💪🏼MY 10 FAVORITE SHOULDERS EXERCISES!

🤯No matter what your gender, building bigger, more symmetrical shoulders will arguably impact your physique more than any other muscle group. The deltoids are comprised of 3 heads: anterior (front), medial (side), and posterior (rear). Keep in mind that the anterior head tends to dominate for most people due to all of those pushups and chest presses over the years. So prioritize the lateral and rear heads in your training for injury prevention, improved posture and performance, and aesthetics.

1. Dumbbell (DB) Arnold Presses
2. Bandbell Behind-The-Neck Presses
3. Barbell Full-Frontal 🍆 Raises
4. Band/Cable/DB Reverse Fly Variations
5. Band/Cable/DB Lateral Raise Variations
6. Band/Cable/DB Scaption/Front Raise Variations
7. Band Upright Row-Aparts
8. Landmine Presses
9. Landmine Lateral Raises
10. DUAL RENEGADE Purmotion Hang Snatches

🧠The key 🔑 to maximally developing any muscle group is to use a healthy mix of heavier and lighter loads and all rep ranges (low, medium, and high). I like Arnold Presses, Landmine Presses, and Hang Snatches for lower reps (3-5) and medium reps (6-10). I like medium to higher reps (8-12+) for all the other moves. Don't be afraid to start your workouts with the single-joint isolation moves to pre-fatigue certain areas and stimulate weak areas when you're most fresh and focused. It also allows lighter loads to go a longer way the rest of the training session. And if you have to pick just one move, the rotational nature of the Arnold Press works all 3 heads of the shoulders and has the biggest bang for your buck!

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Enjoy!
BJG

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🦍🦄30-REP REAR DELT RIPPER!

💪🏼Here's an excellent protocol to rip up your rear delts, muscle-up your upper back, and improve posture and performance on nearly every exercises. Perform each move for 10 reps followed by a 10-second hold with little to no rest between moves:

1. Overhand-grip reverse fly
2. Overhand-grip low reverse fly (⬆️arrow-position)
3. Hammer-grip reverse fly

🤯That's 1 round. Do 3-5 rounds. If doing straight sets of this, rest 1-2 minutes between rounds. Otherwise pair it with one or more non-competitive exercises that work different areas of your body.

📝Do this as a starter or finisher or on off-days for active recovery. You can also do it as a filler between sets of presses, dips, pushups, etc. Flooding the upper back with blood can actually improve stability and ultimately performance on moves like heavy presses so it makes a lot of sense to pair them with this rear delt complex.

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Enjoy!

BJG

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💥MY 10 FAVORITE HAMSTRINGS EXERCISES!

🤯By far the biggest request I've gotten is to share my favorite hamstrings (or MAN-STRINGS) exercises. Here are my top 10, using a mix of basic and premium equipment. The key to building your hamstrings is to perform an eclectic mix of knee flexion (leg curls) and hip extension (hip-hinging) moves to work both the low and high hamstrings. Moves like stability ball leg curls kill 2 birds with one stone by training knee flexion while maintaining hip extension, making it the most important move if you had to pick just one.

1. Band Leg Curls 
2. Stability Ball Leg Curls
3. Band-Resisted Rolling Leg Curls
4. Feet-Elevated Hip-Thrusts
5. 1-Arm Bulgarian Hip-Hinges
6. Swings
7. Glute-Ham Raises (GHR) & Russian Leg Curls
8. Wide-Stance Landmine Sumo Hip-Hinges
9. 1-Arm Landmine Hip-Hinges
10. Dual Landmine Hip-Hinges (Parallel & Staggered)

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🧠The hamstrings are a very powerful muscle group that leans more fast-twitch so it responds handsomely to lower (3-6) to medium reps (8-12). But like with any muscle group, for max GAINZ use all loads and all rep ranges for best results. I love doing lower reps with high-tension strength moves like GHRs and Hip-Hinges. The band, single-leg, and bodyweight work is great for higher reps for more metabolic stress (pump and burn).

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⏪REVERSE LEG DAY!

⏪REVERSE LEG DAY!

You guys constantly ask me how I train my legs, as if the stuff I share here isn't what I'm actually doing. And my answer is I train them the exact opposite way that most people do. ➖➖➖➖
Most people do their heavier work on bilateral (double-legged) lifts like squats and deadlifts first. And if they actually do any single-leg work, it's typically for a couple sets of higher reps as an afterthought.

My approach is to go heavier on single-leg work and do them first when I'm most fresh and focused (and I still do higher reps too). And if I do any squatting or deadlifting (sometimes I don't), it tends to be for higher reps, with shorter rest periods, and typically stacked with other competitive moves for more of a metabolic stress stimulus. 

For me, this approach makes lighter loads go a longer way, which is very important to me since I had 4 knee surgeries by the time I was 22 from training like an idiot and playing football.

I realize many of you will be butt-hurt that I don't squat or deadlift "heavy" but my legs are now twice the size of the average man and I no longer have any knee or back pain. So what do I know!? And I'm certainly not the strongest, but I'm strong enough. 

Here's a snapshot of what I did at a recent leg day not including calf work or warmups:

- Perform 5 sets of 6 reps of each move with 30-60 seconds rest between moves:

1a. 3-2-1* Tempo Extended Bulgarian Split Squats- Left Leg
1b. 3-2-1* Tempo Extended Bulgarian Split Squats- Right Leg
1c. Band-Resisted Rolling Leg Curls

*3 seconds down, 2 second pause at bottom, 1 second up

- Perform 15-20 reps of each move with 15-30 seconds of rest between moves:

2a. Wishbone Lineman Squats
2b. Wishbone Hack Squats
2c. Dual Renegade Hip-Hinges Facing Anchor
2d. Dual Renegade Hip-Hinges Facing Away

- That's 1 round. Do 2-3 rounds.

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