If you only had 10 exercises for the rest of time, that's all you have in your library to stay as muscular as possible.
Give me the list.
So the goal is to be as muscular as possible.
Correct.
If I were to, let's say I'm competing and I have 10 exercises.
All right.
Sorry.
I'm gonna have to count it on my hands.
Um, squats.
Why? just overall leg growth.
They help glutes, quads, like a large portion of the leg that will really help.
Barbell back squat.
Barbell back squat, super simple.
If it's my whole life.
I might actually do Smith's machine squats because it'll help my knees a little bit, be a little bit easier.
Flexibility, and people hate me for that, but I love squatting in the Smith's machines. all right i got a lot of shit for that um deadlifts just to get something that'll target the my hamstrings and so i don't have to take out another 10 of two something two hamstring focus and glute and back focus um pull-ups so i can hit my back and biceps in one overhand underhand Neutral.
Oh, neutral grip.
Neutral probably, yeah.
It's a little bit more lat and biceps.
Make sure my arms are going.
Incline dumbbell press.
I find inclines a little bit better on your shoulders.
So if you're doing this, the only exercise you can do, you won't fuck up your shoulders as much.
And dumbbell, it'll just keep you a little bit more symmetrical.
I love that.
I've always loved that exercise.
Which is weird because inclined barbell press is one of the most uncomfortable for my shoulders.
Really?
Yeah.
You can do dumbbell?
Yeah.
Most people feel better with dumbbell because you can go into a position that's comfortable for you.
Okay, how many is that?
That's four.
That's four, yeah.
Yeah, six left.
This is going to be hard without like, I'd like have to make a list of 20 and cut out.
The autism is put to one side for now.
We're doing this in our heads together.
Dumbbell shoulder press.
Seated?
Seated.
Dumbbell shoulder press.
Yeah, I think that'll help your triceps and shoulders a lot.
Maybe a close grip flat bench.
Different part of the chest and triceps.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Four left.
Dumbbell curl.
Just something specific.
I'm so glad that was in there.
How do you want to live without doing fucking dumbbell curls for the rest of your life?
It doesn't even help your physique.
I just need it for my mindset.
Exactly, yeah.
With that, are you supinated?
Again, this is the only one that you're going to get.
Are you seated?
Are you standing?
Standing, supinated.
Okay.
Good, good.
The OG of dumbbell curls.
And it's going to be one arm at a time.
It can't be both arms together.
It's going to be one arm at a time.
Good stuff.
I think you've got three left.
Three left.
I'm thinking what parts of the body I'm missing right now.
Calves, probably.
Oh, fuck yeah, there's a calf in there.
You're not going to get it with anything else.
A little bit on a deadlift, but maybe I'll just do stairs on the side and not tell you about that.
Okay, fine.
You've still got three exercises.
You only needed seven so far.
Ah, damn.
Did I say bent over row?
No, bent over row okay it'll, that'll help like stability, the core as well, uh-huh.
And then like lower back and obviously upper back.
Yeah, because the only back exercise that you've had so far is the pull-up, deadlifts and pull-ups.
Yeah, bent over rows yeah okay yeah yeah um, so i got two left.
Yeah, probably like a hanging leg raise, just to make sure your core is getting hit.
You're not like fucking up your back and then This is a tough one, I think.
I'm trying to focus on either lateral raises or overhead tricep extension, because I haven't had a lot of specific triceps.
I would probably do lateral raises just to get some meaty delts over.
Well, you've got the close grip, and you've got the incline press.
So interesting.
So Ryan Terry, who I know that you've trained with before, I asked him the same question.
And his ab exercise as well was hanging leg raises.
It seems to be the industry insider ab exercise of choice.
I'm not the perfect person on that.
I always try and work on my lower abs because it's harder for me to contract those rather than upper.
And that's usually when your stomach hangs out.
And on bodybuilding stage, you don't want your gut hanging out essentially.
What pulls it in is the lower part.
And when you do a hanging leg raise or lying leg raise, it hits that part more.
And also like hanging from a bar is really good for your shoulders and spine.
So you're kind of hitting two birds with one stone.
One of my friends Alex, who basically has an unlimited budget, said that he'd been to every shoulder specialist on the planet.
It's like I've spoken to every single person, all of the most expensive specialists in the world.
The best thing that I've found is hanging from a bar.
Hanging from a bar.
Hanging from a fucking bar.
It's crazy, yeah.
Yeah, it's wild.
I think he ends up strapping up and just hanging from there for about 90 seconds a couple of times a day.
I'd heard a rumor I don't know whether you'd heard this that because we'd spent so much time as primates swinging through the trees that the way that our shoulder still articulates like that position is still one that's very comfortable to us.
And I'm going to get torn apart by people who understand biomechanics in the comments.
But there's supposed to be a little bit of truth to that.
And it definitely feels nice.
For sure.
I mean, even if you're standing in a doorway and you just like do this and you're just chilling, you just feel better.
What about your future CrossFit career?
So we've spoken about what you've done so far, but before we started, you've said that you want to take up CrossFit once you finished.
Yeah, I mean, I just I used to be very athletic when I was young.
It's really what got me into bodybuilding.
I just loved sports.
I played like six of them when I was younger.
I would like to get back to that like form of feeling like I could run.
I'm strong.
I can do a lot of bodyweight exercises.
I could train anywhere in the world and just kind of like challenging my body in a new way, because I'm obviously not going to be hitting any PRs in the gym or being heavier than I've ever been than I am in my peak bodybuilding career.
So just finding a new goal to focus on might dabble in that, but it's more of like an athletic training that, like you can call CrossFit.
Okay.
It's so funny to think that the particular sport that you chose to go after actually has a load of restrictions on it.
Like it's very, very consistent, very repetitive, by its nature, not a team sport.
There's a bunch of different things that it constrains you from doing.
What do you weigh now?
How heavy are you?
I'm about 262 right now, 260.
Right.
You said that you could dunk a year ago, though.
I could, yeah.
At 260.
I got a video of it, so I'm online.
No way.
Do you put it online?
It is online, yeah.
Fuck yeah.
But yeah, my point being that a game of pickup, a 30-minute game of pickup basketball, would probably be not very good for your knees.
No, I did it last year.
I was telling you that.
I went and played with a bunch of the guys here.
We probably played for almost an hour.
It was pretty long, and I could not walk for a week.
It was just inflammation and pain.
I was just sitting in the ice bath.
It's so bizarre right, because you think athlete, professional athlete what do you do for a living i?
I like fitness things.
Yeah, but people often don't call bodybuilder athletes.
Yeah, but it's not that fitness.
Yeah, yeah.
And you also said that after your last crossfit workout, you'd had a cough for like 10 days.
Yeah, there's a.
I can't remember what they call it.
There's a specific person they named the cough.
Fran cough.
Fran cough, yeah.
Did you do Fran?
Is that the workout?
I don't think so.
Oh, okay.
But you got Fran cough.
Got Fran cough from like a really gentle workout.
Walking on the treadmill, you know?
No, I'm not that bad.
Yeah.
It's thinking about what people want to do once they retire, so to speak.
Yeah.
And the fact that you've had all of these different physical outlets that have been like I can't do that.
Better not do that.
And snowboarding.
I can only go twice a year in case if I rupture an ACL.
That's not gonna be very good for my yeah.
So you are very much constrained with this.
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