Chris Duffin Q&A with Mark Bell | Strength, Powerlifting & Training Insights

[@thomas5809]

This video inspired me to follow my dreams of working with my hands and give up my day job.

[@POVshorties]

Although I do not have any "idols" that I like to follow or say that they are my inspiration to hit the iron and pursue my life career, Mr Chris Duffins is quite the exception for me. Hearing how Chris grew up and managed to raise his siblings and thrive successfully with his passion is an incredible endevor amd only made him a stronger person. He literally takes his life phillosiphies and applies them to the weight room and outside of it and I find it to be quite beautiful in his execution. I also very much agree with his take on where men stand in society today. Although very unpopular in opinion as men live in a very gynocentric world, his pursuit for brotherhood and friendship amongst men is absolutely amazing. Plus lets add to the fact that Chris has an imcredible physoque, is top level strong, and feels almost no pain? This man is the stuff of legends, a true and mighty Herculean!

[@Newbport849]

Luis Betancourt I was going to write a comment like this until I read yours. Well written.

[@Cmonbro444]

Two of my favorite fitness peeps. The Mad Scientist and The Metrosexual.

[@gmjacinto630]

Chris is my favorite lifter, technique wise and most importantly philosophy wise.

[@shiznit4tothe20]

You too are the most positive and grounded persons

[@slws14]

Chris is such an intelligent gentlemen ! Keep up the great work !

[@charlesalexanderdavison2398]

Beautiful intro, Chris

[@bigdawgtrc]

Finally Chris been waiting for this day. I'm happy to see your channel start to finally grow so many people have been missing out.

[@ReneUlloa74kg]

Chris I saw the podcast and it was awesome so was this!

[@larryhubbard6513]

Deep squats and deep thoughts!! Love it!!

[@NdemNkem]

great video learned so much!

[@ssw6455]

Great video, thank you

[@KennethBoneth]

would be really interested in a video on those hip firing patterns you mentioned

[@GregoryOlbert]

Awesome have been waiting for you guys to get together.

[@alexpinnow6509]

Chris great video you are a genius sir! I learn so much from your information.

[@duckslayer11000]

Thanks for the upload

[@OgNightcrawler]

Two legends!!!!!!!!!! Chris your such a beast man!!! The very definition of a savage who gets it in all the time

[@laxraider]

SoB those are all the things ive been doing. Great video Chris. I now see i have so much more in common with you than i could of imagined from the engineering to to the training philosophy/science and functional integration to the intra workout mixture. Im a perfectuonest enginner like youself trying to improve everything always. Not nearly on your level yet. But been makeing good gains consistently. My training style has been the super high volume work capcity bulding teauning that u mrntioned youve been doing recently. This training has been working immensly for me. Thanks for all the great content Chris. Loving the stuff with the supertaining crew.

[@DrussQuinn]

Great use of Satie in the intro Mate!

[@PistolPeteLee]

100% agreed with people making excuses. I am 25 weeks out from a full Tear Achilles Surgery, but hit legs as soon as I could because I knew it would help in the long run despite being told to be careful. Recovery has gone faster than a lot of people and I just hit an all time Squat & Deadlift PR this past week.. Because I found a different way to strengthen a lot of things

[@TomShufflebottom]

good vid chris, two greats in this vid man

[@emZee1994]

lateralization not regression. wow awesome idea I gotta remember that

[@MrAmwiener]

Thank you Chris for providing such useful content. Your ShoulderRok has improved my lifts substantially along with decreasing pain I've had for years. Keep up the good work.

[@ilonggosk8swagg]

I was saying to myself the other day "Man... mark bell and chris duffin should get together make a video" and bAAM!! HAHA I can see the future!!!

[@powerliftingteen8129]

Awesome video Chris! Can you make a video on conventional deadlift (finding tightness and how to get in a optimal starting position)?

[@powerliftingteen8129]

I would really apriciate that, Thanks!

[@mercertj]

+1 for the deadlift video! Great content as always

[@chachiichachiii]

sweet thank you chris rehab to performance

[@mikesbigreviews1584]

Your voice sounds so much like the professional wrestler Edge. Loved the podcast with you and ole smell smell.

[@vicvalenz16]

Can you do a video on diet and supplementation please. Just curious on your views and what you take.

[@perusgangster]

Could you please make a video on knee pain and squats. When I say knee pain I mean specifically the lateral meniscus. I've had surgery over a year ago on my lateral meniscus and all they did was remove the broken parts of the meniscus so they basically cleaned it up. When I have leg days I do my mobility work, use mark bells hip circle, and even use rehband knee sleeves but I still get pain here and there on it. I mostly get pain when I do leg press and kinda on squats. I do both front and back squats but usually after my workouts my knee would start to feel some sort of pain. Also sometimes when I wanna focus on my quads and do leg extension I feel pain on my lateral meniscus. What I have figured out so far is I can't go lower than parallel well I can but it hurts my knee more if I do. I use Olympic shoes when I front squat which helps because I don't have good ankle mobility when it comes to front squats. I notice when I do my heavy sets so sets of 1-3 I don't feel pain at all but when I use lighter weights I feel my lateral meniscus pain. I'm going to test out doing my normal strength sets of 1-3 reps on back and front squats but when I start my bodybuilding exercise such as leg extension, leg press etc. I'm going to see how what happens if I do high reps with low weight on these exercises. Please is you can help make a video on this please and thank you.

[@AbsoluteGill]

Chris at 12:00 you mention that you got an athlete to touch his toes, how did you go about doing it? Is there a video somewhere?

[@AdAmJaNkOwSkI1293]

Two badasses

[@john_ron]

Thank you for the video. About patellar tendonitis, why rest isn't a good choice? And when you said heat treatment you meant a corrective type of physical activity that doesn't cause pain like "goblet squat" or something along these lines?

[@chase362]

Awesome video Chris! Learned a lot from it. I've watched most of your videos this last week. I have to ask, how tall are you? Thanks for the videos, keep it up!

[@KNelsonPL]

Could you please make a video discussing abdominal bracing/deep spinal stabilization when in over extension relative to bench pressing? You mentioned the topic in this video (28:00) saying since over extension is part of benching you should manage and mitigate it elsewhere. How would you go about that? I thought you also mentioned this topic in your video "Lat Involvement in Benching" but can't seem to find the part, maybe it was in another video. I also noticed in your most recent training video that you were wearing a belt when benching at SuperTraining, is this something you plan to continue doing moving forwards? Thank you for all your videos, I really like the coaching series.

[@KNelsonPL]

***** Awesome! I look forward to it.

[@bryanscruggs7566]

"Deep thoughts and deep squats" Immediately making that into a shirt.

[@boggers55]

hey guys is that blantons in the screenshot because thats my fave.

[@boggers55]

***** 👍

[@supaflyutubeguy]

Hey Chris! Big fan of your videos and I have learned a lot. I am really trying to ramp up my knowledge of DNS focused warm ups/drills, but most of the resources I have looked at are not specific to powerlifting warms ups. Can you point me in the right direction? I tried doing airplanes and split squats with some testing/retesting prior to deads last and felt great.

[@supaflyutubeguy]

***** Awesome! thanks for putting out this great info.

[@warlordzephyr]

This is most likely a long answer question but I'm interested in your thoughts about using total volume as the primary driver for a lifting program, similar to the way in which you use bar speed.

[@warlordzephyr]

The way in which you take the time to answer questions like this is one of the reasons why I admire you as and athlete and a person. Thanks.

[@emZee1994]

wow can someone explain his nervous system disorder? he doesn't feel pain and doesn't sweat? how is that possible? was he born with it? did it come as a sickness which he cured? so many questions

[@SOUTHPARKFOREVER240]

Awwww yeahhhhh !:. Much appreciated fellas, thanks for all the advice, and thanks for showing people like me(poverty stricken community) that we can accomplish anything if we put our mind to it, your philosophy goes beyond the gym, thank you and god bless. Much love from the Gitxsan Tribe in B.C. Canada. Keep up your amazing work :)

[@prostitute1flange]

Hey ***** I was wondering how does bicep tendinitis play in the squats, for narrow low bar on where it's on my back. Pain after the squat may sometimes be excruciating in both biceps and have never had any injuries before.

[@prostitute1flange]

Thanks for the response back Chris

[@corleone1213]

Training aside, I need that shirt

[@Invincible_underthesun79]

i was doing speed pulls today and i was wondering what should be the rest time for this exercise?

[@bulkingdude1959]

I have a muscle strain in my trap, rhomboid area and was trying to work through it and strained it more. So I finally just stopped doing any lifting to let it heal with time it has been about three weeks with no exercise and it is healing. I also can't squat, bench, or deadlift without pain. I'm only 18 so I think it'll heal fast. Do u think I should wait until it is pain free chris?

[@kameroneckstein3202]

Hey Chris, this may be stupid question, but I am 17 yrs old, going into my senior year of highschool, and I honestly don't mean to brag, but I'm pretty bright. I want to begin powerlifting, but just wondered what job/career I should get. This could potentially gear me onto a path in college to find the best career for a powerlifter. I'm really wondering about this. If you could help, that would be greatly appreciated! P.S. Your "How to squat" video with Silent Mike helped me tremendously...Thank you!

[@c12345678910c]

Video only available on wi-fi..?

[@whiskeyblood7258]

Still relatively new to powerlifting, so I'm looking for advice from knowledgeable people with strength training experience. My bench is beginning to stall and I'm just about to start my new program. I'm going to add floor press after speed bench on my second bench day. How would you recommend me to go about programming floor press or any other accessory movement for that matter? What percentages, rep ranges, sets ect. Appreciate all feedback

[@emZee1994]

oh you are using plazma from t nation right? from what I have heard that stuff is amazing but also really expensive

[@heller281]

Hi Chris, I've had costochondritis for almost 3-4 months now, and the pain doesn't ever go. It's always reoccurring. Do you have any advise for this?

[@MiloDuplex]

Wearing my "Whiskey & Deadlifts" shirt as I watch this... Sweeeeeeeeeet.... And yeah, Im recovering from a night of Jim Beam and Vodka... Cool Macho shirt Mark...

[@aromalsunil4428]

small shots of whiskey are good for you?

[@tiberias111]

I'm curious.... How strong is a guy like Mark Bell on assistance exercises for triceps?

[@DumbGrunt.0311]

tiberias111 i may be a year late, but the answer to your question is very

[@madis7725]

really intense guy

[@madrid556]

holy fuck! please tell me the intro song? I heard it at a wedding and I can't explain it to anyone?

[@MaximeTanti]

madrid556 Dooood, it was driving me crazy also! But some weird Googling led me to a reddit post and I found it. It's called Trois Gymnopedies by Erik Satie.

[@SWIFTzTrigger]

Scary guy

[@goaway5428]

Duffin is Scottish, right? Are your ancestors from Northeast Scotland: Moray/Elgin/Duffus? My last name is Duffus and my total is 1559. #babysteps

[@spiritwaker6276]

***** I love Scotch Whisky :)

[@spiritwaker6276]

Bradley Wilson no wonder Scotch whisky makes me strong

[@jlefebre6001]

IT'S SMELLY!

[@TheMistaCat]

Will you fight Rich Piana for $1,000 if I cover all expenses?

[@emZee1994]

yeh an iron cross is no joke

[@davebernardi56]

BOURBON AND BENCHIN'?

[@one1two2nine9]

I can out squat you 1v1 lets go

[@MEtREicKZ]

(Y)

[@JimitriG]

Grow a beard Mark