Hey, I know that chin ups is an easier exercise than pull ups since you use your biceps aswell. So I thought pull ups would be more efficient in isolating your back. Do chin ups just target different back muscles? I'm 3 months into the gym and I can do a couple reps of chin ups but still working my way through assisted pull ups. You think it's better to just spam chin ups instead? Also doing lat pulldowns and seated rows for now cos i see progress in them (Lat pulldown went from 23 to 47.3kg)

Find a heavy weight. Move it around enough that after 10 minutes you are too tired to move it anymore. Do that three times with different movements.

The only people who really need to worry about overtraining are so advanced in their training that they are never going to read this comment.

All true, but at the same time you do want to emphasize the energy system that matters for your sport. Football is not basketball is not soccer. But you know that :)

I love this. Late night/ early morning (periods of darkness) training sessions, music blasting and successfully grinding away with moderate to heavy weights. Europhoric my boy

Great talk

Pause reps 😳

Training is simple 1. Plyos/sprint 2. Olympic lift 3. Strength lift 4. Supplements 5. Accessories

This take on back training is so based. l find this so refreshing compared to all the stupid exercises pushed by the "science based" guys.

The water polo dynamic correspondence bit is such a good part of this video - that whole debate debunked by just applying dynamic correspondence to water based sports

Great conversation, Trevor is very intelligent and well spoken

The "dynamic correspondence" conversation, with references to swimming and water polo was interesting. . . and, if one goes back a bit (to the early 90s), I can speak to personal experience with some weird attempts to put that "correspondence" to work with "dryland" training. I briefly swam in a major D1 collegiate program in the early 90s. While the weight room stuff we did in the off-season was what you'd expect for the early 90s (a lot of Nautilus machine -- or weird machines similar to Nautilus machines but with resistance both ways), there was this "frog-kick jumping" dryland exercise we did on stadium stairs that was just madness. This was the era of the "Hungarian breaststroke". . . so like imagine jumping up a few stadium stairs (or even bench-to-bench) via a full motion frog kick . . . yes, you would be pushing off the ground on the inside edge of your foot, with the feet splayed way out. Don't know if the polo guys did this stupidity (doubt they did), but for either a swimmer or a water polo player, this sort of "dryland dynamic correspondence" approach was just stupid. Doing something that "looked like the thing and felt like the thing, but in the 'off-field' training environment" probably just fff'd up ones knees and led to no significant improvements in ability to produce power in the kick. A front squat would have been MUCH better. But that's the way things were. Great to see that modern day swimmers aren't doing this sort of crap.

Believe at 16:30 ish hes talking about Redon Manushi

Do you do any stretching or follow a mobility routine? I keep seeing coaches say that full range of motion strength training is the best flexibility training. Any thoughts?

Trevor has the most underrated IG account

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Why every guy saying how to grow a big back, recommends deadlifts and rows… What’s the point of a big back when your waist is as big as your back from doing all that crap? Machines has to be better here

When you're tired, you're not strong. When you're tired, you're not fast. When you're tired, you're not even smart.

The body will tell you what it needs for the most part. Just listen and adjust.

Oh my god. Yes, all else is inferior to strength.

Exactly. Shit ideas abound.

Refreshing natural perspective sans neuroticism, and orthorexia.

Pull ups / chin ups with deferent grips go to failure in each set Train them 2 or 3 times a week Thank me later

I find myself building my strengh programs and always end up moving heavy weight in the major planes of movement. Upper body puhsing is just bench press, shoulder press, and dips. Upper body pulling is just bent over rows and pullups. Legs are even easier. Deads and squats, maybe some heavy lateral lunges. Throw in a weighty carry and it's done. As a father, husband, and worker, that's all I have time for on top of my BJJ and my running. It works.

I know you said you aim to maintain your strength as you get older, but are there any specific prs you've been aiming for as of late?

Track athletes run all year round too though

Single arm dumbbell rows are the best back builders. I do 150lbs for 3-4 sets of 10 and my back is monstrous.

Mr hoss do you think you could clear the physical 100

Love it man! A year later with this reply but thats the beauty of youtube finding this gem of a video. I got back into free weights about a month ago after around 6 months of sand bag training. And its been over 15 years since being a powerlifter, but i like the movements youre doing. They are movements i was doing with the sandbags, ill have to try these the crosacks seem good for hip strength will carry over to squat and dead strength im sure

Do you think the benefits outweigh the extra wear-and-tear causes by extra body weight above the knee when running? ACL tears are pretty common in soccer

This sums up my approach to back training, over the past 29 years. Well done! :)

Love your videos! Short and full of info keep up the good work Will🔥🔥

Will you have the best information I've ever come across after years in the online community.

Forgot about you my dude. Your workouts are intense 😂🤙🏽

Can RDLs serve the same purpose as deadlifts in this scenario?

How many days per week is your Hoss Olympic Program?

Respectfully disagree. That is what the Little League dads always say. Just work them hard. They like the coaches that have the kids doing endless laps and gassers and stadium stairs. But that just makes them slower. They need to get faster by running short, intense sprints all-out with complete rest. Otherwise these kids have to pace themselves and they are going half speed and never get fast. Or strong. Or athletic. Or explosive.

People need to understand the difference between sarcoplasmic hypertrophy vs myofibrillar hypertrophy. Sacroplasmic you are maximizing time under tension which damages the sacroplasmic sack around your muscles, its get depleted of glycogen, electrolytes, and water and fills up with blood (also known as the pump) it then rebuilds and gets bigger after recovery. When you go for lighter weight, more reps and shorter rest times you are going to optimize size building which is why body builders do this. Myofibrillar hypertrophy, you will recruit high thresh hold motor units which cause damage to actual myofibrills or little strands that actually make up the muscle so yes you will get bigger but you will not optimize size building, when you train heavy you are actually training your nervous system more than your muscles. You are training to send strong signals from your brain to your muscles. That’s when you’re lifting heavy weight, low reps, high rest time. If you want to maximize any body part or movement pattern you need to do both

Your position on Olympic lifts is a bit confusing. I think you agree that training for “general power” isn’t great and that you’re better off focusing on expanding strength and expanding speed separately. However with Olympic lifts you list a myriad of qualities that the lift trains simultaneously. If you’re chasing a specific adaptation, wouldn’t it be better to use an exercise that maximally stimulates the quality you’re trying to improve? As opposed to training a bunch of qualities all at once. But you also seem to believe all movement is good movement and you post yourself doing traditionally “power” movements like barbell jumps etc. So does your justification for Olympic lifts fall in the “all movement is good movement” category? I think if you are constrained for time, it would make sense for efficiency to train specifically for the adaptation you’re trying to elicit right?

I also don’t like the argument that “it takes too long to learn.” If you have good instruction and dedicate some training time to learning the o lifts (incremental loading, real-time feedback from a coach, etc), you can learn them pretty quickly. I’m not a high-level athlete, but I was able to learn to powerclean with a decent percentage of my deadlift in a few weeks. If you have an athlete who just can’t seem to get the hang of it, at some point you probably have to adapt to that athlete’s ability and use other power variations, but beyond that, absolutely nothing wrong with teaching the o lifts

Be a genetic freak, take steroids, the end.

Great vid

Soo zercher rdl and zercher good mornings are thd same? Is there anything i can do to feel it more in my upper back?

just by seeing your back i knew you did deadlift

Beast man!

Great Caesar's Ghost. Good set Will.

Going back to school, so I started training with 30 min sessions in mind. Retroactively learned essentially

No bs advice you just need to keep pushing, may take years for that. Great work

Maybe address this in your next training video: How to approach a combine like 225 max out. What are you thinking about during the set? What are some of the best ways to prepare/improve performance?

Just Hossin around