I am absolutely flabbergasted at the level of performance you’re able to maintain, despite your frequent and significant challenges. You truly embody the nature of strength, thank you for all that you do Brian.
Been out of the gym for a few weeks because of chemo treatments. Can’t wait to be able to lift again. Probably will try a little something this week. Just to move will be a dream at this point. Good motivation vid!!💪
You're the GOAT man I'm struggling with a lot of health issues and keep feeling sorry for myself. Trying to be more positive and do what I can. Appreciate your outlook and determination
@@Dementia.Pugilistica I definitely don’t feel like a GOAT. This all came out of nowhere. There are moments I get very depressed. I lost my mom 2 years ago. She would be PISSED if I gave up! lol! That makes me push. The gym has always been a place where I focus & put the bad stuff aside. I’m going to be limited when I go but I can’t wait to just feel normal again. Never lose hope!
Probably a huge farmers walk PR, helps with fighting BJJ, builds crazy cardio, when trained for prolonged times, is simple and just a crazy mental fight aswell
Glad to see you're getting better! As for my holiday PR, I'm working toward a rep PR on weighted neutral grip pull ups with a 24 kg kettlebell hanging from the belt. Last I tested my best was 6, and I want to make it 10. I'm doing different pull up variations every time I train, going heavy 1x/week. Retesting in January.
For a good bit of my training I avoided squats(they’re hard and intense) so my squat has always been a weak lift for me. If I could have a pr granted to me it would be a 315lb squat. I’m at 225 right now and I feel I’ll get 315 soon because I’m well built for the squat.
I'd love a video on your attitude surrounding dealing with/balancing health issues and training and helpful tips you've found, exercise variations to get around injuries, etc. Been having a sifnicantly difficult time with this. I haven't been able to train properly in over 2 years, and at this rate, I'm wondering if I have PR'd for the last time in my early 30's. I'm doing everything I can to fix these issues, but it seems like I'm waging a losing battle, and I'm very discouraged. Some perspective and pragmatic advice would be extremely helpful, and I am certain I am not the only one. Appreciate you always Brian. Been watching you for probably a decade by now... whenever you started making your first videos.
Good luck! I’d say to just stay consistent and maybe go for a higher rep max at first I.e. a 10 rep max then, 8 rep, 5, 3, 2, then finally go for the 1 RM as your strength returns.
Glad to see you are progressing quickly and impressively. Teddy Ruxpin brings back awesome childhood memories of Christmas morning. Man getting old. PR would be OHP with 275lbs.
I'm on the 3rd week of your Conjugate program, and you prescribed kettlebell/dumbbell uppercuts on one of the days (which I did this morning). Now I know I definitely did them wrong. I was literally doing an uppercut motion with my dumbbell. Oh well. Now I know.
Still watching, and congrats on coming back from the rotator cuff/bicep tendon! I have a very similar shindig going on now that I'm trying to figure out... keeps getting aggravated in squat (no happy place to grip to abate the pain), I can feel it even on deadlift, and def gives me issues on bench n OHP (moreso bench than OHP) I'm thinking it's shoulder impingement since it can be so sharp at times, but it feels like the pain is directly located under the junction where the clavical/acromium, etc all comes in to meet... I've also gotta learn how to better acclimate to training for longevity, I'm getting close to 585 on the deadlift so that'd be my PR I look forward to next (have the latest video getting stuck just above the knee), thought I would've had it now but 3 times in the past 2 months I've strained my left hamstring, followed by straining the left bicep in some rows... I can't seem to win lmao :P I'm at the age where I've really gotta just take a few steps back and re-examine things, but it's tough because I'll have days where things feel good/solid so I push and then something just decides to not be happy and it's always without warning too... Only happens if a rep becomes grindy though. The reason I keep pushing though is I also have fibromyalgia and arthritis, so when I first got back into exercise many years back I had to fight through a lot of physical pain just from chronic pain, so too much time off or taking things too easy works in reverse for me. Anywho, always greatly motivating to see you getting after things and it fuels my own fire as well, so thank you for that!
Those KB presses always light up my rotator cuffs! As far as PRs go, i got up to 160kgs in a squat and then tore my meniscus playing rugby. Back at it now and just building the strength back up, the legs seem to take a whole to get back compared to upper body
At my first strongman comp, I won the sandbag medley, 150, 185, 200, 225, but I JUST missed getting that 225 on my shoulder. Santa needs to bring me that PR.
Question of the day: I want a 500 lbs squat. In one of your old videos you said to build big legs do what you can to squat 500 lbs and then do it 20 times!
Hey B, got a couple book recommendations? Anything and everything. Seeing as you have quite the collection, I’m looking to improve the mental PRs as well.
Bodyweight strict press, preferably with a little in the tank. Maybe not enough that I think I could have done it for a double, but I'd like it to not be an RPE15 grind fest.
Hey Brian.Was your bicep tear a tendon at the elbow?Did you get surgery?I tore mine deadlifting about a month back (but not off the bone).How did you recover?..Thanks
