[Music] there we go all right little bit different kind of setup than normal no um no car talk on this one I didn't have my little suction cup kind of thing I had to get the Camry looked at but let's um so this is actually the day after but let's just pretend I have no idea how this hamstring workout going to go uh I don't know I wonder what kind of movements I'm going to do but one thing I kind of wanted to get into is like I've seen a well okay a million is kind of over exaggerating but I've seen a crazy amount of [ __ ] Clips where it's just like I mean it's just people kind of dogging on anybody putting thems in a [ __ ] uncomfortable situation you know it's a it's like a classic um and if you're like a main Gainer if you're a DieHard main Gainer you think everybody should be main gaining that's the way to gain muscle over a long period of time then yeah I mean this this kind of goes against your [ __ ] you know entire mentality but when it comes to the guys that are trying to trim down or seriously bulk up I mean in the process it's [ __ ] uncomfortable this is not my natural state of being by any [ __ ] means and trying to get up to like I mean now at 265 I'm sure month and a half 270 a little further 275 I yeah I'm getting pretty confident that the 280 Mark is going to be broken pre- Christmas time you know before Mr Claus comes over but yeah it's [ __ ] uncomfortable man you know being crazy uh you know crazy full of food all the time if I if I stand out in the sun especially now that dude I'm going to be drenched in 10 minutes just from that extric kind of heat but that's not for no reason that's for the kind of overarching like I mean it is kind of a payment in a way right you're paying with this time of of a uncomfortability now but going through that is for kind of a greater goal at the end so I'll see guys like make reaction kind of videos dogging on somebody where they're trying to really D it down you know and get just kind of leaner because they want to and in the process they're like yeah you know I'm in the phase of dieting where it's uh just kind of sucks you know if you know anything about dieting there's kind of an initial week two we phase before you really lost any muscle but what happens is if you stop eating like a crazy amount of calories especially carbs you're kind of going to deflate in a way you know a lot of your kind of intramuscular fluids and glycogen and piroplasm and everything else is going to kind of you know simmer down because you're not just you know completely fed like a uh well like somebody bulking so there's like a twoe period where you have now shrunk down you're not as big muscularly but you got extra body fat on you so if anything you actually kind of look worse the beginning period of dieting for the that sort of first two weeks you really just gradually look slightly worse before you get into the real thick of it in terms of the fat loss side and you actually kind of start to see more results of the gains or the I guess more the goal in that situation that you're actually aiming for but in the process you know somebody might say to themselves it's like oh geez this kind of [ __ ] sucks you know I'm in the I'm in the what should we call it what's the opposite of a grace period I'm in the I'm in the disgrace period of dieting but I mean it's not a bad way to put it yeah you know it's a situation where shut [ __ ] man I look slightly worse just objectively if if your whole uh you know grading hierarchy scheme of things is like big and lean but that's for the end goal of being leaner later on so you've got to be comfortable knowing okay I'm not exactly where I want to be right now but I am on track to get where I want to be later on right if you know somebody who um has let's just say they have an issue with increasing the number on the scale you know let's say they don't really they don't want to start that bulk what's the reason you know some guys I mean it depends if you're just a regular kind of high school like college level athlete dude and you're doing like a performance sport yeah maybe maybe don't try to do a [ __ ] nasty bodybuilder bulk and like gain an extra 40 lbs and then have to deal with that later on totally different scenario but I think there's a reasonably large percentage of lifters out there where their whole reason for not wanting to start bulking up it's purely because they're like oh I I don't want I don't want to get fat man I don't want to lose my abs I uh yeah I just got my first shoulder striation come on I can't get rid of that but you know it's kind of a situation where it's like if you can't let it go it's not worth holding on to because here's my kind of thought proc process on the matter it's like look I M gain for three years when I started working out up until 3 years when I quit doing college sports and I actually took the bodybuilding side seriously I was never going to do a crazy bulk you know I'd get my protein in but that was the end of it and I gained I wouldn't say not 40 lbs of muscle but I went from like 160 to like 200 and maybe a similar kind of body fat percentage in that three-year time frame look I'm not anti- main gaining but you're going to reach a point where it looks like this if you're main gaining sure gains gains gains gains oh oh what's going on here it's slowing down whoa and then I feel like it's going to slow down to a point where you got to change something you know so if you want to break away from this exponential where you're gradually just making smaller and smaller or smaller and smaller returns year after year even just by a month-by-month basis and that's where changing it up with a bulking phase might do you some good man you know maybe bulk up try to put on 25 lbs dye it down reasonably so you actually kind of get to hold on to some of the muscle that you built and then at the end of it oh [ __ ] I'm I'm F pounds heavier and I was just as lean as I was in the beginning well you know so if what's holding you back from doing something like that is you're afraid of like not enjoying that sort of interstitial time period between you and where that goal is then I mean it's um this isn't rhetorical you know that's up for you to decide but there's no reason to dog in somebody for going through uncomfortability on purpose because they want what's on the end of it and if somebody isn't willing to do that in the process I mean anybody can say whatever but what really gives them the right to criticize them you know it's like uh what are you going to make fun make fun of someone for doing an ice bath if you can never even put your foot in which uh maybe I'm losing track of sight there but I I kept seeing a bunch of little Clips like that which were kind of annoying me but back to car uh back to the normal car talk as usual tomorrow I uh I'm getting the itch I keep watching all the I mean not on purpose I'm just scrolling my phone but I keep seeing all the Minecraft speedruns what do you think 20 minutes I did it in an hour once so maybe that's on the horizon for you but I'll see you in the anytime in one second there we go no car talk today I don't have my um had to take the camera in and I don't have the suction cup in my mom's car so we'll just have to make do but I was planning on doing a full leg day I'm not sure exactly when it was like I never had like a moment where I said whoo that hurt but I think it was um maybe four leg days ago or so the last time I did barbell squats I think I must have [ __ ] got my knee somewhere kind of like uh like you ever hear ocard Slaughters where it's like where your knee tendon kind of ties into your shin I'm feeling a little something right there kind of tendit toy like I mean it's not like I think my knee is going to explode but it's discomfort to the level where I I think even doing any quads right now seriously is just putting me further behind in terms of having now a nagging kind of tweak so instead let's just make tonight a uh just a real real posterior chain destruction kind of approach so I'm going to start off with a couple of abductors here not exactly for uh I mean these aren't working sets by any means really all I'm trying to do is um warm myself up because even though it's not really doing a crazy amount I still kind of feel like once my adductors are a little warmer my hamstrings well I just feel more comfortable on the hamstring curls so I'll sit here for a couple of minutes get these warm I'm also going to kind of counter this with a couple of like body weight single leg calf raises cuz I'm not sure if you're totally aware but if you're thinking about your leg just like your arm when you do a curl it's not immediately all bicep your forearm comes into play as well same [ __ ] below the waist so even though right it is a hamstring curl hamstring to do in the primary work my Cal's still come into play you know your calves are still kind of because they sort of tie in up here into your upper arm you know so it's all kind of a continuous sort of system so for me at least I mean maybe you never run into it but if I ever do hamstring curls without warming up my calves sometimes I get this real kind of just like Pinchy like nothing crazy but just a little bit of a tightness in like the back back side of my knee where my hamstrings tie in and if I can remedy that with just a couple sets of warm-ups then that's what I'm going to do you same thing with tricep same thing with anything it's um don't just immediately jump to the conclusion like oh I can't do heavy tricep push Downs my [ __ ] my elbows get so sore they're oh I feel like they're on fire you know that's going to make me ask okay did you do any warming up or did you just immediately do like half the stack and then say okay we're good let's do a big set know it's like little things can be diminished but I'm going to camp out here for a minute and then we can fast forward to what I'm going to try to make the most intense hamstring day that I've had in a while because if this is only hamstrings that means I got my whole leg day's energy to just concentrate on the back side here and then hopefully with this extra day of rest so now a full week off of quads this should kind of tighten itself up and then we can get back to some heavy stuff and not just some heavy stuff but also some more some more pressing volume but I'm not joking I mean what's the point of pushing yourself through an injury if it's just going to continually progress negatively and then eventually you could be really screwed you know so I've gotten a little bit smarter with um being cautious about minor tweaks so if you ever get a an engine light on in your [ __ ] body listen to it and act accordingly but let's uh let's cut to the first set of hamstring curls little less than the full stack is about as much as I'm going to be able to manage for a good squeezing set so one thing I'm really trying to change is the maybe not the amounts you know I might do like eight well probably 8ish sets of hamstrings tonight so I don't need every set to be completely different but I do want to hit a wide array of like set executions so this first one is going to be going to biasing to hold in position right imagine these are my hamstrings hold it one second back down normal speed hold it one second so I might do a few of these I might just do the one and change it up but like don't uh you know I get a lot of um and I'm not complaining but like I'll get some Flack where it's like dude Sam you only did hamstring curls like sure you did the laying in the seated but it's like is that really enough and like sure that's only two movements but each movement can be executed insanely [ __ ] differently you know you can do a set of dumbbell curls how many different ways a [ __ ] 100 you know do them lighter do like a Tempo rep do them like you can change the [ __ ] up so much it's beyond just even describing a set as like oh let's just do three sets here it's like if you really want to get into it it's not necessarily just like three sets of this it's more like three sets in you know whatever kind of style but I like changing it up like this so this would be a perfect starter once we get lighter I'll be able to do some self- assisted reps too just another reason why I [ __ ] love this Hammer Strength uh Lane curl [Music] oh God one more like that no way that might have been too [ __ ] heavy for a controlled set okay let's think here what would you do if you just did two good sets of Lane curls and maybe you wanted to change it up yet again let's change it up new machine new technique new everything you know honestly I think I need to get a um I need like a little [ __ ] Wheel of Fortune kind of thing honestly that could make for some kind of interesting workouts you know pick your movements at your leisure but then spin the wheel and it'll tell you like you know do a light squeezing set do a set where you hold the link in position for a second and then you know regular rep hold the lengthen something like that if you uh somebody steals that give me a little credit but plan here is going to be holding the extended portion so I'm going to let my feet just hang on the top for a second but I'm not doing nothing I'm still holding the weight and really stretching out my hamstrings which is something I have not done really like at least in the dedicated fashion for the earlier part of my hamstring training typically I'm actually known for I mean not known for but whenever I would do this machine I mean a lot of heavy sets too but I'm like this this right here is like the maximum range of motion and I was bouncing around this area really just throwing weight around which I don't think is inherently bad I mean I'm still wrecking my hamstrings but I'm totally missing out on this stretch position by doing it that way so like I was saying a second ago you know I don't I don't want to just lock into one specific method if I can change it up enough OD are at least something that I'm doing is going to stimulate some new kind of hamstring growth so if your workouts are getting a little bit stale you can tell you only do Straight sets every set and you're getting a little tired of it maybe your maybe your pump is suffering dude that'd be the worst case scenario you change it up throw drops in there every so often but let's uh let's throw this around and lightweight too barely half the stack oh God m one Mar that a little heavier though [Music] [Music] okay oh my gosh okay let's go do some R else doing a little two and through kind of approach two sets there two STS here what are the odds would do two sets of rdl's and then move on again reasonably High I think I'm no exercise physiologist but I can say for sure if I'm standing in front of a bar to do some already else a few things are going through my mind keep my back relatively straight I don't mind a little Bend I mean for me at least this is a very manageable weight like I'm um I'm not concerned if I'm doing these kind of rdls and my back's a little rounded over at the bottom now it depends on how heavy you're going I mean somebody like a uh oh my God we um we had a visit with um with the uh Renaissance periodization you guys you know Mike and Jared and it was kind of a whole G together characters a couple of months ago but I was doing hamstrings with Hunter Labrada dude [ __ ] beast imagine me times uh well I don't know he's got to be 300 something I mean [ __ ] only me 's like maybe an extra 40 50% of muscle not to [ __ ] make it not to downgrade the dude's a beast but he's doing a we're doing half curls together and then we move on to do rdl's and uh you know I do uh I do like two plates and then he adds three plates and he adds four plates he had I don't remember I think he had five maybe six plates for rdl's wow so he had really good form he's not going to have his his uh his back like arched over with that much weight but for me was something like this where it's just heavy enough to let me really isolate my hamstrings I'm not concerned now that's not me saying keep a round back but I'm just telling you there's a little caveats of the situation so relatively tight feet a little less than shoulder width and then I'm trying to almost pivot like below my hips like it's um It's Tricky if if you practice them enough you'll just get it you know try to uh try to pull with your hamstrings not your glutes which is uh very easier said than done but either way I'm I'm talking too much let's let's get started here all right yeah damn that was good I kind of have to end these sets once I can tell my hamstrings are weak enough that I start using glutes and lower back which I don't want to do so that's my quue probably one more potentially too you're going to submit your bets now okay oh my God that's enough that's a little good [ __ ] head back this this will be a nasty burnout kind of set ripping it from the get-go actually the sun sucks all right okay that was toy bugging ABY I think I may just do one more burnout set and that'll be the end of it okay all right that's enough oh my god let's freaking roll