Heart wrenching sometimes how those that need strength the most are usually the quickest to dismiss it. Thanks Angelina!

Thank you Skair :).

Thanks Dustin! wait till you see the next 2 we’re working on ;)

Thanks Rhenan! :)

Thanks Nicola!

Thanks bro!

you've made great progress Ish! Let's keep it going

Also, sometimes specificity needs to be balanced with supplementary work. For example, if someone who can only hold a tuck front lever wants to improve, working on compound movements to develop strength will help to develop that person’s foundation to eventually unlock the full front lever. Working just the front lever would lead to plateauing for this person.

Hey Jimmy, thank you! Really trying to have info applicable/accessible to people outside of movement/fitness, as well as those who are in it. Interesting examples for the specificity question. For your first answer, you side stepped the full question a bit ;). The question was when would specificity not be optimal for a certain task- if we imagine that task was sitting in a chair- say you have a hunter gatherer that's never sat in a chair before-- it might be uncomfortable and weird for him at first- there would be some adaptation to the task there, but I like and agree with you that, overall, as someone said at a recent conference we went to, maybe it's not optimal to adapt to a sick environment. As far as the pushing v pulling, I think the whole muscular imbalance thing has been totally overblown by the youtube 'athlean-x' types. We'll probably do a video on this at some point, but there's an example that greg nuckols gave of i believe the old russian powerlifting team- they never did any pulling (remember powerlifting is just bench squat deadlift, no upper body pulling in the sport)- and had no problem getting crazy strong benching 500lb+. In general, research has shown that small muscle imbalances don't have any effect on injury risk, movement & imbalance assessments like FMS have little if not no predictive power for injuries whatsoever, and only very large muscle imbalances seem to have any effect on injury risk whatsoever, which seems very small if significant. That said, I still always teach to work both push and pull, but it's not the sort of thing that you need to do if you were to specialize in powerlifting for instance. Regarding your third example, it's not true that working just the front lever would lead to plateauing (when you properly work with volume and intensity as levers)- but there might be a point where say, if you're doing 8 front lever sets every day, it might be more effective to do a set of rows than a 9th set of levers- even if our only metric is improvement in the lever. The biggest example to me, of where specificity isn't optimal, is when it forces you to compromise volume, or work at an intensity that you can't handle for any reason. For instance, almost anyone can 'kick up' and attempt a handstand, but almost everyone in the gen pop isn't going to have a shot in hell of holding it or rebalancing there right off the bat for any appreciable length of time- and they're going to be at higher injury risk because they're probably far too weak and have no idea how to fall. In these type of scenarios, it makes far more sense to work on something less specific (ie. handstands from the wall, or even something easier like the headstand), and accumulate more volume, rather than just having specificity and not getting any of the volume you actually want (rebalancing in the freestanding handstand). Great answers, and to be clear, I'm not saying someone should work on only front levers and no Planching ;)- will you work on that one next?

what are some examples? i can't think of any

@@frizell10 Ha! if you could think of some easily, I would say maybe you didn't fully understand the video ;)! Check my reply to Jimmy's comment below

@@BrenVez just read, very interesting! thanks

Exactly right Sina. This is another reason why I'm so big against the resting whenever you're injured idea. Pain, tightness, complete lack of coordination (because you don't need to coordinate your body when you sit in a chair), and strength. I had a friend who was also a coach when I was working at planet granite, and he said something hilarious I'll never forget- he goes- 'man, some of these people in class on saturday, I don't know how they could coordinate their ass onto a toilet seat 😂'

Ha! Nice man, yes absolutely, and I bet you have the strength and even more the strength endurance and work capacity to back it up now

@@BrenVez i did lose some of it when i stopped climbing. But i still have a stronger grip than just about anyone i know. And if i train it i grow extremely fast in this aspect

Thanks for the feedback Damon, I kept your comment in mind on the more recent videos- hopefully they were more clear.

lol. I don’t think so. is he any good? lol

lol, thanks? ahahah

@@BrenVez LMAO. its all good