Is his advice about lateral raises true?
Instead of going up explosively you should go for half ur normal weight and do controlled motion AND pause halfway through go up, then pause halfway down, go up again and then let down.
This is apparantely for perfect isolation, i did it and it felt pretty good but its with much lower weight
The logic behind his theory makes sense to me
Stop listening to this click bait, roid popping wop
in another a video he literally says go heavier then you usually do and just try and bring it down slowly
If you pause about an angle of 60 you'll activate supraspinatus more, which is the muscle that's usually the source of shoulder pain and impingement. Sounds good to me in theory at least, but I'm just doing low weights with many repetitions.
"click bait"....the dude literally sells no products or other commercial shit on his channel, but sure
I think that's just for hypertrophy.
He promotes his work out programmes and diet plans, wtf are you on about?
I found out that going lower weight and higher reps on lateral raises stretches my side delts more, especially if i slow down the exercise tempo. So yeah that could be good advice
What should I do if I'm just trying to put meat on my shoulders and develop shoulder strength to help my bench?
It sucks doing lat raises Jeff style and be in agony and not really get much strength but then see dumbasses just being explosive with huge weights and boulder shoulders.
Lateral raises don't build shoulder strenght and have nothing to do with bench, they're purely for aesthetics.
The only exercise i can think of that can help the bench would be overhead/shoulder press, but even that is a different movement with way less chest involvement.
If you wanna help you bench, do actual bench.
Also don't watch what others do in the gym, find what works for you and do that.
I try not to watch others too much but I've only been going 4 months so I like to see, "Hey, does this exercise look worth trying?".
I've been doing more Dumbbell OHP (regular OHP hurts my wrist because of smith machines at my gym).
The reason I'm trying to build shoulder strength is because I watched videos on lag points with benching and where mine is it's for my shoulders.
Yeah of course the first months you'll have to experiment a lot.
OHP with dumbbells is fine but the best would be to do it with a barbell (no smith machine), that way you train your stabilizers and your form more.
Try adding inclined barbell/dumbbell presses too and see if it works for you.
t. internally rotated twinkcel
youre fucking retarded and a dyel. jeff is hands down the best source of lifting information you can get for free. or honestly paid.
I think most of his theories point you in the right direction. But some of them really have no support. Some of it he is just thinking it makes sense without much evidence. He honestly sounds like someone with a bachelors degree.
When has he been wrong?
By in large, doing an incline bp would improve your flat bench more than ohp. Look at the range of motion of your front delts when you bench vs when you ohp. Generally the full extension/lockout of your flat bench is when your ohp begins. Theoretically incline bp has much more carryover to the flat bench than does the ohp.
The point of that advice is so you actually use your delts rather than using momentum to get it up and just your traps at the top. If you go back to bigger weights you will probably now have better form.
I've been doing a ton of Incline Dumbbell as well mostly because my upper chest is almost non-existent visually. It's been a while since I've tried my ORM on flat so it might be time to go back and take a look.
I don't have the option to try any barbell exercises without a Smith Machine because I go to Planet Fitness. It doesn't bother me too much because I almost prefer dumbbells it just makes it virtually impossible for Squats, OHP, and to an extent Deadlift.
STOP DOING THIS, IT'S KILLING YOUR GAINS
>proceeds to explain how it's not actually killing your gains but is in fact good for you
More like he explains how popular bad form or mistake is killing your gains and gives you alternative/better way to do it.
Anyway why are people so butthurt about he clickbait if the content is actually good? In the age of instagram fitness gurus you gotta do what you gotta do to get views. Jeff is not so bad compared to other youtubers.
Cutting down his videos to the 2-3 lines of form advice with timestamps to those parts of the video would help a lot for quick form reminders.
Like half of a given video of his is knowledge on why something works/should work god bless him.
>he click baits
>NO HE DOESN'T
>yes he does
>WHY DOES IT MATTER
>Anyway why are people so butthurt about he clickbait if the content is actually good?
I don't think most who act this way know what good content is, or if they do, they've never really looked into his content. I agree, Jeff's clickbait ways are annoying as fuck, and I would never buy his shit but his free videos always have solid information, always put safety first, and he actually explains the WHY behind everything he claims, making it all very easy to confirm if you ever doubt him or are unsure about any of it.
I didn't say he doesn't clickbait you mongrel. If you discard his content just because of this then it's your loss and your shoulders will be forever internally rotated.
You're right, i was just thinking about optimal shoulder exercises and forgot about incline press
Don't know where you live or what facilities you have at your disposal but if you have an option other than planet fitness take it, even if it's 3 times more distant from your place.
It's more the price than anything and being able to take a plus 1 (I'm married).
But someone before you, who started the conversation that you decided to jump into without reading, said that. If you're not gonna get context, shut the fuck up before you speak, faggot
Yes, it's true.
But the usual lateral raises are good as well. You should load those and do them explosively while letting your traps assist the movement.