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Some questions: (1) On the refeed days, do you ingest maintenance caloric intake? Or even a slight caloric surplus (if so, what's the amount of it above the maintenance)? (2) If you have maintenance caloric intake, do you decrease the daily calories intake in the other days (so that the weekly average intake will be exactly the same)? (3) What's the amount of each macronutrient during a refeed day?

Bravo to Eric for always being able to bring the history! Forever fascinated and brings me into deeper purpose in my craft, as well. 🙏🏻✨️🤍

Your a champion, in your past video about what you typically consume in a day(based on 3 meals) you stated you have big breakfast and then your pre workout meal is 2hrs before gym session .question does it take 5-6hrs for your body to convert food into glycogen-in that case aren't you better off having your glycogen level 67%full rather than 33%

Thank you for sharing such fantastic insight, I am personally someone who is quite weary of leaving any gains on the table I am recently slapping myself for the amount of reps I could have done if it wasn't for trying to touch my chest on all pulling movements that's been a big one for me lately

What do you mean when you say lactic acid buildup prevents you from reaching failure? Are you saying you can't endure the pain or that it lactic acid buildup physically stops you?

Can't wait for the cases study! I was listening to Iron Culture yesterday thinking that I must've missed the results. Glad to hear it's coming!

Whats your calves measurement ?

That Gold gym in Milan looks sick. I might have to tell my gf we wanna go to Milan haha

Dr. Eric, what is a typical rest time between your sets for calf raises? I’m thinking of adding the 30 sec holds at the end!

For me seated raises have really helped. They seem to have helped with thickness

Thanks again, Jeff, for another great video. I love the pauses too on my sets and, admittedly, started doing them based on watching your training, I think. I noticed your reps looked more controlled and dialed in. Upon execution, that's exactly what happened in my training, and I found it very effective. One thing I would caution others on based on this style, whether it's back volume or otherwise, is to be mindful of the wear and tear overtime and adapt as needed. It's pretty obvious logically but different in practice. My elbows took a beating from doing a lot of pausing in the lengthened position on horizontal and vertical pushing and pulling movements. As you always say, it is context dependent. So for more context, low bar back squats most likely contributed, along with lateral raises and being in a deficit. I had to pull back most of my upper volume for about 8 months, and come out of the deficit once I was done with it, to fully recover. The pauses were effective for me until a point, so i'll be much more cognizant of the right path for me as I get back into upper training. I think it was tendon related since the discomfort appears near the elbow joint. Just a wind of caution to other admirers of this style of training. All the best to you Jeff, and those watching, on your journey 🙏🏻

Great sartorius tip

Eric in England is probably the best thing to see 😉 glad you had a great time qll round. Crushing it as always 🔥💙

11:30 the Brand of the Equipment is Gym80. They have some good stuff, but of their stuff is not so great to be honest. Very good quality, but not so good bio-mechanics and load profile.

Always repping Natty News Daily! Keep the videos coming Eric.

was the trip really worth it when u miss out on an iron culture ep tho?

Eric Helms is just such a great role model. Hard working, funny, humble and just an all around nice dude. Thanks for all that you do for the community. If you ever come to Germany, I for sure will be an attendee of whatever seminar, etc you are doing. Keep up the great work

Was the British conference in the London Irish rugby team training facilities? I couldn't help but notice their logo on the wall

Would you partial lying leg curls do fhe same thing as seated leg curls?

How much new estimated new muscle have you gained this offseason? Not the lost from the diet, i mean Complete new muscle

Nice to see a high level competitor using the same machines that I have access to on my public gym. Makes me slightly less jealous of the top end machines I don't have access to. Ironically just came home from leg day where I did the exact same hack squat, leg curl and machine calf raises (just with a smidge fewer plates). At least I know I'm doing something marginally correctly.

Noticed your awesome forearm tattoo! What does it say if you don’t mind me asking and is that arabic? Also do you still aim for RIR 2-0 on most sets and failure on the last?

The goat. Ive used those machines (like the chest supported row and calf raise) at Golds in Tigard OR). The reason you "dont remember" the name of them is because they don't have names on em! At least mine didn't. 😂

How many calories you at ?

Awesome Eric, i've been doing a wee 5 week diet before heading off to the UK for a few weeks from NZ to see the fam, i'll probably be going into a wee maintenance while there, and training will be similar to yours just trying to get it in when I can. I'll probably have fun bro arms session with my mate in UK, on vacation/holiday why not deviate a bit for fun. Do you have any tips for the long haul? is it worth stocking up on some protein supplementation, or just not sweat it since its just a day or two travelling? Thanks again.

Dr i noticed you prefer full body workouts what do u think about push/pull/legs ?

Your goal should be to stop saying right rhetorically it's ridiculous

Caves are a unique muscle group! The muscle is denser and has an extremely high neural muscular activation level! Where most muscle groups may have 40% to 70% activation calves have a 90+% neural muscular activation! You use your caves all day as you walk so they by design can take a great deal of work without substantial hypertrophic activation! As a result, to stimulate growth, you need to greatly exceed the normal workload of daily use! This will obviously require increasing the weight substantially, and MOST people will require rep ranges in the 15 to 25 area! Yes, it will hurt! Get over it!

Hey Jeff, what made you buy a leg extension/curl machine when you already had that bench leg attachment? Thanks!

Great development Jeff! I dont think most people realise how much effort and work is actually required! I dont wanna believe it either , but I do….

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I seen a lot of ring specialist gymnasts so that type of fly movement

what is the attachment your using when doing cable rows?

I got the like to 69, you're welcome

Hey Jeff, where did you get that calf block used during the standing smith machine calf raises? I've been using a slant board at home and it works well enough but my feet definitely slide down every 8 reps or so and as I get more flexible my ROM is starting to be limited by the slant angle so I'd like to go deeper into the stretch. I know I can just stack some plates but that's a bit more of a hassle since I don't have large plates with flat edges and grippy surfaces like bumpers and end up having to put some counterbalance weight on the standard iron plates I do have to keep them from tipping and it's just a slippery metal surface too so it's not ideal.

Can i ask what smith machine you use? I'm in the market for one but there are so many options. I bought the powertech sled a few years ago and love that thing for the price. As always, thanks for the great content!

I also don't have the best calve-genetics (short muscles, long tendon) but since i train them consistent with the standing calve raises twice per week with 4-5 sets per session, full stretch every rep and consistently progressed in reps and weights over time with standardized technique my calves grew almost as good as any other bodypart, maybe a little bit slower. You have to think in longer time periods, after 5 years 1.5 inches more girth can still be impressive

As a guy with really bad calve genetics, this has motivated me a lot. I'm still not going to train them consistently and blame my genetics, though.

wow what a vague and generic video. totally pointless, just kept repeating train your calves with intent for 7 minutes. Bro....

Do you guys even lift

Can I still build good legs without any form of squatting due to l3 l4 worn?

Whats your thoughts abiut training the rotator cuff with external rotation for bigger looking shoulders? Because they seems under the delts and maybe can push them out like the brachialis pushing Out the bi,

Have you experienced very low rep phases and pump sarcoplasmic training like phases and would you say both have given you more Hypertrophy or potenciated Hypertrophy afterwards or while doing them?

Since i do myo reps but the mini sers just lenghtend partials (1 full rom activation set, then 10sec rest 3s lenghtend partials then again 10 sec rest, Till i dont get 3s any more) i got stronger, bigger i dunno i am at maintaince and just donl it for maybe 1 months or so

Nice camera upgrade sir

my calves genetics are so bad, I should get a tax credit

Not for nothing but Jeff has become my favorite 3dmj guy. Thank you for the content 🙏

0:59 Did you say "here is the DILDO"? 😄😄😄

Awesome input as always. I love it! <3 One of my favorite calve excersices is the one-legged standing version with a dumbbell in my hand or using the leg press.