🤣🤣🤣

you have been given the pin of shame :^)

@@chickenbug1199 mate I’m 49 yrs of age. I deadlift like 250 and row 120. I don’t use wrist straps. You have the pin of small forarms

@@daketh4572you are so cool

I deadlift over 700 and can row over 400, when I want to isolate my back I will use straps to help engage lats. Stop acting like what you do is impressive.

Good shit

I still have the page open, for the article that you did for outalpha (several years ago). Coming from someone who has lower back issues. The information has helped me to some degree. Nevertheless it's a good eye opener. Thank you 😊😊😊

Fuk yeah bro!

so happy to see you on renaissance periodization!!! you deserve it 💪❤️

Inspiration for what is achievable with good training and decent genetics as a natural! Thank you man! Love this colab

Hope he doesn’t turn to the dark side

if you're a natty midget yes

@@BlumChoi “dark side” or not there really isn’t a difference in training principles. Recognize what your own goals and what you want out of lifting and do your own thing. If competing in the IFBB is what you want and you have the genetics for it, power to you to pursue that. If you just want to improve your physique and look better naked go ahead and pursue that. Dark side or not it’s an individual choice with different consequences and considerations.

@@Chabby888 This is super true but at our core we still have that little bit of japanese high school girl. If we see more people normalising steroids we are going to be more inclined to do so as well.

@@Chabby888yes there is. Your muscle grows at a faster pace when you’re on gear. A lot of gear users train in a specific way as to not injure themselves (their joints). AAS don’t heal tendons the way they do muscles. This is why you see them warm up so much and use pre exhaustion (especially with leg workouts) so they can limit how much load they need for a good stimulus. It’s also why many of them use higher reps and shorter rest periods (but more sets). All to limit load. This is not something a natural needs to worry about, their muscles don’t rapidly grow beyond their joints recovery capacity the same way. They are 2 completely different training requirements.

Indeed

Looks like the modafinil finally worked for him

I liked Alex' content better before. I don't watch him anymore since his success got him. I miss Alpha Destiny.

@@shawnchristopherwhite3271 and how exactly did his success get to him?

@@shawnchristopherwhite3271the fuck? he grew a shit ton both in character and physique, he even goes against his claims when he was 'alpha destiny'

Bro traded bear mode for wendigo mode. Deathface is real. But really Alex did an amazing job and earned a medal. I love seeing him back to gaining muscle. Happier.

FR

Yeah, i noticed that straight from the start, he has a friendly smile on, in the other one he looked like he was ready to snap at any second lmao.

He was on the tail end of a massive cut in his last appearance on RP. He even explains why on a separate video. Doing a true cut like that is no joke, it takes a lot out of ya. No energy, day in day out.

@@jaysson1151yeah totally that’s why I said he was on prep

😂

Yup, and all the fans smiling in anticipation with what verbal diarrhoea is about to be presented. 😂😂

I have never noticed his face during these and I had been missing out a lot :D

​@@Dougie.A.Mverbal diarrhea 😂😂😂😂

I'm here just to see jared's face

sure

​@@LarsRyeJeppesen"sure" what?

Yeah, it's freakin night and day man haha

We have to thank Alex for breaking through the fitness dogma of "striking distance from stage ready" and making people understand that is really only viable for enhanced individuals who don't need glycogen stores or natural individuals who are doing multiple shows in a row but plan to go back on a bulk

I’m glad he got to do another workout when he’s bulking and able to enjoy training a bit more. Poor dude was so drained during his prep

+upped the Adderall like bloho said

People blame it all on the gear because they are too lazy to put in the work themselves. "But bodybuilders were always small before drugs" Yeah they also had zero access to information about health and exercise. NONE OF THEM KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT BODYBUILDING SCIENCE. They were out here doing the most ineffective workouts you could imagine. THAT is why they were small

Similar size; however, Mike is a lot leaner

"The secret is rack pulls above the knee with 1,000 lbs" jk jk

It's not really impressive considering how short he is.

GCN 🚲 has some vids about the track sprinters n their impressive quads. The bicycle crowd consisting in no small part of stick figures that reject muscle mass cause it ain't aero and weighs something was quick to blame that on roids too. When I honestly think 🤔 I got that size of legs almost. Not sure. Too fat. Still. Totally doable. That's not saying cyclists ain't doped and it might be very tough with cycling training on top but perfectly achievable pretty big legs. .... everything I don't have and want is roids. It's odd though. First time I saw someone legpress 310 kg with good form I thought aha it's doable. First time I saw some guys bench 200+ kg my mind immediately jumped to roids before I took a closer look and. Still thought so.

you need to be next!

same he got me to start working out and also to stop stupid specialization exercises from YT when i just need the basics

If Mike calls Alex an ox, I wonder what he'd call GVS.

GVS is in china 💀

That would be amazing, if unlikely.

We need to pressure Dr. Mike to travel to China to put GVS through an RP leg workout instead of spending his millions of dollars on lambos, cocaine, ferraris, and hookers

It’d be fun, I don’t know if GVS would agree to using such strict form though ahaha

lmaoo

Alex just nodding😂

Incredible

lets go

You're definitely in the right place. Mike is the best in the biz!

Good luck Dave, go get 'em!

I wanna do this but can’t do pull ups, should I do 6 sets of lat pull-down??

use machine assisted pull ups and increase the weight after 3 top sets@@psyche1182

@@psyche1182 I would say use the assisted pull up machine. If you don't have access to it, I legit used bands on the pullup/dip bar setup and wrapped them around the dip bars to put my feet on them so it can assist me upwards. If you don't have that, but have a squat rack, you can do the same thing. Putting the bands around the safety bars around knee height.

You should also add Geoffrey Verity Schofield

@@iangraham-white5717 Too influencer like for my taste, in addition, Geoffrey has insane genetics which the vast majority of people aren't gonna be blessed with whereas Alex is a 5'5 dude with average genetics. Not only do I prefer his approach in his content, but his average genetics makes his content more appealing, especially for beginners and novices.

@@mcshartypants Geoffrey doesn’t have insane genetics… His max bench press is 260 lbs after 8+ years of lifting and he was a really skinny runner before he started lifting

@@mcshartypants What makes you say GVS has insane genetics vs Alex?

@@Elijah._.7 Are you taking the piss?

I think a lot of those enhanced guys get bad lower back pumps from doing compound movements like this.

@@DCJayhawk57i get annoying lower back pumps after 3 sets of deads. I’ve minimized it on squats by enhancing ankle mobility and using heels with ATG rom. I heard about some sauce gives crazy back pumps, guess I can never take them.

@@DCJayhawk57 also they got shit endurance Alex's stamina is next level

​@@hunzaeboyy04hes got good conditoning for sure

The real pain was that intro. Feels good to see that even someone like doctor Mike can sometimes be cringe.

They did another one with Alex and Jonni Shreve 3 months ago

@@Wetterwet was not aware, ill check it out, thanks!

@@user-iw4wq3yv8kif you search renaissance periodization Alex Leonidas, it should pop up

gorilla glutes

that’s from doing 1,000 lb rack pulls above the knee in 2016

"good to know" lmao

He is the best

short for calisthenics? im not sure

Kassem Hanson of N1 Training/Education which is largely biomechanics focused, doing stuff like single arm cable pulldowns to bias certain divisions of the lats (specifically what Mike is referring to). If you look him up you'll probably see what he means

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