Exercise Scientist Critiques Jake Gyllenhall's Roadhouse Workout 

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4:09 into this video, Mike, your Harp looks like a Violin. How dare you :P lol

Sled work: When I was younger I played on a pretty high level football (the real one, not the one where a "ball" barely touches the foot ;) and we did something like sled pushes almost every week. Bc of injuries I had to stop playing and stopped doing sled pushes. I still was able to go to the gym and doing that since 10+ years and did my squads and lunges etc. My muscles grew and I got stronger on the exercises in the gym, but my atheltic abilites decreased. With 19 I was running 100m in 11,1 second and on a good day I could dunk. I couldnt do that for a long time. Then I started to integrate seld work into my workouts and now I got a lot of this explosive power back, not like with 19, but pretty pretty close. Thats why I cant understand, why Mike hates the sled work so much. Would be nice to have a video about it, especially in comparison to kneesovertoe (who also trains top athletes), bc like that I have the feeling, that a great exercise is doomed not because its a necessarily bad exercise but bc Mike wants to hate hollywood. or maybe Im completely wrong and its just a strange correlation.

hey Dr. Mike, please make a workout plan for a Spyder Physique ( not the spyder man goddamn!!), sholders, arms and forearms for the torso dominant folks!! kiss in the ass

Dr Mike can we get some videos from your perspective as it pertains to Peptides. Not everyone can afford $2,000.00 a month for HGH … are there Peptides alternatives that are not as efficacious as HGH however better than nothing?

Roadhoushe😂

Holy crap Lois this training is worse than the movie

You must live in kakapoopoopeepeeshire.

House....roadhouse...that too...

I love it my girlfriend kickshit and says road house I die every time

I don’t see why you can’t make a little video and send it to him. I’d watch him “tear you a new asshole” - a fellow Defeated Dad

I want to see him critique your workout

Defeated dad😂

To the top

I’ve done that one too

Exactly! No doubt about that.

Why would anybody who is not competing or getting tested need to stay natural?

​@@User-54631 to live longer obviously

@@sauromatae9728 u ever drink alcohol? eat junk food? well, some people would rather get YOKED at the cost of their health. at least u actually get something of value out of it, and not just fleeting pleasure.

@@sauromatae9728 just live longer or live healthier. In some cases it is needed for quality of life. And if your quality of life is getting jacked so you can make a realy good living of it. You can pro and con it. Who wants the 80 to 90 years where you can't do anything anymore.

Omfg 😂

can't help with the choir part but there are bow harps, my guy, and by my guy, i mean never my guy

​@@JabbaSlugr u ok

TY! We even use the term in Germany, even though we usually don't have blocks like cities in the US have. So I imagined it to be a metaphor about breaking bricks. But this makes so much more sense ^^

The reserved seating in theaters is the best thing for movies since color.

@@User-54631 streaming is the best thing for movies, because people fucking suck.

Didn't this movie go straight to Amazon Prime?

@@Prymul👌🏻👌🏻

Oh yeah!

Yea!!!

@drmike doooo itttt

Fucking agree!

Yooooo, incredible idea

I wish you a speedy recovery.

Wishing you some better days ahead man. Hang in there

Wish you well

Wishing you well Matt, all the best & hope you have better days ahead of you!

God Bless you Sir 🎉

Yeah I haven't seen a ton of his films but I know he was jacked as fuck for a boxing movie like ten years ago so he strikes me more as a guy who's always generally in good shape and just cranks it up for some roles. Not some Chris Pratt esque body transformation workout.

It took a year from his standard walking around shape to prepare for the movie. Should they say "If Jake was in terrible shape and 50lbs overweight, it would take longer than a year"

@@donquias903 considering most of those men's health type celebrity workout videos are aimed at and primarily viewed by average people who are likely to be tricked into buying a subscription or product on the basis of the finished results on display, then yeah, it probably is disingenuous to not mention that he was already in shape and had previously been in absurdly good shape. There's almost no regular, non lifting adult on Earth who is going to look like Jake Gyllenhall here after only one year of training.

@@elliottengstrand5988 I get that, but tbf, it's disingenuous either way bc he's clearly on gear. We all know protein powder and whatever else they're selling aint gonna cut it.

Right! And he was jacked in Southpaw (2015) too.

And he starred in Prince of Persia before that in 2009 where he got jacked. And before that he starred in Jarhead which was released in 2005 where he also was fairly jacked.

I dont think ive ever seen him in a role not jacked. He's a super fit man

@@Ruthun92 Donnie Darko perhaps? He was just slim at that point being around 20. He wasn't that jacked in Nightcrawler either.

facts

On hood

After another RU-vidr did it and all I heard was “everything he did was perfect and beautiful” I needed the Dr. Mike version

His is pretty good actually, he’s open about his goals and his ped usage

@@pucebracelet2214sure, if “open” is “I was natty for the first season and just trt for the second” lmao

​@@FitFatFityou know he only does rabies for the extra edge 😎

@@FitFatFitthat guy had good genetics it could possibly be only trt but not just for season 2 that’s bs. Strongly think it’s anabolic too but no proof

You mean Thad Castle?

I'm skeptical. 😂

the guy blew up like 30lbs of muscle. Ofc hes on steroids, why would that even be debated? He pulled out of the testing pool ffs.

​@@BigronnieTriceps He hasn't put anything even remotely close to 30 lbs of muscle on. People just pull numbers out of nowhere to make a point.

Go watch Derek's natty or not on Connor

If Conor is on gear that's some crappy gear. I'd expect better results for my money... Jake looks better than Conor and there's no dorks using the force saying he's on gear. He's been keeping his weight low purpously for years due to him fighting and cutting weight regularly. He's getting older (not just in age but miles on the clock) this makes it harder to keep weight low and Since the injury he's probably been lifting alot probably to keep himself from going completely insane through inactivity (debatable how successful it has been). He has probably also never been a big lifter until this part of his life becuase being a high level pro mma fighter takes a lot of time and most of that is skills and live sparring and supplimentary conditioning making up a small part of his overall training hours. So now he's a bit bigger and probably lifting regularly all of a sudden he is on gear?! He removed himself from the Usada testing pool for reasons only he knows. If I had to guess it would be that he had no intentions to fight during that period and therfore why subject yourself to constant testing at silly times and having to report your whereabouts to them all the time whilst in the testing pool. Plus he may have used growth hormone to help his recovery from a knarly injury. Staying in the pool is a bit unnecessary and intrusive if you have no intentions to fight. It's not rocket science.

Only body builders who are afraid to get their heart rate up would talk down on a sled. It's an excellent exercise to build work capacity. Dr. Mike just have been high in this video.

I personally love sled work so felt attacked by Dr. Mike lol

100% what I was thinking when he started talking about sleds

@@SrikanthReddy-nz6wu I think he was just saying that low effort sled work is pointless.. if you're going to get benefit from them you have to either move the sled quickly and/or go through full ROM

@@michaelmcdonald1620 That looked like a fuck ton of weight on the sled though.

​@@christiancapriotti6525Ya, you can't tell how hard someone is working on a sled based on the speed. You can push light weight fast or heavy weight slow and both will humble you. A few sets heavy sets of a 20 yard push followed by a pull will give you an unreal quad pump.

The human drawn ploughs look almost exactly like a safety squat bar. It's a mechanically efficient way to reduce injury risk at high axial load.

Lots of sled work

How not a top comment 😭😂

Totally here for that shoulder stability advice after an AC tear.

Agreed sincerely, Rock Climber* w/zero history of shoulder injury *in fairness, not a great rock climber

Yeah team fractured collarbone!

@hellfish2309 the grip part of this video too... Most rock climbers can pinch 60lbs 😆

What do you mean by "strengthen your knees"? There are no muscles in the knee. Do you mean strengthen the muscles which articulate the knee joint? Let's go with this assumption. If I want to strengthen my quads, post injury, are there exercises which target the quad muscles superior to the sled push? Yes, so do those and get a better result. This argument applies to all muscles when recovering. If you enjoy pushing a sled, then push a sled. It's an ineffective hypertrophy exercise but who gives a shit if you enjoy it.

@@danielkanewske8473 absolutely agree it’s not hypertrophic. I use it to help me recover from an MCL injury, and help me work my way up to other physical therapy exercises to increase my range of motion for that ligament (and others that surround my knee) as well as condition it to avoid future injury. If you’re interested in learning more, kneesovertoesguy has a few videos that go further in depth with the research and functions of the exercise. im no PT, nor do i have an education in sports science or anything, so i am way out of my depth on this. nor is this a hill i care to die on - its just something that has done absolute wonders for my knee pain.

​​@@danielkanewske8473Sleds are not ineffective for hypertrophy. Where do y'all come up with this nonsense?

@@danielkanewske8473 ehhh, nope. Plateaued on leg strength and mass for almost a year and didn’t want to put much effort in programming for more gains because I was happy with what I had. 415 squat, 605 deadlift plus a decent amount of machine work. Then my gym installed turf and brought in sleds. Lessened machine work and added pushing & pulling sled work, fast, slow, heavy, not as heavy, forward, reverse, pole handles, chains. In 3 months I gained 1.5 inches circumference mid thigh and 1 inch above the knee. The rest of my usual leg training didn’t change but RPEs felt a lot easier with squats and deads.

he shows up early and goes to each room putting little odds and ends on the side tables lol

progressively overloading his ass as we speak

How about a like and a comment?

I’ve got it. Been very very happy with it. Just ordered versa grips too. Can’t wait for summer 😎

I did the same thing also got the blue fat gripz they are a game changer.

The application is web-based, and there is no app. They have a diet app, but it's nothing like the one he advertised every video.

​@@questioneverything5595So whats with RP hypertrophy? Im confused. I don't really need it, because I've had a decade of experience and his programs still are too confusing/unnecessarily complicated, but I was thinking about atleast trying considering its the same as cooking, go step by step. Just thought it was an app because he always says it. If its not free I would never ever buy it sorry Mike

I think he was more critical of the way it was being done, than the exercise selection by itself

Yea I agree. Sled work works. It’s also fun to change up the routine and do things that are different. I did sled work at a Muay Thai gym for a day of strength and conditioning and I thought it was a powerful training tool for my athleticism. It probably isn’t a good tool for hypertrophy since there are better movements to train legs. But when it comes to athletic training, working in the sled can challenge the body in different ways that you can’t get from barbell squats and deadlifts.

Sled pushes can be okay at the right weight and intensity, for developing power. They do not however promote much muscle growth because there is zero eccentric portion of the exercise. He usually ends up crapping on them in the videos because they do not do them correctly for what the purpose of a sled push would actually be.

His issue is people doing sled work when training for physique. Sled work is very useful if you partake in a sport where being able to explode in that motion is important. Such as, of course, football. But if your goal is a good physique, which is what should be the goal for all of these actors who have to get ripped to show off on screen, your time and energy would be better spent on other movements.

@@brycebaird8613 yeah the intensity is pretty shitty in most videos. since I started with the sleds I also would say my muscle grow, but maybe its because the strength from sleds translate to a bigger stimulus plus Im less fatigued (bc of the eccentric only sleds) and balancing out the fact that sleds have a low muscle grow stimulus compared to other exercises. man I wish I would have a Dr. Mike AI I can ask all the questions I want^^

Yes, but is Jake Gyllenhaal a rock climber?

but Point Break, not Road House, was the rock climbing movie

​@@DonkeyPopsicleI thought that was the surfers that robbed banks movie

@@usurper1991 right, I must be thinking of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

​@@lecobra418is he a body builder?

He’d love Jelqing then

ignore this fake dr mike whos not even a real doctor he talks nonsense for views

address what lmao. imagine being antiscience.

They are a game changer - especially if you are prone to getting elbow tendonitis.

He talks about specificity in the video. Given the actor had a hypertrophy phase, critiquing the routine with the criteria of hypertrophy is relevant. You may have been asleep while watching the video yourself.

Dr. Mike's a stud.....perfect fusion of both worlds. Geek Science - Bro Science. Gotta luv the dude. Love & Respect_________mykey from toronto

That’s what she said