How to Get Big and Strong (JUST DO THIS)
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Date: 2022-04-22
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PlasmaFuzer
To the form critics out there. Some back rounding during a heavy single is normal and even expected. Singles executed at a sufficiently high % of your 1RM are an excellent diagnostic tool to reveal flaws in your technique. I think this should be the major takeaway of this video despite not being stated this plainly. Spinal flexion during the deadlift is not a predictor of injury (remember anecdotes aren't science.
With regard to the top single, the fact that his back wasn't perfectly flat is almost irrelevant. The only major flaw I see, speaking as your random internet pleb, is his lack of patience off the floor/pulling the slack out. Jeff just grips it and rips it, and it throws him out of position which he spends the rest of the lift recovering from. Taking more time to fully set his upper back and lever the bar off the floor would leave him in a much better position to finish the pull and not drain so much power at the bottom. Ironically him trying to generate power via explosively jerking the bar actually has the exact opposite effect.
I know what you're gonna say, -but pleb (insert random super strong power-lifter/strongman name here) pulls explosively from the floor? - True, but it is a contested lift IN THEIR SPORT; hence they are experts. This means all the little details you and I would have to consciously think about or focus on, they do reflexively. They are in these positions ALL THE TIME, and thus they have much greater latitude to be that explosive. Not to mention the obvious fact that -being explosive- may make the difference between a podium/medal/fat ass check, or not. Meanwhile us plebs aren't lifting in a meet anytime soon, so the extra few pounds that -explosiveness- (aka impatience) may grant us comes as ALL cost NO benefit.
Edit: In all my ranting I almost forgot. good lift Jeff! I prefer the more -raw- training footage rather than more refined/produced footage. Just one guy's opinion.
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To the form critics out there. Some back rounding during a heavy single is normal and even expected. Singles executed at a sufficiently high % of your 1RM are an excellent diagnostic tool to reveal flaws in your technique. I think this should be the major takeaway of this video despite not being stated this plainly. Spinal flexion during the deadlift is not a predictor of injury (remember anecdotes aren't science.
With regard to the top single, the fact that his back wasn't perfectly flat is almost irrelevant. The only major flaw I see, speaking as your random internet pleb, is his lack of patience off the floor/pulling the slack out. Jeff just grips it and rips it, and it throws him out of position which he spends the rest of the lift recovering from. Taking more time to fully set his upper back and lever the bar off the floor would leave him in a much better position to finish the pull and not drain so much power at the bottom. Ironically him trying to generate power via explosively jerking the bar actually has the exact opposite effect.
I know what you're gonna say, -but pleb (insert random super strong power-lifter/strongman name here) pulls explosively from the floor? - True, but it is a contested lift IN THEIR SPORT; hence they are experts. This means all the little details you and I would have to consciously think about or focus on, they do reflexively. They are in these positions ALL THE TIME, and thus they have much greater latitude to be that explosive. Not to mention the obvious fact that -being explosive- may make the difference between a podium/medal/fat ass check, or not. Meanwhile us plebs aren't lifting in a meet anytime soon, so the extra few pounds that -explosiveness- (aka impatience) may grant us comes as ALL cost NO benefit.
Edit: In all my ranting I almost forgot. good lift Jeff! I prefer the more -raw- training footage rather than more refined/produced footage. Just one guy's opinion.
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Albert
LMAO the amount of people saying his deadlift form is bad.
1. It's fine. There is going to be a degree of flexion in heavy deadlifting it's unavoidable. However, there is a neutral zone for deadlifting. Slight spinal flexion is okay but when you start rounding out looking like the hunch back of Notre Dame. That's when you should stop.
2. For those saying he'll incur low back pain, have you seen his pull-up game? The man does weighted pull-ups for reps. His lats are going to buffer the net forces applied through his thoracolumbar fascia.
If we had ribs that went all the way down our hip low back pain wouldn't exist. So since we cannot rely on our structure for stability we are going to have to rely on core, glutes, and lat function to stabilize the trunk.
Not trying to be a fan boy here in defending Jeff. I'm just making an observation of the lifts and post my thoughts on the comments.
As for the video itself, I think it's ok minus the chain setup for the deadlift and the bands for the curls.
Edit. Okay I skimmed his 4 plate dead. His 4 plate dead is pretty shit. Everything before 365lbs was ok.
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LMAO the amount of people saying his deadlift form is bad.
1. It's fine. There is going to be a degree of flexion in heavy deadlifting it's unavoidable. However, there is a neutral zone for deadlifting. Slight spinal flexion is okay but when you start rounding out looking like the hunch back of Notre Dame. That's when you should stop.
2. For those saying he'll incur low back pain, have you seen his pull-up game? The man does weighted pull-ups for reps. His lats are going to buffer the net forces applied through his thoracolumbar fascia.
If we had ribs that went all the way down our hip low back pain wouldn't exist. So since we cannot rely on our structure for stability we are going to have to rely on core, glutes, and lat function to stabilize the trunk.
Not trying to be a fan boy here in defending Jeff. I'm just making an observation of the lifts and post my thoughts on the comments.
As for the video itself, I think it's ok minus the chain setup for the deadlift and the bands for the curls.
Edit. Okay I skimmed his 4 plate dead. His 4 plate dead is pretty shit. Everything before 365lbs was ok.
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Gecxid
First. years back I ws told before you go for body building, go for strength for the first year. For years three sets of ten were preached to me by everyone involved. But they were all of the Body building crowd. So I started out doing three sets of 6 with the heavyest weight that I could use and still make all three sets. This has progressed till I now do six sets of 6 lifts.
When I go to the next higher weights I start off with four times four lifts and increase the number of lifts till I can get six sets of six. Then it is time to raise the weight.
When the -Y- shut down because of the Carona I lost a lot of what I had gained. Since it opened back up I am now almost back to where I was when they shut down. I have to be careful because twice I have gotten sprains because of adding too much extra at a time. Is a one min break between reps too short of a time span? I use one min on most but one and one half on one of my exercises. You mentioned three min and four min is why I asked.
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First. years back I ws told before you go for body building, go for strength for the first year. For years three sets of ten were preached to me by everyone involved. But they were all of the Body building crowd. So I started out doing three sets of 6 with the heavyest weight that I could use and still make all three sets. This has progressed till I now do six sets of 6 lifts.
When I go to the next higher weights I start off with four times four lifts and increase the number of lifts till I can get six sets of six. Then it is time to raise the weight.
When the -Y- shut down because of the Carona I lost a lot of what I had gained. Since it opened back up I am now almost back to where I was when they shut down. I have to be careful because twice I have gotten sprains because of adding too much extra at a time. Is a one min break between reps too short of a time span? I use one min on most but one and one half on one of my exercises. You mentioned three min and four min is why I asked.
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Dash
Jeff my dude, I know you know how to dead lift. You even have videos that provide tips on how NOT to do what you did on that last 2-3 sets; started -315 if you pay attention. Why give yourself a pass and include those clips in this video? I've followed you for a while now and lots of ppl will follow what you do and tell them. You need to take this more seriously. One 20 something kid at my gym was trying to DL 225 with that form and when I try to give him some tips, he said he saw you do it this way so it should be fine. Smh. Come on brother, I know you are better than this.
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Jeff my dude, I know you know how to dead lift. You even have videos that provide tips on how NOT to do what you did on that last 2-3 sets; started -315 if you pay attention. Why give yourself a pass and include those clips in this video? I've followed you for a while now and lots of ppl will follow what you do and tell them. You need to take this more seriously. One 20 something kid at my gym was trying to DL 225 with that form and when I try to give him some tips, he said he saw you do it this way so it should be fine. Smh. Come on brother, I know you are better than this.
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Frank
I have the same issue of having a some what rounded lower back when I deadlift even with lower weights that I-m sure I can handle. I feel fine and do pay attention to other aspects of my form. But making my lower back absolutely straight just feels unnatural for me. You briefly mentioned in another video that the arching/rounding of the back may have to do with you torso-to-leg ratio and the anatomical variation of the hip joint- would you mind elaborating on this? Thanks and would love to work with a PT like you.
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I have the same issue of having a some what rounded lower back when I deadlift even with lower weights that I-m sure I can handle. I feel fine and do pay attention to other aspects of my form. But making my lower back absolutely straight just feels unnatural for me. You briefly mentioned in another video that the arching/rounding of the back may have to do with you torso-to-leg ratio and the anatomical variation of the hip joint- would you mind elaborating on this? Thanks and would love to work with a PT like you.
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Stanley
Coach Greg recently did a video about this and went full monty ridiculing Jeff in every possible way. Therefore, I wrote a comment criticising how he was no better by trying to cash in on the situation to increase his sub count, sell cookbooks and s#-t. Guess what happened to the comment? He deleted it. And, the other day he was preaching how Jeff shouldn't be deleting comments on his videos and should come out and apologize to his audience etc etc. Truly hypocritical if you ask me.
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Coach Greg recently did a video about this and went full monty ridiculing Jeff in every possible way. Therefore, I wrote a comment criticising how he was no better by trying to cash in on the situation to increase his sub count, sell cookbooks and s#-t. Guess what happened to the comment? He deleted it. And, the other day he was preaching how Jeff shouldn't be deleting comments on his videos and should come out and apologize to his audience etc etc. Truly hypocritical if you ask me.
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Andrew
Jeff, can you talk about the shorter rest periods in terms of metabolic stress and how that generates/promotes growth? I see how the 1. 5 reps per full rep adds volume, but the generation of metabolic stress has a huge impact, right? In particular, what percentage of overall stimulus does metabolic stress offer? Some people say that muscle soreness (good sore, not bad sore) comes from arachadonic acid which supposedly also promotes an anabolic stimulus? Thanks again, sir. Great job!
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Jeff, can you talk about the shorter rest periods in terms of metabolic stress and how that generates/promotes growth? I see how the 1. 5 reps per full rep adds volume, but the generation of metabolic stress has a huge impact, right? In particular, what percentage of overall stimulus does metabolic stress offer? Some people say that muscle soreness (good sore, not bad sore) comes from arachadonic acid which supposedly also promotes an anabolic stimulus? Thanks again, sir. Great job!
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Jay
Shit bro-s I need help I don-t know what I-m doing wrong. I been working out for 3 years I-m 18 and before this corona shit started around March I was 193. Now I-m 180-181. 2 weeks ago I been keeping track of my macros eating about 3600-4000 calories a day CLEAN and still working out in my backyard w weights that I got and been getting great workouts and still haven-t changed in the weight scale a bit. Am I doing something wrong?
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Shit bro-s I need help I don-t know what I-m doing wrong. I been working out for 3 years I-m 18 and before this corona shit started around March I was 193. Now I-m 180-181. 2 weeks ago I been keeping track of my macros eating about 3600-4000 calories a day CLEAN and still working out in my backyard w weights that I got and been getting great workouts and still haven-t changed in the weight scale a bit. Am I doing something wrong?
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Greg
Very good as usual! One thing worth pointing out about the option to decrease time - that's actually the definition of power (force x distance / time. In other words, moving the same weight in less time is a demonstration of more power. Of course this has to be properly cycled, but setting out to become more powerful also leads to becoming stronger.
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Very good as usual! One thing worth pointing out about the option to decrease time - that's actually the definition of power (force x distance / time. In other words, moving the same weight in less time is a demonstration of more power. Of course this has to be properly cycled, but setting out to become more powerful also leads to becoming stronger.
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Chris
Jeff can you explain why I did 4 sets of 12 bench press with 135 and I did 4 seconds down and 2 seconds up and I felt so burnt out when I usually do 225 for 4 sets of 8-10 reps on chest day. I felt so weak when I was done - same thing happen to me on bicep curls slow and controlled way less weight but slower up and down and I was smoked.
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Jeff can you explain why I did 4 sets of 12 bench press with 135 and I did 4 seconds down and 2 seconds up and I felt so burnt out when I usually do 225 for 4 sets of 8-10 reps on chest day. I felt so weak when I was done - same thing happen to me on bicep curls slow and controlled way less weight but slower up and down and I was smoked.
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