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There is also plenty of Ben Pakulski (mostly mi40) videos which are mostly from 2-3-4 years ago .

Wanted to know how much of this stuff is relevant , perhaps there are something that you disagree with Ben nowadays ?

also wanted to ask if you guys are still in touch , since your approaches seem very alike

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Why do you keep your thumb to the same side as your fingers on dumbbells when performing pushing movements? Opposed to wrapping the thumb around the dumbbell

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I know this is probably not something you can answer, but still gonna give it a shot.

When I do the quad ‘activations’ (the bent knee flexing and extending) before squats, I sometimes get pain in my lower back, no load, just contractions.

Any ideas what might be causing it?

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I do a couple of early morning workouts. I get out of bed and go straight to my garage to workout. I will take a pre workout fist, but start training right away so its not like I wait for it to kick in or anything. I drink BCAA during the workout. Do you recommend fasted workouts like this? Or what would you recommend. Post workout I have a whey protein and a good breakfast.

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What do you think about the MAG grip handle for lat pulldown? I just started using it in a new gym that has it and it seems to allow for better lat contraction.

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When rotating movements such as hacks for front squats to give my knees a break from that fixed plain of motion , I lose a lot of stability and thus have to use much lighter weights, should I worry About this? And if so how would you go about keeping adequate stimulus on the quads?

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I have a back injury that prevents me from doing any kind of squat or deadlift. I can do leg press and machines. what would be an optimal way to set up a leg day for quad growth and another for glute growth?

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Can you please explain your attitude to sodium. How you manipulate sodium, when you increasing, decreasing. I mean not only for competing purposes, just for normal training all year around. What it does when it is too low or if it has to be increased in summer when we sweat more etc.

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I’ve some knee problems, the only painful exercise is the leg extension (top end range). What can i do to mimics this exercise ? Or just remove the leg ext and stay with the basics compound ? All the classic front squat, hack, leg press, walking lunges doesn’t hurt my knee at all.

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I seem to get nauseous every leg day. Trying to train as hard as possible, but that makes it a bit difficult. Any suggestions to combat the nausea?

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Just wounding why your not reverse banding your seated bb ohp?

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I have some questions regarding the Diet Planner on this site/app. It’s telling me to eat the following for a (balanced carb/fat) cutting phase:
Training day- 100g carbs, 12g fats, 251g protein.
Rest day- 66g carbs, 33g fats, 251g protein.

Does this sound right? That seems like an absurd amount of protein and an inadequate amount of fat. Isn’t a fat intake this low a concern for proper hormone function? How would someone even consume 251 grams of protein while limiting themselves to 12 grams of fat? Thats a ratio of roughly 21 grams of protein to a single gram of fat. Even lean poultry isn’t THAT lean. I realize that these are probably intended to be targets and not necessarily followed “to-the-T” but i guess i just wanted some validation or/or confirmation that this isn’t a glitch or something.

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I’ve been following your diet calc for 4 months and it’s worked perfectly. Before this, I would always get tired during training, I suspect due to insulin spikes and acute gluten intolerance. I’ve just updated my goals on the diet calc and it’s recommending eating carbs pre workout, is there a reason behind this? I was under the assumption that carbs pre workout will hinder neural drive during training.

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my question for you is to do with squatting and heels being elevated on the arch .

So my gym here has a unanimous suggestion box to improve the gym in my idea was to get some of those platforms for heel elevated squats, and their response was “just work on ankle mobility”. so obviously they didn’t know why I came up this suggestion. but would it be fine to use weightlifting shoes that I already have or plates for my heels to be elevated?

ideally I’d like to be without shoes on but I thought because the shoes already have elevation it’d be fine.

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Is there a glitch in the 6 week program builder? No matter what variables I choose it gives me push/pull/legs/weak body part split. This would be fine except there seems to be a pretty number of options categorized for the push & pull days so I end up constantly repeating the same workouts and never doing most of the ones you post.

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great site and thanks for all the great content. Am 43 and having trained for 25 years I’m learning a great deal from your site. Your last squat video at 35:00 you talk about a previous disc injury, which got my attention as I damaged L5/S1 pretty badly 10 years ago, training like a knucklehead under the tuteledge of a powerlifting coach who encouraged me and other lifters to keep lifting heavier and heavier even at the expense of good form. Ended up having a disc-ectomy at that level. Anyway, I went back to training and modified some of my lifts (front instead of back squats and sumo vs conventional) and for the most part am ok. Most of my pain these days tends to be thoracic/lumbar junction and my doc thinks it’s a QL related. I tend to feel this more when I’m doing trap bar deads as opposed to front squats. Sometimes I continue through a little discomfort and hope for the best, other times I make the call to pull the pin before (like you) I end up doing something bad and am unable to move without pain for a week. So question is: is taking the higher bar position on the trap bar a bad thing? I don’t seem to be able to get to the lower bars or pull conventional stance (unless it’s off a couple of 20kg plates) without rounding a little. A bit baffled how to approach this one.

one thing I would like to mention is the act that sometimes the pain (in my mid/lower back for example) doesn’t become apparent until AFTER the workout itself. Today is a perfect example, I was doing safety bar squats with chains to a box. I ended up getting 14 reps with a weight I expected to get 10 with. Followed that up with a second slightly heavier set (+10kg). My QL appeared to be the culprit but it wasn’t giving me any significant pain during the sets themselves. How would you approach this?

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loving the content just recently signed up to start more hypertrophy training this year. typically have trained crossfit for the last 5 years competitively but taking a break this year and wanting to put on some size and strength. a few questions about how you would suggest incorporating crossfit style conditioning into my hypertrophy training. i was thinking the push pull split but then also the frequency of that in y conditioning is quiet high? legs especially being my main goal.i train twice a day ultimately bodybuilding in the am after waking up then conditioning style in the afternoon or a longer bike/swim? and how i would balance my meals around those. iv done the diet calculator and it didn’t fit into my training times etc.