Never commented on one of your videos after watching around 100 of them BUT I feel I should because the info you put out is just brilliant bud so much so I've lost 60lbs and almost fixed a long term shoulder injury which was holding me back for years.... and great videos and a pleasure to watch someone just do it with no fancy effects, in fact I think that's why Sam Sulik is so popular with his none flashy videos, we just want the info.

Johnny bodybuilder

You don’t need justification. Just be a bodybuilder proudly and get big lifts

Jamie Lewis, a guy historically most interested in strength and maximal work, has changed his philosophy quite a bit and now also talk a lot about bodybuilding. My point, I think we all need to cultivate our inner bodybuilder or simply indulge him if he is already there. Does a body good!

It's called enabling.

I think bodybuilders and strength guys can both learn a lot from each other

Same here lol

You can do it! Try lots of volume, don't be afraid to drop the weight after your sets. Whatever you do for 5 take off 40 lbs or so and knock out a few sets of 10 after your working set(s). Works great. You can also try twice a week if your recovery allows it

that should be your warm up weight after 5 years of weight training

@@Pastor_Sempa lmao you have literally no idea what his circumstances are. Stop talking like there's some absolute standard of strength for every person on earth. Gatekeeping is for the insecure.

@@Pastor_Sempa shut up

Yeah buddy, lets goo 🙂same objective but in the incline (and I got it)

Wow, that’s damn impressive…and humbling. I just about broke my shoulder patting myself on the back for 315 OHP. Thanks for adjusting my goals! You rock.

Oops, misread…or just assumed you were talking OHP. Still, that’s a kicking bench.

And funny enough shoulders and triceps are one of the biggest muscles in the upper body

@@NunoAlexandreMB ^

Me neither, I just focus on big 4 like you. After my session I'm worn out and just want to go home, not stay longer to chase the pump in smaller muscles But my shoulders and calves are staying behind

It's often those muscles we hate training the most that need it the most. I know that has been true of my own training over the years, and I've most others I've known.

bro shoulders ar big muscles, theyre not small

Facts. I need to start this as well.

Amen to that. Got it with the 50% off bundle deal & I’m excited to hell to try the “reverse shrug” on deadlifts on my next workout. Been in the game a while now & I’ve never heard that cue until now!

@@Cwillz303 … Heard about that ‘reverse6 shrug’ or ‘anti-shrug’ a couple months ago while watching an EliteFTS video. Dave Tate Fixes 6 Deadlifts AT ONCE | Train Your Ass Off: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e-B6ea6K05e8lmg.html

@@Cwillz303 … forgot time stamp: 4:30 to 5:10 mark in the EliteFTS video.

The incline may be a good solution, with a variety of accessories as Alex said

Did you notice any relative size gain to your shoulders while increasing the strict ohp

@@DOCFIT_09 my shoulders are definitely bigger , but the lift really doesn't want to go up..maybe if I actually trained that lift and specialized at it instead of trying to be that jack of all trades I could get it to where it goes faster... It's been 6 months now and I attempted a 90kg the other day and narrowly missed out on lockout...but after 6 months training to not land a PB was very demoralizing

@@dannyb9209 really man..i 100% agree that the lift is so so hard to progress but i think some minor progression of 5 pounds also makes a difference on your upper body on this lift!

dude u acting like 87.5 strick press is average or something

I never did front raises because I always heard that the front felt already got enough stimulus from pressing bench/OHP Now my front delts are nonexistent, they're lagging a lot I'll do them too

@@victorgomez6330 same here. Always felt like my front delts lacked even with all the pressing. Maybe it comes down to your genetics? Idk. But yeah, I’ve started doing them

Indeed …👍🏻🙌

yep, literally no reason a lifter can’t do a few sets of lateral raises 2x/week

the flys before bench thing always confuses me as well. might try it out though. but your lateral delts recover pretty easily. shouldnt be an issue

@@mariushager9983 especially during a front delt dominant exercise.

Lmao your name is hilarious. But my two cents... Just do whatever works for you. If you warm up with isolation, light rotation, pressure points (20 sec on pec minor f.e.) to relieve tightness or antagonistic muscle stimulation and you feel it's giving you good results keep on doing it. Priming a muscle for heavier work usually works great.

Your examples aren't good because pulling muscles aren't prime movers for bench press, or hamstrings for squats. But as others have said, just try stuff and see what happens.

@@gracefool right.... They are critically important stabilizers that are highly active in the bench. People think that means it will interfere. In maximal work it surely does, but at the lower thresholds it isn't.

My arnold press is going up but not my Ohp

Bob and Brad may sell a good massage gun but a lot of their advice is terrible, especially for people who train strength. They're of the ass-covering physio school that believes in bad exercises rather than training to increase mobility and turn them into good exercises.

Lol trust me, I hear it. Talking about your own numbers is cringey but a certain amount of self promotion is necessary. I'm still working on finding the right intersection of humility and self-fellating. I've set a timer; you won't hear about my lifts again for another 9 videos.

Take a shot every time Matt mentions he has a masters degree and you won't survive the video.

Yeah his dip form is atrocious

Problem with calisthenics is that they require a minimum amount of strength before you can use them effectively, and shoulder variations require a lot of strength. I don't have any reason to believe that calisthenic variations work better than standard gym equipment, and the gym equipment can be scaled and progressed much, much more easily. If you like doing calisthenics, great; any form of resistance training will grow muscle and strength. But they don't have any special feature that will favor growth beyond any other exercise you might do.

@@AlexanderBromley thanks appericate the reply :)

@@AlexanderBromley hi bormly for your advice my shoulders hurt alots front delts ,what can I do for.this How can I build some with weighted bodyweight excrises and how to get big for long limb lifters

Pin presses (regarding the strict press). If you wanna train your push presses, thrusters are a great awareness builder

3 minutes each, light weight enough that you may need a paid halfway through, all four shoulder angles, steady but quick pace.

can you tell me what your numbers are now? those numbers seem crazy

@@jeremyc1034 Bench 100kgx3 last time I tried. Haven't done overhead pressing for a long time. It has been a learning experience.

Simply dial the volume back until ur work capacity improves, at which point u can introduce +1 sets on some or all of the lifts and then reassess from there

Creatine. It'll double your workload and it's healthy.

5 per exercise. That's because arms are a weak point for me and most of my sets are shy of failure.

@@AlexanderBromley thank you!

Hey how is it going

@@DOCFIT_09 I did 2 months of it. In kilos - my OHP went from 85 to 95kg. My bench stayed at 120 but my shoulders recovered better doing OHP than bench.

@@jfried6754 10 kg increase in ohp in 2 months is crazy....did you notice any shoulder gains with it? And what about the calories during this time? Bulking or just maintaining?

@@DOCFIT_09 sorry I am really bad at counting calories. I track protein and kind of carbs but have only a rough idea of my calorie intake. I was targeting 3200 calories throughout which is about maintenance but as I put 1kg on over the time I would have been a slight surplus. My shoulders definitely were bigger and more 'capped' looking. I did behind the neck work two days a week during this time period and I think that was the secret - the BTN work helped me get very balanced shoulders.

Yeah, I can see how that seems contradictory. The first part is just a reminder to set aside 'performance' as the absolute priority which is really hard for strength athletes to do. Hypertrophy focused workouts require a ton of reps and a ton of fatigue and that might entail restructuring exercises to optimize fatigue over load and it might entail dropping the weight to unimpressive levels in order to thoroughly exhaust yourself. The second part still stands as a very broad structure for whatever muscle takes priority that day, but it isn't set in stone. Example: I'm doing triceps 2x per week because they are a weak point for me, one day they are done before pecs, the other day they are done before delts. So I'm benching and overhead pressing after some 12-15 sets of tricep work, which is humbling since my working weight is below 50% on most sets. Pressing the most weight is not my priority; bringing up my weak points is. Now, with my tricep work I'm still starting out with a heavier variation like JM Presses or Dips; I'm opting to take most of my sets very close to failure and torching my triceps on a finesse movement would limit the load I could handle on the big movements. I feel like this is making the best use of each type of movement. Now, would it make a really big difference if I swapped the order? If I'm working hard and progressing workout to workout.... probably not. I wasn't really clear, but when I recommend 'pre-fatigue' with compound movements, like doing flys before benching, I'm not talking about 4-5 sets to failure. More of a warmup that drives blood into the joints, sneaks in some productive volume and won't impact performance too much after you've given some time to acclimate to it.

there's a reason bromley regularly deals with shoulder pain and wenning never does.

​@@patrickjulius7352But there's also a vast difference in their goals and competitions. Wenning is a powerlifter, so only using overhead work as an occasional accessory makes sense. Bromley is a competitive strongman, meaning without overhead work he stops being able to compete entirely. Or even call himself a strongman, in certain circles. People need to remember where the context of the advice they get comes from. They could both be correct, even if they give with wildly different answers to the same question.

@@RevShifty Wenning trains competitive strongmen, one of whom won his division and broke a record in the leg press despite not regularly training military press week to week. says training it often is damaging and he can get him competitive without wearing out the joints.

I would have generally agreed with you a while ago as a gradual pyramid down in intensity through the session makes the most sense. In terms of bodybuilding I know that Mike Isratel and a few natty guys like GVS and basement bodybuilding recommend prioritising lacking body parts at the start of a session which does make sense to me. If I need my arms to grow I don't want to be gassed after a session of compounds and not have full energy to push what needs the most work. So for example I started out on a minimalist routine years ago and generally grew alot on my torso but my arms were heavily lacking. Recently I've run a upper lower split with a chest and back primary focus to start on upper1 and arm/shoulder isolation to finish. Then on upper 2 I Will start the session with a 5-10 rep range barbell curl/5-10 range tricep pushdown superset, then move onto the compounds and again finish off with some more high rep isolation for arms but with different variations. I've made huge strength and size gains since changing it up to this as I never realised how far back my arms were keeping me from progressing some lifts. I think If you are going to use an isolation to start it is better to use a variation you can push for a higher weight with a low to moderate rep range. This is to ensure you can get a decent mix of all rep ranges for the best growth possible. What I agree wouldn't make sense from my experience is starting a session with some high rep "pump" isolation. I still belive that is best left after the higher weight/lower rep work is out the way. If you ARE going to add an isolation to the start of a session it may aswel be in an intensity/rep range you wouldn't otherwise be able to do as effectively post compounds.

Compare your strict press to your bench. If you can strict press 75% of your bench, your ohp is damn strong relative to your bench (I stay around 70%) while 60% and under means they should be prioritized.

Try external and internal rotation excersises for shoulder with cables or bands. You should hold the handle at 90 degrees, upper arm to your side. use very lightweight. youll have to look it up for proper form

12:00 is for you PF

@@CeroAshura thanks lol