So the YouTube channel As/Is just put out their own version of nuclei overload
training, right? A hundred reps a day for 30 days of squats.
I actually thought that was pretty cool because I plan on doing that for my next
test. You haven't squatted at all. I squat more than you.
Hey, next time you guys see Ricky, he's going to be without his man bun. Okay.
Cutting that off when he least expects it. But anyways,
so I do plan on doing and I do squat. Okay.
I do plan to do this for my next test. It's going to suck,
but I'm doing mine with a barbell with about 185 pounds.
I'm doing 10 sets of 10 repetitions, a very fixed amount.
Just like you guys are on the other test, but for this video involves three,
three girls and each girl kind of came from a different background. All right.
So you have one girl who's never trained before.
One girl who used to play a lot of volleyball, I guess, back in high school,
but doesn't, doesn't do any more training now.
And then another girl who used to train still trains and is training like three
or four days a week.
So I thought it was a really good variation because the people watching the
video are going to come from the, basically any one of those three positions,
right? Someone who's never trained, used to train or were still training,
but wants to challenge themselves. And when doing a body weight, squat, I mean,
you can make it challenging.
They're just told to do 100 reps a day for 30 days and not being told to do 10
sets of 10 repetitions.
So if you're stronger and you want to try and do two sets of 50,
then you can do that.
If you've never trained before and you have to do 10 sets of 10,
then that's what you gotta do. Okay.
So you can vary that and boost your own intensity with just how you manage your
sets and reps. And so I actually enjoyed the video. Okay.
I watched the whole 12 minutes. I really enjoyed it.
I thought there was a lot of, there's a lot of positivity in there,
especially from Jasmine. I actually enjoyed her story the most,
she was the one who played volleyball as a kid. And she obviously, you know,
gained a little bit of weight since high school.
So she had a bit more to lose and she even talked about how she wasn't even
really worried about losing weight and changing the shape of her body.
She was actually more focused on reconnecting with her body,
which to me is like the mind muscle connection, the, the word,
see what you're saying. It felt like she was out of touch, you know,
with herself. And she wanted to work out to kind of bring that back.
And I thought that was really great and inspiring and inspired me. It did,
you know, and then, you know, Vivian was the girl who had,
had already been training and is training.
Now she did really good with the competition. She really pushed herself.
She did a hundred reps a day.
There were a few days where she didn't do the workout that she admitted to,
which can happen, you know, but missing one or two days,
isn't going to be that big of a difference. Um, and then Lindsey,
unfortunately quit halfway through.
And what would I did not like about the video.
I'm going to come at this from a coaching perspective. Cause you guys know me.
I coach I have a lot of clients that I work with and this squat is something
that I have to teach all the time.
Especially when I get a new client who either has bad form or has never done it
before. And I think coach Steve really dropped the ball.
At least with the footage they're showing in the video.
I can only base this on what I saw in the video coach.
Steve is showing how to do a squat and he does it by throwing a stick on the
ground and telling you to sit down on a bench and then making sure your feet are
straight and then go up and down, which I guess makes sense. It's not wrong.
Right? But as you watch the videos of each of the girls squatting,
um, Jasmine, I think had like some of the best form her chest was up.
She was squatting to depth.
She was using a seat to make sure her butt was touching it.
I thought that was great. Vivian had pretty good form.
She was leaned over maybe a little too much for how I would like to see it,
but she was still going, you know, pass parallel on a squats.
And then you had poor Lindsay who,
it just looked like she was not taught how to squat correctly.
It looked like she was pushing off of her toes a lot.
She was folding in half basically as she was going down.
So she wasn't even really bringing her hips past parallel and Lindsey ends up
quitting because she's under the impression that this is going to work on her butt
like the first thing that comes out of her mouth and it breaks my heart,
watching the video, the first thing she says that she's like,
I want to work on my butt. I want to increase. I want to fix this area.
It's gonna be really good for me. It's going to boost my self esteem,
which we find out later she was having like some personal issues.
And she thought that this challenge was going to actually help her.
And then in the end that actually made it worse because she thought she was
going to come into this and work on her butt.
And no one told her that squats don't really work the butt as much as people
think. Right?
I I'm just been going through a lot of mental health issues
and I feel like not doing the squats well has not been helping.
I actually did it because I thought it would help and have something I can focus
on, but it honestly made it worse.
I just need to focus on me more and unnecessarily. Okay.
And I read some of the comments in the comment section and people are like,
well, you're supposed to flex your glutes at the top of the movement.
So you can flex your glutes as hard as you want to. Okay.
But a squat is never gonna get to build your glutes as good
in to comparison with exercises that actually work like a glute bridge.
You know, if Lindsay wanted a to challenge and she's like,
I want to work my butt. I was like, listen,
you're going to probably see a lot more improvement in your thigh area.
But if you want to work that,
but then we should do maybe a different challenge later on.
And when they were halfway through the competition,
she tells coach Steve like, Hey, I notice I'm noticing that I'm quad dominant.
And he's like, Oh, well, you know, for you,
you should just widen your feet and squat.
That's going to target your glutes more. Yeah,
it does still not as much as a glute bridge, it ain't going to fix the problem.
And so she ends up quitting, which I thought was really sad. And Lindsay,
if you watch this video,
I'd be more than happy to help you get your glutes where you want them reach out
to me. You can shoot me a DM on my Instagram,
Scott Herman fitness free of charge. Hit me up.
I want to put you on the right path. Cause I saw,
I saw some real pain in your eyes and I felt bad cause I've seen it time and
time again when people aren't coached correctly.
And I didn't like that part of the video. But aside from that,
the other girls continue to put in the hard work.
And when it got time for them to increase the intensity.
So I think it was like day 10 instead of doing a hundred squats in a row,
they added five jumps squats at the end.
And then about halfway through the challenge,
they had to do 10 jumps squats at the end.
And they took on the challenge and Jasmine was remembering like, Hey,
when I used to play volleyball,
I used to have to get down real low and then jump up to hit the ball when
you're, when you're by the volleyball net.
And so she was actually mimicking that movement in her home,
in front of her door. And I was like, man, this girl is really inspiring.
Like she is kicking ass. She wants to take it to the next level.
And overall it said the video was great,
but the only other misleading thing I thought about the video was on the
thumbnail and obviously videos need to have clickbait. Okay.
They have to have clickbait. I understand that. I have to make my
my thumbnails a bit more click baity too. So people click on. It's just,
it's just the way YouTube is now. Okay. You can't,
it's not like 10 years ago when a video was about biceps and you could put like
video about biceps. People were like, Oh, I want to watch a video about biceps.
Now it has to be like three secret bicep techniques that you've never heard of
that are only known to me, nobody else.
And it makes your peek grow three inches. Oh, okay.
We click on that bad example,
but you understand the point I'm trying to make on the thumbnail.
They try to make it seem like Vivian's, butt had this like drastic change,
you know? And even when they showed Lindsey's, um, before and after photos,
you see a bit of changes. She did tighten up like maybe a tiny bit,
but the camera angle in the,
before photo is top facing down and then the after photo is bottom
facing up.
And so these are techniques that are used to make your butt look bigger or
worse, depending on which photo you plan on taking that day. Granted,
I think their photos were taken in the beginning and at the end,
but on Instagram and you know, in advertisements a lot of times guys,
those before and after photos, sorry to say this they're taken on the same day,
but overall I think it was great. I think it's a great challenge. Um,
if you wanted to do the a hundred squats a day for 30 days, just understand.
Yeah, you're gonna, you're definitely gonna tighten up your butt a tiny bit,
but most of that is going to be felt in your legs,
which is the whole reason why I want to do that for my next challenge.
I want to get my quads looking a bit meatier and a bit thicker.
getting a bit more volume. Like they used to before I moved down to Florida,
cause I was squatting a lot more often.
And regardless of what Ricky says,
your quads are bigger. We know why your quads are bigger.
We're not going to get into that into this video.
But if you guys want to comment below, we can talk about that in another video.
But regardless I want to bring some volume back to my quads.
So that's why I'm going to be doing the challenge next.
So for those of you who want to take on the next nuclei overload challenge,
I'll post a link below to the forum post.
Like I did last time where I'm going to talk about it and bring you guys in on
exactly how to do it. So yeah, I think overall the video was great,
had great messaging,
but it did have some things that I didn't agree with just coming from the
coaching perspective side of things. And I think you guys might agree with me.
And if you do, if you don't, I want to know. So comment below.
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