Neural Drive & Why You're Not Ed Coan Explained by Stuart McGill 

If you have Stu on a 100 times in a row I would listen a 100 times in a row.

I listened to the whole podcast, it was a good one. So many people neglect their back until it hurts, and then it's debilitating.

There are levels to knowledge and Stuart is proof.

To better understand this topic, particularly his comment about trying to make his arm wrestling competitor break his neural drive by smiling, you MUST read the 1998 essay by Doug McGuff, MD, called, "Stoicism in Training" .

"You need to be at the verge of being able to commit murder." Exactly.

Great video. So enlightening and informative!

Full episode please, this is so good 👍

Wow this is great info! Thanks for posting!

I could listen to him and take notes for hours.

I am so glad they got Dr. Mcgill on. I have been a fan of his work since my undergrad biomechanics courses.

Excellent info!!

Absolutely fantastic!

man, i could listen to stu all day

Fascinating information

This is a great talk!

"Densification of neural drive" "sufficient stiffness" - he charges per syllable and alliteration

Great video

This is Gold , love you Stu

This is amazing information

That was excellent.

Concerning the strongman example. It's obvious that when strength is exhausted the form breaks down and the weight would skew to the stronger side.

Likes and views should be closer in numbers👍

John Haak is gonna soon become the G.O.A.T. IMHO

Eddie hall did same thing in his 500kg dl

I know what he is talking about and he's right!

george leeman talked about this too

Reminds me of Kai Greene's "rage" speech.

I see the bo jackson card on the mic :)

Did anyone notice how Mr. "Lift through it" (Blue T shirt) actually raises his chin and eyes and thinks of his "Dark place" when Stuart McGill mentions the importance of a "Dark Place" for world champion lifters. That was his "Aha!!!!" moment....mine too... What about the others? My question is whether we should also train with unequal weights on the bar to "Catch" the bar and get it back on track in case we get unstable.......Say starting with 45lbs on one side and a 45lb +10lb on one side in order to train for the instability.....do 2 "instability training sets" with the greater weight first on the left side and then the right side on the next set.....doing 2 sets per weight jump. After all, we are creating "CONTROLLED trouble" ( which is known as Eustress and is different from distress which is OUT OF CONTROL TROUBLE INFLICTED BY EXTERNAL FORCES) for the muscle and mind during our training".....so that our mind and muscle adapts to that training PROVIDED we rest and recover. I have one request to make. You made fun of the movie, Commando, Rocky etc. "Log carrying scene, training scene etc etc". These movies and those two dudes pretty much siglehandedly promoted weight training all over the world. Whatever it was, those are the movie that started it. Thats the reason you have an audience. It will be nice if you can give them their due due respect. Of course, Mark Bell has done a lot to make powerlifting look more friendly by giving us an "Insider" look. Kudos to the great Mark Bell too. My humble gyan. Any feedback either for or against and everything in between the two extremes is most welcome. Plz DO feel free to contradict me.Stay happy everyone. God Bless. Insha Allah. Joy Ma Durga....Durgotinashini. Joy Ma Kali. Joy Baba Taraknath. Om Namah Shivay.

I've always been a lot stronger than my physique would suggest, and it definitely seems to stem from my ability to become a purple faced rage machine.

it is not close to committing murder, it.is close to break oneself

How well documented are those "mom-lifting-a-car" situations really though?

Surprised to see former Australian spin bowler on the show

Great stuff! Poor Brandon Lilly man, he’s screwed then

How about the west side boys?

Yes!!!!!!

Is there a book on this?

Hey RU-vid why am I getting spanish commercials, I think it's for the wrong country or settings.

he is talking about "world´s strongest man 2017". You showed the wrong exercise and the wrong date lol

Burn the nerves 🤘💀🤘

I got a nice pump just from listening to this

4:15 Nsima goes to his dark place...

IT MUST BE COLD IN THE STUDIO - THESE GUYS ARE WEARING WOOLY HATS

Dr. McGill should checkout Dr. McGill's podcast so he can learn how to go to that deep dark place so he can become Ed Coan. He just doesn't want it enough. Too fight and flighty.

Stu has some big old hands

Yeah, Ed Coan is nothing like a mom pulling a van off a child lmao

So, that's the secret...always be angry...Bruce Banner was right.

his books are good, but this dark place murder bs is just stupid

Ed Coan's form was sloppy. A lot like Coleman. This guy doesn't know what it takes to be Ed Coan.....or he'd be Ed Coan.

he was able to do this lifting due to large amounts of steroids.. if not nobody would even know his name. wake up.

Bodybuilders....have no idea about the dark places that strength athletes go to to achieve the state dr. McGill. Is speaking about.......