He used to put out decent content. Now it’s all partial content made to drive traffic to patreon. That’s fine if that’s your business model, but he can’t shut up about it if people don’t and he seems genuinely butt hurt that more people don’t know about him and all his “massive” world records. I think he’s probably frustrated that powerlifting has gotten extremely popular after his prime and people don’t talk about him like they do Coan or even John Haack.
That being said, I do hope for his success. He’s clearly smart and I do think he has great ideas, it’s just his conceitedness makes him hard to watch and turns people off. I hope he can recognize it at some point.
He’s right, personalised content deserves your money and if you won’t spend 5 bucks a month for advice then you aren’t really taking his time seriously. Dave is asking you to buy bands and prowlers too 😉
@@Xplora213 that’s not the issue. It’s that he wants to be a media personality, but seems to love slamming people as being lazy, dumb, or not willing to at least buy his content. Is you open yourself up to the public In this way, one must expect negative feedback when one’s attitude sucks. He’d be a lot more popular and have more of the notoriety he clearly seeks if he could manage this better. -Which I hope he does. He produces excellent context
On the knees, I feel like it's more an issue of finding what's most beat up on your body and spreading the load around. For me sitting back and low bar beats up my hips more, whereas high bar, upright, knees forward feels fine on my knees and great on my hips. If knees start getting achy I'd switch more to low bar, hips back, more angled torso
To be fair, guys in the 60s, 70s & 80s HAD to grind through the pain, and had to train without periodisation, and so would get injured. Why? Because, in order to make enough money to be in strength sports full time, they had to go to every single competition, to pick up a cheque. Now, you can back off, miss events, pick events, and take it easy now and again, because you're selling protein, wrist wraps, programs, etc
Man I've tried everything. I got by far the best results training like Mentzer. Super low rep high intensity with 100% strict form on everything. Zero allowance for any flaws in the form. Changing to that method numbers went way up injuries went way down.
its one of the more popular ways to train these days, not exactly like mentzer, more like dorian yates or these days its the brits doing it like jordan peters, hollingshead, RIP luke sandoe
100% I’ve been lifting for like 6 years and hit a plateau after lifting 7 days a week with around 7 or 8 exercises and 3 or 4 working sets and now I’m getting stronger and bigger in just the couple months since I started incorporating Mentzer’s HIT. Do what is necessary to achieve progress and no more. More is not necessarily better, only optimal is best.
People just won’t accept ‘more out of less’ they’re ignorant even when seasoned people are telling them. Sure quicker gratification mabi but also quicker injuries it will happen everytime-your muscles are gonna way outpace your joints and tendons
@@ayalave75 Dude I agree with you. While Matt put so many efforts on generating not only his patreon content but also tons of free content on RU-vid, all those haters gonna keep doing is mocking on Matt for encouraging people to buy his exclusive content. It is just so pathetic for those guys.
@@liftbig03 if it wasnt for people like tate and wenning still pushing westside after parting ways with them there is no way westside would be as popular. sorry but thats just how it is. they sure as heck arent making their money from powerlifting bcuz lifting heavy aint paying jack s*** especially these days when u are not even lifting raw or at most with knee wraps
I liked what Matt said and theres so much truth in it.."Study twice as much as you lift" ..Yes it's difficult trying to understand bands as an older lifter trying to come back cause they weren't popular then as powerlifting USA was our only source as there were no Internet then..Im having fun now trying them anyway
Patreon channel..., I finally pulled the trigger (wife's approval 🤷🏿♂️🤦🏾♂️😁) and signed up for Wenning Strength and started implementing training ideas (reps, technique, days, etc...) has been really helpful already.... Worth the $25/month!!!!!!!!
Some really great points. A few keys that are rarely mentioned. Rest enough - program effectively - eat well - avoid overtraining - train hard, but not so hard that you can’t recover. Matt is incorrect about sitting back on squat. Maybe for suited lifted. Finally, every person is unique. Most of these guys were, or even are on PEDS. That completely changes the game.
Matt Wenning talking about more out of less is so true in terms of steroids. I see some doing a gram of test, tren, and other shit, and 100mg of orals and aren't even competing. I'm like what the fuck dude, I want to be healthy, even if I'm blasting test, the most I'll ever go is 500mg, and honestly 300-350mg is more than enough, and then I'll come off it to about 100mg to cruise, and I generally run masteron on top of it at the same dose to counteract e2 side effects, if I do orals I generally only take like 20mg pre workout and then I'll back off of it and quit for a few weeks before starting them again. We need to think about our health when doing this stuff.
I guess your balls are non-existent and you are sterile. Get off all the drugs and see what happens. You have completely screwed your endocrine system. Now you are dependent on drugs the rest of your life.
Sorry, but isn't the "knees can't go over toes when squatting" an antiquated thought by like 20 years? Is there any real evidence that this is dangerous?
@@rl00668 Is there any evidence to suggest that is true? Not as far as I know. The same could be said of any joint, and then every lift would be dangerous. Also, every single person who trains Olympic lifting would get injured at alarming rates, and that doesn't happen as far as I know.
@@Snap_Crackle_Pop_Grock it would be a very difficult thing to study in a trial. I think matt is speaking from his own experience training and interacting with other powerlifers. The main point is to introduce variability in the training, which makes sense as an advanced lifter
I think it’s a “what can your body handle at 1000 pounds” situation… let’s be fair, Knees drifting over the toes is not a 1000 pound squatter conversation.
