Road To 18" Arms Ep. 22: Answering more questions

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0:00 Intro
0:27 Have you changed anything from your program you showed us in November?
1:58 Stuck in a chest growth plateau, any advice?
3:28 Does training biceps the day before back negatively impact your back training?
4:46 Barbell Apparel Memorial Day sale
5:23 What do you think about resting between the final few reps of a set?
8:02 What’s your current arm volume?
8:35 Should I maintain post cut or bulk immediately?
9:14 How to deal with slow progressive overload?
10:53 Thoughts on supersets and giant sets?
11:52 Favorite places to eat when bulking or cutting?
12:45 Dumbbell vs barbell RDL?
13:48 Any tips on how to JM press correctly?
15:27 Would you recommend your Boostcamp programs to teens or people who have been training for a year or less?

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@sotirioskapartzianis235 24 күн бұрын

That last part was really informative (the video just dropped)

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

Lmao

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@BJAnkerus 24 күн бұрын

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@PFMFIT 23 күн бұрын

At this point the channel is turning into "basement arm building"

@nightwing5405 23 күн бұрын

And we love it!

@nightwing5405 23 күн бұрын

I really like your character development going from "focus on volume not progressive overload". To "volume is overrated"

@KurokamiNajimi 23 күн бұрын

I agree with him though at least if he’s getting at what I think he is. We got tricked into thinking leaving reps in the tank and that not warming up a lot is good because both of these allow you to get more reps with a given weight throughout the week. That’s good for faster strength adaptation but stimulus wise who do you had a more productive session the guy whose first set was 135 for 10 and last theoretical set at the end of the session 135 for 8 or the guy who can’t even get 1 rep with that weight by the end

@howjackedcaniget 24 күн бұрын

1:58 We should feature this in the Springfield best-seller "Gigantic Asses".

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

And legs are on the back burner 😵‍💫

@howjackedcaniget 23 күн бұрын

@@BasementBodybuilding Well, to be fair, I've heard you say you do some RDLs. It's not likely you'd shrink much while getting enough cals in that other muscles can grow, especially if you're training those muscles at all. Few sets once a week or whatever is probably still growing you a little. RDLs and Good Mornings are turning my once pancake into a powerful monky ARSE.

@xander4644 24 күн бұрын

I tried the dip machine in lieu of a pushdown like you mentioned in one of the last arm videos and it was fantastic thanks for the tip 💪

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

No prob, glad you enjoyed it bro! When they’re done properly for a tricep dominant movement they’re excellent

@omarelsherif4125 24 күн бұрын

Bro, you're my inspiration to road to 18 inches arms too. I am currently at 17.5 left arm and 17.2 right arm.

@GameZero2 19 күн бұрын

Great video, thanks for all the information you provide, its been very helpful.

@chrloe 23 күн бұрын

Thanks for answering my question ❤

@RonMexico527 24 күн бұрын

Does it bother you when the rods on the smith machine wobble? Was looking into a similar one.

@chris-whaley 23 күн бұрын

I've been running your upper lower program for a week now and really enjoy it. I'll probably make some tweaks due to personal preference after I complete this one, but all in all great program man 💪

@johnshadow9310 24 күн бұрын

I think your volume is perfect. You are growing. I think your focused intensity is a huge factor too. I know some say you have impressive arms for a natural. I say your arms are impressive period

@peteyliftsnshxt4 23 күн бұрын

Currently I’m running ppl and I’m hitting arms at the end of my upper body workouts. Im not as strong or as big as you. I’m definitely smoked at the end of my workouts and it’s hard af to train arms. But like over a year ago I remember you said you gotta treat arm movements like they your first/main exercise. That mindset shift has helped me significantly get them stronger and bigger. Hitting arms at the end of an upper, push or pull workout probably isn’t optimal. But with the right mindset you can definitely still get a great stimulus. In conclusion. Thank you sir for your advice

@JohnSmith-tz5ou 24 күн бұрын

Hey man, trying your upper/lower split. Overhead ez bar extensions have been killer, but I've struggled a bit with a smooth way to get the weight up, recover the weight from behind my head after I've hit failure, and also the bar hitting/getting caught on the support arm/head of the folding bench. I also can feel it a lot in my shoulders and my elbows seem to flare a lot. Was wondering if you had any tips, and also why you recommend them over the cables? (Anecdotally, these do feel more killer for my triceps than the cable, but wondering the actual logic behind it)

@sambutton8494 24 күн бұрын

The JM press technique was really helpful. I have been struggling with technique but really want to get it right, so some quick further questions: what is the correct degree of elbow flare? I notice you tend to flare them quite a bit, as opposed to a more tucked close grip bench style move. I also notice you allow them to flare out when it gets challenging. Secondly, do you retract your scapula/arch your back bench press style on JM press? Or is that necessary? Finally, I also notice you dont often literally touch the bar to your chin etc., you just tend to go until it stops. Is it necessary to go all the way down or do you just get to the fully stretched position even if that doesnt touch your clavicle/face?

@abcdefg-ox6mu 24 күн бұрын

I think he gave an explanation of the ROM in another video. You have to go until your wrist surpasses your elbow joint, so that your forearm and wrist are parallel. Though I don’t see him doing that here for some reason.

@MasoNowa 22 күн бұрын

Your triceps don't attach to your chin. The goal is stretch the fuck out of your triceps, do that until you can't anymore.

@ulisesantonio5905 24 күн бұрын

I’ve been experimenting with rest pause for this entire year and I think for me I’ve really connected with it. I like to do this on certain movements like incline bb bench, because since I lift alone It’s not the safest thing to go all out, but if I rest pause I can really get a lot out of the set, or with incline curls when I know I got another 2 or 3 in me but my forearms are just on fire. It also clicked a lot more after implementing the AD 2 set mindset, where when I do these rest pause I can really push those 2 sets as far as a I can. Definitely don’t do them on every lift, but for me I found that it has not slowed down my progress at all and had actually helped me and I do find it enjoyable most importantly

@musclefarts 23 күн бұрын

same, and with ham curls and ext it's nice too

@musclefarts 23 күн бұрын

after failure of course

@RSuave545 24 күн бұрын

Just stopping by to say thanks! 15 months ago, I seriously started training arms. I only really cared to grow my back, shoulder, and legs. After a bulk, i still had baggy sleeves, so I started. In that time, I took my arms from 13.4" to 14.75". Your mentality of treating them like compounds with weight progression got my curls from 35lbsx12 to 70lbsx11. My skull crushers from 30lbsx10 to 70lbsx8. After 4 months of training them, I lost access to equipment for 3 months and used water jugs to maintain them. Natty limit calculators say my ceiling is 15.5-.7" with my 6" wrists. Im considering pushing to 16" just out of spite even if that's not the aesthetic I want.

@MasoNowa 22 күн бұрын

No one on earth should be paying attention to a "natty limit" "calculator". Besides that it's a stupid self limiting belief for no reason, they're usually based on drivel like FFMI

@EJRWatkins 24 күн бұрын

I'd be interested in a video from you about your thoughts about volume being overrated.

@sfarsitulumi 24 күн бұрын

I do a 1 leg ezbar RDL instead of dumbbell RDL. Easier to load incrementally and doesn't cap out in weight. I do 1 leg because I feel it during the set a lot better and the soreness is higher compared to standard RDL

@MohamedNaas2005 24 күн бұрын

No way im missing this

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

💪

@KurokamiNajimi 24 күн бұрын

You know I never really paid attention to how you do JM Presses I always just think of it as the original shortened biased way gonna have to try this. I see Alex also started doing them in the more lengthened way rechecking his last video about the exercise

@DexFlex_YT 22 күн бұрын

Hey Mr. Basement, I have a genuine question. Are body weight tricep extensions an S-tier exercise? Personally, they are my favorite. I do them on a pull-up bar attached to my door. Since your arms are overhead, you should be targeting the long head of the triceps. It's most difficult at the bottom of the movement, so it should be a lengthened bias exercise. I get crazy DOMS in my long head, and they feel more stable than overhead extensions.

@agentperry8347 24 күн бұрын

How to know when to stop cutting and start gaining mass?

@JamesPetroff 24 күн бұрын

Chest: dumbbell bench on the bed to.spot you. Go crazy on the weight

@johnshadow9310 24 күн бұрын

Did you ever do a video on your diet. If not what do you eat every day?

@bobby.2 23 күн бұрын

Literally the most important thing most fitness channels miss talking about. I'd very much like to know as well.

@ew-zd1th 23 күн бұрын

Have you try the Low incline lenghtend biased curl?

@dory_m78 22 күн бұрын

Which video of yours explains from a to z about "profile, resistance and stretch "

@Lao-Lin 24 күн бұрын

How many times would you retake a certain weight before calling it a plateau? I.e. how fast should you progress on lifts like bench, Dips or pull ups for example. Common question ik, but that's an ongoing struggle for me. I feel like I'm growing but when the numbers don't reflect that, often times progressive overload anxiety hits and I kinda force more reps, even if it's ever so slightly, which just pushes the "plateau" a week or two away. Retaking the weight a third time makes me feel like nothing is working. Maybe the better question would be, how to cope with Prog. overload anxiety 🤣 Cheers bro, love the series.

@peterrasmussen3087 20 күн бұрын

What do you think about the squat leverage machine ?

@user-gt5sz5xs2e 24 күн бұрын

Can you react no Nh tier list or more Jeff Nippards please

@ThehollyJesus041 24 күн бұрын

What’s ur opinion on arm dominant physique and torso dominance and how would you train different for them? In my physique my arms have always been behind my other muscle groups

@daniell5751 24 күн бұрын

Torso dominant: do a Bro Split with a separated Arm Day Arm dominant: do a push Pull Legs, have you noticed how these ppl guys have mediocre arms?

@Saitama-deshi 24 күн бұрын

What about your volume for the others muscles like chest, back, legs and shoulders?

@scapegoat1440 24 күн бұрын

In regards to the JM press technique, I only have access to an angled smith machine. It feels like sometimes the force is not going directly up, but sort of against the rails. Is this still worth doing?

@EyesackWorley 24 күн бұрын

JM press is designed so that there is a wide range of ways to do them, so i think you should try moving you elbows in a way that its straight up and down, and lay in a way that the angle is going towards your head if that makes sense

@aegypiusmonachus 23 күн бұрын

Just use free weights If you don't have access to an adecuate smith machine. I do them with an ez bar.

@azulsimmons1040 23 күн бұрын

I never needed much volume to grow as long as intensity was high meaning either more weight or more reps or some combination of the two per set. If you're really doing hard sets, you'll grow. That 52 week crap to failure or near failure is trash because anyone really pushing sets to failure or near failure won't even survive 52 sets. Mentally I think anyone who knows they have a lot more sets left holds back from going all out. It's far too fatiguing to go to failure for any high number of sets with any decent weight.

@Salah.Bro77 24 күн бұрын

Is it okay to do upper / lower / rest / upper / lower / arms / rest

@gigaszef8985 24 күн бұрын

This is the best eng speak yt Chanel treating natural bodybuilding so far

@user-gt5sz5xs2e 24 күн бұрын

Hammer vs reverse curls?

@agentperry8347 24 күн бұрын

I dunno if you can just answer this in the comments, but I gym early in the morning before school, I wake up at 5 and gym 6-7 and then school at 7:30. This means I only get 7 hours of sleep and I worry this makes my progression worse. I feel a little groggy and tired most days so should I get that more sleep and train in the afternoons?

@Nev91280 24 күн бұрын

7 hours is plenty 👍

@THEMMAN3232 24 күн бұрын

hey Can we replace jm press with overhead easy bar extations? dont have smitch machine

@MasoNowa 22 күн бұрын

Why not jm press with the ez bar

@THEMMAN3232 21 күн бұрын

@@MasoNowa very annoying to set up and load up ez bar does not fit in power rack pins it is to short

@18_wheeler 24 күн бұрын

Any difference if the Smith jm down to the chin instead?

@18_wheeler 24 күн бұрын

I still feel the stimulus on my triceps

@Swiftskice 24 күн бұрын

0:43 why do you extend so far on preacher curls? almost every video i see says to not do that. I tried to find some point where you explain that in another video, but only found a video from 11 months ago where you were avoiding that last bit. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rcmghs9pyc-okqM.htmlsi=uKjG_CONrdmbRbn6&t=839 Ik the point probably is to get full range of motion, but is that not risking a bit much/leaving weight off the bar when you pretty much train the bottom part anyways in most of the other bicep lifts which are "safer" to do so?

@columodonnell9212 24 күн бұрын

Lookin big as hell

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

Thanks brotha

@coows 24 күн бұрын

at what rate are your arms growing every 70 days?

@LostKatamori 24 күн бұрын

You said 8 sets for bis and 8 for tris might be considered low by some but I think including your total pushing and pulling volume in that number is pretty common. Off hand do you know what that is? Why don't you include it or is that something you could go over in the next video?

@abhijotsingh321 24 күн бұрын

I think it depends on leverages and how you perform the movement, like doing horizontal + vertical pull overhand won’t engage much biceps.

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

I don’t think it’s worth including push and pull volume where biceps and triceps aren’t prime movers, because my arms don’t grow from it, only from direct work

@Jonah..- 24 күн бұрын

You talk about not liking resting between reps but in this video at 5:54 your resting at the top? I’m confused

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

So this is more of a reset at the top of the rep rather than a rest pause where it’s 5+ seconds just to milk out more reps. I might rest for 2-3 seconds once I’m at 0 RIR and just see if I have another, but an actual planned rest pause I do think is overkill most of the time

@nicho2525 9 күн бұрын

I don’t understand, on “the ultimate arm guide” video u said the volume should be high (15-30 sets) and now u are saying volume is overrated?

@laegu5430 24 күн бұрын

His arms are developing a gravitational pull

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

It’s such an odd feeling

@user-gt5sz5xs2e 24 күн бұрын

Sorry Basement but don't you want tree trunk legs? Cmon quads are probably the biggest weakness of you

@aunty-noble-natty 24 күн бұрын

REVIVAL Fitness start in bodybuilding show agian and he say that you are not real bodybuilder if you don't compete on bodybuilding scene

@JohnSmith-ck5qk 24 күн бұрын

The general form of "you are not X if you compete in an X related event" seems weird. Consider the following, basement bodybuilding does training that follows the bodybuilding tradition, a decent portion of his house is dedicated to housing his bodybuilding ewuipment, his diet and sleep are organized around supporting his training. When significant portions of your life are organized around bodybuilding training it seems ridiculous to suggest he isn't a bodybuilder cause he doesn't compete

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

@@JohnSmith-ck5qk no but since I don’t pay 💰 to compete I’m not a bodybuilder lol. Either way, I don’t get why people care about the semantics of that, it genuinely doesn’t matter

@markhinde6668 24 күн бұрын

Revival is just a douche and trying to be relevant by saying only those that compete are athletes. Its ridiculous.

@NoMercy.62 22 күн бұрын

you should draw a limit somewhere, dont you? what makes the average gym schmuck not a bodybuilder then?

@markhinde6668 22 күн бұрын

@@NoMercy.62 thats when you use other descriptors like competitive bodybuilder, competitive natural bodybuilder if thats the case and you want to present that. Anyone that tries to bodybuild can call themselves that. Its not like gender or anything. I used to play competitive sports but now do them infrequently and more recreational. I still call myself a basketball player or martial artist but I'll include the caveat that its just for fun now as I'm 40.

@cheeks7050 24 күн бұрын

Nuggies

@rokisoree 24 күн бұрын

you will tear this biceps in side out with that preacher curl bro

@columodonnell9212 24 күн бұрын

Hahaha your whole comment history on this channel is just you raging about tearing biceps/triceps... get a life

@rokisoree 24 күн бұрын

@@columodonnell9212 you will tear this biceps

@yoenerlun 24 күн бұрын

Why do you have so little vascularity in your arms?

@naughtiousmaximus7853 24 күн бұрын

I mean, bro is bulking.

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

Depends a lot on temperature, so in the basement gym not much vascularity, but in a warmer climate there’s much more. Bulking also fades it and obviously I’m bulking lmao

@AlmostlessThanHuman 24 күн бұрын

Obligatory your arms are small post

@lex_r.burning 23 күн бұрын

Damn, that sunburn looks painful😬

@rfgTgamer 24 күн бұрын

you're doing it wrong, put the bench in your armpits preacher bench need to be pressed under the arms, not on the elbows you need to create the effect as if you had a lever that lifts the load from below, the center of gravity under the arms, not on the elbows If you can hang yourself on a bench between the armpits and maintain your body weight in the air, then the position is correct

@BasementBodybuilding 24 күн бұрын

Not really a right and wrong way to lift, this creates the same resistance profile but has a little more freedom and lets me comfortably use a close grip. But I agree, doing them with the pad wedged in is how I typically recommend them at least to start

@bullinvginshop9011 24 күн бұрын

I like using multiple types of form for preachers. I do the normal elbow down full range. I do the armpit turned away slightly version. But my favorite is the heavy arm wrestling style cheated version. And honestly the heavy shortened biased version seems to leave the peak of my bicep the most fatigued.