I truly love the no bullshit information. Plus, you have an enjoyable voice to listen to. Please never stop, Faz. Too many pompous people out there muddying the waters and encouraging program hopping.

Very true. I did ppl twice a week for years using the same exercises on both training days. Was able to progress quickly. I think people don't understand that beginners can do things that more advanced guys can't.

To me, your teaching background matches marvelously with how much you know about training. Thank you for your uploads

@nmnate

4 ай бұрын

Gains class is in session 💪

Best advice on the web!

Providing insane value with this series Faz. Love it.

Definitely like to take these notes, including when I get asked now to make people workout plans when I'm no coach or trainer myself 😅

Great vid - this has really worked for me over the last few months (max 2 variations). Regarding the channel, the subscriber count is low for this level of quality but I've seen this with other channels over the last years, too (GVS, for example). Hang in there!

Here to learn 💪💪

Enjoying hearing about the start of your journey Faz 👍 remembering back, I think I was probably guilty of grinding away at the same movements for too long without change, and then adding too much when I did add some variation. Oh well, we learn! Hopefully this series can help some guys starting out and set them on the right track.

Interesting and useful series Faz

Awesome Faz! Loving these.

Great series Faz !thank you for all the info you shared !much knowledge in this series💪🏽

Loving the series 🙌🙌🙌

Really enjoy this series

Great video as usual Faz

Really appreciate your perspective looking backward at what actually worked for you. Funny how obvious it feels when you've got more experience and the benefit of hindsight. I've had a couple of those over the years. D'oh! 😅

I think your views on variations are well reasoned. I'm probably not so advanced that I need so many different movements myself. I'll have to try reducing to see what happens.

great video

Valuable videos

Great video, the biggest lesson I learnt 2 years ago is that you have to “earn” variations. If you only bench a plate for reps you have no business doing variations or considering sfr. Your method is a less extreme version of eric boogz and look at the size of him😂

Interesting video. Be good to hear about rep ranges, rest between sets, time under load - overcoming sticking points. Cheers matey.

@Fazlifts

4 ай бұрын

Sets/reps in the first video my friend.

Great video, exactly what I needed to hear. Regarding your comments about doing so only when necessary, say one lift is stalling out due to not being about to recovery between sessions rather than switching out the whole session and interrupting the good progress on other lifts I take it you could and should do this exercise by exercise? For instance my dumbbell press has stalled pretty hard. I follow and upper lower and until now it’s just 2 sessions no a and b. Progress on all other lifts is pretty good so I was thinking every other upper session I’ll do dumbbell press as my heavy press and in the following one do a heavy machine press but leave all other exercises the same. My thinking is change as little as possible at first.

@Fazlifts

4 ай бұрын

Two things spring to mind here: 1) I would always look at diet first as the solution to a stall 2) A plateau on one movement is very likely to be simply slow progress, and not a stall Only after exhausting these two solutions would I change the routine.

@sdavis7096

4 ай бұрын

Great good to know. I know for sure I’m in a healthy surplus. Just seems like a brick wall with this exercise maybe I could manipulate other variables first before swapping it out.

@Fazlifts

4 ай бұрын

Did we have a conversation on email a few years ago, or was that another S. Davis?

@sdavis7096

4 ай бұрын

@@FazliftsI’m not sure if it was email but we’ve definitely interacted on the channel a few times. I’m a long time subscriber.

@sdavis7096

4 ай бұрын

I bought your barbarian program as well. I’m running something similar to that at the moment.

Great series. If you had then the knowledge you have now ,how your then beginner routine will change?

@Fazlifts

4 ай бұрын

The wisest lesson I've learned over the years and this is huge, you need to pay attention to this... ...if someone gains 20lb of muscle in a year naturally, don't change a damn thing.

@TITANAS84

4 ай бұрын

@@Fazlifts This answer is not optimal . Haha, you are the best. Wait for part 3.

Great video Faz. Out of interest what rep ranges was you using for this and number of sets. Cheers.

@Fazlifts

4 ай бұрын

In the first video my friend.

@simonclark7564

4 ай бұрын

@@Fazliftsthanks Faz

I'm constantly flip-flopping between these two schools of thought: that I specialised and complicated things too early; and I am where I am (I like my physique for the most part) in part because I was unafraid to experiment. I'm convinced that I wouldn't have hit a 220kg deadlift and a 140kg bench if I'd not moved to variations by now (because there are exercises that I have never stopped doing and have not hit those kind of numbers). So I don't think that I ruined my physique by experimenting. And besides, I wanted to do it. It was fun being my own test dummy and learning all the time. That said, there are seemingly more guys who built the vast majority of their muscle without doing anything other than the basics than there are guys who after 1-2 years started rotating lifts out (I was not hitting big numbers). It's also weird because the very first beginner/novice/early intermediate programs I ran from all the usual suspects were not just high frequency on the basics. They often included variations and rotations. So from day 1 I knew about periodisation. When I first learned about that word and what it meant, I was like, 'But doesn't everyone do that? I have never not done it'. Periodisation was totally natural to me because it was built-in to the programs I was running. GZCLP, 5/3/1, PHUL, PHAT, etc, these were the programs I cut my teeth with and they all had levels of periodisation. To me it feels weird to do the same exercise twice in a week.

@Fazlifts

4 ай бұрын

You've achieved it, so I wouldn't question it now. Whatever you did worked. But very often you have to take what the majority are doing and do the opposite. Because the majority are spineless boys who will never make it.

For the KZread Gods

I feel more inclined to switch up exercises for the sake of joint health, not to increase gains. for joint health, is it important o have different rotations and switch up exercises or am I off on that?

@Fazlifts

4 ай бұрын

You gotta recognise when to drop an exercise permanently, because it's no longer safe. But that's not what I'm talking about here, guys who switch exercises 'cos they "stalled out" or things feel a bit hurty - they need to toughen up.

To the youtube gods 🙏

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