The most important thing is the muscle-Mike connection.

Love the respect between these guys

Johnni you been improving my lifestyle with your intellect info and knowledge for about a year already man, today is my bday I turn 39 and I feel probably the best I ever felt. I appreciate you my guy with all my heart and soul bro

Great guys help each other get better, thats how we win! Good stuff hombre

He just made a video on the curls, the force curve is meant to focus the lengthened portion and have less tension in the shortened portion.

Always useful to see and understand why people do things slightly differently. Even better when they can explain why they do a variation, whilst understanding why someone might do it differently. Too many of us can get hung up on chasing optimal and right/wrong ways to do something, rather than appreciating that people have different goals, preferences, training experience, etc.

Pay attention ppl Jonni is changing ppls lives on here!! 🔥

Hope you have a good one today Jonni get it done ✅!

Honestly, I have not found that the “squeeze” at the top helps new weight lifters to feel the muscles. They end up tensing other muscles that really aren’t related to the movement. The first time we go through a movement, I have them go slow, and feel the movement through 5-8 reps with low weight. If they don’t feel where the muscles are working, we up the weight. And keep upping it until there is no need to guess a MMC. As long as make sure the form is good the entire time, you WILL feel the weight and the muscles if you increase it. That may be higher than the working weight (depending on where we are targeting the strength/hypertrophy line), but once they feel what the muscles should be doing, they are usually able to adjust at lower weights.

@guillaume4519

Ай бұрын

Hi. Could you give en example of a "wrong muscle" that would be tensed by squeezing at the end ?

@IDiggPattyMayonnaise

Ай бұрын

​@@guillaume4519Lats and front delt. Both are used to stabilize in any press movements. People, especially new lifters, think squeezing your chest means bringing your shoulders together at the top. It sounds counterintuitive to say pull your shoulders back and squeeze your chest. For years I had the issue of my lats being sore after chest day, more so than my actual chest. Took a while to learn to not let my shoulders roll forwards or let my lats over compensate

@guillaume4519

Ай бұрын

@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise ok I see what you mean. I did that for a long time ! "Bro lift the bar" so I used every muscle to lift it 😄

When I was watching Dr. Mike "debut" that curl variation, he said that he likes the fact that it is low tension at the top of the rep and very high tension at the bottom. That way you could load more at the stretch position but still complete a full rep. I started a new meso and added that curl variation (amongst other, more traditional curls), and it was great. My biceps don't usually get very sore but they did after that workout!

1: In my head I can hear Dr. Mike making so many off color comments about how important the first couple of inches are. 2: I love how you always seem to mention the squeeze. I know you get more muscle growth from the eccentric but personally the concentric is were I really feel the pump. That's where I get my mind muscle connection.

@guillaume4519

Ай бұрын

I am not sure you get more muscle with eccentric. I think you misunderstood of the eccentric. If i am correct, It allows you get a little more stimulus than the concentric alone. So it should definitly not be neglected. But it's not the movement that create the more muscle.

Love Dr Mike, he's not real big on the contraction squeeze, he likes to focus on eccentric and stretch which is a great, fantastic way of doing it but I want the best of both worlds and do both and it works for me

The only thing I would do differently for the bench press is that I wouldn't lock my elbows at the top. Love those incline curls; makes it easier to emphasize lengthened partials.

@dopefreshness77

Ай бұрын

i barely learned about lengthed partials yesterday and i’m seeing it everywhere now this is crazy

@VernCrisler

Ай бұрын

@@dopefreshness77 I only realized how important they were a few weeks ago -- probably because I saw it on House of Hypertrophy or maybe on Dr. Mike's podcast.

Need some ab routines

Aye, it is what it is!❤😮😊

cant wait for mike to react to this video.

Dr. Mike keeps his butt up a little to better target the chest. I find it works very well and is more difficult than a plank position push-up.

The concentric phase is for the inner pecs.

I'm not quite sure I want my head on the part of bench where someone's sweaty ass might have been doing dumbbell curls.Also started using smith's machine more. Tried skull crushers on smith's machine and found it better on joints.

Mike has changed his repetition performance a bit. He used to do full ROM and hold at the end of the eccentric. From what I understand, he's testing his results with all this research focusing more on the stretched position and pulling back a bit from his "full ROM."

@guillaume4519

Ай бұрын

He explained that he is forced to emphasize the movement when he explains, because it's mostly for beginners, but in reality the need for pause and control of the eccentric can be reduced (if you know what you are doing).

@stevewise1656

Ай бұрын

@@guillaume4519 Yes, I know, because RP is prepping me right now. Also, Mike said that to Menno, though he does recommend those exact same slow eccentrics and extremely strict form when Jared Feather was training Nick Walker and other RP guys prep people for shows.

@stevewise1656

Ай бұрын

@@guillaume4519 I know, RP is prepping me right now. Mike told Meno he only empathizes that repetition performance for beginners, though he and Jared Feather recommend the same slow exaggerated eccentrics and full ROM whether they're training Nick Walker or other competitors. I've been training for 45 years and competed out of SoCal as a teen and into my early 20's prior to opening my gyms. I do know what I'm doing and not a beginner. I have photos taken every 10 years as a natural bodybuilder to see what I can do at each age...30,40,50, and now 60.

@guillaume4519

Ай бұрын

@@stevewise1656 that's pretty cool. I hope you're having a good experience.

@stevewise1656

Ай бұрын

@@guillaume4519 I am...they're a solid company

Jonni on the Smith machine it looked like you were using the suicide grip. Any particular reason why? Is it just personal preference?

@FilmFlam-8008

Ай бұрын

Not as critical on the smith, because it is a lot more stable. The side to side is controlled. Smith is great for isolation and doing movement tweeks safely that you can’t on free weights. With that said, I like to train on smit like the free weights just for consistency. Standard BBell? They call it suicide grip for a reason.

@andypayne2743

Ай бұрын

“Jonni on the Smith machine” sounds like the name of band 😁

On the decline curl, maybe he is getting more bloodflow in his upper limbs.

That truly is the Golden Rule: Find the peak contraction and ride the negative. What else is there after that? Lol

❤‍🔥🔥❤‍🔥

From what I learned from you coach Jonni, on the the first tricep exercise I would try to step back to creat that tension throughout the entire exercise stepping back before we begin

Got it! I will stop painting Mike Israetel's left tit green in order to grow a better chest. I swear I thought that would work.

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I am appalled at the barefoot training. JUST KIDDING! Just wanted to see how it felt to “clutch the pearls”. Ha!

Cool of Mike to be cool with this… we know who wouldn’t be tho lol. His name rhymes with Craig lol

yeah ngl you probably aren't gonna catch me on the decline bench doing curls. sorry Mike!

@FilmFlam-8008

Ай бұрын

Agreed, but inclined at an angle works great. Saw some massive improvement after we DROPPED weight first. Getting past that MASSSIVE stretch feeling must be done at lower weight.

@chrismiddleton6658

Ай бұрын

​@@FilmFlam-8008 When I first tried incline curls, I strained my trap/neck. I swore them off. Then one day I tried them again with lighter weight, and everything went great and nice "pump" 10 pounds made the difference between hate and love. -Newbie

@herculez30

Ай бұрын

Doesn't look like you'll get caught in a gym at all

@1xavi2

Ай бұрын

@@herculez30 lol that pic Is from 2016 I guess it's time to update it

More like form Sith

THAT INTRO (also there could only be two Sith)

I know you texted him and it was fine with him (it seems), but why would you correct someone who teached you a lot and has always been a friend to you? You could just have made a video without this clickbait thumbnail and made a video of those movements without mentioning him. Why does it have to be about someone else? Just do your own video minding your own business. Using your own strengths and content.

@shararm

Ай бұрын

why u mad bro

@alldayprotein5627

Ай бұрын

@@shararm Im not mad, this is simply my opinion. That's all.

why the hell is he bare foot ?

dr mike has no mind muscle connection looking like the weights he is lifting is too heavy for me... dr mike has no squeeze when he lifts looks like he is in a hurry and forcing the weight and no control @ all...

@willjf2868

Ай бұрын

Lol no guys one of the best on KZread maybe even the best

Honestly I can’t watch Dr. Mike because of his filthy mouth which is a turnoff, so I’m glad that Johnnie did this video to show how he respectfully disagrees with some of his training techniques. Johnnie is the man

@jl3114

Ай бұрын

Oi Vey cool it with the antisemitism

@shararm

Ай бұрын

@@jl3114 based