Ben Patrick is such a HUGE breath of air to the fitness industry. A family man who truly has passion for what he's doing and actually wants to help the world be a better place. The enthusiasm and excitement that radiates from him is second to none!

These guys are great and really glad to see them working together. How can you not love Ben, a guy who wants to help his mom stay strong as she ages. Great to see a man so dedicated to the well-being of his mother!

he may be lean, but his tendon strength has to be through the roof. it would be great to hear a conversation about how tendon strength contributes to overall strength. thank you for the content you guys make a difference.

Way to go Ben!!! Love the gym too.

Thanks Ben for your work, my knees and the knees of my clients, many of which are in their 80’s, have never felt better!

Seeing these guys come together is just amazing. The insights they share is invaluable. God bless you all.

What a fantastic collaborative clip. Really shows how much ya'll care about your craft. No ego here. Awesome.

great video 67 years old and getting back into lifting watching what you guys do haven't done dead lifts in about 4 years feels great to get back into it ... so thankful for lifting most people I know my age can barely move .... you have to do it to keep it ... thanks for the inspiration

I love how Mark's been such a student through the years. And it's been a source of such high level information to us.

You really sense the respect these 3 have for each other. There are really listening and learning. Ben speaks with so much confidence but never arrogance and listens to Mark.

It's great to see you guys have fun and well. Cheers.

Seeing how open and excited he was about you guys helping him achieve a life goal of his was really cool to see. His pure joy and childlike happiness was something else to experience through the camera. I know that feeling and it’s unlike anything else to have something your passionate about and have worked on and thought about for so long have this sort of break through. Truly inspiring!

I'm glad Ben Patrick is working out with you lifting. Thanks for the videos, informaiton and encouragement.

Mark Bell, thank you so much for this partnership/collaboration. I’m new to KOT but it’s already a game changer, and your insights into power and hypertrophy is making this my new favorite channel. THANK YOU!!!

Love this. You guys put out great content and have an amazing dynamic together. Pls keep it going.

Love to see Ben diving into some of Mark's training!! Shows how open minded he is!! Also..... GET SOMEEEEEE!!!

Nice to see strength training getting into Ben's programs. Flexability and Power....what a combination.

I'm really enjoying your video content! It's getting me motivated to get back to doing strength training. I've suffered from multiple injuries/health issues and I've let that excuse hold me back for far too long. Thank you for the motivating and educational content! It's just what I needed!

Love watching this guy's journey to amassing and sharing critical self care knowledge . Plus it's hella nice how strong and durable you begin to feel as you work these ideas into your training

Caught a bit late on to this! But the trio of you is pure gold! Finally someone who breaks the barrier between strenght and movement. The future is bright!!! Thanks!!!

This is phenomenal. Thank you for the video!

So glad you guys are all collaborating. Looking forward to more content! Maybe a group JRE!

I love that ya'll are sharing knowledge and respecting each other's training methods. This is what was missing back when I was in my twenties. Great that this is changing. Keep trail blazing gentlemen!

You guys are discussing things that will change our future in sports for those not even born yet.

This proves what Ben does not only adds mobility and durability but raw strength as well. Would love to see more of Ben try some heavy lifts to prove his methods

I love how all these brilliant minds come together to further enhance proven movements that will help us all be better versions of ourselves. THIS is what it’s all about.

I love the communication about getting better safer. Keep up the team work!

Love that bar! I've been drooling over it for years, but they're so damn expensive. Also... 475lbs without having been working your deadlift is insane!! Nice work

Awesome, Ben is the man!

Love their energy and positivity

3 of my favorite dudes in the fitness space! I've learned so much from them

Ben Patrick, Smelly and Nsima..some of my favourite people. Awesome vid

Huge inspiration, great team of like minded warriors, appreciate the insights ☯️💪🏼

Really enjoy all these collabs

You really just gotta love Ben, he's just such an awesome guy

Always learning, love this channel

I honestly feel so blessed to be able to see this, thank you guys much love

I love how Ben gives credit where credit is due he is a great man too

Great video. There is so many components about being strong other than just lift heavy weights in linear motion. Love this

Fantastic dialogue back and forth between all of you! The conversation just took off!!!

This channel is about to blow up!

The slow eccentric on the deadlift !! What a beast

He can dunk with 315 on his back ever since he perfected the ATG split squat

Another great video from you guys! Maybe next time we'll get to see all 3 of you monsters Max out on this list? That would be very inspiring to this old, semi retired, coming back, powerlifter!

The amount of knowledge being shared on KZfaq in this day and age involving fitness and training is mind blowing , the forums back in the day were a water drop compared to what we have on KZfaq now

I dig his attitude. It's refreshing as hell.

This is one of the coolest collabs

This is such a great collaboration!

What a super nice guy. Love this video.

This gets me so excited!

Love the collaboration!

How is it possible that everytime I watch a new video, I learn something mindblowing 😱, love it 👍🏾

This is amazing, I learned a lot from this

patrick's awesome, great video. so many amazing comments from viewers of this video, as well.

Nice work gents, that bar is super sweet. All I have is dumbbells , a floor and a pull-up bar. I realize lately I'm missing the fam for motivation!

Awesome y’all are working together

Bro loves his mom and it’s so awesome 👏

Mark Bell is an explorer. I can see how he looks into movement and is learning more and more.

Looking forward to part 2.

you're systems go great together. thanks

It's great to see. The trap bar deadlift is a quad movement. Also, you're not using the deadlift bar so you can have your knee in that position otherwise on the way down the bar would hit your knee. Still really good base strength.

Good job 👏🏻

Great collaboration!

Loving the link up between KoTG Ben and Mark

Wow that looked fun. Thanks guys!!

Thank you to this man. I've had terrible knees. I just did light work mobility and pause squats never going over 225. I decided to max yesterday. 355 back squat with no prep . 500 here I come.

It would be interesting to see how much Ben can bench and squat and see how much long and short range training carries over to power lifts!

This is some ground breaking information in complete fitness. DON'T STOP the Gumbo!

He’s got such good leg development already that if he where to slightly increase in size/strength from heavy lifting they would increase in size very quickly

Question: For guys that are so interested into absolute strength and/or explosiveness and are also connoisseurs of all things Poliquin what are they're thoughts in Poliquins fave exercises for jumping and explosiveness. I think he said incline bench press, front squat and power snatch. Also snatch grip deadlifts from a 3-4" platform, snatch grip behind the neck push press, power cleans and reverse hyperextensions.

This is great!

To be able to pull that much without being a lifter and being as light as he is makes it very impressive and proves his techniques transfer to overall strength.

Sweet Jesus!😳 Ben did that beltless without even bracing properly. Good God!! That’s Savage! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤘🏽

I would love to see similar info about upperbody tendon strength. Please! ^^

In terms of conversion for people wondering, when I was younger and lifting 500lbs with a similar trap bar my actual deadlift on a barbell was 425lbs semi sumo style.

Yes! Love it! TY👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

first time i see Ban Patrick struggles, but so much respect for cooperation

What Is so interesting to me is how centered Ben is when he pulls. His ankle mobility has enabled strength not only through his posterior, but anterior chain as well. What is typical a hinge posterior movement now has synergy through the knee as well. Appreciate the content Mark and Ben.

MBPP + KOTG is collab the world needed.

That’s an impressive amount of weight especially for someone that doesn’t even deadlift! Must be something to that explosiveness he has

Guys, call me crazy but I might just have an idea that will revolutionise fitness... Knees *under* toes.

Awesome vid

This dude is a fucking legend.

Finally a video that can't complain about! Check out Calvin Dietz French contrast training for sports. A few box jumps between sets is also a good way to activate the nervous system and assisted jumps with bands from the top of a rack.

Seems like an awesome guy

My mind was blown with that bar

Awesome!

The equipment in that gym is incredible

Great video

Great collaboration with mutual respect!

I have now tested the "rubber band, up-on-the-toes body squat" for about 3 weeks. Doing great warm-ups with this is amazing! and if you push alittle extra, say 50-60 reps, its a reeeeeeal burner!

Magnificent!! Where can we get the bar!!??

best collab

Really good 👍🏻

Awesome 👍

I remember Ben saying he wanted to put on some mass. I am excited to see how he does, especially after the weight he just pulled.

I foresee a hybrid program stemming from this . You guys are onto something groundbreaking

inspiring intro !

Mark I was watching this and it dawned on me you may be the one guy that has the answer I've been looking for on my DL. I was at a gym that almost exclusively programmed the raised handle trap bar deadlift and I worked up to a 500lb single. I switched gyms due to distance and they only have the straight bar which is how I was introduced and comfortable with as well. I struggled at 250lbs for 5 reps with the straight bar and a couple months later have only got up to 280lbs on the straight bar. Why would there be such a dramatic difference in 1RM between the raised handle trap bar deadlift and straight bar deadlift? My squat is not much more than my bw at 205 for 5R so it's not like the trap bar mimicking my week ass squat would explain it. Could the 2" in additional height that the raised handles on the trap bar give that significant of a mechanical advantage to allow for double the load? I'm 5'11" and 205lb for reference.

Awesome.