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Joe can you tell me the real truth about ashwagandha,curcumin,and other herbal supplements,what does your experience say about their use ?

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First, I’m somewhat knocked kneed and have recently had tendinitis in the knees. I think it’s due to years of wrong position, any ideas how to squat better to fix this. Second, we don’t have a hack squat so I used the cables and elevated the front of my feet will this work too? Thank you for your time and your educated answer!!

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In your “legs” video from Feb. 5, 2018 you mention improper squat form can lead to large abductors.

What causes this? And how can we determine we are not falling into this?

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When an individual has an imbalance in muscular strength and connection how do you tend to address it.

I find on the hammer strength lat row (the machine you love) my left has a worse connection in comparison to my right, and subsequently I get less reps too, whether they’re linked I don’t know.

For instance, my right lat the connection is great, the feel is fantastic; love it. Move over to my left, I cannot get comfortable with it, I hit a rep less (that’s why now I tend to start with left as I know full well it’ll drop out before my right does, don’t know if that correct protocol?) Just curious as to what you think is the best way to get around this issue.

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I just wanted to get your input on if you would recommend designing a program the same for someone with an injury history the same as you would for someone without? I’m following Hypertrophy Execution Masterclass and just small issues with certain movements.

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When you say “2 sets, first set 5-8 reps, 2nd back off set 10-12 reps, 2 minutes before and between top sets”

these 2 sets were the top sets?

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How do you go about progressing your metabolic focused portion of training? Do you have a set strategy you repeat and aim to progress on or do you just auto regulate and come up with something that gives you a good pump at the end of your sessions? I ask this because your loading work seems to be set in stone and consistent, whereas the metabolic work you post up seems to vary a lot

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Hey joe wanted to some know good nutrition platforms just to increase some knowledge about. Nutrition, and wanted to have it online as i’m from india
Thanks a lot

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I’m working around some achy elbows. What substitutions do you recommend for single preachers? They are a great exercise that gives me a huge pump, but some days my range of motion is limited due to my elbows hurting at the bottom. Thank you!!!

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Since your wife is currently pregnant and you have been through this process twice already. Is there anything major dos and don’t with her training? Is there anything you believe exercise wise she should avoid completely. Lots of physios say that pregnant women should not lift heavy, deadlift/squat heavy as they should avoid holding breath/bracing?

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Question about lat pulldowns, It seems like there is a trade off between alignment of the resistance, and plane of motion to hit the back. Now you can of course lean back if your biasing more upper back, but if your doing a pulldown with a more vertical, lat focused plane, it seems like the shorter your lats get, the more the alignment seems off – in the last bit of shoulder extension (extending to nuetral and beyond, eventually elbow flexion runs out) the forearm goes from being in line with the cable to being at an angle, and is increased the further you go, and my thought process is that would challenge less shoulder extension and more shoulder rotation.

In that case should you:

1-limit ROM to keep alignment of the resistance ideal

2-lean back more, letting the resistance line up, but changing the resistance that would bias the lat less(from my understanding)

3- let things be unaligned

4-something else I may be missing

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How do you go about fitting in metabolic work, within a workout or within a training split? How Much/When/Why?

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in your volume split video you mention if form is dreadful you’d not do any working sets on that body part, what is it exactly you’d be doing with that muscle group then? Besides just choosing a different exercise.

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when you only do 1-2 working sets sometimes for a given exercise, will you keep it just a straight set. I know Dorian Yates would only do 1 set but that was done with a copious amount of intensity techniques

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Just a random thought, do you incorporate recovery phases from training during prep as well? I was thinking this could coincide well with a diet break phase but I hadn’t seen you mention anything like that.
Do you just try blast through the whole prep period and take a rest after the comp?

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Hope you are doing great!
1. How are you determining the need for deload phase? How to determine duration of deload phase?
2. What is your strategy for adding Metabolic work within a workout? if focus is fat loss then how would you add Metabolic work within a workout?
3. My personal request for you to update exercise execution videos with your cues/guidance. Currently available videos are missing this part!
Thanks!

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regarding the 6 week challenge checklist, was the 2 exercises per body part referring to 2 exercises per day or 2 exercises across your split?

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What would you recommend for someone who is more on the skinny side with a touch of excess fat? This person would be 6’0 160lbs w/ a 29.8 inch waist. Lacking muscle but still has a touch of fat to lose, mainly in those stubborn areas. They have been dieting for a while & never really taken much time in a surplus to build muscle. They have maxed out their progression in terms of strength they can gain without excess calories & they diet on an daily average of 1500 cals (cyclic w/ some higher/lower days.)

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If you get to a point where you’re happy with your physique, what, in terms of exercise, would be required to maintain the muscle/body composition you have?

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What do you find the best app, program to use to track progress?