Jeff Cavaliere Reacts to Chris Bumstead's ONLY 10 Exercises Men Need to Build Muscle!

foreign so what's up Jesse so I got something here for you what do you got I want to get your opinion on something okay if not a reaction of sorts you're saying a reaction video a reaction video oh Lord okay so here's the premise Chris Bumstead okay it was on a Chris Williamson podcast I like Christmas and asked him if you could only do 10 exercises for the rest of your life you have to throw out all the other ones and you're trying to build the most muscle possible which 10 are you choosing now listen I know we've covered something very similar where you gave your opinion on the best exercises right but Chris bump said it's a little bit bigger than you are so what does that mean so this might be a little bit better is that how this works all right let's go let's go all right I'm actually this is this this will be fun okay all right so what do we got does the beginning of the list this is the first stop all right first exercise squats why just overall leg growth they help glutes quads like a large portion of the legs barbell back squats okay simple if it's my whole life I might actually do some miss machine squats because I'll help my knees in a little bit be a little bit easier okay about stability and people hate me for that but I love squatting The Smiths machine all right I get a lot of [ __ ] for that all right all right so no doubt on there but again if I was gonna say like I'm critiquing it for me this is like my alterations to it because squats are kind of rough on my knees the reason he said I would have to go with a Bulgarian split squat okay yeah which I love love love and also like because I'm not limited to 10 am I in this rule here I I would also probably say a reverse barbell lunch it takes away all the knee pains again for me a Bulgarian split Squat and a reverse barbell lunge are gonna eliminate all those knee issues and give someone who has bad Cricket knees like myself an option to still train heavier yeah I love the squat myself so I would stick with the barbell squat that's what I've gotten for the most leg development I think for myself yeah no doubt I mean I love it and I and I love that he he was taking [ __ ] because I know I would take [ __ ] for the barbell lunge for sure I love that okay next next stop deadlifts just to get something that'll Target the my hamstrings and so I don't have to take out another tandem two something too hamstring focus and glute and back focus all right listen the dentist is always going to be on this list what I liked about his inclusion here is that he's talking about building up his hamstrings yeah the deadlift is an amazing hamstring Builder yeah as someone who does more stiff-legged variations of it myself um I love it but of course you have grown to love it the most It's Like A Love Affair that's my absolute favorite exercise of all time well you built up obviously a very impressive one I mean again the one thing that people might say is because they do it for a lifetime but I'm a believer that you can do the lift for a lifetime um we just had sweet Burns and he had a 72 year old lady yeah you know breaking records doing deadlifts I think it's an incredible exercise we all have to be able to maintain throughout our whole life yeah absolutely so two for two so far all right that's um Pull-Ups so I can hit my back and biceps in one overhand underhand neutral oh neutral ground neutral probably yeah it's a little bit more Latin biceps yep I'm sure my arms are going I like that again I just did a video on how to make sure you're doing pull-ups correctly yeah I know Chris does everything in perfect form as well we're talking full reps yeah now those are short I'll lock out no Kipping no Kipping this is real pull-ups um neutral grip is definitely I think the safest option for people who have any type of potential elbow issues okay chinos would definitely be very hard I think for a lifetime right I think you have that medial elbow people almost always for a lifetime will will get some sort of medial elbow discomfort right here yeah um I don't see the problem with the pull-up itself as long as you're doing them properly again I think if you do them the right way by engaging your scalp and making sure that you're setting yourself first you could do those for the long run but a neutral grip is also kind of hard I think for people to find access to it's a lot easier to just get a straight bar pull up you putting them on your list too absolutely I love you can't do as many as you can but I'm I like doing them okay go ahead all right um incline dumbbell press uh-huh I find inclines a little bit better on your shoulders so if you're doing it's the only I said you can do you won't [ __ ] 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 uh incline barbell press is one of the most uncomfortable for my shoulders really yeah yeah most people feel better with dumbbell because you can go in a position around a little bit for you yeah I love that exercise yeah uh we put that on our list 30 degree angle on the incline bench again I think it's important plus it also gives you I think if you do your incline at a low enough angle it still gives you all the benefits of the flat bench press also yeah right so like I don't think you need to do both of them necessarily if you can only do one and you're looking to consolidate your choices so I love the fact that this is it and it for me always always the dumbbells are just better for me I've got some bum shoulders yeah and it makes it feel a hell of a lot better when I'm doing it with it just like what Chris Williamson said there the incline barbell we've covered this in a video before it actually because of the way that you have to just unrack it it puts it in a position where your shoulders are definitely in a slightly different position than they are when you're just doing it from a a freestanding bench in dumbbells I also found that um you know as you told me most people are lacking upper chest development so getting the incline in there to over actually Hammer the upper upper upper portion of the pecs is a really good option yes yeah most guys are definitely a little bit more or weaker there me included yeah all right what do we got let's see there's one two three four so now we're on the fifth one yeah um dumbbell shoulder press uh-huh seated seated yeah no shoulder press yeah I think that'll help your triceps and shoulders a lot I love the dumbbell shoulder press I don't like doing them seated yeah you've mentioned that a lot of times before yeah well first of all I think if you can get on your feet any opportunity you can to get on your feet you should take advantage of that again because now I'm sort of putting my own personal bias on it to train more athletically I think being on your feet is definitely something that's going to carry over more but I also don't like depending upon the type of bench that you use if you're using something short like the chair that we're in right now it doesn't really matter so much but if you're doing something that with a high back bench you do you do interfere with the natural movement of your scapula because we tend to sort of especially as the weights get heavy drive back into the bench oh you're leaning back into this you push your shoulder blades into the bench and even if you just disrupt your normal rotation of your shoulder blade during a press a little bit you could throw off the entire balance of the of the scapular humeral Rhythm which is going to make that press a little bit distressed it's not the I just rather you stand up yeah fair enough yeah but but what are we five for five pretty much pretty much all right I'm agreeing so far all right let's get the next one um to think about this it's a hard list a close grip flat bench different part of the chest and triceps okay yeah yeah yeah first time I'm gonna disagree okay um well you say basically a closer tricep bench but again I think the incline bench is going to cover a lot of ground you know in terms of your of your development and if it was triceps that you're going for I I love the lion tricep extension right not a skull crusher here but like back further up you know back behind because it gives you a more unique stimulus on the triceps you get the stretch right on the long head when you continue to do even push Downs all push Downs close grip bench press regular bench press it's getting all that uh the same effect of the medial lateral head of the tricep right because you're not getting into that position of either stretch or contraction right so to me I love it because you can weight it up a heavy overhead uh line tricep extension with an easy curl bar yeah I like that exercise a lot and I I like the idea that that's what he was going for as another tricep movement there um but I think I would probably do that and I know we've programmed that quite a bit haven't we a lot all the time definitely yeah yeah okay let's go to the next one dumbbell curl just something specificity physique I just need it for my mind exactly yeah with that are you uh supinated again this is the only one that you're gonna get he's seated uh standing supinated okay good good the the OG of dumbbell curls oh gee yeah yeah and it's going to be one of them at a time it can't be both arms together yeah good stuff yeah I'm definitely gonna put a curl on my list yeah always you know on my list I mean there's not a person out there watching he's not going to put a curl I mean I honestly I would I really think that the enjoyment of my workouts would go down if you didn't have curls I didn't have a curl because I feel like one thing that curls do is they do give you that sort of instant feedback to know that what you're doing is working yeah right and especially doing one arm at a time but I said there's a physiological reason why that actually benefits us because if you did two arms it almost becomes more of a core challenge because you're lifting let's say let's say 40s in each hand that's 80 pounds that you have to stabilize that could actually become difficult for someone to actually now you're not even enjoying the exercise as much because taking the focus off the biceps right but if you can just squeeze one bicep and squeeze one bicep you do sort of learn my muscle connection at least what it should feel like on one exercise yeah and then you can replicate that on all the others so if nothing else it teaches you what a real good mild muscle connection should feel like that you could then apply to other exercises in the gym right and as they say curls are for the girls curls for the girls girls for the girls yes without any of the curls there will be no girls yeah exactly that's why we all love excellent choice Chris excellent choice all right up next did I say bent over row no don't over row okay it'll that'll help like stability like core as well 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 yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean obviously the devop is there is going to heavily hit your your back yeah but that's just a lot more isometrically I think here obviously when you go with a dynamic movement a barbell row is great I've also talked about how much I love the one arm the one arm yeah but it's it's a lot more limited to just the lats than it is a regular barbell row a rugged barbell row is a little bit more compound in its nature right 100 and you're also going to have the ability to change elbow position a little bit so you can be a little bit wider a little bit more narrow if you go a little bit more narrow you're gonna hit more lats if you go a little bit wider you're going to have more of the upper back okay so I like I love exercises that build in some of that extra flexibility yeah it's almost like stealing an extra an extra exercise in this case yeah so like 10 becomes 11. if I want a little bit more upper back I just flow the elbows a little bit more if I want to keep more of the focus on the lats I get to keep them in well in this case 11 becomes 12 because don't forget the Bulgarian squads and the lunges or whatever I'm not it's not my 10. I'm just reacting to his 10. what else are you at next um so I got two left yeah probably like a hanging leg raise just to make sure your core is getting hit you're nothing that's that's [ __ ] up your back and then that's you love the hanging leg raise well I actually think people need to train their core directly I don't believe that just training with exercises like the barbell bent over row or the deadlift yes there's a lot of core demands to do the exercise right but I think you need to uh directly train your core yeah and a lot of them I think can be very remedial if you don't have the strength to do a hanging version then it probably should be some variation of a reverse curl right bringing the lower body up towards a fixed upper half but to me it's like it's set up so perfectly as a hang leg raise to do it that way and I think it hits everything it hits your obliques you get a little bit of twist again now we're taking 13 to 14 or 15 exercises a little bit of twist to the legs gets a little bit more obliques but it's overloaded very well so you could actually develop muscle we're talking about building muscle you can develop your abs and scalables scalable for beginners you can just do it for hanging knee raise if you wanted to at first we did include it in our our 20 bands yeah exercises for sure so I'm I'm right with You Chris so far literally I am like with just a couple exceptions here yeah I think it's good all right for the next one is this number 10. I think it's the last one okay what do we got and then foreign overhead tricep extension because I haven't had a lot of things so he just went see he took a leftovers over [ __ ] yeah you've got the close grip and you've got the uh incline press yeah so I already did my tricep extension on the bench um I I I definitely think that the pressing is definitely great when you're doing the dumbbell shoulder pressing but there's no doubt that if you want to get bigger middle delts which is significantly going to contribute to the look or the overall growth of your shoulders yeah you have to pick some variation of lateral phrases um I might pick to be totally honest I might pick the cheat lateral version of it I know you like the cheat lateral because yeah you have to load it up a little bit right yeah I mean I know that like you listen you can grow two different ways with that exercise very strictly by just taking it really really slow lighter lows and go really controlled on that middle delt or you could do it as I like to do it a lot of times with a little bit of swing and then focusing on trying to control that eccentric lowering okay um I love that yeah it does actually that's actually kind of a good that was actually kind of fun yeah you I like your reaction to it I like the fact that you are giving your opinion on it because obviously I have a huge respect for Chris Bumstead and what he's been able to achieve I've always found him to be like totally down to earth and somebody that um charismatic right and people can you know can learn a hell of a lot from and yes he is bigger than me I don't think that makes his list better than mine but we agreed on almost everything so hopefully you found the video helpful if you're looking for our list we actually had that video that you can watch right here if you're also looking for a complete program guys you can find it over remember to subscribe so you never miss a video like this when we put one out if you'd like me to do more of these I guess we could just tell us what you'd like to react to all right see you soon guys foreign

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Published: Thu Jul 06 2023