I’m sure they’d muster the will power to discuss… volume.
Fuck all that, he’s talking about giving respect to get respect and leading off with insults and that’s exactly what he did, and Greg took it in stride and handled it THE OPPOSITE WAY in every way. He’s making absolutely no fucking sense with that shit, but whatever. It’s not gonna help anything to call him out, he’s already entrenched.
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In fairness, aside from those couple weird fellas, it is a bit of a piling on in there. Tone definitely isn’t helping, but hey, whatever right?
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It is what it is, that particular argument he brought up definitely pissed me off, but he still shares a lot of info and hopefully that thread will get back to that without all the drama.
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I don’t even believe they read the actual studies. They’re parroting what someone told them the study says.
Remember that stupid Brad Schonenfeld study about “optimal” frequency and volume? The intro stated he did a survey of 100 competing bodybuilders prior to the study and all of them used brosplits. A reasonable person reading it would have gone, “Alright, that’'s good enough for me! Light weight, baby!”
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I remember using PatrickJMT in YouTube a lot. @samul, university of YouTube is a great way to start for now
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I’m just watching for shits and giggles (as kids these days like to say) at this point. 
Mamma mia!
(it’s called semolino though)
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Or Paul Anderson 
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Which is a crime in itself.
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Lol you are right there sir.
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Oh wow shittin on fictional characters now. Even they aren’t spared
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Even back then, Westside was the best side.
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Another coffee hack: Egg yolks blended in coffee!
- it’s not as creamy as butter, but doesn’t leave an oily after taste after the coffee cools and the butter congeals
- more micros and protein than butter - more nutritious???
- I guess food safety is an issue, but if salmonella was really that bad, I’d probably be dead by considering I used to regularly eat undercooked fish guts that had been sitting in the Shanghai summer sun
Next time, I think I’m going to try and combine the experiences: egg yolk butter coffee!
- 3/4 cup decaf coffee (I’m a light weight)+1/3 cup almond milk+1 egg yolk+1tbsp butter+ stevia
Yup.
50 years later, with miracle advances in training, nutrition AND drugs, both in terms of developing these modalities and improving our abilities to understand them ALONG with a MUCH larger talent pool to draw from (now that lifting weights isn’t viewed as an activity reserved only for deviants and non-athletes) and we’ve advanced the raw bench a whopping 100lbs.
Or, put in greater perspective, 2lbs a year.
Yeah guys, I think we already figured all the stuff out.
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I think these are really important when it comes to top end strength records.
Funny how when these limit strength records go down now its by 6’ 4"+ guys weighing in at 400lbs of (mostly) muscle.
I really dont think training modalities have contributed much to that 100lb increase. As much as people may not like to hear it, but hard work works because hard work has always worked and was all that was really working.
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Saaaaaaame. Being smart in high school and earlier means you don’t have to study, so you don’t develop those skills. College is a shitshow at first, but then you develop those skills and you should come out just fine. Better that you’re realizing it now and can fix it.
Edit: I realize, I should give context to my statement. I had the same problem when I started college. Rough first 2 years but pulled off the engineering degree with a 3.6. A lot of people started off worse than me and ended up better than me too. Understanding you’re ear-dicked is the first step toward not being ear-dicked.
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Yup.
And again, getting big to move weight is still such old news. Bruce Randall figured all that out 50+ years ago. He got himself up to 400lbs and moved ridiculous poundages, and even went on to say he thought he could deadlift 1000lbs if he could push his bodyweight up to 500lbs. We’re simply witnessing people willing to do these things and being born with a structure to support it.
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Things haven’t changed much! Check out super nerdy Pat Casey talking to World’s Strongest Man, Bruce Wilhelm.
BW: I asked Pat about his heavy power rack lockouts. Why and how? What was the purpose?
“PC: I needed something to jolt my body once I got past 500 in the bench press. I thought about doing the lockouts from two positions: 4” off the chest and 7” off the chest. The thought being that I would strengthen my tendons and ligaments. Then I could do more volume work in the other exercises without breaking down or getting injured. I was also after the psychological effect of lifting tremendous weights as well as thinking there might be some motor pathway carryover. (i.e. a muscle learning theory whereby the body takes a movement and incorporates it into a similar movement. For example: a partial movement in the bench press would correspond with a full movement. To reinforce such motor pathway transference, a last set would be done with a lighter weight doing the full movement.) When doing this type of rack training I would warm up very thoroughly, then go to doing 5 or so singles in these two positions. I felt that singles were best for building strength, but they also called on your fast twitch muscles to fire. So that was my theory and it worked well for me.”
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I bet Pat would feel pretty silly today to find out that was all bro science.
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