The Relationship Between Being Strong and Moving Well

[@CeroAshura]

It's comparable to not being able to do a high rep set on squats because of cardiovascular/endurance limits. Whatever the limiting factor is, that's the one were most of the adaptation ideally goes.

[@BJJStrategist]

My dude, please tell me your a cartoonist in your day job! The illustrations are killer🤣🤣🤣

[@robirobi5950]

100%

[@unsertainley]

I believe I got the phrase from Dan John, "Lifting weights is a balance between grace, and aggression." You need the aggression to get big weights moving, but the grace to keep your technique together

[@brushogun2051]

Awesome content Alex 🙂 I had a quick question. I've been reading base strength in my limited free time and am using your volume intensity program. On page 84 you talk about resetting with a particular wave. My question is when is this reset performed? Before peak phase? or after a successful base AND peak phase? Thanks again man you changed my deadlifting life 🧬

[@AlexanderBromley]

There isn't one prescription. I would start by asking how long you want to be in the Base building phase, then work out how many 3-week waves that amounts to. For that particular program, someone wanting a short Base phase before going into contest prep mode might do one wave of the 3x12/4x10/5x8 and go straight into the 3x10/4x8/5x6. That's a 6 week run that leads pretty nicely into heavier strength work. Another person might not have a contest in sight and want to make a big-ass jump in size and general ability before doing a peak phase. That person might feel so good with the first 3-week wave that they want to run it again and again with a bit more weight each time. Maybe 3 full months of progress goes by before they decide to do the reset. Eventually, that pattern will start to feel a little stale and that is where it will be appropriate to shift into a 'peak phase"

[@brushogun2051]

@@AlexanderBromley Yes I understand now!!!!!! Thank you man. Just finished my first official base strength wave and I feel fantastic. I'm going to keep it going for a while then as I am pretty detrained and need to build some muscle back up 💪. I am only used to 5x5 and hitting those high rep sets and pseudo amraps exposed me for the out of shape chicken nugget that I am. Thanks for your awesome content Alex 🤩

[@heveyweightheveyweight5399]

today i did week 6 of plan a superior deadlift and smashed a pr thank you so much alex i can not tell you how excited i am about peak phase . people buy his books you wont regret this . thank you again alex my reps was actually double then what was required

[@dariomortellaro2216]

6:25 i felt this, strict pressed 105kg at 18, switched to weightlifting about 2 months later and i couldnt jerk 85kg. Now 3 months in i did 120 for a double, but i still press it and use my arms a lot

[@scruffylikeaboss2248]

This was a great video! I’ve been wondering this same thing myself!! Thank you

[@richardpeterson4440]

For me it is movement specific. I have a pretty good split jerk with a log or axle and I really try to put an edge on my technique. But bench press, something I don’t compete in, I’m trying to maximize my strength and I don’t really care if my technique is inefficient. A analogy I like is the difference between hitting a nail in the head perfectly and swinging a really big hammer.

[@SLouiss]

Your artwork is getting better.

[@nancyj795]

Motor Engram training is 80% of the game in my opinion. I remember you once saying that "time under the bar" is so important.

[@farhanhussain_]

Strength is a function of many variables, and technique is one of the important ones. Some other critical variables are neural efficiency, leverages, muscle mass, etc. Anyone of these goes up, strength goes up too.

[@ramondiaz2494]

Bromley the Body...been following you for a year. Used to work out but it's been a long time I used high impact. Thanks for your help.

[@owlperformance2147]

I hang with several world record French powerlifters and they all bench/squat 3-4x per week

[@_Azeem_]

How do they recover?

[@owlperformance2147]

@@_Azeem_ they cycle RPE on the singles/heavy sets: first week RPE 6, then 7, then 8, then 9 then back to 6. But man it's tough af their sessions last 3 hours, that's way too much for me (I did some) you gotta live 100% for the gym and even then it's really hard

[@dennisnordlund902]

@@_Azeem_ I worked out like that before I had my child and you can work up to that level, it’ll take some time but you can recover from it. Granted, I had no work and focused all my time on my training, slept and ate alot.

[@robertmosley1188]

Really great video, often thought about this since I started powerlifting recently

[@catedoge3206]

This is hella apparent in low weightclass bench and sumo deadlifts where added with their mobility, they can really push their lifts.

[@ClarksvilleBarbellClub]

This is a great discussion, Bromley!

[@AlphanumericCharacters]

Used to work with a Guamanian guy. His shoulders were like four feet wide. He never lifted but he could pick up a semi truck tire like it was a Prius tire. Muscle mass or not…dude was strong as all hell.

[@Isaiah-ft5nx]

Great stuff! Thanks for the great discussion.

[@jordan75212]

This video is fantastic.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

By the way, you should try to use a fixed focus to avoid that autofocus refocusing blurriness.

[@runeandersen7022]

Another great video.Thanks.

[@noank9175]

This was a very interesting video.

[@awildstrongmonappears6770]

I’ve just started with some strong man and I post a question to some guys that say they know quite a lot about the sport. It was “will training log on an implement that has bent collars effect my form negatively enough that I should just wait to train this movement on an undamaged set up[,]” but the response was something to the effect of that it shouldn’t matter and I should just be strong enough to get the implement overhead. As somebody who is coming from a background of swimming competitively and some casual Olympic weightlifting I have always valued form possibly to my detriment. Where is the line that “ just move the weight“ does become true though?

[@strengthbysacrifice9911]

Not sure how bad your collars are bent but I also have a log that has bent collars. Not super bad bent but they are bent downwards and I train with it when needing to for training. Honestly it makes a straighter better log feel better when I do get to get my hands on one come comp day. The biggest issue is the potential imbalance of the log/ weight hanging a little lower on one side than the other but I just use what I got and make it work. Try not to be over technical with it. Practice your log clean and press with what you got if it is actually doable and when you get to touch a good log then it will probably feel way better and you’ll feel stronger b/c the weight is actually evenly distributed.

[@PhiyackYuh]

Even the best of the best has flawed on their technique when going heaviest in the gym, events or sprints in swimming. Form over brute strength. You basically weigh the risk to reward ratio. Is it necessary for average punter to do 1 rep max when that person doesn’t get paid for it as a living? You probably know this. In swimming is all finesse but in strongman its all brute force. Efficiency vs force.

[@randymason9215]

Log is one of those things that feels so different from log to log. Train with whatever you have and get stronger. Guaranteed if you go out and buy a new rogue log bar, it feels way different than an equivalent titan log bar, and definitely way different than some of the home made bars that you will find in competition. What makes strongman way cooler than powerlifting or oly lifting is we have to adapt to every new implement, on the spot. So train heavy and train weird man.

[@goldengoat1737]

Is that true? You won’t be able to split jerk more than you can OHP right out of the gate?

[@sirturd2954]

I was actually wondering exactly this, essentially the correlation between adapting to a movement and lifting more, versus actually becoming stronger. I always thought it seemed pretty obvious that something like a huge arch on a bench press is meaningless in regards to how strong you in regards to any other movement but when it comes to something like squatting, or the ability to move this weight more efficiently indirectly resulting in more strength long term.

[@brucemackenzie4952]

Technique is not strength. Technique is form and can result in lifting more. But strength is absolute regardless of technique.

[@kingsleyosamade5888]

In the RPE explanation, is it sticking to a weight until the rpe decreases before I add reps/more weight?

[@ronaldcasas9376]

Amazing content!!! 🤙🏽

[@TheBeast-qv2gy]

Interesting topic

[@ajithsidhu7183]

How to programme high pulls for size

[@gabornagy9898]

good stuff

[@ohmymy9]

💎

[@VolcanoWWE]

You have an athlete weight training to crossover with a sport. They are 5-10% stronger lifting with 6 or 7/10 technique, than lifting with 8 or 9/10 technique. Would you say it’s more beneficial to continue with the stronger ‘imperfect’ technique with it still being subjectively good enough, or work with lighter loads with the more ‘perfect’ technique?

[@dennisnordlund902]

I’d say work on technique, otherwise you can get problems down the line. Your question is hard to answer though, because it really comes down to how wrong the technique is. My squat for example can look quite different from other peoples, but that is because it works for my leverages and it’s very efficient. With my clients I’ve always prioritized technique first as I’ve had most success that way. Effiency is key.

[@esketit3701]

Hey bromely can you go in on how much time it takes to get strong

[@PhiyackYuh]

How long is a piece of string? It depends. Newbie gains are quick. But as you get better, its pretty slow. Play the long game.

[@ajithsidhu7183]

How to build massive triceps and aside 8x8 what routine i can use for size that does not require me to remove weights or plates (i use a bag of rocks to.build muscle no joke ,its hard to accuracy cut the weight down)

[@LostKatamori]

look into mechanical drop sets, starting with a movement thats harder that would force you to use less weight then immediately going to something thats easier. for example skullcrushers>jm press>floor press

[@ajithsidhu7183]

@@LostKatamori thanks

[@ajithsidhu7183]

@@LostKatamori how has the results worked for you

[@LostKatamori]

@@ajithsidhu7183 it’s good do it

[@ajithsidhu7183]

@@LostKatamori will give it a try ,may i ask why my lateral heads can only handle 8 reps

[@gufishanemometer6450]

Amazingly giga

[@dessertstorm7476]

I must be doing 90-90 breathing wrong because I get nothing out of it

[@AlexanderBromley]

Put a 50lb KB on your gut while you do it; if it isn't mashing your spleen you're doing it right