Our BEST Training Tips (Do This To Build Muscle)

All right guys, welcome to today's video. Now I hope you enjoyed the car video last time, okay, you know, there's a bit of fun, but like I said, we're getting back to informative fitness and training content, okay. So last week at BodyPower, me, Christian, and Max— Christian Guzman, Max Tuning, of course— we recorded a really, really good training session, okay. And, uh, we're so tired we kind of forgot to have a start and a finish to the whole vlog, so they've been kind enough to send me some voiceovers of their best pieces of training advice, and I'm gonna put my input into it as well. So let's Rewind to last week, sit back, relax, enjoy, leave it a thumbs up if you found this helpful.

Let's do it.

What is going on guys, it is your boy Maxie Poo here and my piece of advice is to understand that this fitness and healthy lifestyle we are all trying to live is a marathon and not a sprint. And no, I'm not talking about doing any cardio. I am currently 28 years old. A lot of you are probably younger than I am, maybe you're 18, 19, maybe you in your early 20s and you've been working out for 2 to 3 years and maybe you're getting a little demotivated. You start comparing yourselves to other people, you start comparing your strength progress to other people, and maybe, you know, you're just getting a little upset. You're like, I'm not where I want to be, I'm not as strong as I want to be, my friend's got a bigger chest than I do. And you need to understand that I've been lifting for 7 to 8 years, and what I've found over that time is to really understand that everyone is dealt a different deck of cards in their life, whether it be the genetics that you have, which is going have limitations on, you know, what you ultimately look like. Maybe you have a lot of things going on in your personal and family life that set you back. Maybe you have some physical limitations that are setting you back. And at the end of the day, you don't need to compare yourselves to anyone else except for your former self and understand that you are hopefully going to be getting better on the daily. And to understand that we are all going to be, going to be trying to live this fit and healthy lifestyle until the day that we unfortunately die for the next 20, 30, 40, 50 years. And when you really think about it like that, you think about the longevity, you realize how insignificant the past 2 or 3 years is. You'll realize how insignificant getting stressed about how strong or what your physique looks like right now, because understand that in 5, 10, 15 years, you are only going to get better if you keep on this fitness journey that you are on. So sometimes you gotta take a step back, not take everything so seriously, and understand that we are all doing this because we enjoy the love of looking better, feeling better, feeling more confident. And we're going to be doing this for the rest of our lives. So enjoy the gym. Don't get so stressed out. Don't think about the short term so much and have a good time. See you later, dude.

What's going on, guys? Christian Guzman here. Earlier today, Rob asked me to give you guys my few main training tips. And so that's exactly what I'm going to do. My first tip to you guys is to avoid training to failure too frequently. If I think of myself as a teenager, I used to go in the gym and every single set I would do, whether it be the bench press or a leg press, whatever it was, a bicep curl, anything. I would train to failure, and I felt like if I wasn't going to that limit, if I wasn't pushing myself to failure every single set, then I wasn't leaving it all on the table. I wasn't trying as hard as I could, and I wasn't making as much progress as I could. But with all that said, what I've learned over the years is you have to know when and when to be able to back off and conserve your energy. Because if you can actually say on your main compound movement for the day, or it's chest day, you're doing your bench press, instead of going to failure on your very first working set, if you actually save a few reps in the tank, you're you're able to overall get more volume, get more workload, and honestly see more progressive overload quicker than if you were just to train to failure and sort of hit this brick wall every single set. Once I hit failure on a set, my strength shoots down and shoots down and shoots down. So I would recommend at least avoid training into failure on your compounds. Uh, on accessory movements, I'm a little bit more flexible with it. If I'm doing bicep curls and tricep pushdowns on the rope, yeah, I'll probably train to failure most of the time or get really close to failure. But learn how to space out your energy, if that makes sense. So that's really my number one. And like your fuel in the tank, that's a better term. That's my main tip. Another tip I want to give you guys is training frequency. I found over the years I've done tons of different splits. I've trained one body part a day. I've done push-pull legs. I've done upper lower days. But my number one favorite split of all time is any split where I'm really training everything twice a week. I like push-pull leg. Leg push-pull, uh, you can do any sort of variation of that. I even like doing, for example, a push-pull-leg then upper body day, take a day off and repeat. Or you could do push-pull-leg and then an upper then a lower day. Uh, just really sort of play around with it. But anything where you're really hitting each muscle group twice a week has been my favorite. If I'm gonna give you guys one more, would simply be— this sounds so simple, but trust me, I'm gonna dive into it— enjoy your training. It's so easy to get caught up. I remember when I was looking at so many different people, I would look at Greg Plitt's workouts, I look at Steve Cook's workouts, and then I would see Kai Greene doing these training tips and Phil Heath training a certain way. And you see all these people training different ways and you want to like make the best move, right? What's the most efficient way? I want to see the fastest results. Like, I don't know who to believe. Should I believe this? Should I be resting 2 minutes in between my sets or 45 seconds? Or should I be doing supersets? Should I be doing straight sets? Strength sets, like, I don't know what to do. There's so much information out there. You realize, like, at the end of the day, if something may be better for you on paper or better for progress, that doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be better for you. Be sure that you focus on things that you actually enjoy. So for me, I enjoy focusing on my compound. I take, you know, anywhere from 2 to 3 minutes rest for that. But after I'm done with my compound movement for the day, I really bring up the intensity. I bring down the rest times because I like sweating during my workouts. I like the high-paced workouts. I like supersetting. I like rest-pause sets and drop sets and increasing the intensity that way. If someone told me I have to take 2 minutes rest in between every single set I do for the whole gym session, I'd be super bored. I wouldn't be enjoying it, and therefore I wouldn't see the progress, even though it might be better for me in like, like, in a scientific way, right? Or all these studies say this and that. Do what you really enjoy the most, and you're going to progress more in something you enjoy versus something that should be better for you on paper any day. So those are my main tips. Hopefully you guys enjoyed, and Yeah, give the video a thumbs up.

First off, I want to say a big thank you to the two lads for helping me out with this video and giving their insights. I'm sure a lot of you are already subscribed to both Christian and Max, but if you're not, make sure to go into the description box, head over to their channels, and press that subscribe button. Both of them not only have amazing physiques and are very experienced in the gym, but their video quality and their vlogs are on another level. 2 guys that inspire me in a lot of ways, and I'm grateful to hang out with them so often and also get in some funny situations and adventures with both of them. Christian also has a video that I will link below that is similar to this, but instead of training advice, we all give our nutrition advice, so be sure to check that one out. To add to what the 2 fellas said, I'm gonna remind you guys of the main mistake I made the most when starting out, and that was going through the motions, doing the same routine, lifting the same weights, the same reps, the same sets week after week and not focusing on increasing the total amount of work I was doing over time. When you think about it, building muscle is a science, but it is actually really simple. Why would there be a reason for your muscle to change if you are doing the same thing over and over again? So you want to be adding a new stimulus in any form, be it get stronger and add more weight to the bar, increase your training frequency by going to gym more often in a week, or even add more total volume from sets and reps, which is personally what I prefer to do. On top of that, have some structure to your routine and make a set plan on what you're gonna do before you walk into that gym. That will not only make your sessions more efficient, more enjoyable, but you will also save more time in the entire day. Because I hear so many people say they don't have the time to go to the gym, they spend hours in there exercising aimlessly. You can get in a seriously epic pack session in 45 minutes to an hour, especially if you're stuck for time. So make a plan, go in, smash it, and leave. Anyways, peeps, I think that is enough for today. More videos coming this week, so I will catch you then. Keep it real, I'm out of here. Peace.