@@kman9884This dude dominates almost everything he tries, I wouldn’t count him out he’s quite the impressive specimen. Also he’s very good at tumbling, and for someone his size to do American ninja warrior shows his flexibility within his own skill.
I like these videos because it's a bunch of very diversely healthy and mobile people who dont intimidate me but also dont talk down to me. Very comfortable exercise enthusiasts
That dude is the only jacked dude who seems to give good fitness advice. All the other ones have no idea what they're talking about, they're genetically blessed and refuse to acknowledge it. Or more often just use steroids, so they actually have no idea what works since they shortcut a lot of the processes. Best fitness advice on youtube is Squat University though, 100%
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Two different people, with the point being that you can be big or you can be skinny but regardless, flexibility is both important and attainable. But yeah the cuts are really clean.
@@thequickwit8174 while that is true, people can root for their mans. Kinda like when your local kid who makes good does something, you give them 200% weather they deserve it or not.
@@mitchellsmith746 100% it's a full-time job maintaining that body, between workout regimen, dietary requirements and supplements & substance usage hes gotta be putting in nearly as much cash as he's getting out.
Some of the best ones are, because the optimal way to build muscle is train the fullest possible range of motion; essentially, lifting weights going through super deep stretch positions
Yeah, flexible body builders should be the norm tbh... An inflexible muscle is a problem for so many reasons 😂 maybe not this flexible because I'm sure they don't have a background in tricking and gymnastics and everything else that juji did before he got into body building... 😅 But still. Lol.
I love that Juji started this collab at this point in time. Especially after his emotional video about him being concerned about his body now vs his body when he did backflips and stuff.
Thank you! Some RU-vid goober on another video got on my case because I said I use the time between sets to stretch. They said I would "lose power." Ain't no power when you're injured from not stretching.
I like to do three sets of stretches with my sessions: First set is static to high intensity; around 90% of the way to 'pain'. Usually with zero load or even pulling myself deeper. Second set is active to moderate intensity, around 50% of the way between "Just feeling a stretch" and "Painful". I actively support my body weight for these, usually bouncing just above and below where I'm trying to hold. The last is a weighted stretch (progressively overloaded just like you would for weight training) to "just barely feeling a stretch". From what I've experienced going through PT, you can stretch all you want but if you don't build the strength in those muscles, your neuro systems won't permanently let you access that range, and you'll just wind up as tight as you were before. Adding the active and weighted stretches increased the rate of flexiblity gains like crazy.
I can do that with my shoulders as well, I'm naturally hypermobile, but I've always wondered what it actually does to your shoulders and I get freaked out that it somehow twists your tendons, nerves, veins, everything 😅😂 When I do it it also makes an awful popping noise, as well as giving me a shocking pins and needles feeling, almost like an electric shock, all down my arms from right inside my armpit lol.. Even his jumping thing where he grabs the bar backwards and then hangs freaks me out, I'm sure it must be really bad for your shoulders 😅 I'd love an expert to chime I though, because I've always wondered!
@victorialefley9439 not a physician, but I know that a ball-in-socket joint like the shoulder is built for rotating motions like this. I also did gymnastics for many years. I did this exact movement thousands of times (it's extremely common on the high bar), and my shoulders are in great shape 15 years after retirement. As far as I know, my teammates never had issues with their shoulders from doing this. However, we were trained from a young age and trained shoulder flexibility and shoulder strength gradually at the same time. If your soft tissue isn't prepared for it (untrained), I could easily see this resulting in an injury. The fact that you're experiencing nerve pain is not good though, so I'd stop doing it if I were you.
Training intensity/proximity to failure is the most important factor of building muscle, but not doing anything is wasting your potential. First number is intensity, second is volume 999x1=999 900x3=2700 Mike Mentzer has left the chat
After seeing these transitions… you’re going to have a hard time convincing me you’re not related to juji. Much needed collab. Flexibility is one of those things I need to add to my arsenal. I’ve bulked to as high as about 320 with abs and the first time around I struggled to put my own socks on. Takes a bit to get used to the extra weight. It was a solid reality check to start stretching
Juji is the perfect dude. He's kind, funny, happy, absolutely fucking shredded, but has probably done it in the most true to natural way. He never neglects any part of his body and is easily the most flexible powerlifter I've seen. Great crossover
Wdym with "true to natural"? There is nothing natural about bodybuilding. There is nothing natural about not "neglecting" parts of your body. In nature only the muscles that you actually need grow larger. That's why we have to lift in the first place.
Stretching (I practice yoga) has been the best thing I have incorporated in my life. After a craniotomy/stroke at 27yrs old it helped me get my life back to walk again, to skip, to run, to have my balance, to dance and play with my children. Now 8 years later, it is keeping me healthy, helping me gain muscle, keeping me young and takes away daily body pain. These are just the physical side effects and benefits, there are so much more! Thank you for sharing this, stretching properly saved my life
My problem with stretching is that I have hurt both of my shoulders and a knee pretty badly and I don't know the amount of discomfort that I should tolerate without injury.
Juji at one point was backflipping while holding a barbell, I think it was loaded to 135, but I could be mistaken, it's been quite a few years since I've watched the video.
as someone who has a disorder that makes my joints (especially my shoulders) get dislocated easily, that little spin thing on the pull-up bar makes me CRINGE 😭😭
What makes this point even more potent is that applying some load to muscles between stretches increases flexibility faster just the same that stretching a bit between weight sets helps build muscles faster.
