AlphaDestiny General /ADG/

What do you mean he lies? Every lift he shows the full setup with no poor angles.

People who actually purchase Youtube Fitness Personality programs aren't the same demographic of people who use Jow Forums.

They're generally harmless clueless highly gullible innocent blue-pilled normies who don't know any better.

Or his “3 years of professional calisthenics experience” aka doing push ups with his 14 year old friends

>what has happened in the last week on Youtube anyways

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Literally the sucessor of "former male model" Jason Blaha... So sad.

People can constantly defend him just like you can constantly post hate about him.

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Right, so what's your point? That I should stop airing my opinions in threads about the faggot? Might as well shut down Jow Forums immediately LOL

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This and face-pulls

>mfw alex invented face pulls

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I started doing facepulls because of Brad Contreras and his EMG tests he's published on T-Nation.

I hope if you're doing them with a band you do them the way Bret does them or you're not getting what you think you're getting. You have to pull the band apart as you pull it towards your face or it will be a menial rear delt exercise and not get much lateral delt activated almonds.

This is specifically why I bought bands. They're pretty affordable and have other uses too besides face pulls.

Are people really incapable of separating the good information given from the bad? Everyone who spreads fitness information spreads tons of bad advice. It's up to you to filter it out. No single entity is an infallible authority. Alphaderp has some good and bad advice just like everyone. You can't discredit all the advice based on the bad advice or else you're a complete retard.

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Omarisuf has been giving out pretty solid information for years now.

give me a tldr on face pull
resistance band coming off amazon tommorow

Videos are the best tl;dr
youtube.com/watch?v=2Rhle7RXpzE

The lower you place the band the more you activate the lateral delts. Don't go for anything below 15 reps. This is not a heavy lift.

I mean, what does this shit do beside probably correcting computerman posture and healthy(?) shoulders

Lied about his age??

I knew Alphadestiny was a hack

Yes, he said he was around 26 or something but he's actually 22.

Strengthens rotatar cuffs and helps balance shoulders against injury due to excessive front delt movements

>Are people really incapable of separating the good information given from the bad?
If people were capable of knowing what's good and what's bad advice, why the fuck would they watch Alpha Destiny in the first place? There would be literally be no point in watching if you already know what's BS and what's not.

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He's just parroting information that's freely available on the web as is Alphaderp. It's not like these guys are inventing the lifts they do or the research they provide. Everything else is not fitness drama crap that really doesn't belong on this board.

But why?? How is this known? Ive only just started listening to him desu.

To make it seem like he has more experience than he actually does and sell his program.

People found several posts of his own admitting to be 17 at the time the AlphaDestiny channel was created.

Also achieves the highest measured EMG for posterior and lateral delts in a self test he did a couple of years ago. t-nation.com/training/inside-the-muscles-best-shoulders-and-trap-exercises

So it should be a pretty good mass builder for delts, especially if you do them every time you're in the gym.

Can you tell me specifically anything at all that's bad advice?

>what does this shit do beside probably correcting computerman posture and healthy(?) shoulders

What more could you possibly want?

But i even bought Rogaine for a minoxidil beard because of him saying he used it in his mid twenties ahahaha

This
>neck
>banded face pulls
>forearm training

that and like him or not, bearmode look is really good for me. It's such a shame I had to incite so many riots and support the hate, because I love drama.

I think he'll make it through this though

>Deadlift with a rounded back bro. Use your back to lift up the weight. It will give you all kindsss of back gains. All kindssss

>Do heavy rack pulls above the knee every single day

>Only go the gym once a week and only do bicep curls

Granted, those are some obvious bad advices.
I guess sometimes you just have to try what works for you and see if it is really bad advice

>He's just parroting information that's freely available on the web
That's literally what being a fitness youtuber is about. Get information from the web that people are too lazy to research themselves. Shorten it and make it more digestible and maybe dumb it down a little on the way and try to be entertaining while explaining it.

>Deadlift with a rounded back bro. Use your back to lift up the weight. It will give you all kindsss of back gains. All kindssss
Can you provide a source for this claim? FYI thoracic rounding to increase weight is a known technique in powerlifting circles and valid in context and not bad advice necessarily. As well the spine can potentially adapt to this position.
>Do heavy rack pulls above the knee every single day
You haven't provided a reason not to nor have I seen this claim anywhere. He suggests they're the best exercise for upper trap growth and that's not a very easily disputable claim. They work extremely well for this through weighted stretch which again is a technique previously known that he did not invent.
>Only go the gym once a week and only do bicep curls
I've never heard any such claims being made by...anyone ever.

>thoracic rounding to increase weight is a known technique in powerlifting circles
First of all, 99 percent of gym goers are not power lifters and secondly Alex isn't either. He's said very clearly in at least one video that he's not a power lifter and he's not a competitive lifter and he isn't interested in it.

dogshit program but everything else is good advice unironically

That does not change the fact that thoracic rounding is an effective technique to increase weight nor have you sourced this claim. Have fun arguing with your strawman tho.

What's the fucking point in increasing weight with the added bonus of risking your discs if you're not a power lifter?

I didn't base my claims / advices on anything Alex ever said. I just made it up, not thinking about whether it is actually useful or not.

It's easy to make stuff up after all I guess. Just have a decent subscriber base and say sth, say it works for you (so it will work for you, too!) and maybe show a video of it..

sorry if that does not make any sense, I have been in a car almost all day, kinda tired

1) Thoracic round =/= Lumbar rounding and as such isn't inherently unsafe or a concern for the spine
2) Increasing weight obviously has the benefit of greater strength and muscle adaptations to occur

If you're at a plateau you may need thoracic rounding or it may simply come naturally to your anthropometry. You shouldn't disregard wholesale the concept of thoracic rounding. And once again, I've seen no source of this specific claim made by him so I can't really discern a made up claim.

They're not harmless. They're evil and stupid. They will burn your house down.

>Lying about his age and past experiences (claiming to have "careers" in parkour and arm wrestling)
where is the proof all of this is fake? and where did he claim any of this?

There isn't any, it's just hearsay.

kek that young bearded liar fucked you hard

SAY THAT ABOUT ME AGAIN AND I SWEAR TO GOD

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He never claimed to be an arm wrestler. He did parkour stuff as a kid, that's legit

>last rep ever face

Is this dude the biggest youtube scam artist of the decade?

>21 (literally finished high school a couple years ago)
>talks about how to pick up girls/be a player while still a virgin
>talks about his "calisthenics" history which was literally naruto running on rooftops with his friends when he was 14
>his shtick is being an "alpha" while using minoxidil for his beard, being insecure of his eyebrows, and acting and talking like a stereotypical movie closet gay
>no education at all
>no experience coaching people
>mediocre lifts with a focus on """oddlifts""" to disguise this
>sells overpriced garbage books with spelling errors and garbage methodology

Delet this

How are cosmetic improvements in any way unalpha, only fat lards think like that

It's the INSECURITY

Using that logic, we shouldn't lift because that's just a signal that we're insecure in our appearance

Retarded logic

I used to be naturally enhanced, like you. But then I took a rack pull above the knee

He did. It's in one of his training videos, he talks about preacher curl grips and how he utilized it for arm wrestling.

you're fucking stupid; your IQ must be in the double digits. Then again, you're a faggot destiny dick rider so its to be expected

He said he enjoyed arm wrestling and that he was doing that training in order to grow his forearms

Not gonna lie last time I checked his forearms are hefty

You misunderstood something. He said recently that he's planning to enter his first ever armwrestling competition and that he expects to be crushed. He never said he used to be an armwrestler, stop making shit up. There's plenty of legit shit to troll him with

Yeah like him lying about being 5'5 when hes actually 5'3

Who's this faggot?

canadian manlet conartist extraordinaire

Kill yourself

Nice, thanks.

stupid normie I hate you

>claims he can conventional DL 600lbs when he interviews Pete Rubish
>has to hitch a 585 block pull after running a peaking cycle

>shows full setup for his warmups
>lmao I lost the first half of my strict 225 OHP guys (obv it was a pushpress)

>claims he has a very strong bench
>literally all he shows is some reverse band, slingshot, chain bs that says absolutely nothing about his strength

list goes on and on, not even to mention his amazing grip strength where he just sneakily switched to hook grip and called it double overhand.

not him but how does it contradict the fact that rounding during DL is ok?
powerlifters do it because it is both safe and effective. so alex not being a powerlifter is irrelevant. the only people who are obsessed about back rounding in DL are sub 3pl8 pulling beginners who misread SS.

look at konstantinovs or john haack

especially thoracic spine, there really is nothing unsafe about rounding it, in fact it's pretty much recommended. but I'd say people make too big a deal about keeping an extended or neutral lumbar as well.

btw I'm not really a big AD fan, I just think he's kind of useless

I just let my back do its thing when I deadlift desu

wow this comment makes me so mad i'm so angry right now omg frickin normie lol if you turned 360 degrees you would be facing the same direction idiot haha

what's your deadlift at rn supermang?

yeah it's been shown that lumbar rounding isn't terrible either but rather it's when your spine goes from one position to another UNDER LOAD eg rounds under load while not starting from a rounded position that fucks your shit up. a rounded lumbar is suboptimal from a structural integrity standpoint but the spine can adapt to this. the spine cannot adapt to repeated flexion under load.

They are not alpha nor beta.
It's just most faggots here are 18yo socially inept virgins and their brains weren't ready for alpha/beta traits acknowledgement and they ended up pushing everything to extreme. Overanalyzing every little thing they do in life AKA "will spreading butter on the sandwich from left to right make me look alpha or beta?", while it only comes down to:

Sexuality:
alpha male - fucks lot of girls
beta male - stays with one girl

Work and money:
alpha male - is his own boss
beta male - works for somebody

Insecure people tend to be beta, but beta person isn't necessarily insecure. It's just what you are satisfied with and what fits you. Obviously men have Impulses, that tell them to become more alpha. My point is: stop with this bullshit, people are just people, there will always be both alpha and beta males

Claimed that he mastered the planche and could do planche push ups too. There's no way that he was even close to that

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look at that dyel lmao

550 beltless meme
been liftan for 18 months but only recently started to try and bring my deadlift up, still getting slow linear gains (maxing out every week adding 1/2 or 1 kg on a triple)
still stronger than 99% of Jow Forums, but the point is, it feels absolutely unnatural to me to try and lock or extend my back. I honestly think it'll find its safest and strongest position. never had any pain or even strain.

>the spine cannot adapt to repeated flexion under load
*the lumbar spine
obviously the thoracic spine can adapt to rounding that's its purpose

youtu.be/X-3hTz69M3o?t=6m11s

Shut up. You are stupid. Your comment makes you appear uneducated and you don't know what you are talking about.