TRAIN: Full of New Ideas

[@Arms.Enthusiast]

Seeing you back at neversate is crazy, I genuinely thought you had had to close it or something. I’ve never been but it looks so awesome!

[@stu2729]

So glad to see the old neversate faces again. And Brian looks really healthy in these last videos.

[@Strongman_Sutton]

Oh hell ya. Brian uploaded!

[@samlopez1013]

Glad to see U Brian

[@jimbobf8017]

Great to see a video from you Brian. And some old friends too! Reminding me of the old days too. I'm getting back into training after a long recovery from some pretty extensive leg injuries. You always pushed me before, making me challenge myself, got me to the biggest I've ever been. Hope to see some more training and challenges but glad you're doing well.

[@drago7147]

Those zercher shrugs look interesting, can't wait to try them

[@user-dn4lg1dv5v]

I'm glad to see you, brother. Always enjoy the training videos.

[@Insaniya.humanity]

First time watching. Excellent video. Thanks

[@RobSimpson-BarbellsandBurpees]

Great to see you back at Neversate gym and happy birthday for the other day brother.

[@albertpaxton4855]

Love the training videos!

[@joebendewald6197]

It's so awesome to see the energy you bring! Love it!

[@Angel_Ripoff]

Great to hear what's been going on and seeing some familiar faces, too.

[@joefinlay9138]

Awesome 🙌

[@thanatology493]

Good to see you back, Brian. I've been following and loving the masters program!

[@saltandlight1184]

Keep up the great work, man. Will definitely be throwing in those zercher shrugs and trying some of your conditioning. God bless.

[@TobyLifely]

Always love to watch your videos Brian, you've got a great outlook on training and life in general

[@ArtbyPaulPetro]

nice to see you again, brother! Kinda weird but I've been thinking maybe I should start periodically setting aside a day for just conditioning training. I'm running a fat loss plan right now so yeah and now that it's getting warmer here in Vermont it's def time to do some conditioning outside! i miss flipping my flipping tire! Always inspiring to see what you're doing in the gym and hella great to see you back at neversate!

[@connor_culp24]

I just realized you’re in MD from the flag!!! Hell yeah!!! I’ll have to check it out sometime

[@NinjaofApathy]

Thanks for sharing man! If you make a vid on shrugs, could you pls include your advice on neck strength and injury prevention, for lifting and grappling? Awesome to see the old school crew 💪 Hope y'all have a nice day!

[@ChristianDurusTelamon]

Best intro yet! So excited to see the NEVERsate gym videos coming back - hopefully I will be able to fit in my Suffer Beautifully shirt again soon. How long are you restricted on the OHP? Is that permanent with opting for no surgery? Speaking of sandbag training, do you have any advice for how to improve holding the sandbag while walking? I keep losing my grip and dropping the bag during front carries.

[@abasicname8848]

I like the forehead on bench for rear delt work. I might try that seems cool

[@abasicname8848]

Ive been training rear delts a long time on other lifts, and I gotta say that I get a lot of training for my traps just from doing reverse pec deck since I can go heavier on that one but also lateral raises with dumbells or even upright rows. I get a lot of tension in my traps from lateral raises with the higher reps the weight adds up over time because they constantly wear down on you deeper into the set. And I recently started doing the cable cuff raise and found that all that tension went away and it was only burning shoulder pain i had to deal with and Id fail a lot sooner with a lot less weight. But seeing as how you do a ton of farmers carries from before, i feel like you'd be better off isolating neck. Because you can just do neck work and it still works the traps all the same and the rear delt flies if you really push the set, grinding away at it you get blood into your traps as well. Especially if you have traps as a strongpoint, they'll take over more when the rear delts just get weaker and weaker into the set. You also did 2 different shrugging patterns in the same workout which is a testament to the weight not being ideal. Id say to make the grip not the limitting factor on your shrugs, do it with the farmers handles or a trap bar since you can do it neutral grip and straps would be optional then. They're kind of hard to keep track of sometimes. Before in strongman people would do just farmers carry deadlifts as a scarce assistance lift. But you can turn it into hypertrophy if you did it with the shrugs. At my gym i always spam reverse pec deck and 4 way neck machine backwards neck extension. But ive been trying to do the other sides of it as well cus i have scoliosis and it seems like it would help. Save yourself the headache and just get a neck harness liek tom haviland, and probably get a loading pin if you dont already have one or tie a chain to a dumbell or through plates. I havent ever had to train traps at all because theyre a muscle group that seems to grow easily on everyone that doesnt have a giraffe neck. But the reason why i say its a head ache, is because the 4 way neck machine is kind of hard to use because its ridiculously easy to cheat and it feels just like a cheap toy. But I found a set up to make it work for me, but id honestly probably would have an easier time with the set up that tom does if I just had neck harness weight plates and a yoke or a bar to lean over. Its kind of a shrug in itself but its for the neck. Idk, they kind of always grow together anyways and when you flex them they both kind of just look menacing next to each other. I feel like traps and neck are just inseparable muscle groups and right next to that is delts and traps. The rear delts just happen to line up a lot of the time with the upper traps. So they work together, grow together. Also would say that if you want to get more comfortable with body builder training or just how you approach hypertrophy in general, dont try to be perfect. Because when you have to do reps above 20 above 30, theres form breakdown anyways because of the cardio that plays into it. A little bit of play as long as you're subconsciously trying to replicate the form will help you get along the rep range. And when its that many reps, you just have to stop counting cus it is actually pointless. The only really important thing is weight moving up over time and going to failure, going beyond failure just to get that extra assurance that you put it all on the table. They're lighter weights and higher reps, you wanna go until it gets impractical to move and just keep trying to move even when it feels liek you dont got anymore to go. I always employ rest pause because my coordination isnt the best and i lose my balance sometimes or misgrove my reps. When Im doing dumbell skiers, i sometimes misgroove a rep and i dont get anywhere close to a lock out, but then the next rep im able to redeem it. But it never gets more comfortable its always fucking hard to get there and to keep pushing. At the end of the day, every little rep that somebody out there has to tell you oh that rep didnt count that rep didnt count and that whole set was ruined. Well they're usually dyels that dont actually care about lifting and just say stuff to discourage others. Honestly, form just doesnt have to be completely perfect, its not a strength lift and you cant do a 1 rep max on it you cant use over 300 pounds of weight on it, then youre probably not going to recruit that many muscle groups at once it wouldnt make sense to be under the impression youre somehow risking it when its really just a smaller weight you're going to war with. Theres less risk involved, youre probably not going to injure yourself so long as the form and intention was always consistent. Mechanical dropsets is a different technique altogether that you use to make it easier at the tail end of a set. And i do that when I cant get anymore of the machine neck extension i bring my grip up higher on the handles and i use that small cheat to get more reps. Its always consistency, its never about perfection. You'll only get to a point of being perfect with the form on a variation, when youve invested hours and hours of your life doing it again and again where it became second hand nature doing the movement. So if youre ever doing these smaller movements to help you in your recovery, dont stop at the weights youre using just because they seem like they're what's going to keep you from incurring an injury. Dont forget to progressive overload at some point down the line, and allow yourself to feel weak to the weight that you use. Just watch a set of geoffrey verity schoefield doing anything whether rear delt lifts or any kind of cable movement. Theres clear and obvious deviation of body language, but what matters for the lift he keeps intact. Without that degree of freedom of movement, its probably going to be really really uncomfortable to try to make progress from. I do another lift called a barbell wrist extension. I used to do 20 poubds on it now i can do 40 on it. I use a fixed ez curl bar without revolving collars, and i grip narrow. Reason i mention it, is that i dont worry about or care about the form on my wrist extensions really. Cus at the start of the set for the first 4 to 10 reps it feels like a pencil weight. So i use a more lax form because it insights confidence and vigor for me, but when the set gets hard it drops off liek a mf and i have no choice but to grind through my reps at a snails pace because thats just how it is. Form can't be rushed so its closer to textbook. I dont actually count the reps i assume its up close to 40 reps or 50 reps and none of those early reps are perfect and even the reps at the very very end are usually just partials at the bottom where they dont really count as reps and i dont think of them that way I just pursue those partials if I feel i didnt fail yet. Its something like a 20-40 rep range with beyond failure partials i think. So I will go back down to 20 rep range on it when im moving up to a new weight but those partials are always there as non reps but I still do em. It feels like hell for so long you have to feel weak for. Its a pencil weight so if i lose my grip, i just reposition and all a sudden im still in the set. Theres no running away from what you have to do when it comes to hypertrophy training for naturals. Sometimes it actually just fucking drags. It blows. It sucks. But you gotta do what you gotta do to make progress. And if you're a freak, you get to kind of enjoy it a little in spurts. I try to pose in the mirror cus it makes me feel better about myself. Though its never mandatory, i find myself doing it a lot. You should try it sometime, off camera. Cus recording stuff can sometimes be cumbersome. Probably do it in the bathroom when nobody's around. Just dont leave the water running cus time seems to just fly when you really get into it.

[@jonathanrhodes8525]

When it cuts from the plate pinch shrugs to the sandbag, I was convinced you were going to kick the sandbag!

[@JavierMoreno-my4mg]

My man is back! What kind of shoes are you wearing around 6:43

[@micahandjessi]

Those look like bearfoots

[@jonvaughn86]

What are you doing in regards to recovery to be able to still train this way. I’m 36 and love this type of training body is a little thrashed from years of ironworking

[@henriquehansen314]

Hey man, the Cerberus Sandbab link on the video info is broke. I know I can just browse the website to get to the page but I think that affects their control over who goes to their product page through your links.

[@ManuelVCano]

Hey @Brian Alsruhe, where'd you get the mace from?

[@maxzhao8331]

W video

[@tonyd7185]

Nice to see an update. Was going to buy a couple of programs, but paypal insist on creating an account now rather than going through a guest checkout. Would love an alternative payment method.

[@BrianAlsruheOfficial]

I have Venmo and the cash app if that works?

[@SFRB1187]

I wish you and Tom Haviland could do a collab. You are both cut from the same awesome cloth

[@Wo1fLarsen]

What up B? 🤘🏼💯

[@ethanhundiak2870]

DoGGY wanna training video time!

[@MatthewStrength3265]

👍

[@Wham0]

What's Olu aiming towards these days Brian? Is he still striving to be the top strongman he can be, and/or is he still attempting PR's is his main lifts? He's a legend

[@LatimusChadimus]

Wooooooooo

[@toocool2bblue]

world's strongest uncle

[@jonathanrichter3184]

For the algorithm

[@watsonkushmaster3067]

WHERE IS YOUR HAIR UNCLE??!!

[@bmc5015]

Beware of a man training in jeans.