"We are in the age of knowledge but starving for wisdom" And wisdom comes from doing. I rather like your rants Brian :) you rock.

"We're talking about lifting heavy things here. We're not talking about rocket science." I was waiting for the black and white aside where you said that rocket science is about lifting heavy things.

I have a friend who was a 2nd tier ballerina in the world. Made Novgorod ballet (not the Moscow or Bolshoi) as a 16 y/o Mexican girl in the 60s, when that was a pretty big deal. She runs her own studio and theater in Portugal. Her whole thing is that a working artist isn't "inspired," a working artist works, whether you feel like it or not. And THAT'S what separates the successful from the washout. You don't wait for the work, you go get it.

I hope your channel blows up soon, its great

It should be mandatory for all beginners to watch this video

"Paralysis by analysis" really hit the mark for me. I've only been going to the gym for 4months and early on I got stuck on a 60kg squat. Very light weight, but I just read up on so many squat variants, whether tallness affects squat, whether my bodyweight was holding me back, etc. Couldn't break past that 60kg mark. Until finally I just said 'fuck all the internet information' and just made myself squat every. single. session. Now today, a month and a half later I finally hit a 100kg squat. Felt so happy to hit those triple digits. Once I stopped trying to figure out why I was getting stuck and simply squatted more, it worker wonders. Paralysis by analysis indeed. Great video. Grats on the 15k subs, you earned it for sure man.

This is literally one of my favorite youtube videos of all time. Not just as applied to lifting but everything in life. I get stuck thinking about things constantly and never get anything done. Time to take more action!

This guy is a breathe of fresh air. Honest. Helpful. happy nature

Doctor: "I am sorry. You have a terrible disease" Patient: "Oh no, what is it?!" Doctor: "Weakness"

The ironic thing is if I haven't put much time on researching I wouldn't be able to find other informative channel such as yours. I think it's all about the balance just like you said.

I am going to shut this video off and go squat. As always Brian, great advice,

Hey Brian, I'm following in your footsteps. Started on machines when I was 13 and full training at 15. Took me more than 10 years to try and fail at everything until I finally learned what worked for my lifting and nutrition. I'm about 10 years younger than you, but I'm planning to compete / open my own gym. Despite getting hit by a car in August and not being able to walk, I'm already stronger than I was before being hit. It was a painful journey to get back. No excuses. I hope to collaborate with you one day. Nice job with the 305 press. Only a small audience can appreciate how much dedication that takes.

I so needed to hear this. Fantastic channel!

Your videos are soo motivational. Auwesome way to start off my day or to get me fired up to train when im not feeling it that day. keep them coming!

I am a personal development coach (so, no heavy lifting involved) and you inspired me SO MUCH. I TOTALLY get paralysis by analysis, and I am letting go of it lately. So you definetly fueled that transformation.

I love this channel. I love your attitude and dedication man. Great video man, god bless

This is what KZfaq is for. Found you through Alan Thrall's channel and you both do this. Brilliantly. You drive people into action. You help make people better and then together, the world better. You guys are awesome.

You are awesome. Period. Your videos have completely changed how I train! I have never been this strong before and I have fallen in love with lifting again. This video just adds to the motivation 👍. Thankyou!

Hello Brian, I saw you first on Alan Thrall's channel and subscribed to your channel when you had about 6000 subscribers. It is fantastic that you spread the strongman philosophy with so much enthusiasm and to see your channel growing. I just wanted to say "thank you" for sharing your knowledge, for putting so much work in your videos, for taking care of every question, for being real and staying true to your values and yourself. I wish you all the best. Greetings from Germany, Timo.

I know this video is old but so glad I found it! I have a friend who's starting out and needs to see this, he's overanalyzing everything and making it more complicated than it is, just train, eat and sleep! It's not pretty, it's not elegant, it's a grind and it sucks sometimes but everything that's worth it is not easy, and being comfortable is accepting mediocrity! Thanks for this mate, have a great week

so excited for the collaboration ! great speech here again !

If do right, no can defense! This is a video that we all needed brother. Thanks once again.

I needed this pep-talk today. Thanks for the input brother.

Thanks man, I think this applies not only to fitness but for life itself. Great video, thumbs up.

You're one of my favorite channels. Thanks for all the great content

Your channel is the most undersubscribed lifting channel on KZfaq! Thanks for your hard work. My numbers are flying up and your instructional videos have definitely helped.

You're super humble man. It's great to watch your videos, always. Not to many people on social media now a days say what needs to be said. Our society is too caught up in what everyone else is doing and not enough of their own goals and that is causing anxiety/depression in some personal lives.

Some of the best content on the youtubes! Thanks for the good content man!!

I love your rants, great info, and the part about just going to the gym and doing something is spot on. My best squat was not planned, and it on an off day, and I got bored and just went to the gym to do something!!!

The raw basics is where the fun is. What I like is that I lift and then I see one of your videos or Alan's and see some little tidbit that clicks and I incorporate it into my training and it makes me better. Constant improvement through work and also keeping an open mind to things that can make me better as I go along. Your advice has helped many times and it shows in the progress I am making. So thank you for that.

Great vid as always, your channel is awesome and deserves twice that many subs. Always enjoyable and gets me ready to go move something heavy.

I rarely comment on videos but I have to say you are a breath of fresh air to this youtube community. I really hope your subs go up once you get to California because you really deserve it for the amount of entertainment and information you provide to us. I really hope this channel does grow to the size of Supertraining as I see you in the same league as Mark Bell and Alan Thrall. Just showing some love from a fellow lifter who resides in the eastern panhandle and I do plan on visiting your gym really soon.

Your videos keep getting better! Never stop doing what you're doing

Love "Motivation follows action; Action does not follow motivation"!!!! Spot on and something to remember. You are great. Love you bro!

Awesome video as always Brian - such a positive, motivating message. Hands down one of the best fitness channels on youtube. Personally, I have been struggling increasing my deadlift for months and felt i'd hit a wall, but in hindsight I was probably overthinking the lift rather than just putting 100% into pulling the weight off the floor. With your advice I managed to add 10kg to my 1rm this morning so thanks for the motivating speech!! Keep up the great content - I'm sure you'll hit 20k subs in no time at all.

I'm so guilty of this myself lol! I've reached a point where I focus mainly on just setting up my training so I can train hard, while still adhering to some basic principles of getting bigger and stronger. Also enjoying training way more. I can say that just running a program the way its written, even if its not "ideal" is way better than spinning your wheels with trying to come up with the perfect program. The best thing I ever did for getting stronger thou was getting a coach. I added probably around 40 pounds to my squat, 30 pounds to my bench and 60-70 pounds to my deads after working with Pete Rubish for 3 month, doing some of the probably most simplistic training I've ever done (besides 5x5). The only difference is he made sure I actually pushed myself crazy hard every time I trained. After that I spent some time in the army and the strength is yet to return, but yeah anyways, awesome video man!

One of the best training videos there is. Thanks Brian

I had the problem that you're talking about, but from the beginning of the week I started following the daily workout from your channel and it feels great mentally not overthinking everything. So thanks!

hey brother, love your videos always truth. I'm 47 at a young age did what muscle magazines said standard 3×10 and so forth and got nowhere. but I started to get into strength training and big compound movements over the past 2 years and what a difference. just wanted to say great job and keep it up.

Love the snowball analogy. Gonna be stealing that one. Yoink. Respect as usual man, looking forward to what you come back from your travels with.

Great way to put it, I needed to hear that.

I'm touched Brian. This might be the best video you've ever done (and I've seen all of them since you speak to the camera). Very inspirational. I will share this with all of my gym buddys. Hope you have a great time with Alan, Mark, Mike and the ST-Crew. Keep the hard work up!

It's all about the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, AKA gravity. Awesome content!

Hey Brian, long-time off-and-on gym-goer here. Started playing rugby a lil' bit over a year ago and started watching your videos around the same time. I've now moved on from machines/dumbbells to focusing primarily on compound movements. For the first time I'm actually exciting about going to the gym. Cheers for doing the work yeh do!

Really needed this today. Thanks!

Thank you man, appreciate this, keep doing you, keep lifting and hustling. Hope to meet you one day and thank you for inspiring me and many others

Brian, I got kind of scared there for a minute when you said research is not necessary (not your exact words). However, at the end I calmed down when you made that graph to correlate hard work with knowledge. PHEW!!! The way I do it is I read up on something, and right after that I want to perform it whether I'm at the gym or not. OUTSTANDING video! Thank you and take care, dude!

Great video brian...I did alot of reasearch when I started but My thinking is conceptual based not instrutional based so It helped me grab the concept.Your videos were part of that so Thank you....I found that every thing diet,body recomp,mobility,building muscle everything its all a progression....You start at zero you progress to where your efforts take you...that easy..you must start before you can finish

This was beautiful and it applies to so much more than lifting. Thanks for the reminder!

I took your advice and dragged myself to the gym after 2 weeks off. My workout sucked, I was noticeably weaker and I had no real plan. But now I know that I have to regain and surpass what I lost. I also used my lack of a plan to have fun and try some new variations much to the amusement of my fellow gym goers. Most importantly, I got off my ass and did it! So thank you.

"they think they're being smart" fuckinnnnn called out exactly how i am lmao gonna put in more work n fix that up. good shit mr alsruhe also crazy that you were at 15 000 subs when you put out this vid, today as i type this? you're closing in on 50 000. knockin it out the fuckin park bro. channels gonna get huge

Nice video! I think you're on to something as far as people just don't understand the TIME it takes to reach a lot of these goals. Especially after going on youtube or instagram, taking a year to squat 315 at 200 pounds might seem terrible, but that's actually great! that's another you and a half you're lifting and it took you 52 weeks. A lot of people start at like just the bar for squats so that's 270 pounds! Something almost all successful lifters seem to say is they didn't watch other people or try to steal their techniques, they just focused on doing a little better than themselves every week and I think that's the key.

Another awesome video! Keep up the hard work!

Awesome video. Very true and authentic. Keep going. This is what we need to get strong. Regards from Germany.

Brian my man, I don't even know where to start from other than AMAZING AS USUAL! I was thinking about buying a program from you, then I saw by collecting the information you are giving in your videos + applying them in the gym at my level = it is working simply and perfectly! With your linear program and by adding bits from here and there it is taking shape amazingly. By coincidence the only advices I am following are coming from 2 Brians (you and another "unknown" Brian (Shaw)) ;) Keep up the humble work, you are a life example! Thanks man.

you know as well as i do that the cat video was hilarious.... but i really enjoyed this video, and think it's message can be applied to literally anything in life. thanks Brian for always bringing quality

Yo Brian! Found your channel through your video with Alan Thrall. It's very refreshing to hear your approach towards fitness and work ethic, especially with the rest of the industry/community seemingly focused on just trying to sell unnecessary products or making things more complex than they need to be. Your philosophy towards work reminds me of this koan: Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water Looking forward to checking your future videos, you've got yourself another viewer!

Good info....you hit the nail on the head with your perception of the fitness industry

really good information brian. I think some people these days lack the work ethic but mostly its as you say. Paralysis by analysis. Ive suffered from that in the past. Channels like yours and Train untamex have helped a lot. im into strength not body building nor crossfit.

I like this rant. It's very true and applies to every aspect of life. I know you're right, because I went from a thinker to being more of a doer (is that a word?) and the results followed and more motivation as well. I get more motivation and take more action all the time. For example, I got 18 consecutive chin-ups a week or so ago and I am even more motivated to get more :) I just somehow still more or less fail at this at some other aspects of life. I want to become a writer, but I think too much and so the writing is rarely there and I have no results to show, i.e. no books ready and/or published. It's also hard to balance things. Eating 'right' and lifting right and going to work and all that. I have to be more action-oriented at other stuff too. So thanks for the advice. I tend to get bogged down online watching videos about lifting and/or nutrition and politics and current events and all that. There's a place for everything, but for me some stuff tends to crowd out other stuff. Oh well, the answer is there: take action.

Best motivational video, Brian. Greetings from Argentina.

How does this guy not have more views/subscribers? Found you through Alan and just subscribed! Keep up the awesome content!

I could listen to you rant all day.

Lift, eat, sleep and enjoy life!!! Quality rant Brian.

Thanks for this Brian. I always enjoy your videos, and they are always motivating, this one especially so. Every now and again we all need a kick in the pants!! Keep it up man!

Getting back to 5-6 basic movements with different variations, consistency, diet, hardwork and recovery is really all it takes. Even after 20+ years it is still the same blueprint. A thing about motivation I heard from another KZfaqr is that it is for losers. Sounds harsh but what he seemed to mean is that external motivation is good once or twice but it comes down to internal motivation to actually get shit done. Looking forwards to collabs with Allan, get the feeling that the humor between u 2 is gonna be epic! Especially if Sensai Allen shows up!!

wonderful speech I thought you were talking to me as I spent a lot of time to increase my knowledge on weight lifting but neglected the fact that I should work harder on consistent manner your channel is underrated, and you deserve a lot of subscribers I hope you could achieve your dreams that have been worked on to achieve as you deserved that Good luck

Love your videos broski!

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started" -Mark Twain Great video! Thanks

A lot of this is very true! Especially about programs and plans! And again Brian , we are all thankfull for your great vid's. But not all is true. YOU motivate us!! ! 💪👍People get motivated by seeing others working hard. Music can motivate while workout. Films motivate us.. art.. so sometimes extra motivation comes from outside. You motivate so many People because you act as a perfect guide .. you have the knowledge and we the followers know that very well! You're da man! Looking forward to the mix of Brian , Alan & Bell..

Best thing I ever did was get a trainer to write my programs. Programs are written specifically for my work requirements. Takes all the thinking out of it and all I have to do is go in and do the workout, no excuses. P.S. Would be awesome to see a collaboration between you and Tony Sentmanat from Real World Tactical. Keep up the top work. Very little strongman anything in Australia so your channel has been very helpful.

This principle of balancing between working and learning is applicable to all fields of life. Just great. I hope you get more followers. greetings from Croatia

Just what I needed to hear Brian, thank you!

Very good advise, thanks!

Action!!! applies​ to more than the gym. performance bonuses are result of action. gym bonuses result of action. keep preaching strongman, we need to hear it again and again. hard to remember sometimes at the ends of the workout. keep sending the videos

Great video! Love seeing the white board come out. I'm sure getting with the supertraining guys will take your exposure to the next level!

New to the channel and likin' it. Cool vid, good message.

The motivation to do anything is always modified by the effort required to achieve that goal. This is why those quick fix programs sell so well. Less effort to achieve your goals is preferred over more effort to achieve those goals. This ties into your other video about goal setting. Set your goal too high relative to what you can do currently and you stop because you don't see the goal attained. Do something more than you did the day before and you will progress. Great info as always.

Like the video Brian. The difference between the master and the novice is that the master has failed more than the novice has tried.

Great video. Really helped get my head Ina better place about my training

Thanks for making this!

Alan Thrall has two programs for sale as well. And by sale I mean he practically gives them away at like 10 bucks for beginner and about the same for intermediate. These programs rock and are supported by the programs that you did online. Thank you for all that you post and do! I will get a workout from you shortly to support for all of this awesome content.

Great! I was stuck in this cycle of 'what is best method/routine...' and was jumping foreward and backward not realising that I wasn't progressing. Now I stick with something for X amount of time and see what has worked and what has not. I wish this video was uploaded at least 2 years ago and that I found it 😅 Carry on brother 💪

I always thought this was obvious, until I just now realised I dont have this problem with working out, but with playing the piano! Nice video as always!

"Big Dumb Animal" , next tshirt offering maybe?.... Awesome video. More nuggets of wisdom that can be applied to any aspect of ones life!..... I don't compete at anything except at life, but whenever I don't have a training plan to follow I always fall back onto a simple formula; Push Pull Core Leg Drive 2 supplementals I try to do two big compound movers for each action. If I do this formula for an extended period of time , I'll vary rep schemes, heavy days etc. Kind of like how you described undulating your program on Thrall's channel. I like having something like this in the quiver, because it's always a quick fall back option.... I've noticed the last two weeks that you can tell who the resolutionists are in the gym right now. I have absolutely no issue with people trying to improve and better themselves , I wish everybody did this. But I see them, you can tell that they are rigidly following some type of program from men's health or similar. When they get to a step that says now use this piece of equipment for this exercise, they can't , because somebody else is using it! I've seen people just shut down and stop! Be adaptable! If it's a pushing exercise go find something else to push! I know this is counter to strictly following a program;) but action is always better than none.

Awesome video. Thanks for this.

Awesome video. More people should watch your videos.

I'm following your lineal progression program, and it helped me a lot to stay consistent. Thanks Brian :) Although I'm not jumping into the 3X3 stage, It's been two months on the 5X5 stage xD and I'll still push it.

Dangerous Snowball! Nice. Thx

Good info, Brian. Linked it over at BB.com in my journal. So many people over there do many of the wrong things and spin their wheels. Maybe this can help.

That first step is the most important one as you say in the video. That first step makes the second step easier then so on. You gotta crawl before you can walk. Such great motivation! Though discipline I think is what keeps you going. Motivation fails us all but the drive and discipline to keep going is what matters most. Just my opinion though. Brian keep doing what you are doing. You are helping a lot of people!

I have heard it as behavior drives attitude. If you wait until you feel like going to the gym, change your diet you never will. But when I go anyway and see some positive results a few weeks later after being consistent it motivates me to keep pushing the next time I don't feel like it

Very well said, sir!

Still one of the best videos on KZfaq

We're all looking for instant results, instant gratification. I think we're all guilty of it at some point. I just started to lift and losing weight - took me 2 months to lose 32 pounds, I still have about 70 or so to go, but 32 in 2 months is tremendous progress. But I wanted that after 3 weeks. The more I got discipline the more I understood that this is a marathon not a sprint. Weight lifting is the same, I can't wait to have results show, but for that I need to be patient, keep at it and work my butt off everytime I train. I know consistency will show results after 4-8 weeks, and then after 4 months even more etc. Especially with the newbie gains.

you are so right... ...take some liiiight weiiiight baby... and just do it .:D Great Channel, great Videos and thx for your tips. best wishes from Germany!

Thanks Brian I enjoyed this video I just recently made this realization with my working out because I broke my wrist and decided not to skip they gym so I went and did legs and core everyday for 10 weeks till my wrist healed and my front squat went up 70 lbs and my deadlift max I'm repping easily (still have to check new max in a couple weeks. ) I'm kinda understanding it's all about just getting those reps in and they can have a cumulative effect.

the consistent suck... that's perfect, Brian. thanks buddy.

well, i stole tons of ideas and exercises free programs, now i spend around 12 hours at the gym per week. i love it. (Thanks for around 90% of my trainingplan brian!)

Great content Brian