“LOCKING DOWN” IS THE KEY TO IMPROVING ALL OF YOUR LIFTS | MIKE VAN WYCK 

I always underestimated how much you actually have to lift chest and extend upper back.

You are miles ahead of so many channels that do the same thing! The knowledge you share is 💯 #respect

Say it all the time, I'll say it again: you're the best and I appreciate your work immensely.

I thought I was good at lock down, full extension, feeling lats, slow reps with end squeeze, and then I woke up from my dream and saw this and MVW's back videos. Holy Shiatsu, did back yesterday and flew home from the gym with New Lat Wings... and they be sore as a u know what (from the workout not from flying). Man this guy is LEGIT. THANK U.

The fitness industry needs to be wiped clean from YT and only leave BigMike on here 💪🏻

Most helpful back video I’ve ever watched in my 10 years on RU-vid.

You're a blessing for the community! Really appreciate your knowledge. Much respect from Germany!✌🏼 #THEWYCKEDFEW

Bro i love your channel. Your honesty and directness is sooo refreshing and your teaching is second to none. Thank you 🙏

They call it posture running when in reference to running. Some one won a nobel prize for it. This is literally our best biomechanics science. The initial posture plus final posture plus inbetween postures are all important.

This video deserves millions of views, the most important lesson I've watched!

Yesterday, I Found Myself Automactically Rocking Through During My Chest Work Out Thanks To Mike's Videos, 🙏🏽Mind Over Matter .

Because of Mike in my gym bag i always keep shoes with steel toes to kick cameras and scissors to cut bands off the bench. ❤ lov u man

Man you one of the best. A break from marketing gimmicks that saturate social media. Keep up the great work

Big Mike Van Wyck is the truth. I am so glad I am subbed to his channel. The knowledge I got from his videos is so beneficial. I purchase his apparel to support him. Thank you sir.

After watching old footage of me lifting I realised I was doing the rocking motion already but after paying attention to the cue, the fucking pump and contraction is insane. Keep it up!

Lifting sternum and extending ribcage changed the game for me. Im lucky enough to naturally have retracted scapula from the start but proper shoulder positioning and lifting chest were the 2 cues from MVW that im forever grateful for🙏💪🏽💯

Every gym needs a Mike in it to just get everyone doing their shit correctly, I for one could do with Mike in my gym, come to Scotland and train me 😂😂 love the videos. 💪🏻💪🏻

Yeah, i'd like this new technique. Lock in and follow through. And lean with it

A year wasted watching other channels argue about sets, reps, freq..... nothing helped till I watched your channel and started to learn FORM. Sincere thanks 👍💯

I appreciate how u put things into perspective makes complete sense

Man, you put a smile on my face with your rants. 😅

Why does this make so much more sense when I’m high?! Great work Big Mike

Since implementing your cues and tips I’ve dropped my weight considerably on most exercises, we appreciate you big man, keep it up 💪🏻

Gotta love Wycked Wednesdays 😊

As an amateur trying to be better, discovering Mike has been a game changer. Please keep doing that Mike. We need your help more than you can imagine

The deep understanding of biomechanics, breaking down movement into parts understandable and reproducable even for the layman is what made me subscribe to the channel months ago. You're just operating on a whole different level to even many physical therapists with how you're breaking down these things and are able to explain them. I'm currently helping my father rehab his own post-surgery shoulder in a home gym setting and this was a huge help, in particular because he, too, has no grasp of how to feel the upper back engange, open or cntract. Thank you for sharing your expertise.

Big Mike your pure knowledge is so Appreciated your cue’s Are so valuable for me in the gym,Thankyou

Absolutely love your videos man… legit look forward to seeing them every week. Now you got me walking round 24/7 trying to feel that scap 😂

I am learning a lot with you. Thank you for spending your time to teach us.

Thank you for this. I have not locked my back down on sets before. Can’t wait to try it out tomorrow!

I started doing rope rows as my 1st exercise or or 1st row movement (after pullups) about 6 months ago. I've found it an excellent way to help feel my back open and close. Ever since then I've been able to connect with other back movements much better and my back has grown more than any other body part. I am doing half the volume of sets as before and getting more exhausted. The knots I used to get in my upper back have also disappeared. Thanks for the videos Mike, keep up the great work!

Brilliant 🏆

New to the channel but been watching several videos over last 2 weeks and implementing the technique. Mind blown on a few subtle adjustments on the basics. Watched a low cable fly video and used the technique and thought wow. This is a much needed channel. Outstanding channel. If you're new to lifting and are watching this channel, well done, you were lucky to hit technique instruction gold. Amazingly good technique instructions and knowledge. Legend. Thankyou. You're natural understanding of movement and technique is such a rare gift. Also the no bullshit approach is refreshing

Liking the no b.s videos Hitting pure muscle next weekend. 3rd time going there. Such a nice vibe there Lots to pick from for training

Random side note: yesterday was the first day I hit lateral raise exactly the way you do (I thought I was doing it before but my lats weren’t spreading…)…holy shit. Mike…WTF. That was mind blowing🤣

Thanks for the content, noone is teaching movement everyone is foccused on exercises .. 👌🙇‍♂️

Beutifully Explained n tks for saving my rear delts n elbow joints 😊❤

This is the key to isolating on muscle.

Another killer video filled with heavy hitter cues

This video should be watched often

Every time i watch your videos on this exercise, I notice some mistakes I do. Thanks for sharing.

Explanations are on a another level!!! Simple but powerful!!!🔥🔥🔥

New Mike video. It’s a good day 😂

I really appreciate these videos . Thank you

I honestly can't understand how some people have "X" number of subscribers and @bigmikevanwyck only has 110K. Seriously. I'm 48 and only just started going to the gym and learning since Nov23. All my knowledge is from this guy and I think I have improved more than all the people in the GYM I have been going to. Not knocking them, I just think they are clueless in what they are doing. being older and wiser may have helped me skip the ego lifting stage. This account should've been at 500K subscribers by now, and still growing. I wish the best for this guy and hope ALL his Instagram subscribers join here. I don't need another channel to follow.

Bingo! This video really hit home for me. Thank you Mike

No one is even near the knowledge of Mike & Hany Rambod ❤ Nailed it Man ❤️

When you said “plays with your hair in the mirror” I was literally fixing my hair in the mirror lol FML

Devil in the details...great video. I need to check myself with this.

I have learned more since I’ve followed you and how screwed up my workout were

Always speaking the truth ❤ !

Again a very top notch and educational video. In our times of sitting down for hours and/or having our necks postured downwards towards our mobile gadgets, the very first training a new individual who starts gym should be mid back/rhomboid training. If I could I go back and tell my self to train my mid back first before anything for enough time and than keep it a staple part of my training regiment. Good stuff Mike, thank you.

Really great video, these work very well for back warmups as mentioned in the video. Also works very well before chest training. Will Tennyson and Phil heath had a recent video where Phil did these(more for rear delt) by grabbing the ball end of the rope with the first and second fingers. Great stuff

Appreciate all the great tips. Thanks Mike!

This guy is him!

LOVE YA WORK MIKE❤AUSTRALIA

Would love to hear what else you do for your shoulder rehab in a similar situation.

Thanks coach

"you want bulging lats?" Always gets me

Because of your channel I’m farting all the time in the gym.

Yes!! They don’t even know which part of the body the machine is for!! First learn the exercise, then add a weight. Truthfully most people aren’t ready or flexible enough to lift a weight

Lmao dork sport, gym sharts 🤣 So true, business plan is find skinny teens with the hair like mike mentioned, they lift for a couple months they become skinny “shredded” and then they’re of a sudden “bodybuilders”

True 💯💯💯💯

I find myself constantly coming back to your videos. Mainly from seeing a video of a skinny tiktoker tell me how to train causing an immediate combustion of braincells :(

great video

❤for🇮🇳 pro🙂

any help on why i can only lock in one side of my scapula?

I'm on the ground 😂

Anyone else notice the guy in the background walking back and forth for the first 8 minutes of the video on his phone, this must drive Mike crazy, most would have had 4 sets done in that wasted time!!!!

😂 Dorksport😂😂😂 sponsor a dead skunk on the side of the road!!! Hilar😂😂😂😂

Mike can you please do a couple more reps in sequence so we can really see it

Shout out maroon girl in the back

Two words guys...Locking and Down.

Can somebody explain to me like I‘m stupid How far Back I should pull my shoulders?

Really, really informative channel. Crazy how much I have been overusing my shoulders during pressing exercises. Also, dude is hot af! Just sayin!

It’s funny after Mlkes taught Lian how to train to open his lats & chest better he retired..?

Always find it ironic that whilst Mike is giving some of the most sound muscle building advice I have ever heard, the people a few metres away from him are doing all the things he complains about. If they took their headphones off they could actually listen to him directly…

are you the owner of the gym? what gym is it in toronto?

😂

Oh great, yet another lat and upperback tutorial, "Wycked Back Training".

1st

🦈 🤡. 😂

I know he wont 😂 as he told me before a flat no lmao but yall imagine if he did a full day of eating video... Know how many views he'd get i can say nearly 1 million 😅😂

Gym Skank

U wanna figure out how to not work hard n get big? U want lats like dorean with half the work and half the genetics? Always gers me every time

Genuinely terrible advice.

Hit the nail and the reason This is why I don’t watch or listen to any fitness influencer under 30…. Coz they have no experience. And you’re right, they will all be gone in 5 years because it’s an easy fad job to them…And that guy in the background who just came to the gym to talk on the phone. Hilarious