00:00once upon a time there was bodybuilding
00:02bodybuilding was a way to build your
00:04body and mind through the use of weights
00:06and calisthenic exercises
00:08one day bodybuilding meant power lifting
00:10they both had a lot in common and
00:12decided to get married they would
00:13basically finish each other's sentences
00:15they had a baby that they decided to
00:17call strength training because it
00:19contained a bit of each of them
00:21eventually bodybuilding and powerlifting
00:23got a divorce bodybuilding ran off with
00:25the ifbb and has been unrecognizable
00:29powerlifting got full custody of
00:33when I started my journey of bulk or
00:35bust I went on to gain 90 pounds in
00:38about two years I wanted two things
00:40besides a beard and a ponytail I wanted
00:43to be big and strong if you were to tell
00:46me uh Alan you can build more muscle
00:49than just your quads torso and glutes
00:51you can also build your arms shoulders
00:54lats chest with some targeted work I
00:57would have said sounds stupid why as a
01:02guy who wanted to be big would I stick
01:04my nose up at isolation work if my goal
01:07was to build a big physique a big
01:10powerful looking physique why not
01:12utilize tried and true exercises to help
01:16the reason was titles labels I am a
01:20strong man I am a power lifter I am not
01:24a bodybuilder even though that's exactly
01:27what I was trying to do build my body I
01:29didn't do curls flies tricep extensions
01:32shoulder isolation exercises ABS Etc
01:35because that's not what power lifters do
01:37no no no I do real training I don't
01:41waste my time on all that bodybuilder
01:43stuff I stick to the basics because the
01:47kiss keep it simple stupid
01:51I'm coming to realize that my perception
01:53of bodybuilding has been skewed by the
01:55sport of professional bodybuilding
01:57I've also listened to and believed a lot
02:00of the misconceptions and lies that have
02:02degraded what natural bodybuilding
02:04actually is let me explain I'm a gym
02:07owner I have met a lot of people who
02:10lift weights I have heard many stories
02:12that start like this
02:14yeah yeah I used to follow some [Â __Â ]
02:17bodybuilding program but now I'm
02:19interested in real training or
02:21yeah you know I wasted my time in my
02:24early 20s doing some bodybuilding
02:26hearing stuff like this would
02:28subconsciously enter my mind and get me
02:30to believe that bodybuilding is BS it's
02:33just a waste of time the truth is these
02:35guys weren't bodybuilding they were just
02:37[Â __Â ] around in the gym it was never
02:39bodybuilding's fault it was user error
02:43this would be the equivalent to me going
02:44to the gym and doing some power clean
02:46some ugly jerks and you know skipping
02:49the snatch because I just don't like
02:51doing it and then telling people yeah I
02:53used to follow some [Â __Â ] Olympic
02:55weightlifting program but now I want to
02:57do some real training so it seemed like
02:59bodybuilding in my mind was one extreme
03:02or the other it was either the dudes and
03:04the chicks who were on enough drugs to
03:06kill or herd of cattle or it was the guy
03:09in the gym texting on his phone for 10
03:11minutes floating around the gym farting
03:13around in the gym on the cable tricep
03:15press down machine who's apparently
03:17following a bodybuilding program and how
03:19many times have you heard about someone
03:20wasting their time on a Men's Health
03:22Magazine bodybuilding program we call
03:25this a bad bodybuilding program but in
03:27reality it's just a bad program in fact
03:30people even refer to gyms this way I
03:32just saw on Instagram the other day
03:33someone talking about their lame
03:35bodybuilding gym where everyone was on
03:37their phones and everyone has bad
03:39technique I'd be willing to bet it was
03:41just a commercial gym it wasn't a body
03:42build in gym what does bodybuilding have
03:45to do with the turds using this public
03:48gym nothing but a lot of people in the
03:50power thing space seem to talk this way
03:52I want to travel back in time to win
03:55that picture that bulking picture was
03:57taken at this time I was training with a
03:59group of guys or I was training
04:01alongside a group of guys who were most
04:05of them were using steroids test d-ball
04:09toxic pro hormones mdrol H draw
04:13stuff that I would never imagine
04:14touching I've always been averse to drug
04:17use even in high school when my best
04:19friends were doing drugs I just hated it
04:21I hated being part of it so on top of
04:24this these guys would train arms all the
04:28and so I Associated drug use
04:31these dudes who had huge arms and all
04:33they did was train arms as I would just
04:36call them bodybuilders in my head on top
04:39they tease me a lot for being a skinny
04:43all you do is train legs they're all
04:46when honestly I was training like two
04:48times a week they would just say this
04:49because I had bigger legs than them so I
04:51correlated bodybuilding with these guys
04:54using steroids and all they do is train
04:56arms so in my head I'm telling myself
04:58bodybuilding is a waste of time
05:00bodybuilding is not real training
05:02bodybuilding is inferior to what I was
05:05doing it's inferior to power lifting and
05:08as a side note I'm fortunate that the
05:10two guys who got me into powerlifting
05:13were adamantly against drug use and
05:16steroids so I was fortunate enough
05:19to have them as kind of my mentors when
05:21I first started out beyond my personal
05:23experience if you've been paying
05:25attention to the YouTube Fitness boom
05:27over the past 10 years just think for a
05:29second how much Fitness content has been
05:32published and consumed over the past 10
05:34years it's mind-boggling
05:37if you've been witnessing this you have
05:39witnessed the degradation of
05:41bodybuilding lifting weights has become
05:43more popular now than it has probably
05:45ever been the amount of people who lift
05:47weights as exercise and as hobby seems
05:51to be higher now than it was 20 years
05:52ago go on social media you'll see
05:55Grandma's deadlifting women squatting
05:57400 pounds as a warm-up I see that
05:59regularly here at Untamed strength
06:01little kids doing more complex movements
06:04like snatches and plenty of normal
06:06average people lifting weights in the
06:08gym I live in California if I go on my
06:10phone to the maps and I type in gyms it
06:13is a sea of blue dots gyms are
06:16everywhere and they're all busy I say
06:18this because there are a lot of eyes on
06:20weight training there are a lot of
06:22beginners eyeballs on weight training
06:24when these beginners go online and ask
06:26Google what they should do as a beginner
06:28they're probably going to see a beginner
06:31most beginner programs will talk about
06:33the basics squat bench deadlift overhead
06:36press I understand why these movements
06:38are suggested and I agree with it but
06:40why do we have to stop there
06:42why can't beginners have a broader
06:44Variety in exercise selection why can't
06:47they do dips curls sit-ups pull Downs
06:50flies are they too stupid to learn these
06:53movements obviously not if they can
06:55learn how to do a barbell squat they can
06:57learn how to do a barbell curl and some
07:00people might say well doing those extra
07:02exercises is too much for a beginner no
07:04it's not everything in the gym is
07:06scalable it's not kid ourselves we can
07:08scale down weight sets reps frequency
07:12you can make a program with more than
07:14three to four exercises work for
07:16beginner if I were to train a beginner
07:18for the Olympics in 20 years from now I
07:20probably wouldn't start at the tip of
07:22specificity I would start them with a
07:24broad foundation and in 20 years they
07:27would be much more specific lots of
07:29snatching clean and jerk squads and
07:30presses like I mentioned in the
07:32make-believe story at the beginning of
07:34this video powerlifting has adopted
07:36strength training Squad bench deadlift
07:38king of all exercises I'm not here to
07:41argue with that Squad bench deadlift
07:43will put a lot of muscle on your frame
07:45and it should be incorporated in some
07:47way some variety in a beginner's program
07:50but it doesn't need to stop there most
07:53people are not power lifting for the
07:55sport of power lifting most people are
07:57not solely interested in strength they
08:00are interested in building muscle
08:02improving physical and mental health all
08:05while building a good base of strength
08:07why not give them the extra tools to
08:09help them accomplish this why do so many
08:12people hold on so tightly to Squad bench
08:14deadlift myself included in the past I
08:17haven't thought about it too much but I
08:18do know right off the top of my head a
08:20lot of it has to do with sales and
08:22content creation when someone makes a
08:24beginner program they tell everyone this
08:27is the program this is best do it as
08:29written don't ask questions don't make
08:31adjustments this is all you need just
08:34shut up and listen to me
08:36I think of it like a billboard on the
08:38side of a highway you don't want too
08:40many images and words on your billboard
08:42because people driving by will look
08:44right past it they don't have time to
08:46see and read everything on the billboard
08:48you need to get the message across as
08:50fast as possible this is why a lot of
08:52beginner programs catch people's
08:54attention you can figure it out after
08:56looking at it for 10 seconds many
08:58beginner programs have confused simple
09:00with minimalist they are not the same
09:03thing minimalist programs have a place
09:06for certain individuals if this person
09:08has time for one lift a couple times per
09:10week or someone who spends most of their
09:13time doing another sport but needs
09:15minimal amount of strength training this
09:17isn't the case for most beginners a
09:19beginner does not need a minimalist
09:21program they need a simple program
09:23fortunately beginners aren't lifting
09:26they only need a couple sets of each
09:28exercise this means they have time for a
09:31few different exercises each day three
09:33to four times per week resulting in nine
09:35to twelve different exercises in their
09:37program and as far as content goes it is
09:40popular to make YouTube shorts Instagram
09:42stories snap talks and tick chats about
09:46beginner programs in 10 seconds what
09:49beginners need in four seconds stop
09:50doing this only do this this works that
09:53doesn't it's epileptic content
09:55consumption and it gives me a headache
09:57it takes time to watch a 40 minute video
09:59teaching you about beginner intermediate
10:01and advanced programs teaching you the
10:03why and how to program adjustments that
10:06can be made rep ranges to follow Etc if
10:08lifting weights is something you're
10:10going to do for the rest of your life
10:11watch a one hour video to learn some
10:13things another term you've heard
10:15surrounding beginner programming or even
10:17intermediate programs kiss keep it
10:22beginners don't need complexity I agree
10:25with this they don't but adding in curls
10:27push-ups dips pull-ups isolation
10:29movements along with compound movements
10:31is not complex at all
10:34we're not telling beginners to SSB Squad
10:36with chains equaling 20 of your bar
10:39weight do mile reps and Blood Flow
10:42Restriction Training you need 30 weekly
10:44sets of eight alternating bicep
10:45exercises all while monitoring bar speed
10:48with a velocity tracker powerlifting has
10:50influenced weight training so much that
10:53anything beyond SBD is apparently
10:55complex and don't get me wrong I realize
10:58the positive impact that powerlifting
11:00has had it has encouraged so many people
11:02to get a barbell in their hands and put
11:04a barbell on their back but I still
11:06think bodybuilding power lifting weight
11:09training is a bit imbalanced power
11:12lifting seems to be in the driver's seat
11:14for strength and hypertrophy I've seen
11:17plenty of times people point to big
11:19strong men in power if they're stating
11:21these guys got huge off of just five
11:24exercises which is believable for a
11:26beginner who doesn't know any better but
11:28if you dig a Little Deeper you'll find
11:30out these dudes were on steroids they
11:33were already genetically big dudes with
11:35or without it weight training some
11:37worked on farms while growing up you
11:39worked on an iPad while growing up but
11:41more important they didn't just squat
11:43bench deadlift maybe that's all you saw
11:45because they competed as power lifters
11:47but what you didn't see was all the
11:49traditional bodybuilding movements that
11:51they did so even if you are attracted to
11:53the training style of these strength
11:55athletes realize that they did plenty of
11:57bodybuilding training to build a
11:59muscular base then they specialized in
12:11we're not particles we don't dress up in
12:14small pants and wear oil no weird we're
12:16strong man this is not about technique
12:19you look pretty we are here to move big
12:38so Magnus what's all the dumbbell stuff
12:40about at the end pumping
12:42yeah we all usually do a few pump sets
12:45so when I start in the bottom of the
12:46rack and try to hit at least seven reps
12:49with every way if I can finish with
12:50seven reps and continue until next week
12:52and just trying to finish the whole rack
12:54off bodybuilding is hypertrophy training
12:57the goal is to increase muscle size this
13:00includes squatting pressing deadlifting
13:03rowing isolation work unilateral work
13:05three to six reps six to ten reps 10 to
13:0820 reps high intensity zero to three
13:11reps in reserve you cannot participate
13:13in bodybuilding without focusing on
13:16strength training I'm trying to show you
13:17that there is an overlap as a natural
13:19lifter you have to push yourself you
13:22have to try to get stronger the load
13:24you're lifting has to challenge your
13:26current level of Fitness up until
13:28recently I thought bodybuilding was
13:30lightweight fluff work if I ever did a
13:32set of curls I would just do them until
13:34they burned a little bit and then stop
13:36rir15 I didn't associate squats presses
13:39and deadlifts with bodybuilding but they
13:41can be as much a part of bodybuilding as
13:44they are a part of power lifting part of
13:46the reason I thought this way is due to
13:47the fact that steroided out Bros who
13:50don't actually know how to train they
13:52get huge from drugs they go to the gym
13:54to just pump up and then they sell that
13:56as bodybuilding training I see this in
13:59powerlifting too guys on steroids who
14:01tell skinny natties that they need to
14:03work on you know just do a heavy triple
14:05once a month and do some speed work with
14:0850 do some band pull aparts at Mock
14:12this is not how you get stronger so
14:14wrapping things up you should do more
14:16than just squat bench deadlift if you
14:18would like to be more muscular and you
14:20should do more than just squat bench
14:21deadlift even if your only concern with
14:24strength and performance fortunately for
14:26you both of these things walk together
14:29bodybuilding for beginner will improve
14:31hypertrophy and strength with more bias
14:34towards hypertrophy power lifting for a
14:36beginner will improve hypertrophy and
14:38strength with more bias towards strength
14:41but nowadays it seems like hypertrophy
14:43for a beginner falls under the umbrella
14:46of parallelity just do squat bench
14:48deadlift that's all you need I am in no
14:50way shape or form trying to discredit
14:52powerlifting I'm simply trying to bring
14:54up bodybuilding by discussing some
14:55misconceptions that I have and that's
14:58really the inspiration for making this
14:59video I understand why bodybuilders on
15:02YouTube are trying to reclaim
15:04bodybuilding because it has got a bad
15:07I even find myself having to say natural
15:10bodybuilding because bodybuilding and
15:12steroids are so intertwined that I need
15:15to include natural as an asterisk maybe
15:18one day bodybuilding will have a healthy
15:20connotation that's part of the reason
15:21why I'm making this video thanks for
15:23watching and always remember
