>best technique videos
>best in-depth educational content
>best programming content
>even training videos contain valuable tips
The sticky should just be a curated list of RP videos, it's better than all the other shit in there
>best technique videos. >best in-depth educational content. >best programming content
>roided up dude that doesn't know how to train a natural
>Doesn't know how to measure RPE even though it's his biggest gimmick
Just because he can parrot studies in a calm voice doesn't mean he is a good source.
>roided up dude that doesn't know how to train a natural
the training he does is very basic and has a sound foundation. if you can't extrapolate what aspects will be toned down for you as a natural you're braindead
You’re a clown bro you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Also
>thinks natties are special snowflakes who need different kinds of training
His whole philosophy on training close to failure and measuring volume by # of hard sets/ aiming for good control+slow eccentrics+ stretch at the top— ALL of this applies regardless of steroid use or none.
The problem is that his recommendation of quantity of hard sets is inflated by his inability to measure rpe.
He recommends tons of volume because he never goes near failure and lets the drugs do the work.
If a natural that really goes near failure does his recommended volume he is gonna be buried,
based dubs of truth
This this this. Inaccurately measuring RPE completely fucks up volume recommendations because they're dependent on the 'stimulus' of a set being X, and when it's 1.4X because you're actually doing as many as you can, suddenly his volume landmarks bury you.
3 sets of 10-20 reps bury you?
…. How does his inability effect you? If he says do a set leaving 1-2 reps in reserve, YOURE THE ONE deciding the RPE not him? Just push til close to failure, how tf do you evaluate his own measurement of RPE when it literally stands for PERCEIVED exertion? Are you inside his body perceiving the difficulty of his reps? I don’t understand your argument here.
So calculate volume based on hard sets. Ez pz. Adjust number of sets you do per muscle group per week based on whether or not you are progressing / bio markers replayed to recovery, which you can do whether natty or not.
Read it again and try to use your brain this time.
>‘He recommends tons of volume’
No he does not. In fact he recommends using very little volume and then adjusting your weekly sets as needed based on progress and bio feedback. You do not know what you’re talking about.
>he doesn’t train close to failure
Bruh how the fuck do you know how close to failure he trains? He says he trains close to failure, “close to failure” is entirely your own subjective experience and this dudes been doing this shit for years, he knows his own body.
Post body (you won’t)
His volume landmarks aren't that high at all. He suggests you start at MEV which is something like 6-10sets/week for most body parts, not sure how you can say that is inflated.
Also, you might just have a lower work capacity, his whole thing is that there are individual differences and his landmarks are just a starting point to for you to find where you fit.
His main principles are:
-start a training block with the fewest number of sets you need to progress
-increase training volume / weights / RPE through the weeks
-find how much volume you can recover from
-repeat till you need to deload after you hit an overreaching stage where you aren't recovering fully
-maximize ROM for more stimulus and less fatigue
Not sure how anyone can say that's stupid or doesn't apply to natural or roided up people
So just do greyskull lp.
>just run a linear program for beginners forever and never learn how to program your own routine based on the very easy landmarks RP lays out for you. ’
I think if he just wrote it like this, I would like him better (but that wouldn't sell, so I get it). I feel like a lot of his output is overcomplicated in an effort to sound "sciencey".
In reality, it's all very simple, and what he suggests is reasonable and effective, but then he obfuscates everything with acronyms, confusing spreadsheets, etc.
Pretty sure the majority of people who struggle with his programming are actually struggling with the RPE descriptions and gauging RIR.
Yep finally someone nails the issue.
>aiming for good control+slow eccentrics+ stretch at the top
lmao those are all the gayest things
>doesn't know how to train a natural
I'm 90% sure he was a natty for at least a decade before using gear, so what the fuck are you talking about?
it's alright bro you can go back to watching 4 hour NH videos on why the existence of the soul means will get a girlfriend after slaying the nietzschian dragon
What's with his scalp
pulled so hard on a heavy lift he created a vacuum behind him and sucked all his hair off
extra bone growth from GH
This guy is retarded. He thinks calories cause obesity.
>He thinks calories cause obesity.
If not calories what causes it?
actual retard detected
Yeah, but he also runs interference for his ~~*friend*~~ Schoenfeld when he makes terrible studies.
Mike, I know it's you garden gnome. Go back to your studio and record a tiktok reaction video or whatever.
This motherfucker picked the wrong path in life he should unironically have become a Navy SEAL or something. He talks and gives off exactly the same vibe as those Jocko type special forces veteran podcast dudes.
His autistic dedication to fitness in conjunction with his garbage genetics essentially set him up for a lifetime of coping and failure because no amount of science or squatting will not make him look like jason blaha with a lumpy head.
The dude essentially gets paid to lift and dedicate 100% effort to training. Beats sitting in a cold mud puddle somewhere in the middle east lol
watch this and tell me he doesn't sound like Jocko
he sounds like jocko because they both have genuine confidence in addition to being good speakers. those things are so rare nowadays that you're associating it in this way
>32 years old
dear sweet god
well hes gnomish so theres no way he'd join the military, especially a combat role
>This motherfucker picked the wrong path in life he should unironically have become a Navy SEAL or something
he's 5 ft 0 and gnomish.
I was waiting untill some incel points out his height
Too bad the army pays dogshit.
> his garbage genetics
You think he has poor lifting genetics?
Kind of true. Dude has that machine like discipline. He sets a goal and he just moves towards it stone cold and autistically.
Not for aesthetics. (and mass, his friends are getting bigger and they are on the same training and gear as he?) He does have very very good strength though as you can see from his old videos.
His content focused on lifting technique and principles are really good, but holy shit the guy's a garden gnomey creep in any video that's off the cuff.
It sure is
Thank you, daddy Mike
really easy to see the dyels in this thread who have been doing SS+GOMAD for 5 years straight with no thought to their programming
>roidchud
No.
He's good but his irrational hatred of Kassem/N1 is holding him back. He purposefully does stupid exercises just to spite him
> stupid exercises
such as
"lat" prayers, shoulder extension during curls, excessive spinal flexion on all rows, excessive flaring on presses. List goes on.
Lat prayers are unironically a goat exercise.
1 horizontal pull
1 vertical pull
1 pullover (like a lat prayer)
All u need for back baby
once weekly? 3-5 sets?
Jonnie Shreeve
He's extremely based, rendering 99% of internet fitness halfwits useless all for free with his superior gnomish intelligence
Dude is jacked but his fizeek is hideous.
He looks like a giant pink frog that somehow fell in a vat of creatine and broscience.
>WHERE ARE YOU HIDING THE FLIES, GOY
If his training methods are so optimal and supported by science, why don’t any IFBB pros besides his business partner use them? Are you telling me cbum would be even more jacked if he followed Mike’s program? Exercise science can be manipulated to say whatever you want it to. At the end of the day results are all that matter, and 4 second negatives with pussy weight ain’t it.
1. He dont train differently then other IFBB pro's.
2. while he controls the eccentric its not 4 seconds.
3. He does not lift pussy weights and he is a strong motherfucker
oh look another roider on youtube