- I want to be all about real world horsepower.
I don't wanna be one of these guys who looks good
but has nothing under the hood.
(intense music)
Hey guys, my name's Bobby Maximus.
If you haven't heard of me, let me introduce myself.
I fought professionally in the UFC,
and I trained a bunch of people
in the tier one special operations military community.
I've written a bestselling book,
and I've been named one of the hundred fittest people
to ever walk the planet earth by Men's Health.
We are here to get a personal one-on-one look
into what I do in the gym on a daily basis.
Now the gym itself, it's not pretty.
We don't like fancy.
We like stuff grimy and dirty.
We are here for one reason and one reason alone:
it's to get our asses to work.
So what is a Bobby Maximus workout comprised of?
There are three components.
Number one is feeling good.
I wanna feel good.
I wanna be injury free.
I wanna be able to go up and down the stairs
without knee pain,
get out of bed in the morning without back pain.
Being a professional fighter,
I've had a lot of miles on this body,
so I've gotta look after some old injuries.
At the same time, I'm 42 years old.
Now that may seem old,
but I still have half of my life ahead of me.
I wanna be good when I'm 50, good when I'm 60,
good when I'm 70,
so I've got to address that in the gym.
So there's the feel good component.
The number two component is performance.
I want to be all about real world horsepower.
I don't wanna be one of these guys who looks good
but has nothing under the hood.
I wanna be able to show up anywhere, any time,
whether that's training with my NFL guys
or training with my MBA guys,
and I want to represent myself accordingly.
Respect is earned, and I try to earn that every damn day.
The third component is looking good.
I wanna be able to take my shirt off anywhere, anytime
and be proud.
So if that's on the big screen,
that's the cover of Men's Health,
hell, if it's at the beach,
just walking around or hanging out,
I wanna be proud of what I've got,
so there's a look good component too.
So today I'm gonna take you through a workout
and show you those three components.
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An important part of training, for me,
is being injury-free and feeling good.
One of the ways I accomplish that is through mobility work.
Always start my workout with these things called wall squats
that help with my Achilles mobility, my hip mobility,
my back mobility.
Slide up against the wall, face to the wall,
and try to give as low as you can.
(intense music)
I'll always start the workout
with couple of sets of five of these,
just to warm everything up and get moving.
So sometimes I'll look for ways
to make these wall squats harder.
The way you make it harder is by holding a weight overhead.
It's almost like an overhead squat
and a wall squat had a baby.
(intense music)
(metal clicking)
(intense music)
So I'm really big on this feel good
component of the workout.
I wanna stay injury free for the rest of my life,
so I push the envelope with mobility.
One of my favorite exercises is the overhead squat.
Nothing will sort out your core or your mobility
like putting a big weight overhead.
Big's a relative term.
I'm only using 225 today, well under my max,
but I'm trying to keep the form tight, consistent.
And again, this is about feeling good right now,
not performing good.
That'll come a little later in the workout.
(weight slamming)
One of the ways like double bang work
is I clean the bar up to the rack every single time,
so not only am I getting five to six overhead squats,
I'm also getting five to six power cleans.
(intense music)
So the good component of the workout,
we are through with that; we've done all our mobility work.
Now it's time to focus on real world horsepower,
functional fitness performing well.
One of the ways I develop real-world horsepower
is a grind-explode combo,
so a heavy-ish lift followed by an explosive movement.
So I do a lot of this lift-jump combination type work.
Today's going to be a deadlift
followed by an explosive band jump,
and we'll see what happens.
So I like these, what I call, escalating warmups.
You know, I might do five reps at a lightweight,
put a little bit of weight on the bar,
do a couple more reps, put a little bit more on,
do a couple more reps,
and then I'm ready for the working sets.
All right, so we are at the main event of the workout,
the meal.
We've had our appetizer,
and this is our like main serving and we are hungry
and we are gonna eat.
495 on the bar, nothing too heavy,
just enough to feel it and keep the bar moving
with some semblance of speed.
Speed and power are generally more important to athletics
than just raw strength.
Couple of reps of this followed up
by five explosive banded jumps.
Maybe do four or five or six sets of that.
And we're gonna build that real-world horsepower
I was talking about earlier.
All right, we are getting ready to lift.
Notice no belt, no straps, no knee wraps, no chalk.
No fake-ass sh in this house.
It is just all meat.
(upbeat music)
(sharp exhale)
(weights slamming)
Look at that bar bend.
It's not bending, ain't got enough weight on it.
(weight slamming)
Here we go.
We're gonna get over to these banded jumps.
(intense music)
All right, Chucky, and lift off.
(feet hitting ground)
Continuing with the performance theme,
who's the greatest jumper of all time?
You think it's LeBron?
You thinkin' it's MJ?
It is neither; super Mario.
Nobody makes those jumps with that kind
of power and agility other than Mario.
So today, homemade "Super Mario Brothers."
We got 405 on hex bar.
I'm gonna lift it.
I'm gonna jump out of it onto this little
jump circuit I've made.
That's where the super Mario brothers comes in.
And, you know, I don't know, five, eight, 10 sets.
I kind of do this by feel.
I just go 'til I'm done.
(metal clanking)
(feet thudding)
(rock music)
Now it's time to look good.
I'm into vanity; I wanna look good anywhere I go.
Usually finish off the workout with a little bit
of bench press and then some push-ups, pull-ups, and dips.
So for the bench press, nothing too complicated.
Three sets of 10 to 15 reps; nice, slow controlled tempo.
So finishing off on the look good aspect
of a Bobby Maximus workout,
Nothing makes you look better
than old school prison exercises.
So I actually call it the Holy Trinity.
So every workout I ever do, I end with 50 pull-ups,
50 dips, 50 pushups, done with perfect form.
All right, so for the pushups and the pull-ups and the dips,
it can be done any order, any set, and any rep number.
I just try to get 50 slow, quality, muscle building reps.
All right, you guys, that's a Bobby Maximus workout.
You started with a couple of sets of wall squats.
We did five overhead squats of 225.
We did power clean after every rep
to get it back on the rack.
Then we went into the main event,
the meat and potatoes of the workout.
We did some deadlifts followed by some banded jumps.
And then we played homemade "Super Mario Brothers."
Remember that man is the greatest jumper of all time.
And we finished with the vanity muscles.
Three sets of 15 bench presses
and 50 pushups, pull ups, and dips.
So we covered the three components
of the Bobby Maximus workout.
We wanna feel good and be injury-free.
We wanna look sexy 'cause that's important.
And we wanna perform
at the highest athletic level on the planet.
Thank you guys for coming to train with me today
in my grimy gym and getting after it.
(grungy rock music)