Hey, what's going on nation? Welcome back to the channel. Special guest today,
My friend Austin Dunham. What's up man? Welcome to the channel.
So I don't know if you guys have seen the first video collab that we did
already. I'm not sure exactly what order they're coming out,
but I will post the link regardless when it's available in the info section
below. But Austin and I are collaborating actually at his gym.
So this is athletic apex in Sanford, Florida. Yep.
So he's only about 30 or 40 or so minutes from me. So it worked out great
that we get collab and Austin specializes in calisthenics.
You guys asked me a lot about calisthenics. I'm no expert in it,
but as Austin found out I have a little bit of skill.
I'll get there.
Maybe a little bit of nurturing could get a little better. Yeah, of course, for real.
I'm sure Ricky's running some clips of me falling on my face.
He has the power of editing.
But one thing that kind of sparks an interest for me is
at one point in the workout we were doing some weighted pull ups and you had
asked me before Scott, have you done weighted pull ups befor. And I do. Um,
but it's never been something that I've one really focused on to try to increase
it to two and a half, three plates. You know,
usually I work with one to two plates max and I'll do like, you know,
I'll do sets of like four, maybe six reps max with that. But you know,
for the most part it's easier in my gym.
And we talked about this just to go to like a lat pull down machine and just hit
that and then move on to the next exercise. Cause it requires,
there's a lot of stuff that requires for a weighted pull up cause you have to find
the belt and depending on where the machines at, usually the pull up machines are
over here and the weights are over here. So it just,
just in terms of time we usually just skip it. Right, exactly. Yeah,
that's true. And Austin's like, dude,
you just got to stop making excuses. You just gotta pull up or shut up. Yeah.
pull up or shut up. Right. So I think it would be great.
Austin for you to talk to the community about why a weighted pull up is so much
better than a lat pull down because I mean you're repping out three plates and
you making it look like they're fake weights and they're not.
Cause I tried after him and I know halfway up and I didn't, I couldn't,
I didn't even think my body was moving that's how weird it felt.
So in regards to the weighted
pull up is one of my go to exercises, vertical pulling exercises.
When it comes to back compound movements, I literally do not do lat pull downs.
I can't, I can't remember the last time I have done one to be honest. Um,
and I got good back development and overall good strength when it comes to doing
pull ups.
Now the reason why pull ups are superior in my opinion to a lat pull down is
because you get more muscle recruitment as you're doing the pull up.
So even when you're on a lap pull down,
you can tell like you don't get as much core activation.
And as we were talking about earlier,
you literally cannot cheat like a weighted pull up.
Like if you're doing a weighted pull up for reps,
that means you're strong enough to do it. However,
with the lat pull down like you can, you can sway, you can.
Even if you're trying not really to cheat as you're pulling down,
you tend to lean back and then get to that assistance and pull it down.
Exactly.
And I feel like lat pull downs are is for bodybuilding right if you want to
really target your lats. But from a overall concept,
I feel like the weight pull up is far beyond superior. Even when I was doing it.
So Austin did his, his three plates,
he banged out like three or four reps and then I did it.
I got halfway up and I think I had my eyes closed at one point and it was such a
weird feeling. It felt like my body wasn't even moving.
And then when I opened my eyes,
I realized that was actually halfway and it didn't even feel like I was even
able to pull myself that much. But tell you what,
the engagement I felt in my back was amazing, but the biceps,
but I felt like even the biceps were what we were restricting me because they
just weren't used to that heavy load at that angle because it wasn't a chin up.
It was a pull up. So I was feeling it everywhere.
But even holding it halfway,
I felt so much more recruitment in my back than I've ever felt doing a lat pull
down. That's true. And I feel like guys,
we just need to stop running into the lat pull down machine and focusing more.
I mean Austin's back is, is massive and I'm sure you're going to see it.
I'm going to have him take off his shirt and flex for you guys. Yeah.
Right now he's flexing. He's showing what's up. But it just,
it really does make such a difference.
And so I just wanted to make a quick video,
talk about this and get some notes from someone who's pretty much,
I would say an expert in calisthenics and things that he can do is amazing and
I'm kind of jelly. I'm like. You can work up to it. You know,
we were doing the handstand, uh,
to push up and I was just so angry I couldn't do it. Yeah.
That's usually the case amongst bodybuilders. Yeah.
It's not like a competition of like, Oh I'm gonna have bigger biceps than you.
Cause it's like, yeah, that's,
genetics is going to be a play a big role in that,
but like to be able to do feats of strength like this,
like that's a cool way to compete with each other. Exactly.
As we were discussing earlier with calisthenics I can do all the handstand
pushups,
but also I can go in the gym and shoulder press with you too I can do both,
you know? Yeah. And you can,
you can super set a lot of these things together too, to switch up your workouts.
Exactly. Exactly. I feel like the core,
the carry over from calisthenics to weight lifting is greater than from
weightlifting to calisthenics, if that makes sense. Oh, that makes perfect sense.
So that's awesome man. Well Hey, if you guys want to see more from Austin,
if you want to see more calisthenics type stuff on my channel, let me know.
Austin's only 30 minutes away.
We can put together workout like full workout routines for you guys to try how
to perfect specific movements.
If you guys have some stuff that you're working on,
comment down below and let us know and we'll take a look. So yeah. Hey man,
Now that we're done doing the fun stuff, let's get to work. Let's go.
I was serious guys, if you want to see more calisthenics type stuff,
tap that like button and comment below and also make sure you check out the vlog
that Austin and I did when he put me through some of his calisthenics types of
workouts. It was very, it was very interesting.
Let's just say that the concrete is a real good reminder that,
you can't mess up. Cause I almost did a few times.