what's up guys jeff cavaliere
athleanx.com today i'm going to show you
video proof of how conditioning could be
killing your games you see if you're
looking to build strength proceeding
your strength work or even including
conditioning work with your strength
work is going to kill your gains and I
can prove that to you
so what you see here is a clip of me
doing a standard strength exercise for
our back
it's a classic pull-up and as I'm doing
my pull-ups here I'm trying like hell to
make sure I'm doing these right all the
way down full extension come up chin
over the bar and what I'm doing there
keeping my steady cadence until failure
and I rep out and I rep out and I rep
out here and ultimately I'm going to get
to 23 repetitions here before reaching
failure now keep in mind in order to
ensure that I'm getting a clean result
here and different than what we're going
to show you next I did this on a
separate day than what I'm going to show
you next I did this yesterday now when I
finally reached failure here I come down
I call it a day I leave the next day I
come back here and now before getting up
on that bar I simply precede this with a
single conditioning exercise here we're
going to keep it simple we're just doing
a cone hops and there's 40 to be exact
now the simple act of doing a
conditioning exercise before my strength
exercise will have serious impact on my
ability to do the strength exercise
because what's happening here is as I'm
working my legs and doing my explosive
and aerobic endurance right here I'm
still using the blood flow to my legs to
try to fuel not well because in an
aerobic exercise but to try to fuel my
activity because remember blood is being
directed to these muscles to try to help
us to deliver oxygen to the working
muscles but at the same time to help
remove some of that metabolites and the
byproducts of muscle contraction away
from the muscles to allow me to keep
working so that's all well and good and
when I complete my 40 reps now I try to
get back up on the bar and guess what's
happening here I don't feel so fresh
anymore I don't feel as
as I did yesterday and I didn't do a
single thing to evolve involve my back
in that jumping exercise it should be as
fresh as it could be but it's not
because when I get up on that bar and I
try to contract and use my lats to do
every pull-up now it's not so easy
my last are now asking for the same flow
of blood that's being directed to my
legs to try to help it now through the
exercise and it's not happening guys you
only have a limited ability for your
body to deliver and serve all of its
masters and here it's becoming a lot
more challenging so what ultimately
happens is when I was able to go to
failure on 23 reps for I literally only
get 16 reps out here now why is that
again this for the reasons I just told
you but more importantly what that means
to you is that when you're going to
prioritize strength in your training you
don't want to be combining conditioning
exercises with it and a lot of other
modalities of training make this very
popular and it's not a good way to go at
the very least if you're going to do
that and you want to see gains and
strength then you want to keep your
conditioning work to the end of the
workout after you've already trained for
that purpose but more importantly you'd
want to separate it on different days
but here's the big argument we don't
just train for strength here what we do
is we try to train you to become more
athletic and when you're athletic I'm
sorry to say but you don't get the
option to do everything you want to do
in a fully fresh state mixing fatigue
and a muscle under fatigue and then
asking it to perform work and do
something for you is much more realistic
and much more productive for most of us
who are trying to make gains in the gym
but also have them become functional and
purposeful rooms set outside of the gym
and that is why I like to combine these
two elements and different types of
training again if we're going for
hypertrophy here we can still accomplish
that we can accomplish that because we
can still create overload just because I
fail in just 16 reps up here doesn't
mean I wasn't working my ass off to do
all 16 reps that is an overload as a
matter of fact it's a different stimulus
than a fresh overload created by not
doing anything before the exercise so
don't think that the conditioning is
always going to be a bad thing to
perform with your exercises there's
something you don't think that's going
to make you lose muscle and the end of
the
at the end of the day having all
elements covered in a complete training
program is ultimately going to be what I
feel is the most important aspect for
you to make sure you're covering in your
training in the meantime if you're
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it incorporates all the things that I
think are important elements to complete
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one a try guys feel it for yourselves
I'm sure you've already have in certain
capacities doing something fresh is a
lot different than doing it under stress
but if you're trying to train for
strength then I would avoid this on
training on strength training days and
get it onto its own separate day all
right guys who found the video helpful
leave your comments and thumbs up let me
know what else you want me to cover I'll
do my best to do that for you in the
days and weeks ahead alright see you
soon