear and concise. This
isn't a 10-hour seminar.
through my rigorous research. Okay,
tendons respond best to submaximal
loads. It's like, well, okay, don't
horse have no false. Sub maximal loads,
okay, light, moderate, but the
frequency, it's got to be up the wazoo, okay?
okay?
So, every freaking day, ideally. Now,
I'm not saying you max out every
freaking day, but if you can work those
tendons every day, that's going to get
you a lot farther in terms the strength,
the stiffness, right? So, the daily loading
loading
is going to improve your tendon
stiffness, your freaking collagen, uh,
and the tend the readiness of the tendon,
tendon,
right? So, I'm learning this and it's
what's best to do. Well, you know, as
I've mentioned, I've talked about this
for years already, and I've incorporated
it, but I haven't been incorporating it
at ultra freaking high frequency that
the tendons desire.
And it gets you to wonder, too, it's
like, how many times have you heard of
Olympic weightlifters, you know,
rupturing their freaking quad tendons or
patellar tendons? You never hear about
it, right? Why? Because they squat every
freaking day. They're not maxing out on
the squats, but what are they doing?
They're doing front squats. They're
doing freaking, you know, cleans. Clean
squat. squat clean. You know what I'm
saying? They're doing snatches, which
overhead squats, and then they're doing
freaking back squats. All every day
they're squatting, you know? And it's
not to say they don't get knee pain, but
is they're not rupturing those freaking
tendons. And it got me thinking as well.
It's like, man, a lot of people when
their horse, you know, like for instance,
instance,
a lot of people um get hurt on the
bench, right? It's a hard one. Yeah, of
course. But um you got to think too it's
because [sighs]
they're doing all these um
I want to say like the Johnny
bodybuilders and stuff. They're doing
all the fluff. They're doing the hammer
strength machines. They're doing the
freaking flies and all that and once in
a blue moon and they're going to try to
test their freaking, you know, the super
high freaking torque bench press
movement and they did not they're not
ready for that. Their tendons weren't
ready for that. You know what I'm
saying? Uh, I think the Olympic lifting
one was better. But if you follow along
with me, these are all just theories,
guys. But because of these theories,
these things are just running. This is
all I think about. All the past week is
all I think about. Okay, [snorts] so
isometrics are great for tendons, right?
We know this. We also know that heavy
eentric loading is great for tendons.
Now, some may say, "Freak the sick.
What? You were making fun of the slow
eentrics." Yes. And I still will. The
slow slow slow slow slow slow slow slow
slow slow slow slow slow slow slow Yes.
Because that was that was preached as
this gimmick for hypertrophy. It builds
a ton of muscle. And then it was just
proven some study that I saw from a
freaking metal head or something like
that. It doesn't doesn't build any more
muscle. You know what I'M SAYING?
PUMPING PUMPING will build equal amount
of slow slow slow. But the slow slow
slow slow
will help the tendons as long as well as isometrics.
