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.
isometrics.
So that and that's the thing I always
say nothing's black or white. There's
always it's always it's somewhere in the
middle. So should you only do slow reps?
No. So the freaking RP strength
everything's slow. That's horseshit. But
does that mean you shouldn't do anything
slow? Of course not. But you have to understand
understand
why you do what you do. Okay? And this
is this. Don't worry, I'm getting to my
point. I'm sorry you've had to bear with
me for 10 minutes already. And I bet a
lot of people already tuned out. And
freaking shame on you because you're
going to be regretting it when you get a
tendon tear or something like that down
the road. And your joint integrity is
not what it used to be. And your muscles
can't freaking contract like they used
to be. Like, oh, no matter how many leg
extensions I do, I can't get a quad
pump. you know, that's on you for
skipping the freaking video. Okay, so I
have come up with a theory. I have never
seen anyone do this before. Not to say
I'm the first ever, but I'm telling you,
I haven't seen this. I've never seen
this before. And I think a lot of people
would say that doesn't make any sense.
And you know what? If you're looking at
it purely from a hypertrophy point of
view, it's probably suboptimal. But if
you're looking at it from a longevity
horse cockery bulbous tissue just you
want the whole freaking trifecta then I
think it makes a lot of sense. Okay. And
also one more thing about the frequency.
You know I talked about the Olympic
lifters. I totally agree with that. And
then I talked about the the old men who
test their bench once in a blue moon end
up tearing their pec. That one might be
a little more of a stretch because at
the end same time they're still doing
pressing movements, but you know it's
not a stretch is the uh I believe it's
called the weakened warriors
rupture or something like that. The
weakened warrior, you know, that's the
freaking old men that play a pickup game
of basketball and they all snap their
Achilles tendons. Why? Because they're
desk jockeys now. They're inactive their
sedentary lifestyle and all of a sudden
they're freaking loading that tendon up
with extreme gusto trying to slam dunk
and whatnot. Rebounds and up the wazoo
and it freaking overloads that tendon.
That sucker pops. How could you have
prevented that old man or desk jockey?
You know what I mean? You could just
freaking load those tendons up a little
bit more frequently and that wouldn't
have happened. Which leads me to what
I'm proposing as
uh a revolutionary new way to train. And
I'm not trying to sell anything. If I
was, I wouldn't be telling you it right
now. I would have a freaking ebook or
some [ __ ] I'd be like, "Go check it
out." You know,
uh anyways, so it's it's full body every
day. You're like, "What? Doesn't make
any sense." Listen, but you're
undulating intensities,
not each day. One thing
is going to be highest intensity up the
freaking wazoo. Okay, so if I was just
to do a sample of what this would look like,
like,
day one, we'll just we'll go Monday.
We'll keep it simple. Monday, you got a
freaking highest intensity possible
squat sesh, right? One rep, two reps.
We'll just call it a two rep to keep it
safe. Cuz if you're going for a two rep
max and that first rep is slow as
molasses, you're safe. You can rack it.
But if you're intentionally going for a
one rep max and you can't get it, that's
when things can crumble. Okay? So
Monday, you got the big boy squat.
Tuesday, you got the big boy bench.
Wednesday, you got the freaking
deadlift. The big boy deadlift.
Thursday, you got freaking weighted
pull-up or a bent over row, whatever. A
pull, you know. And then I would say on
Friday, you know, freaking
theoretically you could say, well,
overhead press. You could you could say
that, but I just call it arm shoulder.
You know what I mean? Let's keep this
more of a pencil like that. Get an arm
and shoulder pump. You earned it with
the freaking horse cockery the other
four days. Now you SAY, "RIGHT, THIS
JUST SOUNDS LIKE A upper lower upper lower
lower
arms." Is that what Jeff Nipper said?
Was the S tier plus program?
Okay. Yeah. First and foremost, I've
been saying this for years now. I said
upper lower is the best program.
Little did I know this is probably why,
right? You have the higher frequency,
but it's that's not the point. The point
is this is the beauty is in the detail
now. Okay, you got the one heavy lift to
kick off the day, right? And that's for
the freaking, you know, the freaking
neurom muscular adaptation of the big
boy weight. strengthen the freaking CNS
with that sucker. Keep that pattern
strong as a freaking horse, right?
That's the highest truest intensity. And
then everything under that, you're doing
the rest of your body at under that with
kind of consider pencil neck [ __ ] But
so I wrote it out here kind of a a
freaking sample. And by the way, before
I get into this, I also want to say
something else or maybe I'll say it
afterwards so I don't confuse you guys
too freaking much. Um,
so day one, look, it's a freaking
envelope. I wrote an envelope. So day
one, you got the squat, the two rep max
is going to kick it off. Afterwards,
because it makes sense, you could do a
hip hinge or you could do a freaking leg
curl or something like that with a a
slow pause. So like, say you're doing a
Romanian delic
eentric. I know it sounds like pencil
scientist [ __ ] like and I'm not.
It's not because you just horsecocked a
freaking true Matt's squat. And did I
say go slow on those squats? No. Blast
those freaking suckers
fast. You know what I'm saying? So, by
no means is this science-based.
This is uh experience. This is old man
Delhagen. You know, freaking tried
everything, right? And now I'm telling
you, I think this is the way to go. So
you blast the squat the highest
intensity possible. Say aim for a two
rep max because if it's slow as
molasses, you can rack it after the one
if it's a grinder, right? Then
afterwards, a slow rep with a pause. So
kind of like an isometric. I wouldn't
hold that pause for 30 seconds, though.
Even though for tendons, that's like
that's a true isometric.
But for that particular one, cuz you
already, you know what I mean? Your
freaking posterior chain's kind of fried
already from the the squat. not so much
as whatever it's not it's on the point.
Then afterwards you could do a OP, you
know, or you can do lateral raises,
something along those lines, right? And
then get your pull-ups in. Same thing.
Freaking just pause them, slow down. We
can keep that body weight, right? All
this stuff like the hinge, the the OP,
the pull-ups,
all this is like it's moderate
intensity. I know it's hard because I
like to do everything full meat and
potatoes, full freaking ham bone, you
know, insanity up the wazoo, psycho,
you know, but that's not the point. If
you do that squat freaking hard, you
shouldn't really have any of that, you
know, gusto flowing through you anymore.
And then the rest of it, you're looking
at purely as a uh a tendon primer, okay?
A readiness, priming those suckers so
they stay ready and they get stiff.
Right. And then uh to end the workout,
I would say just a freaking isometric
bench press. Nothing crazy. Two sets of
30 seconds. Three sets of 30 seconds.
Something like that. Because the next
day, you want to get those freaking
tendons ready. Cuz the next day, day
two, what are we kicking it off with?
We're kicking it off with the big boy
freaking no slow, no eccentric, just
pure horse cockery bench press. I'll say
shoot for a two rep max. That way if you
got a grinder, you know what I mean? You
can rack it after the one. We always
want to be thinking like that. After you
do that, hey, get some bent over rows
with a pause with a slow, whatever it
may be, or the body weightight pull-ups
if you want. The whole point is get your
freaking pulling muscles in there, you
know? Hit some buys and some tries, hit
some freaking pause hammer curls, you
know what I mean? Bicep tendons.
Um, freaking You can do the same thing
with like skull crushers. Pause those suckers.
suckers.
And you don't have to do a ton of it.
You know what I'm saying? Like isometric
leg extension. Two, three sets. 30
second. Just hold it. Keep the freaking
patellar tendon. Uh fire the freick up
the quad tendon. And then finish it up
with just uh you know like a isometric
hip hinge or something. Whether it's a
good morning, just hold it or a freaking
you know uh just holding. And and listen
guys, a lot of this stuff's coming from
things I've heard from true horsecocks.
I heard from a a guy that played
football for University of Iowa back in
the 80s or I think it was 80s or early
90s. You know, this is horsecock
territory. Those guys back that trained
in those like late 80s, early 90s,
that's what it was all about. You know
what I'm saying? Turn on Welcome to the
Jungle and you freaking get after it,
right? Uh he said at Iowa, they would do
Romanian deadlift and they would just
hold that stretch. They would just hold
it like an isometric hold it for as long
as they could, right? With I can't
remember how much weight he said, but I
remember he told me at the time I was no
pencil neck at the time and he told me I
said, "Holy freak, that sounds
incredible." Now, of course, I never did
it because I was ego-driven maniac and I
always wanted to wonder at max. But I'm
trying to approach these things a little
bit more intelligently where we can
still max and make those strength gains,
those intensity up the freaking wazoo.
But like this other stuff, guys, it
shouldn't take long. So day, let's go to
day three. You got a freaking deadlift
variation. Whatever you want. We'll just
say conventional deadlift. Same thing.
Shoot for a two rep max. You know what
I'm saying? Crush the one. Whatever.
Rack, you know, put it. Don't lift it up
after one if you don't want. As long as
the freaking intensity is there, right?
Um, and then after that, hey, seated
your chest supported row or something
like that. Just freaking pull it to
here. Hold it a few sets of 30, right?
You can do it like that or you can just
do whatever heavy slow eentrics if you
want. So that's fast, you know what I
mean? Just a few sets and then like a a
freaking isometric hack squat or
something. Keep the freaking quads
strong or the u quad tendons. You know,
we're not looking at this purely from a
freaking muscle point of view,
right? And then um if you want, you
know, you want to get a little pump, do
some freaking laterals, whatever. Do
some biceps and triceps if you want. Who
cares? The point is you're not going
crazy. You're going crazy with the one
lift at at the beginning. Everything
else you're looking at just purely as a
state of readiness that this is purely a
a tendon training approach because if
your tendons deteriorate or whatnot,
you're never going to you're never going
to be strong. You're never going to be
big. You know what I mean? And I feel
like nobody focuses on this. And this is
one of those things where I had to learn
the hard way. You know what I mean? Like
I've had it's it's more than it should
now where I'm freaking horsing. I'm half
and heaving. I'm like freak. I'M FEELING
GREAT. I'M HAVING THE BEST TRAIN OF MY
LIFE. AND THEN SOMETHING PULLS. OH [ __ ]
I can't do pull-ups. Okay, that's fine.
You know, I'll try that. Oh, I can't do
lat pull downs. I can't do rows. Oh,
I'll try I'll try deadlifts. Ooh, that
bothers me, too. I can't do that. Okay.
And then you know what I mean? You
freaking your body starts
overcompensating and then other [ __ ] you
know it's just like
with methodical
uh mindset
like if we just put as much effort forth
as building these big bulbous muscles.
Let's put that effort forth towards
building freaking steel cable tendons.
You know what I mean? Because really
that's what catches up to everyone. You
know what I mean? And I think that's why
people like stop training heavier when
they get older. Most people, Do you know
anyone that really trains heavy as they
get older? I can't think of anyone. So,
I used to do that when I was young. So,
why did you stop? You clearly enjoyed
it. You know what I mean? It is
enjoyable. It's the best way to train
for sure. It's freaking enjoyable. It's
uh it's easy for progressive overload.
You know, like, hey, this is my max. I'm
going to try to one up that. Whether
it's one rep max or one up my, you know,
five rep max or whatever, it's the easy
way to do. But most people, they get
old, they just go, they just freaking
pump because it feels good. Oh, my
joints. You know what I'm saying? But
it's it shouldn't be like that. Okay.
Anyways, day four, what are we doing?
So, we already day one was squat. Day
two was the big press. Day three was
down. Day four weighted pull-ups. You
know what I mean? Weighted freaking
pull-ups. Horse cocket. I'm no pencil
neck [ __ ] And then afterwards, you
know, freaking isometric behind the neck
press or or something along those paws
or whatever it may be. You can look at
it more from a pencil neck point. You
guys get what I'm saying here? And at
day five, if you want, you can I think I
think you deserve to have just a hard
heavy day for freaking arms and
shoulders. But remember, throw a you
know, freaking throw a wall sit in or
throw an isometric leg extension in or
throw a freaking um
like a isometric bench. Does anyone do
isometric bench presses? I do it now,
but I don't ever see anyone else do it.
you know, everyone's pumping them out or
they're just doing, you know, like
pencil neck controlled, which there's
nothing wrong with it, but like do you
ever see anyone just go to freaking 90
with respectable weight, you know what I
mean? 315 on there and freaking try to
hold that for 30 seconds like that kind
of stuff. Nobody does that BECAUSE IT
DOESN'T BUILD MUSCLE, BUT THEN IT WAS
ALSO, BUT I still build muscle. But
that's the thing. WHY DOES IT HAVE TO
BUILD MUSCLE? You know what I mean? So
anyways, that's the whole point of this
video. It's showing you where my train
is at. Whoa, Ricky, we just want to see
your training. And I Listen, you think I
didn't think about that? You think I
didn't freaking think about that, you
freaking [ __ ]
I just figured before I make this rad
like this [ __ ] took me 25 minutes to
explain. So, if I'm at the gym and I'm
doing stuff, you think I'm going to
explain something that takes 25 minutes
like while I'm freaking squatting or
something? No, of course not. So, I This
is basically an update as to where I'm
at and now where my head's at. So that
tomorrow I plan on freaking horse and
heft and heaving in the gym and I will
put it on display and if anything it's
good because it makes the training
videos more interesting because it's
like why why is and it's different and
nobody trains like this. Oh and another
thing too I got Voodoo Floss. I
recommend you guys like I recommend
everyone get it. You know I'm not
affiliated with any freaking Voodoo
Floss companies. It's just a giant
elastic band. I time around my quads
like blood flow restriction training for
the most part. But um it's just way
easier to get it freaking tight. It's
freaking so tight. And um what I'm doing
now, this is going to tendon readiness
boosting freaking snow fluids. Um is I'm
wrapping my freaking thighs really tight
and I'm on the stationary bike for four
minutes with the Voodoo Floss. Maybe
five. Not too long though cuz that
shit's tight and you feel a pump like
you've never felt before. Five minutes
of the voodoo floss. Take it off. Five
more minutes to get all that blood
flushing, you know? Get those freaking
knees feeling greasy. I haven't
experimented with it yet. I'm like
shoulders or anything, but for the legs,
holy buck, it's it's freaking amazing.
But anyways, um
because I'm starting to look at things
from a different point of view. I feel
like one of the main reasons that my
knees have felt so bad and they haven't
gotten better since surgery is I've kind
of looked at it all wrong. I'm like,
"Oh, I don't want to overwork them. I
don't want to get hurt again." So, I've
been backing off more. And I think that
might be one of the main reasons that it
freaking gave out in the first place was
because I was on the road six days a
week at the time. And it's, you know,
when I'm going to freaking planet
shitness or something in Baltimore or
whatever, I don't feel like doing leg
days. It's like, oh, I got a freaking
flight at 5:00 a.m. or something. and
let me just bang out some, you know, I
was a pencil neck. I was doing pump
workouts. It's taking as, you know, on
the road, it's always like freaking, you
know, chest and arms. It's like, is it
easy on the I'll do legs when I'm at
home, right? So, I was doing infrequent
leg training. My tendons were freaking
turned off. And then when there's this
jolting shock effect on my tendons, they
weren't ready. And you know what I'm
saying? Um, and it's the same thing with
like the the T- bar rows, you know what
I mean? like I I I hadn't done even a
pulling movement. I was doing a lot of
pull-ups and I was doing a lot of
deadlifts, but never anything like that.
I had done two T- bar rows in 9 years.
So, my point is priming tendons, doing
these movements as frequently as
possible. Um just undulating. I know
it's a geeky ass word, but like high
intensity and then low intensity. And
some stuff like if you have freaking,
you know, a squat on on um day one and
you know a freaking deadlift on day uh
three, then your your hip hinge after
the squat movement can be like medium
and then the next day ultra light
isometric leading into day three. Do you
get what I'm saying here? I know this is
confusing. So I basically wanted to make
this video to catch you up to speed as
to what I'm going to be doing moving
forward. And next video you see from me,
it will be uh putting this to the test
so you can actually see it. Um, and I
know some of you keep saying, "Where's
the tussling video?" I freaking
responded to this comment a zillion
times in almost every video. Guys, I had
this [ __ ] all planned out. I That's why
I even wrote the comment. I already got
it lined up. Coming tomorrow or
whatever, you're going to see me scrap
it. Well, this freaking guy I was like,
"Hey, can you do it tonight?" No, but
maybe on Sunday. Sunday come. Hey, can
you do it tonight? Uh, let me check
about tomorrow. Hey, can you do it? Let
me check tomorrow. Hey, can you do it? I
did this [ __ ] for over a week and I
said, "Listen, brother, you clearly
don't want to freaking do it. Kiss my
ass. I'm not I'm over it." You know what
I'm saying? Like, I'm not going to force
some. It's just I thought I thought this
was just going to be a freaking scrap
tussle. Like, I I didn't realize I was,
you know, forcing you to help me move or
whatever. Is you get what I'm saying?
So, anyways, that's going to be my
approach moving forward. You know what I
mean? Because it's still it's the same
idea. horse cocking the biggest weight
of your life to kick that sucker off
while you're fresh, while you're primed,
while you're freaking ready, and then
everything else is purely it's like it's
like uh if you're an athlete, you know
what I mean? You got game day tomorrow,
just get in the if game days on freaking
Friday, Thursday, you get in the weight
room and you just freaking you know what
I mean? where for practice, you just
kind of go through the motions. Stay
greasy. Stay smooth. So that when it's
time to freaking go like it's that big
bench day. You're primed. You're ready.
You're freaking technically sound.
You're greasy. You know what I mean?
Your tendons are ready to freaking just,
you know what I mean? Deliver some
severe horsepower. As opposed to game
day is Friday, so you're not gonna
practice. Like Monday is the last day
you practice. And listen, I've been
there as like we did that times like for
like wrestling. It's like, "Oh, we got a
big big tournament this weekend. So,
what we're going to do is we're going to
we want you guys to be really fresh. The
whole week is off." And I'll tell you,
when I did that, it this stuff's all
relatable, guys. The body is the
freaking body. When I took a whole week
off before competing, I never felt
worse. I felt sluggish. I felt weak. I
felt rusty, you know? But when you get
in there and you go to practice and you
kind of just like go through the motions
and whatever and the I had the best
performances, guys, when I would
freaking um
at a home gym and I would just, you
know, do freaking light deadlifts, light
bench, you know, some light pull-ups or
whatever, just a full body just to get
everything freaking greasy and then I
would go to the competition. That's when
I did the best. So movements medicine,
you know, it's a very generic saying by
now. Everyone's heard it, but frick. So
why aren't we applying that to our
training? You know what I mean? Unless
all you care about is popcorn muscle,
then keep doing what you're doing. train
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