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- What's going on Men's Health?
I'm Adam Demos.
I'm here at Easton Gym Company in Hollywood.
Wait, wait, not yet!
And who's gonna be training me is the legend Ryan Farhoudi.
He's gonna walk us through -
Oh, wow.
- Hello, friends.
- Extreme close up. Handsome.
- Extreme close up.
- I love it.
We're gonna go through what I do on set to help keep me
in shape and also prevent injury and doing all the things.
So let's do it.
- Let's do it.
- You know, the type of workouts I like to stick by
is lifting volume, less weight, high volume,
and just try to focus on form.
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- Today we're coupling his chest with his back.
We're doing big compound stuff.
We're gonna start relatively heavy
with the dumbbell bench press on the BOSU ball.
Just before failure we're gonna have him drop
those suckers and we're gonna kind of progressively overload
with these flies, with these cable flies.
So a little heavy volume.
So thicken the pec up and then we're really
gonna burn it out with the fly.
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So I'm actually gonna let Adam keep his hips on the ground.
We're gonna focus on the top of the pec,
the pec minor just a little bit.
Slow tempo, hard squeeze at the top.
We're gonna aim somewhere around 10 to 12 reps.
Soon as he's done, boom, drop 'em.
We'll ride into the fly.
(dumbbells thud)
For you.
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Everything we do, we do slowly with intention
and a real focus on the contraction at the top.
Attaboy.
Go ahead, stick that squeeze.
Good.
(Adam exhaling)
If this point his pecs are on fire,
we're gonna go four.
- They sure are.
- We're gonna go three
and we're gonna hold that last one 'cause we mean it.
(Adam exhaling)
(Adam grunting)
- Ooh, that's stings.
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The role in "Sex/Life" does require me
to be a little bit unclothed.
So training wise, it's more
about making sure everything's toned
making sure I'm nice and lean
because you never know what angle
they're gonna shoot you from.
So, yeah, and it's about those long days on set too
is making sure my body doesn't break down to injury
so it's more - less like lower weights and higher volume.
So that sort of keeps everything tight.
Hopefully it doesn't look too bad.
(laughing)
(Adam exhaling)
- That's perfect.
(Adam grunting)
- I can remember lines on set,
but I can't remember reps in the gym.
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- We were doing those flies earlier
hitting that pec minor, top of the pec.
We're gonna stay on the top of the pec
and the front of the shoulders.
We're gonna do a little strip set here.
We get some good weight on the first set.
Then I'm gonna peel these 35s off.
We get a little bit more volume, push him to failure.
Slow tempo, hard squeeze at the front.
Hyper-focus on the pec.
No shrug in the traps.
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Four is strong.
Hard squeeze, low traps.
(Adam exhaling)
(weights clanging)
- That makes you wanna cry.
(laughing)
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I've always been into exercise and working out
in some form just growing up in Australia.
I grew up on a farm.
So you're active there.
And just outside of the like the aesthetics for work
it just makes you feel good.
Just makes you - once you get a workout in, you're relaxed.
Your day is complete basically,
and you can just cruise.
and so it's definitely part of my daily routine.
Just more for mental, I reckon.
And trying to counteract all the beer
and pizza that I eat sometimes.
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- We're about to hit some heavy lat pulls.
Maybe anywhere between six and 10.
Slow tempo, slight lean back at the bottom.
Hard squeeze like he means it.
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When we're doing lat pulls,
one of the things I see with people
when they're going heavy and they're doing lat pulls,
a lot of work in the forearm kind of detracts
from the amount of work we're doing in the lat.
This particular handle, because it's nice and flat
he gets to push his whole palm into it.
It really sort of like diffuses the amount
of energy loads up in the lat.
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(Adam grunting)
Yep.
(weights clanging)
Easy.
(Adam grunting)
- You know, I watched some of these Men's Health videos
and I didn't think they'd do a full proper session
but it's a proper session.
- The last thing we're gonna do,
you can do this single arm row with a dumbbell -
I like the way the kettlebell feels.
He's got a nice handle.
He's gonna work his low back just a little bit.
We're gonna do a single arm kettlebell row
go right from one side to the other
- Because like working out's hard,
and I try my best but it's tough.
I don't over complicate it.
Stick to the basics and give it your best effort.
But it certainly requires hard work.
Give it the best effort you can and that's it.
But it certainly is - it is hard.
Especially if I'm training with him.
- [Ryan] Too easy.
- [Adam] Is it?
- God bless you.
Yeah, too easy.
- Is it?
- Just watching you.
- Yeah.
- It looked easy just watching you.
- Thanks for training with me Men's Health.
You should come over here.
Come on, get over here.
- Sorry, guys.
- It's too handsome not to be on camera.
- I know.
- And yeah, hope you get sucked into it like we tried to.
- Just show up.
Just get to the gym.
Just get the to the gym, that's it.
Start at the gym. Get there.
Be consistent.
- There we go.
Thank you.
Really proud of you.
It's all good.
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