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Stronger in 2 Seconds. (WORKS ON ALL LIFTS)

Stronger in 2 Seconds. (WORKS ON ALL LIFTS)

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Do you want to get stronger in literally 2 seconds? In this video, I-m going to show you a workout technique that is based in science that will help you to lift more on every single exercise you do. It is based solely on the concept of creating leverage when you train for strength. Most of us do not understand how to voluntarily create leverage, and because of this, we suffer in our abilities to generate as much force during a lift as we are capable of. The creation of this mechanical advantage or leverage relies on your understanding of the direction of force of the exercise. For instance, if I am performing a lat pulldown, I am driving the bar downward and generating all of my force in this direction by pulling down on the bar. That said, if I want to create leverage (on this and any exercise for that matter) I must always find a way to create a counterforce that is as close to equal and opposite as I can. This counterforce on the lat pulldown is created by not just anchoring your knees under the pads but by actively driving your knees up into the pads. This creates an intense leverage that instantly allows you to lift more weight during the pulldown. Is this a cheat? Not at all. Leverage is a component of training that works its way into functional, every day lifting patterns. The goal of your training should never be to try and remove a component of natural forces or motion but rather to invite them to be included in the activities that you are doing. You may see that by performing the exercises I show you here that the amount of weight that you are lifting doesn-t just go up a little but by a lot. That is ok. It is time to start realizing your true strength potential by taking the handcuffs off the exercises that you are doing without the leverage advantage. Other exercises are just as easy to see how this can be helpful. Think of an incline bench press. Your goal again is to push the bar away from you with as much force as can be generated. The problem is, unless you learn to deliver an equal and opposite force into the bench and floor, you won-t ever be able to press as much as you should. The feet driving into the floor helps to drive the backside into the bench which should give you much more significant force production in the opposite direction (or that of the press in this example. I show you how the same concept applies to a deadlift, spider curl, standing dumbbell curl and even a standing row. In the case of the row, we almost always instinctively find ways to create the stability we need to be able to push and pull with greater force. Here it actually occurs with the staggering of one foot in front of the other. You can see and feel the difference in your strength levels on the exercise with just this simple shifting of the foot. There are many things you can do to get stronger, but the easiest and fastest one to implement is to find the techniques that you can use on every exercise to increase your body-s ability to generate leverage. If you are looking for a complete workout plan that helps you to put the science back in every workout you do so that you can be in your best shape ever, be sure to head to and get the ATHLEAN-X Training System
Date: 2022-04-22

Comments and reviews: 10


Jeff,
I hope you wanna make another video about muscle soreness/recovery.
I am training my legs once a week as intense like my other body parts, about 12-15 sets beneath failure.
The problem is the painful soreness I experience for 3 complete days afterwards, which I don't feel in the rest of my body for so long. It also limits me in these three days of playing soccer and other daily activities where I have to bent over or sit down. I am pretty sure my sleep or diet isn't the blame. Things like stretching and low intensity bike riding is helping me recover for just a bit. Still I want t to reach my goal to create more size in them, and go up to 2 days a week when my soccer season is over.
Anyone else who has this much problems after a regular leg day?

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Hey Jeff,
My name is Paul I am 20yo, 175cm, 73kg and I'm doing gym for 1. 5 years. I've taken in the beginning serious mass from ON and creatine from BSN and gym 5 days a week. I haven't took any supplements since 6 months. While I started doing gym and until now I have experienced palpitations that got worsen while the time passed until I developed some tachycardia where my heart suddenly beats chaotic fast at rest and it returns to normal suddenly.
Are there any trigger factors that might have caused my problems?
If you can answer me I would be so grateful!
Also you can do a video on this subjects as many young people I think they suffer heart problems that they're not aware about!

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I have a question but first I just want to say that I really love your videos. I've been binging them the past couple of days and appreciate and really enjoy the humor you've been adding in your introductions.
So my question: Isn't using leg/feet leverage on exercises like the lat pulldown or the bench press taking away from the target muscles working harder? I was under the assumption that you should only utilize leverage like that for the times you're trying to knock out the last rep or two. Wouldn't it be better to instead stick with the lighter, more controllable weight and perhaps use more of your core to complete the reps. Again I'm talking mainly for lat-pulldown and bench.

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Hy Jeff! I am watching your videos and i find them very interesting. They help me to remember the important stuff and not to fall in the daily traps (focusing only on weight and so on)
I am a 2 times Olympian in Bobsleigh and i whish to be better and better. I need power and explosive power in the same time.
How can i apply the labour theory on squats?
Thank you and please talk also to the girls, there are not only guys who want to get stronger, actually where i train (and i go to a lot of different gyms) the girls are training harder than the guys.

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Hey Jeff, I was just wondering if you could do a video about the effects of smoking on your growth. Does it affect it to the point where you cannot gain while smoking, does it only affect your endurance? Does it increase injury risk? Would be really helpful as I am currently 19 and I picked up smoking about 1 year ago and I decided to start working out. wondering how much smoking would affect my gains. Not talking about general health, as I know it is not good, just purely how it affects working out and results.
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Thanks Jeff for all the advice you are giving. Could you do a video on handstands? It is a very good bodyweight exercise and it sounds pretty much as a challenge to me. I learned to do them some years ago, and even made walking handstands, but I have lost the consistency. Could you talk about variations of handstands or differente ways to master them and challenge you at the same time? Thanks again for everything.
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I cant do pull ups at the gym they have this structure for it but its really horrible because it has a very thick bar for my hobbit hands and the grip is really rubbish because its this hard foam or rubber rather.
What alternative can i do?
If i was going to a planet fitness or virgin active then it would not be a problem, but i am going to a more budget version gym.

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I need some advice, I've read that there a number of total reps for muscle group per week in order to grow, 60-120 reps per week for chest for example but what I don't understand is that you have to divide the 60 reps of the week in the different exercises for all the parts of the chest or. you have to do 60 for upper chest and another 60 for the middle part?
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maybe I'm totally wrong but I think this is more a video about stabilising yourself. I agree with most of the points, however I don't agree he is applying an opposite force by tightly gripping a bar when doing pull ups. again might be wrong but I don't believe that's how physics works.
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Haha, i intuitively knew this but i can now apply this more efficiently, it's not a vague notion in my head anymore. I just didn't apply this to pull ups, and i suspect my squat doesn't use this technique either, but oddly, i do on a leg press, explains so much. Great stuff
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