Bodybuilder DEBUNKS Muscle Building Myths | FitnessFAQs Podcast #26 - Geoffrey Verity Schofield 

Listen on Spotify - spoti.fi/3FD8PLE Apple Podcasts - apple.co/3DRiRHG Timestamps - 00:22 Discovering Calisthenics 02:26 No gym, No problem 03:35 Hypertrophy made simple 05:57 Are strength and size linked? 09:53 Downsides of calisthenics 13:06 Calisthenics & weights 17:03 Technique Vs Effort 21:30 Lighter Weights? 23:59 Injury Lessons 29:16 Bodybuilding Myths 32:22 Best Body Fat % 36:42 Bulking & Calisthenics 39:37 Workout Mistakes 42:14 Self Awareness 44:04 Flaws of Deloading 45:49 Muscle Soreness Important? 47:51 When To Change Exercises? 50:35 Variety The Smart Way

Thanks for having me on the channel! Really enjoyed our conversation, and I hope people find it useful!

I love the recent push among the natty community to not compare physiques to modern day fitness, but rather to the old school bronze or silver era guys. Since that is truly the best benchmark we can look to as far as natural physiques.

Great to see Geoffrey featured here! His channel is a great resource and it’s just a matter of time until it goes big.

Never expected to see this, but am glad. Geoff is a good dude, as real as it gets.

What a surprise. Glad to see GVS being invited to a big channel. A valuable member of the noble natty community.

No fucking way. Now we need Bald omni man and Natural hypertrophy

This is dope, fellas. Congratulations to Geoff 🥂, gonna listen to this now. I’m keen to hear more about rings, since I know Geoffrey used those a ton recently

I bought the “ body by rings program “ when it first came out, 3/4 years ago. It’s been with me ever since then. I’m 64 yrs old now, and totally addicted to the rings. At the start, I looked at certain movements, like a mouse at an elephant, totally deflated when I attempted to follow the training programme. But I persevered, and this month, 3/4 years on, I have mastered the skin the cat movement. And honestly when I completed the movement the first time, the feeling was better than sex😊, absolute joy at having got there, after such a long time, the formula is, perseverance, perseverance, perseverance. If I can do it, at 110kg, at 64, anyone can. I have never been fitter. No joint, back, or mobility issues at all, compared to others in my age group, there is no doubt in my mind that the stretching and resistance, and stabilisation requirements involved in doing ring exercises has kept, is keeping me free from age related mobility issues.

GVS is the 🐐 of the fitness industry, no bs straight to the point funny guy but also very informative

Now I respect Daniel even more, he's all about the quality content, inviting a smaller youtuber to a podcast. Respect

"Or if there's some kind of post apocalyptic world, we can keep those gains." Love picturing Geoff crushing the rings as zombies run around

Great video! The timing is spot on. These exercises are awesome. Question for you... have you ever tried Next Level Diet? I got a muscle-building meal plan from them that's worked wonders for me.

Bodybuilding training does feel feel better than training for maxes. It is satisfying to hit 100 PRs on 100 lifts vs striving to add 20 lbs to a lift per year.

Geoffrey mentioned Basement Bodybuilding, so the question is would interview him too? I know he is a small channel, but I think most viewers would love his philosophy/mindset around lifting 😄

I actually stopped following GVS when he was so bitter about calisthenics. I would not have imagined to ever see him here. Still most of my fitness knowledge comes from reading him on Quora so lots of respect to him

Been watching GVS since the initial lockdown and liked his stripped down, straight up chats and approach to his videos. Great to see him branch out and be here. 👏👏

I learned about GVS through maybe Alpha Destiny and now his channel is easily one of my favorites.

This conversation is amazing, I feel I have a better understanding of body building from just listening. Of course, need to do the work also. Thanks so much, guys!

Very good content. I've been following Daniel Vadnal from his beginning and also Geoffrey from his beginning. Honest people.

36:06 Honestly, I'm glad to hear this, Daniel. Having started with calisthenics as my first modality of training, I do understand that leaness is indeed a major factor when it comes to relative strength and specific bodyweight skills. Not to mention the social/business incentive derived from having such a large audience like yourself. However, I'm very happy to hear that you are slowly realizing the fact that other non-fitness related factors might be preventing you from squeezing those last few pounds of muscle you could still gain as a natural, provided you are willing to slowly gain some bodymass along the way. Not to mention the potentially negative impact of staying ultra lean (below 10%) for a very long period of time. I'm a much happier/stronger lifter staying within 16 to 18% most of the time and the extra 'fluff' has helped me in the realm of external weights (an area which you seem to be getting more interested in as of late). Don't be afraid of going up in weight, Daniel. Ignore the haters and keep going. Greetings from Spain. If you ever come back, let me know so that we could work out together. Stay fit. Stay strong 💪

Two great minds of the fitness industry, there's surely a lot to learn from this one!

The crossover I never expected

that' s a wonderful collab to see

Looks like Geoff tossed his shirt in the dryer for this interview

the most unexpected crossover of the year

This was great! It thought provoking. I’ve bounced into many of these categories. I have liked the idea of combining rings and weights. Of course I also am a triathlete. So this makes me think about focus and how I can combine these exercises efficiently and effectively. For nearly 50 I’m not huge, but I’m quite fit.

good hybrid combo for quads is front squats and then do sissy squats to failure after (not as a superset). Adding weight to sissies with a vest or backpack is very humbling.

Yesssss Geoffrey is the best

I run an upper/lower and I use rings a ton for my upper days and some for lower. They're a great tool.

Thank you!

I do both weighted calisthenics and conventional weight training, for my compound movements I just make sure to use one movement from calisthenics (weighted ring dips) and one from weightlifting (Incline DB) for a routine. Then any accessory work like lateral raises at the end. Same for pulling, I do weighted pullups and then barbell rows, then curls at the end. Legs is all weights. That's how I personally combine the two. Fill in the gaps that calisthenics doesn't cover with weight training imo. That's the easiest way to get the best of both worlds.

This is insane. I just watched one of his videos for the first time, went to his channel for more and saw the notification. Can't believe the odds

Geoffrey is so cool. Wanna be like him when i grow up.

11:20 Great to hear that Rings are great for Chest

Amazing podcast! Can you do one with domink sky? That would be interesting.

Consistency, Patience and having a good outlook. Took me 2 years to look like I even lift.

Thumbnail looks like Daniel with a beard... In all seriousness, this was a great interview. Calisthenics and Weights is the way to go

Go Geoff!

Gracias from Texas 👍

6:26 lmao I was listening to this in the background at full volume at this scared the shit out of me!

I just respect geoffrey sir so much, he just made me stronger through youtube only👌👌❤❤

I don’t think it’s the malaria waiver but rather the diet of high starch and carbs as well as agricultural practices including farming and crop cultivation which uses more fast twitch muscles. One example is Lou tribe which abandoned pastoralist practices and adopted the style of west Africans, there are many physically gifted people from this tribe

The calisthenics equivalent to the lateral raise is the iron cross, which is quite an advanced position. It's extremely taxing on the side delts and very effective, but it's not as easy to scale from absolute beginner. I guess you could stand on a band to make it easier.

I've put this on my watch later list. I've just started on my calisthenics journey and may introduce weights at some point.

34:31 damn those triceps

very happy to see a conversation between two of the most sensible guys out there. but it ended quite abruptly! what was going on there?

Are all 26 podcasts by fitnessfaqs on youtube? I can only find 16 in their playlist

I'm very interested in starting calisthenics in conjunction with a muscle-building program using weights, but what I don't understand is given the training program presented, when are you doing the calisthenics? Are you able to do it on the same days you're working out at the gym? Or on the rest days? If I've worked out at the gym, whatever muscles I've trained are going to be out of commission that day, and they're going to need rest to recuperate, so how do you mix the calisthenics in there?

Saludos desde Uruguay joder que están cuadrados 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼😄😄😄👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Spent 20 years in the gym. Covid forced me to do calisthenics and got into the best shape ever. Made me rethink the gym is a scam.

You should doa review on resistant bands ...

6:28 that HMMMMMPHHH really spoke to me

I feel like I'm watching an A.I. Robot interview Geoff about fitness.

If you lose access to wts adding bands to rings and calisthenics can help you maintain if not gain.

Hi everyone! I have a question for Daniel (and whoever would like to help a fellow subscriber). I'm following the Body by rings programme, which includes 4 upper body workouts per week. I'm also training legs twice each week. It's been a month like this and I'm wondering: is training 6 times per week too much? Thanks a lot!!

Daniel thoughts on mobility for cricketers

It seems to me that weight training and calisthenics should help progress🏆💪

Great convo but that was such an abrupt ending

All I can say is that the bros know best about bodybuilding.

this is the first time i knew Geoffrey lives in China

Good video daniel.i need a video on l sit progressions for beginners

nice!

I love Jeff

36:40 00:14

How long should your workout last, before it becomes ineffective or detrimental? Basically an overtraining question.

Ive imagined this😀

what about kettlebells?

Oh that myth! Yes, I have a good friend who thinks every single big dude is on steroids. He refuses to believe humans can be naturally super strong with time, patience, and effort

If u put some weight in a backpack and hit some squats squeezing every muscle for sets of 50 your legs will grow and your squat will go up. My squat actually went up after the shut down

About high volume, it works if you want to be ripped and it dose make muscle in long run. Maybe not as much as lower reps with higher weight. I did 500 push ups under 20 min every single day for 6 months straight and I made a significant gain. Even a year later people around me says I look like a triangle even with shirts on and I say myself “ yes those crazy push up challenge” 😂

as a distance runner cali guy I'm always below 12 percent

i like pre exhausting for compounds on some lifts but not all. on deadlifts i will not do that, on squats i like to hit some leg machines or body weight squats for blood flow, but on bench i love being warm as hell from a set of pec flies right into 1 or 2 good sets of dips. something about that just lights up my chest in a way better way than when i just warm up with the barbell / dumbbells.

bro everytime I have to listen to Daniels voice for more than 5 seconds I start falling asleep

When you said rings are better for chest, do you think it’s advantageous / a good idea to have the wobbliness when performing the movement?

Ok, this thumbnail is giga cursed

It's interesting that someone like him in his situation doesn't have some form of home gym

Workout Tip: Leave your damn phone at home!!! Too many people spend their session hunched over on a bench, staring at their phone, fooling themselves into thinking they just did 2 hours at the gym, when they really only worked for about 20 or 30 minutes. This keeps showing up in Geoffrey's video clips; he is getting the work done and some guy is in the background staring at his phone : - ) Nice video, good conversation

33:11 he fartin hard

*peaceee*

damn dude! 5-15 in a week?!

I have done both. I find who you had on defines strength very different then I do. He was Defining strength as a weight training way ...... But the Strength from a Planche say is FAR Superior to Bench press. And a person who can Planche may not be able to bench much. But I have never saw a guy who can bench 500 be able to Planche. Not even close. Same with Shoulder press vs HSPU. HSPU is far superior to shoulder press. And I have known guys who can Double shoulder press what I can but cannot come close to a free Standing Handstand pushup. Or even a Wall sometimes. Body weight is a far superior strength . This goes to the comparison to who is stronger between a High level Gymnast vs a High level Powerlifter. Well relative pound for pound the Gymnast is Way way Stronger. If a powerlifter attempted a Maltese they would tear their bicep tendons among other things...... When I went from powerlifting to high level Calisthenics. My wrestling got significantly stronger then when I was powerlifter.... However to be fair I am built like a Gymnast. Not a powerlifter.

He have only been doing calisthenics for about a year so let him do calisthenics 4+ years he’ll definitely see a carry over on the weights

Amazingly giga

5:50 if you're not making these faces you're not training hard enough lol

The audio is messed up, Geoffreys voice is too low and yours too loud

His weight training style is definitely unorthodox I could tell that hes been injured

Broooooooooooo

Is the scuffed camera part of his brand? I mean no offense. Even his book cover has low quality.

Egg

Snap the City . Good Luck to this guy in late age . His form is terrible even with light weight

Here comes the 'first' horde

If you workout for years, you will see results. If you want faster, bigger take products.

Host is the most monotone person I've ever heard

Very good example of a weak mind in a strong body "when my gym closes (bc of corona) I go back to rings" - prime example of avoidance instead of changing what needs to change: gov overreach and lies. Weak men in strong bodies dont stop evil, masculine men with strong bodies and minds do. body mind and soul, the weakest link breaks the chain.

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