Barbell

“You'd be pretty good. Yeah. You'd be really. Not perfect. You mentioned a barbell. You would, you would actually be better than probably 90% of the population. That's right. Yeah. I mean, so, uh, you'd be really good. Now, obviously there's other planes and movements and things.”

“press a barbell up over their head with good weight and strength and stability, I don't think they're going to struggle whatsoever with pushing something off of them. Well, I mean, to like decelerating it to, I mentioned like row, but you're kind of getting that as well.”

“and then loaded the big Bertha kettlebell on her, let her use the barbell, and I had it on the reverse side so she could kind of lean back, and then literally do almost like a – Yeah, like a belt squat, dropping it with that.”

“take. And the hierarchy of barbell straight in front of you to dumbbells is the idea that with dumbbells, look, I'm going to allow you to take a little less pressure off the AC joint by bringing them, like the more midline you're going, you're approximating the landmine.”

“I'll use barbells infrequently, maybe 20% of the time. And again, sometimes because I want to retest my abilities to see how close I've come to being able to use them paint-free again. And I can, I can use them pain-free now.”

“So now I'm back into sort of that scapular plane and I'm able to press from there. So that's one modification I'll make if I use the barbell. I will almost always opt for dumbbells. One of my favorite things to do with dumbbells is to simply do one at a time. So you mentioned the asymmetrical.”

“If I'm on a chin-up bar, I simply let myself go and my feet hit the floor. If I have a barbell and it's going down, it's going to accelerate faster. I put it on the bench or wherever I have to put it back in the rack. It's not like the stress that we have when we are doing a bench press of some sort where the weight's coming down on top of us or a squat when the weight's coming down on top of us.”

“the arm across the chest. So when it comes to the pressing movements, you have options of obviously barbells, dumbbells, machines. They're all going to do pretty much the same thing in terms of the movement itself, but how it feels can be drastically different.”

“a few days a week. But a full body routine, three days a week, incorporating some barbell work would probably get you some gains. OK. So instead of doing, you know, two upper, two lower. Yeah. You're going to the gym.”

“And the intensity is moderate to high, not super intense. And I think cutting it down to three days a week at full body, adding in some barbell work, like practicing a box squat, practicing a trap bar deadlift once a week. I think you'll see some progress with that for sure.”

“They're going to always bench on Wednesdays, but maybe this week they're going to do close grip bench. And then maybe next week it's going to be maybe a special type of barbell. And then maybe the week after that, they'll change the range of motion a little bit. So, it's actually the exact same exercise where they're making a very small variation.”

“So, dumbbell, great. Kettlebell, fine. Barbell, awesome. Band, doesn't matter. Body weight, none of these things are as important because all you're trying to do is create a certain insult in the tissue, and the implement is just whichever one you feel best doing it.”

“a way to redirect traffic around there so the city can operate. So if it was, let's say that shoulder and you were doing a, I don't know, a dumbbell or a barbell overhead press, you can't do it, it hurts. You have to have a way to reroute that. So let's say it's a machine press.”

“like doing weight overhead, whether it's dumbbells or a barbell or anything that's, you know, weight and it having an, having a neck problem with it, like not while you're doing it so much, but like the next day that that's really persistent.”

“skill. I hand you a barbell, I hand you dumbbells. I flip you upside down. Now we're competing. Now there's a little psychology of, Hey, I have to do this thing and I'm not sure I can. I'm the, the imposter voice, the fear voice.”

“regular person at college, right? She's not a D1 athlete. She goes to Michigan, Southern econ, but can snatch a barbell, cook, knows how to deal with her stiff quads, knows how to sleep, right? Just has some tools. She's like, Oh, this is how I care for. And then I have a child who's five 11 is going to play a goalie at Berkeley next year.”

“And then we might say, hey, let's work on this aspect of the barbell, or we're going to teach you a kettlebell swing or basic calisthenics of pushups and lunges. And, and pull ups, but in a game.”

“They can further expand strength and conditioning options while still taking up minimal space. I'm a big advocate for using dumbbells instead of barbells because they give you a more expanded range of motion. Don't lock your body into an unnatural position. Technology can also play a valuable role in supporting home workouts when they're used correctly.”

“I do a lot of stuff that's hard. And boy, but getting that barbell and doing that clean or, you know, lifting that really heavy weight, it's very hard. So it's important, again, to let your central nervous system rest as well.”

“you're doing something like a bicep curl, okay, you can do to failure on that, but maybe not going to failure on a back barbell. Or something like that. Those were kind of his recommendations there. So, but in regards to then if you're not training to failure, what should you do to kind of optimize strength? Both Lane and Dr.”

“you're going to get with machines versus doing, you know, doing Olympic lifting, or like a squat, deadlifts, things like that, with a barbell. And I don't know, I think I maybe talked a little bit about this with Lane. And I don't, I think he said”

“actually just like progressively loading, right? So you're, you're, like I said, you do body weight squats, or you do your squat with the barbell, and then you get to your weight, right? Like, like the much more productive way to warm up because you're actually warming up your muscles. Yeah, just, just do the exercise that you're going to perform,”