Starting to suspect Scott is being held against his will, & they only take his ball gag out when it's time to record. We need video proof that he has bodily autonomy.
I trained several NBA players over the years with a somewhat bodybuilding style program with a strength building focus, and their performance on the court increased dramatically as a result. The exercise selection and their effort level and consistency were all great though, which definitely played a big role in their success as well. 💪
Have to say this since he mentioned it. Prehab is NOT to prevent injury, it's to reduce rehab time following a medical procedure. So somebody with an existing issue strengthing/conditioning, under supervision, before a procedure. Yes, I am a physical therapist.
I think a big thing tho is, most sports don't really require weight training, it requires more cardio and sport specific skills. Let's say soccer for instance, pure strength isn't that important, basketball doesn't require a ton of strength. Weightlifting is a high risk high reward for strength/estetics because even if we all agree it's not great, we all ego lift for the soul :) (=more risk for injury). The truth is that a lot of sports and life doesn't really require strength, stamina and technique is way more relevant for most sports
many sports doesn’t require pure strength doesn’t mean strength isn’t important. Many world class soccer players doing strength training and at least for strikers , when you shoot from a distance that requires so much strength
@@yumry2999 that doesn't really require crazy amount of strength, for most sports, the strength you gain by just playing the sport is good enaugh. Ofc strength training helps, but it's just not as important as actually learning the sport in itself, and in most sports, the stamina.
@@exclamaforte never put in question, it can be, it doesn't need to be. Also, for most exercises you have alternative that are easily good enaugh, for the upper body, climbing is good enaugh for every sport tbh as a calisthenics exercise, for legs actually playing a game is leg training, rapid changes of movement are actually quite heavy on your legs and could be considered calisthenics. Like I said, you can for sure go for the weights, not a question, but most people prefere more fun alternatives (e.g. some activity)
I ran cross country and track at the D1 level and I can say that fatigue from our main practice was the main thing preventing good efforts in the weight room. It's hard running 90+ mi/week, racing every weekend, AND weight train. Weight training was VERY secondary to our main run.
@@gvngbvngiggy I never competed in track, but wouldn't it make the most sense to prioritize lifting, strength and general conditioning work in the off season and just phasing over to more sport specific stuff as the season starts approaching and during it? Seems pretty common sense to me, the body can only recover from so much work and it can be detrimental to try to train too many different energy systems, modalities, etc.
Hard to compare cross country to other more explosive sports like sprinting, basketball or football. Vastly different training styles for distance sports
@@oglocbaby520As someone who was also a D1 cross country and track athlete, but also had offers to play baseball. No. You wanna get good at running. You go run. You wanna get good at hitting a baseball go work on your swing. Weight lifting is almost completely useless in distance running. Baseball it helps for sure, helps a lot more to be able to hit a 95mph fastball and then be able to hit a curve.
@@bosox1640 I'm not really sure if I fully agree with your statement, there. Virtually all high level athletes are doing some form of strength training at some point in their training year. Athletes that aren't doing this are honestly doing something wrong. Any type of explosive or power based athlete will obviously be doing a lot of lifting, this could be sprinting, American football, Rugby, throwing events, etc. Even in something like wrestling, boxing or MMA you'd find they are doing a lot of this same stuff in addition to a lot of conditioning work. An endurance runner for instance would benefit by incorporating strength work for the lower body in particular. Have them throw in some sled pulls and stuff for their legs and hips that are easy to recover from and tell me that doesn't help them. Stronger legs would help with running up hills for instance. I'm not saying you'd put these guys on a bodybuilding split or some powerlifting routine, but I just cannot see why any serious athlete would not incorporate lifting/strength work.
I believe another big issue is the colleges. I have my masters in exercise science and it's shocking what some of my professors taught or didn't even know. One of the most shocking examples was a senior level class covering fitness assessment, the professor pulled me aside to ask how much a barbell weighs. The same program had another senior level class covering exercise prescription and never one mentioned periodization. It was a smaller school over 10k student population, but the exercise science major was the biggest major in the school.
@@ayahuascadog2346Well that's because rich people are fat as shit, not because conspiracy theorists are sitting around fact checking what small-college PE professors are saying in lectures
Hi Dr.Mike, I am one of your few female audience members. Can you please make a video explaining how women can train optimally in reference to their menstrual cycles. I see a lot of conflicting advice on whether I should adapt my training according to my cycle or just power through it. I am also curious to know just HOW much does a woman's cycle actually effect their performance? I trust your videos because they are rooted in research! I know that your demographic is mostly young men, so it would be asking a lot.
Figure out what days you are stronger and can recover better, and then your more intense training sessions around that. On days where you are weaker, etc then you can plan on doing more volume or frequency to make up for lack of intensity or recovery, respectively
One upside though up menstration is that it’s a sure for way to tell if you went too hard. Miss it and you went too hard or your pregnant. . (Men have a similar thing, missing the tall morning snake)
The other thing you didn't mention is the selection bias towards higher profile (more skill based) sports and positions. They don't do these profiles on the 275 lb middle linebacker that has to be crazy strong and fast. It's always a quarterback whose major assets are decision making, height, and the ability to impart spin on a ball.
Lebron was one of the strongest, most explosive basketball players ever. It’s sorta one of his things (I bring him up because he was the first highlighted athlete). But even a QB needs incredible strength and stability, cause a couple times a season the linebacker is going to blitz uncovered and hit him in the chest or hips at full speed. The best ability is availability and all that.
Even some of these players that are more dependent on their athleticism often have subpar training. But they’re also genetic phenoms so they get away with it. Selection bias towards elite athletes means you’ll find plenty of these cases.
@@Redacted_762 It's a damn shame that nobody has written a book with a hypertrophy program on the first page. If authors didn't love forwards, acknowledgements and dedications so much Lebron could've won 20 championships.
Emil Zátopek won triple gold, 5k, 10k and marathon in one instance of the Olympic games, doing weighted hill runs and holding his breath during parts of his practice runs, frequently fainting from it. 1952 was wild
Roger Neilson was an NHL coach from the late 70s through the early 2000s, but really made a name for himself in the 80s. He was the first coach to introduce the idea of organized *training in the off-season* to the Toronto Maple Leafs. We're talking right up 1977-1979, summer was just a time to drink beer and play golf in the pros. The 'trend is in decline' point is so on the money, we're so much better today than a few decades ago.
I'd wager the trend of training in the off season scaled pretty closely with how well athletes were paid. It wasn't until the 70's and 80's that players started making enough to not have to work second jobs and could focus solely on their sport.
Almost 20 years ago…I used to compete in powerlifting back in HS - I was ok, a state finalist. I had a good coach - a CSCS with relevant degrees. But looking back, periodization and deloads weren’t a part of the program. I can only imagine how much better I could have been if this information was available to me.
Maybe because their exercises are specific for their training and they shouldn’t be getting fatigued with bodybuilding before training their skills. Kinda obvious tbf
I'd love to see a video on optimal strength and hypertrophy for athletes. Like what muscles movements to prioritize (I have some guesses: knee flexion, hip adduction, hip flexion, ankle movements, triple extension) and good movements for them (nordic curls, dynamic adductor movements, cleans etc.)
I'm probably doing less in the gym then I could be so I'm not fatigued when I'm playing hockey. Earlier in the year I was doing a 4 day program in addition to hockey and kept running into walls. Figuring out proper fatigue management while doing a sport is hard and there's not much information out there and I don't think most PTs are qualified for it either.
I think the problem is that there is no optimal strength and hypertrophy for athletes as the optimal would change a lot depending on what sport you are an athlete in. A general optimal program for athletes would be a general strength program i guess. I am no expert and this is all just my assumptions.
You can tell Dr Mike and the RP Crew are doing NNN with how much content they're pushing out on an almost daily basis. Be strong, we're gonna make it! Only 16 more days to go!
I dont know why anyone would look at Tom Brady as a peak athletic specimen, has no one ever seen the guy run? Looks like a baby deer right after it was born lmao Dude doesn't get paid to be strong, fast, or agile. He gets paid to be a genius play maker, top tier leader, and one of the greatest clutch QBs to ever play. All Tom Brady has to do is trust the guys who DO get paid to be strong and fast to protect his ass while he throws the ball like a phenom. Anyone who thinks Tom Brady is a good person to watch in the weight room is either a beginner (no shame) or an idiot.
I know the main focus of the channel is on muscle growth, but I'd love to Mike's thoughts on performance training for Iron Man and endurance athletes. I'm finding it tough to push hard in the gym (especially legs) when I have to run / cycle / swim all the time. I'm just an average guy, not an elite athlete though, so maybe I'm just not conditioned to do it both.
I'm finding it difficult to find an endurance channel that is as good as RP in explaining concepts so you can program your own, so I would also enjoy this kind of content.
Dr. Mike talked about this sort of thing in "Lifting vs. Cardio," where he discusses the extent to which hypertrophy training and various cardio/endurance activities can interfere with one another, as well as how to manage it.
You can’t go equally hard on everything. You have to take a phasic approach to your training: skills training, strength training, hypertrophy training, and endurance training. Pick what to prioritize while focusing on maintaining the rest.
Lift in the strength rep range full range of motion (use the technique that Dr. mike describes) Typically the simple compounds are best. Dumbell incline chest press and squats and pull ups. Keep it really simple if you are a triathlete, and the volume of strength training super low. Once a week.
You should do a review of Olympic or ultra endurance swimmer strength workouts. In the last 15 years, the attitude has changed drastically from swimming more miles (swimming is pretty famous for overtraining) to focusing on building strength in the gym, and it's having a hugely positive impact. The Olympics is going to be wild this year with all the records that are about to be broken.
You're AGAINST training and gaining knowledge of the most important muscle in your body? Man, you couldn't have looked dumber even if you tried.@@i.c.wiener2750
Lowest number of records set in these Olympics since 1996. Probably too small a sample size to detect the effect of weight training. Genetics, nutrition, technique, training schedule, and competitive hunger add too much noise to that particular signal.
@@rogacz25 that's mostly because of how hard it is becoming to actually break records for humans. However, we've seen the likes of Marchand, McIntosh, ledeckey and some other swimmers break records. So he was kinda right.
What a rare pleasure it is to watch an expert in a field and be imminently entertained at the same time. Absorb knowledge, laugh hard - both at the same time? Genius! Thanks Dr. Mike!
pro athletes suck at lifting weights because they're specifically good at the sport they excell at. ...and that's it. They don't know shit about weight lifting. Just like a pro basketball player would suck at boxing. Baseball, football, etc. Even a kick boxer gets effed up by all boxers when they JUST spar in boxing
Like linebacker, needs explosive power, short distance speed, strong pushing and shoving abilities.... quarterback, decent conditioning, arm strength to throw the ball a lot, like why do they need to put on more muscle? they don't...
They need to have Muscle to handle Contact and have the Durability but they dont need to Have ton of muscle and be huge Some quarterbacks choose to want to get more bulky and stronger
NFL linemen…. We have this genetic filtering process in this country where just about every high school male gets exposed to some football coach and kicked up the chain until eventually we’re left with 1700 of the most explosive mutants in this country. The biggest of these mutants is now trained optimally for strength and these 300lb plus motherfuckers can nail a mid 5s 40 yielding something that hits roughly as hard as a truck. And we wonder why CTE is a problem and why we don’t have a decent Olympic weight lifting team.
All of the F1 athletes are now so much leaner than before, and it's all about weight distribution in the car. All of them hit the minimum weight but the smaller you are the more they can re-arrange ballast in the car. It's gotten kind of unhealthy, Estaban ocon is ridiculously thin for his height, you can see that Danny Ricciardo looks more gaunt than in his RedBull days. You'd think the ideal racing driver is a short stocky guy, but they all look like Tour de France cyclists now.
BRING. BACK. DIRIGIBLES. The doc has good taste. Rule of cool says bring back the floating monstrosities to gently bob through the clouds... Peaceful... What was the video about again?
It's because the athlete's main focus is the sport itself. If they have DOMS for 4 days and it affects their sport focused sessions, that to them is a backwards step. Especially true for cycling. If a cyclist can't hit the required power numbers for subsequent workouts all because they have DOMS, they're naturally going to shy away from leg day....As I'm writing this, I just heard 'fatigue conservation'
Absolutely. Mike just believes that the net benefit of the athlete workouts he’s reviewed on his channel could be a lot better for their specific sport without added fatigue.
There are also sports that are generally very good at strength training e.g. Rugby Union, check out 'Tuilagi brothers'. But all modern day Pro rugby players have a high level of strength training (even players from a past era e.g. Andrew Sheridan had olympic level powerlifting numbers). Rugby League was ahead of Rugby Union mainly because they went professional first. Obviously NFL is another example.
Athletes are often focused on speed and agility as much as strength. I'm sure there is room for improvement with athlete's weight training, but seems like big assumption here that the workouts for hypertrophy and power lifting will improve (or at least don't hurt) the speed and agility which are so critical for success. My acedotal experience is that big weight training rarely correlates to athletic huge improvement in basketball, soccer, etc.
The computer analogy is something appropriate to Dr Mike's political view (with all due respect) wtf do people come to Dr Mike's Insta to argue his bad political takes for 🤷🏾
I played D1 at 155 pounds. SEC. I also won state weightlifting meet twice (bench press, 40 yard dash, vertical, Brad jump, squat) and came in third national at the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic (clean and jerk / snatch) We did NOT train like what I see from pro athlete. We trained hard AF and I legit had times in which I cried at 5 AM… During the first three years, we had a HIGH level strength coach who eventually became a head NFL strength and conditioning coach. He knew his stuff. Every day sucked. And in improved significantly During my senior year, we got a new coach. Workouts were not the same. He was a “yes man”. And let people do what they wanted. He wasn’t hard nose enough. You could see it on the field as well. Our guys were just smaller and slower. . He was fired two years later. I think that becoming a pro changes things. Some workouts are not mandatory like they are in college. It’s all up to you. Most people don’t want to train. Same as athletes. We just have to in order to get an advantage. But once you become a pro, have money, and get a personal trainer, that trainer can become a “yes man”.
5:15 "The game levels up" Not true: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FtEQxqVgP04.html The NBA can adjust regulations to make offensive play easier, inflating points stats.
I have player experience with the NCAA and NBA. I can tell that basketball is not so much about strength but agility, mobility, and certain movements, and this is how LeBron trains. Jump rope, push-ups, and a lot of band exercises. This sort of thing. 80 % of the training is basketball-specific, such as jump shots, dribbling, free throws, left shoulder, 3-point, up & under, etc. It usually ends with mobility. We once met a Chinese Olympic weightlifter who was able to jump higher than us because jumping is apparently part of the Chinese weightlifting exercises, which honestly shocked me... So, yeah. There is room for improvement, for sure. It is also true that fatigue and injury risks are not just bullet points. It's a huge topic, not just in basketball.
It all circles back to periodization. There's a time and place for sport specific exercises and there's also a time and place for high intensity strength training.
I did track at the largest university in the country. I can tell you the reason we didn’t get the most out of our lifts was because of the fatigue factor damaging our ability to practice our event at 100%. Tough balancing act when your coach is breathing down your neck to perform in a “what have you done for me lately” culture
The Lebron stuff is so wild man. One of the greatest athletes of our generation and he's doing a.... Quarter side squat thing with a 20lb dumbbell? Like what? Especially compared to someone like Giannis whose weight training stuff is insane.
Because in baskeball you don't need a full ROM training for the vertical jump. A quarter squat in the only part of the ROM used for explosive movement, vertical jump and so on. It's a know fact, by the way.
Not a body builder but have been watching your videos and implementing the techniques for improved strength on the bike. The first six weeks performance was down but I stuck with it and I am setting power PRs and more competitive in races. Keep up the good work.
They suck at weight training bc they’re professional athletes, not professional weightlifters. It’s their job to be a pro on the field, not in the weight room.
Pro (and college) athletes suck at weight training because the discipline is different. I played football (American, including Division 1 college) for 6 years and there is NOTHING in the realm of serious weight training that would have benefitted me for that. I'm serious. When the pro recruiters come check you out at the Combines, they want to know how many reps you can bench with 225lbs. They don't care what your max is because you have to be able to perform for 30 minutes at max capacity and the average football player weighs around 225 - 250lbs. I think the records stand at around 50 or 60 reps. They want to know how fast you are and how agile you are. Weight training is the thing you did during the off-season when you had nothing else to do. RUNNING was more important. We had to do a drill known as the 'Suicide Drill'. You would stand at the goal line and sprint to the 5-yard line and then back. Each time the coach would add 5 yards until you hit the other goal line (100 yards each way). Then he would subtract 5 yards each time. When you were back at 5-yard sprints, that was one rep. That one rep was 2 miles. You were only allowed to rest as long as it took the last man to cross the line. So, you sprinted 2 miles with, MAYBE, a minute of rest time (total) in between sprints. You had to do that for 5 reps. 10 MILES!!!!!!!!! LOL And, if you were last, the coach would add a rep for you, not anybody else, just you. So, there were 5 guys who had to do 12 miles. And that's football. I've played with guys who weighed 320lbs and ran the 40-yard dash in under 5 seconds. Trust me, you do NOT want to get hit by a guy who weighs 320lbs and runs the 40 at 4.9 seconds. It's like getting hit by a truck. And the next time you watch a football game, check out the linemen. They get down in a 3-point stance and, literally, run that 4.9 second 40-yard dash (for at least 2-3 yards) without lifting their torso up one inch. That is an insane level of agility. Pro sports have NOTHING to do with building muscle. It's all about building things that have nothing to do with weight training whatsoever. Weight training is just something that helps, albeit slightly.
@@dani3438 True. But when I was playing football we had things we did on the field that served the same purpose. We had 'the sled' long before CrossFit athletes and gyms had it. It weighed, maybe, 200 lbs. and the coach would stand on it. So, say 400lbs, at least. And if you raised your torso more than a few inches you would have a headache for days. Not only that, the closer you are to the ground, the easier it is. So, if you grab the sled up high, it's going to be really heavy. If you grab it really low, it's going to be really light. That's why the football sled is shaped like the letter 'T' and linemen can move at full speed while they are crouched. We lifted, but we were WAY more concerned about things like speed and agility. Speed = explosive power on the football field because you're quite literally colliding with other people. And other sports are similar. There's really nothing in a bodybuilder's arsenal that would make a basketball player any better. They might look better, but they are not going to make more shots because they have oversized triceps because the power, and force behind the ball comes from the legs and the aim comes from practice.
Bro LeBron is in year 21 and one of the greatest athletes to ever grace this earth yet you nitpick a lot of the things he does in this video. How does this even make any sense?
That's why it's so hard to find people who are competent at S&C for fighting sports. You already have a couple bjj vids, but I think people would really appreciate it if also you do a couple of vids on strength and hypertrophy for MMA.
Can we define what is "hard" and "not hard" training in this context? Like I assume we don't expect the same intensity from middle of the season/towards playoffs in something like NFL or whatever, than we expect from off-season training or bodybuilder in their most intense phase. So what's our comparison line and context, what is the standard we expect? Are we talking about better effort but lighter training during that competing season's tight spot and that's what we call hard training, giving good effort depending on the context?
The fact these videos all get posted when I get on break for work is a godsend. Cant wait to use my hypertrophy app for some gains in a couple short hours😏
Mentally, I'm with you. Counting the seconds. Is the app the utopian image that I see in my mind when he is explaining it, or is not "too good to be true"? Im on the fence, but in the last few days, I've been considering getting it
LeBron was building muscle in the summer of 2011 to play in the NFL and was doing the weight training workouts u probably like…but it’s not up to u, he has been healthy and in great shape forever…and has longevity no other athlete has while being clean as well…he progressed naturally through the year and what he does has obviously helped him…his grade is a 10/10
Considering he's suffered like 50 Injuries since 2017, no he's not healthy. That's the point here. Yes moving heavy stuff around randomly more than once a month will make anybody slightly stronger, Dr Mike's point is that it could be done better with a lot of these guys. Better in a way that leads to less injuries and better performance. Everybody could improve in some way, there's not a single athlete in history that's doing it perfectly even at the top of their game
They're exerting a ton of energy to learn particular skills, so I don't blame them. What I do blame them for, is short-acting PEDs that clear out of their system before they get tested for it. And myself for falling in "natty or not" talks, they are all on steroids.
13:37 100% my gf was big runner and wanted to try weight lifting. She did go 4 times a week (upper/lower split) and she told me that running after a leg day is really hard and lifting after a running day is also hard. Generally she was always down, then she looked into periodization and now she does 2 Times full body and 2 running days. With each 1 day of. Seriously lifting weights and then training a cardio heavy sport is not easy
It's interesting that in the US, the pro athlete is in charge of their own strength and conditioning training. In Australia, the team employs coaches and outside of a couple of months in the offseason, players are essentially required to do the club's plan, which usually modulates load in the group as a whole, as well as each individual.
That was a weird part of the video. Teams have sizable and well paid physical training staffs. It really just is someone like Lebron, who has a ton of money, that is going to have his own chef, trainer, and who knows what else.
Very very late to comment, and I'm sure others have made this point too, but regarding the comment about higher education resulting in on average higher income; it is true in general, but only if we look at non-unionized work. Whether or not you are in a union has a significantly larger impact on predicted lifetime earnings than education, and in unionized work the difference between work requiring higher education and not are significantly smaller than in non-unionized work. Sounds weird, I know, but that's what we've got.
Hot take, Mike! And…you are spot on. As a former D1 athlete, can confirm the accuracy of what you had to say in this video for the most part. Bravo sir 👏🏼
For the top level ones that look awkward in the gym, it could also be that they are used to being efficient with their physicality. When you get up out of a chair, do you use only your legs to do so for maximal quad activation, or do you also use your hands to assist? The same concept could apply for how they train. Lebron will not do a proper, full range squat before jumping during a game, nor will he do a full range calf raise. He is doing what works in the court and what works is what's efficient. A general basis behind weight training is often to do what you are training for, but making it harder. You are purposely being inefficient with your movement in order to condition your body to handle more. Some of these super athletes may have a difficult time not being really efficient with their movement.
7:00 onward, as physical therapist the prehab joke was funny. "nobody went to school for prehab" its kinda semantics though as u said full rom etc etc helps with injury prevention ...
What are your thoughts on too much upper body work fucking up athletes who are high skill with their hands? I've heard of some like hockey players and stuff who dont want to mess with that getting super thick and stiff wrist from like heavy bench etc
"Pre-hab" ??? I made up that word to refer to the training I would do after being injured and before surgery to make the post-surgery rehab easier. The "pre-" referred to the surgery, not the injury. It sucks that others made up the same word to mean something a stupid as what you explained they mean by it. That's just training like you said, Mike.
Everybody's trying to reverse engineer why Lebron James is in such a shape at almost 40 by looking in all the wrong places (mainly the grams), while the reality is that he's at that level because of luck (no major injuries), genetics (the guy was already like that at 16), diet (he did hire a personal chef very early in his career) and recovery (he spend a shitload of money on that too) and surely not for his weight training (laughable, at best).
The biggest issue I think is famous coaches who have the “secret” - and once you get one good guy, you get more. To get the good guys you have to have a point of difference. If your point of difference is just squats, cleans, hinge, press, pull you don’t sell many programs. It’s boring, and it can’t be that easy can it? They’ve got the money, so why not pay for exclusive training that NOBODY else knows about.
I have a friend he was a pro soccer player. he was always lifting small weights like doing leg presses with 1 plate on each side because his coach told him not to lift heavy cuz he would get injured. His teammate kicked him in the knee and he broke his patella in half during soccer training. Now he sells air conditioners. Coaches are the worst fearmongers... People also dont understand that you don't need to lift like a powerlifter or a strongman to get decent hypertrophy and strength gains. Just lift decent weights with good technique on the lifts that would carry over to your spesific sport. Really not that scary...
So if he put more plates on, his patella wouldn’t have broke in half? Alternatively, if he listened to the coach, he could have used the time to become more educated so when his career was cut short he’d have more to fall back on. These are mainly jokes. But seriously, People also don’t need to have hypertrophy as a goal, that way it doesn’t negatively affect their performance getting used to the new body proportions.
@@robertt9342 I was trying to say that generally athletes get injured during their sport spesific training or in competetions. As for hypertrophy, depending on the sport or the role you are playing you want to have more muscle not for just functional strenght but also for presence in the field. You dont want to get pushed around and bullied in the field. I'm not talking about gaining 20lbs of muscle but more like losing some fat and adding some muscle while having a similar bodyweight. If the athlete is already at low fat% i dont see any reason why gaining 10lbs of muscle would be bad. In the end your body proportions mostly decided by what you eat. You wont get huge by mistake just with added weight training.
I did kickboxing for a while. Not in a serious manner , for fun. Not looking to compete. Soccer is ridiculous in comparison. So many injuries, you hear more and more gruesome injury stories from soccer than from literal combat sports😂
Some of the concepts that you covered under fatigue conservation are probably a big reason. Strength training is only one factor in athletic performance and in many sports and in specific positions, a professional athlete may have higher priorities for their training such as individual skills training, team systems training (i.e. team on-field practice), cardio (aerobic conditioning and/or anaerobic conditioning depending on the sport), flexibility, plus time in the film room (not physical but still takes up time). Add all of this on top of travel, playing in games, media engagement and family time, and a typical pro athlete is stretched for time and energy.
What about the idea that LeBron and Brady are training abilities that aren't captured as well by conventional hypertrophy training? Like rotation, balance, coordination...? Not the same thing as "prehab".
I’d love to see videos about how an athlete can periodize hypertrophic weight training in synergy with their endurance/cardio training, dynamic strength output training, and specific sport skills practice. For example, I’m training for golf, a sport that at high levels of play needs a hybrid of skill, endurance, flexibility, speed, and power. I can already reach swing speeds of 120mph+ and launch the ball at 180mph, but I want to be able both maintain stamina all day/weekend as well as increase my maximum output. Bryson Dechambeau famously gained massive distance by increasing his mass in combination with overspeed training, but others, like Matt Fitzpatrick, have gained distance by overspeed training alone. Obviously training your body and mind to generate more power/speed in a particular movement is critical, but when your body has more muscle it will have higher capabilities of output that could be reached. So it’s better to have more muscle mass if you have muscles trained for a specific thing. What are the best practices/principles to synergize hypertrophy training with the other aspects of sport training? What does a week, month, or mesocycle program look like, particularly in offseason training, when an athlete needs to balance and manage stamina fatigue and recovery for hypertrophy, endurance, and speed (sport specific dynamic output) trainings? Obviously this will limit the total optimization of each individual aspect, like them sweet gainz or marathon winning endurance. But if the purpose is train for a sport activity that utilizes all these aspects in tandem, then the goal is to optimize the synergistic outcome of each at the same time. So the goal is to optimize the harmony of each aspect. What does training that harmony at or near optimum look like?
@@User-54631 Until Phil accomplished something incredible, the oldest major winner in golf was basically the same age as the oldest players to win the championship in the MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL. Does Tom Brady make you question the athleticism of football? Once Satchel Paige was allowed in MLB he continued to pitch in the league until he was turning 60. Is baseball somehow therefore no longer athletic? My comment doesn’t have to be about golf. It can be any sport that needs multiple aspects of training. As compared to training for a marathon where all that matters is your ability to run long and fast or weightlifting where all that matters is the ability to push more weight, other sports -like basketball and football as exampled in the video - take a hybrid of outputs that help support a particular skill. Perhaps I should have just originally said basketball since Lebron is such a focus in this video. I assume nobody questions the athleticism of basketball. What does it look like to synergize the skill and conditioning training of a sport like basketball with weightlifting training? How does one optimally incorporate these elements into the totality of training? If basketball isn’t athletic enough then how about baseball, soccer, or football? Lacrosse, hockey, rugby, MMA, I don’t care. At some point there’s a sport people can agree needs a combination of endurance, strength, and skill. What are the best practices for training these elements concurrently?
beating the morning snake or playing fn reqs more athleticsm then golf how dare u compare golf to real mans sports ur father would be ashamed@@HeavenlyFloodofRegen
@19:29 (re: violence) R Brian Ferguson is a well respected anthropologist who has extensively studied the history of human violence and has published books and articles and podcasts which dismantle Steven Pinker's claims that we are in the most peaceful time in human history (recall that Pinker is a cognitive psychologist and psycholinguist, not an anthropologist). One of Ferguson's primary criticisms of Pinker's work is the use of cherry-picked data and questionable methodologies. He points out that Pinker's focus on specific types of violence, such as war, while ignoring other forms of violence, such as domestic violence and homicide, skews the overall picture. Additionally, Ferguson questions the reliability of historical records and anthropological data, arguing that they often fail to capture the full extent of violence in past societies. Ferguson instead proposes a more nuanced understanding of violence, arguing that it is not simply a product of human biology or inherent in our nature. He suggests that violence is shaped by a complex interplay of factors, including social, economic, political, and environmental conditions. In particular, he emphasizes the role of inequality, competition, and resource scarcity in triggering violence. Ferguson acknowledges that violence was a part of life in hunter-gatherer communities, often arising from disputes over resources, mates, or territory. However, Ferguson also points out that hunter-gatherer societies developed various mechanisms for resolving conflicts and minimizing violence, such as kinship ties, reciprocity, and ritualized aggression. In contrast to Pinker's optimistic view of declining violence, Ferguson argues that we cannot simply rely on historical trends to predict future levels of violence. He suggests that as societies become more complex and unequal, the risk of violence increases. He also highlights the potential for new forms of violence to emerge, such as those related to technological advancements or environmental degradation.
Good video Doc. I also wanted to suggest that there are certain athletes that play positions e.g. corner/receivers in football where getting absolutely bodybuilder type jacked won’t necessarily make them better at their position. I say this in the case where a lot of these guys are genetic freaks that are the prototypical, build muscle by looking at weights. As someone who grew up as an elite sprinter, lifting to get huge traps and capped delts actually made me slower. I agree in most scenarios that proper muscle building is a net positive for performance
Yes build for strength, and the best reciever will be imitated in body shape and speed. So, it would be dependant on type corner or reciever, some are vertical threat or are they speed on the angel threat.
Speaking of the 1930s ,it would be cool if Doc Mike would critique some of the old vidoes of famous lifters like Paul Anderson one arm press, Sandow, Grimek, and others
OH!!!! Yes! Please!!! I had the real pleasure of working at Loprinzi's Gym in Portland, Oregon. The dazzling Grandpas - regular guys who just kept lifting ( even with old-fashioned ideas ) - were/are my inspiration!
Yo Dr. Mike, maybe this is not very interesting for your YT audience, but I would be interested in an example of how lifting can be sensibly periodized into an athletes training plan so that a transfer into the actual sport becomes noticeable as you often suggest
Not possible to give this away for free. There are plenty of books giving a vague answer. Cycling has Colin Friel. Nice program there… but it is worthless without considering your actual personal situation.
