That was cool to see the differences, bodybuilding really is like body hacking, basically doing things so slow and inefficient to make the body have to work harder and employ more motor units, and the impact is being visually appealing, but it is more like “slow work”, once things get quick or agile, all of that goes out the window…I really like to be more agile and when needed quick, so I don’t go crazy on heavy squats, I want my legs to be the most athletic part of my body, and as long as they’re not super small, no one cares about leg size but on a stage
I want be an overall good athlete, I do hypertophy, strength and explosive training to overall become a better athlete. I do football, kick-boxing and wrestling so I have exercises which mainly improve those things, I’m tryna gain a bit of size strength speed punching and kicking power and overall become more explosive. I do my cardio when I practice for my sports in training so my stamina is good too. I will change certain things as time goes on but for now this is working for me as a hybrid athlete
I started hybrid training somewhat. I lift 4 days a week only doing compounds. And I run probably 4-6 times a week with 1 or 2 of those run sessions being long runs. My current goals are to join the 1000 club, and run sub 21 in the 5k and sub 3:40 for a marathon.
Solid. My own training goals are similar. I’m naturally more on the endurance side so that comes easy and is enjoyable and I need to work quite a bit harder to keep up the strength side of things.
I'm mostly just trying to lose fat and improve body composition, but I'd consider myself more of an athlete than a bodybuilder. Lately I've been focusing mostly on running, elliptical cardio and core work, with a full body weight training session once a week. That's really for strength maintenance though, as I'm on a 500 to 700 calorie deficit each day.
Actually, many bodybuilders don't even have specific ab exercises in their program. They often have great abs through a combination of indirect hypertrophy training and the right diet.
Great video, im training for rugby at the moment, what would you recommend my week look like, i need to gain some size and bulk up but also want to be mobile and gain power, strength and speed
May i ask you something if you happen to know it?.. I have a very weird "bodybuilding" journey and is difficult for me to explain it in details but the point is that I have some hypertrophy on my muscles since they have a decent size but they look and feel flabby...My abs are shown so I don't think I'm that high in bodyfat Do you believe that it might be genetics, stunt growth on my muscles or I don't train right? Thanks in advance! PS i used to train extremely hard but not smart in my adolescence and I wasn't eating a lot...Thus they hypothesis for the stunt in growth
I just subbed because you had good puns. You also had great content but the puns kept me. I know you have a guide we can download but how can you write one guide that will work for everyone? Don't you need to interview the client and ask what their goals are? Tailor it to their starting size/weight? I love to see people in the gym, if anything they are moving and not sitting on the couch, but I see them day after day and I wonder in my head, what are they trying to accomplish? Be an athlete? A bodybuilder? Cool either way but their nutrition game has to be spot on or (IMHO), it they will have a long way to go to see results.
The guide has a blank program template and some general advice for getting started. It’s more of a general tool than it is a specific program for anyone.
Hi! New here, love the info and I train for both bodybuilding and also love the Olympic lifts perfecting in the snatch and c/j. What type of split day would you recommend for optimal performance?
Personally I would do fairly low volume Olympic lifts frequently. Such as 4x per week for the first 15-20 minutes of your workout rather than doing 1-2 oly lifting only sessions. Higher frequency typically allows for better motor learning
I do one week of hypertrophy training followed by a week of strength training, where I do heavy loads and plyometrics. I also do some 20 mins of boxing after all workouts. What do you think of this technique?
How about a 66 year old sprinter athlete who has maxed out in strength for a given weight and body fat, with concurrent sport conditioning? Gaining more strength at this point after 50 years of weight training will be fleeting. Would you say this athlete should do a block of hypertrophy training before the next strength training block to coax the aged body into gaining a bit more muscle mass to increase eventual strength potential?
Does this count as hybrid training? My goals this year are to run a 5k under 20min and dunk a basketball with 2 hands. My training is 6 days a week. 3 days of lower body and 3 days upper body. On lower body days I start my morning with some collagen then 5k speed work training (takes about 20-30min). Then at least 6hrs later, usually in the evening, i take collagen again and do mainly plyos, tendon work, and a couple strength and hyptpertrophy exercises. Upper body days are more strength/hypertrophy based. 1 vertical push, 1 vertical pull, 1 horizontal push, and 1 pull exercise. a core exercises and maybe an arm and shoulder isolation. all taken to failure with dropsets. I've been doing this since December and so far ALL the reps i can do for upper body exercises have all gone up. I'm training at faster speeds now for my 5k while my jump height is still around the same.
I'm currently training hypertrophy for athleticism, I used to train chest 14 sets per week for bodybuilding, now should I drop it to 8 sets per week and give more energy to conditioning? If so will that mean I cannot progress my bench strength?
