The Perfect Triceps Workout with Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler

all right hi everybody john meadows here back with do you remember this guy of course you do you know did you know that our chess video is is my most viewed video on my channel did you know that wow you have made me some money i just want you to know that that's all right well you also probably gained a lot of great fans out there i think [Music] chess training is probably one of the searched most searched videos on youtube either people want big arms or they want a big chest i think that's a pretty safe bet that's what we're seeing too so so that was about two years two years ago okay so speaking of chess on arms we're gonna do arms today so you'll get jace feelings on training arms in mind as we go so let's get to work we're here in what city are we at westerville we're in westerville great guys here next level fitness yes we'll bring it in john's going to show me the ropes a little bit we always kind of bounce off each other and we say you're going to show me i'm going to show you but what's good about what he's been doing behind the scenes is his popularity has continued to grow even further since we shot the last video which is awesome training a lot of the top people you had some great uh results in the olympia last year really so it was awesome it's good to see and uh good things happen to good people so sit down and listen i notice you lean forward on these a little bit too i like to kind of hook the triceps i'll sometimes do them on my knees just because it feels better keep that hand up so you can stretch 250 yeah i'm about 214 215 yeah i don't try to be any kind of weight so the only reason i know is because i weighed myself like two weeks ago i don't ever 290. he's trying you're trying to look better so don't don't think of big weights all right so i'm trying i'm training with my least favorite body part to train and you probably know why always just repetitive stuff right there's nothing i never really challenge myself as much on arm training because you know we all have somewhat i don't consider myself an ego trainer but i think when when we train we still like to challenge ourselves right so i know with arms like i what i found for me is it was one of my hardest body parts to build i wasn't blessed with the biggest arms to start with so what i had to learn was it wasn't about how much weight i used for triceps or biceps it seemed like it was focused on more of my contractions so i believe arms like where i sometimes wouldn't say eight to 12 repetitions is constant for most other body parts i think arms is like 11 is that 12 to 15 is how i always like doing unless i was doing like heavy dumbbell prosthetic biceps but it's just very repetitive so i get very bored with arm training so if i was the days when i put arms together like buys and tries i tried to switch them and do them with other body parts because otherwise i'd be bored during that if i said okay wednesday is my arm day i understand i used to when i tried to go with this just get too nice all the time well it was when i always had to have work done on my forums or whatever else but it's still through the day to this day like it's still my least favorite body part for training like how many sets here john you know we need a four all right this is good for the elbows one elbows up [Music] the way i usually teach arm training j is i tell people to start with blue sound so anything overhead or skull crushers like say that for the end if you want to save your elbows that's kind of just my general first level yeah eat your elbows i tend to grab back a little bit on the handle so i don't know why it just felt feels better when they're a little further back my my arms are it allows me to cap the triceps a little more and uh it's just something i've always kind of done even when i'm doing like body weight dips and that kind of stuff so where a lot of people will grab the handles at the edge at the edge i tend to come back more on to keep the arms deeper behind my body so i can really really just focus on the triceps i think it depends on people's shoulders how their rotation is what's your thoughts on locking out on an exercise like this i mean listen i feel like this is lockout to me i don't know what it looks like on the camera like that was probably one of the biggest uh comments i would get when i train is hey it looks like your repetitions are more they're shorter rep ranges but i was actually feeling the contraction of each one of those reps and for me i feel like i'm totally locked out but it probably doesn't look like that on a camera i can totally relate that's the same thing that goes through my mind like and that's probably why one of the many reasons why you're a great bodybuilder if you think about it your the mind muscle connection is so established right yeah so what's visual sometimes isn't necessarily what's happening with the exercise inside with that person and listen everyone's going to be different we got that question a lot when we did chess you know should you guys lock out yeah we were talking about well the tension feels really good it feels like that well it's like when people come up and they think they look they come up and they touch the dumbbells because that's full extension but as you know it's bringing in the triceps so my focus whenever i train a body part just like we talked about in chess training was that when i do a body part i'm solely okay how can i isolate that body part and not bring anything else in which is almost an impossibility as you know we train it's just like working our core we're gonna get a lot of core work but i'm still isolating that muscle as much as possible yeah i feel everything my legs my chest my arms is this the last one john yes sir yes sir oh we did four sets again same rep range um people usually ask out rest breaks what do you think about wrestling i mean my goal is you go i go i mean i know we're training with three but uh you go i go so i think about 45 seconds we talked about this before 60 seconds would be my max unless i was training like crazy legs or whatever but it would be mostly uh 45 to 60 seconds so by the time you go i go it's about the right time so you're dropping the flat part of the dumbbell kind of yep on the front doe yep instead of you know coming back it's just giving us a stretch right here but you're not you're not pausing it and dropping it on you're not taking the tension off correct yes correct good times all right so my grip is like this right right grip here yeah so like this right yep and then instead of coming this way it's just more keep the tension by coming straight yeah right there yep and by dropping it right here and see how it's opening up the tricep right there go a little heavier for sure if we have the dumbbells yeah extension it's like let's go a little wide get some get some reps and then we pick up the weight 12 reps yep one thing i've been super protective of over the years is my elbows so i make sure that i'm not i'm not a directly into compound movement type guy so i do like a lot of pre-exhausting with shoulders like i always did side laterals before i went to heavy presses and i really like the i would say i've done rope press downs first through my whole career my elbows are great i have no no elbow pain whatsoever yeah something like this this would be late in the workout like once your elbows are warmed up i remember i was in my early 20s my elbows were always all swollen and inflamed and like all the guys back then they were all walking into the gym loading up an easy bar 245 inside doing skull crushers and like i mean they looked awesome but man boy that took his total mile those that's what i saw when i started i was 13 14 years old that's what all the big dudes were doing so i thought well that must be the way to do it and 23 24 years old my elbows were sticking out all swollen all the time and some things you just learned the hard way right yeah see i never used um like uh any kind of wrapping or anything like that on my elbows just never trained that way well being as healthy as you are i mean that's that's pretty rare i mean to put in 30 years of training to be that healthy i competed in my first show when i was 13 years old and uh that was in 1985 and my last show was in 2017 so how many years is that 32 32 years of competing so so august 3rd of this year is exactly 30 years that i started training okay okay yeah 30 years okay when you were like in your first two or three we'll say five years did you feel like you kind of knew everything and then you went to a phase where you're like oh crap there's a lot more to this than i thought i was kind of fortunate because i was i mean i used to pick up scrap magazines in the gym and i'd watch guys train as you know watching people in the gym train not always the correct way right i got linked up with chris aceto when i was six months into training so he really was a big advocate of the volume training time under tension type thing and just kind of i used to ask him like even for like back movements like do i do pull-ups or do i do bent rows he's like focus on the pull-ups you'll grow the inside will get developed as you continue to get older right because it's like you can't develop a super thick back when you're six or a year into training right it takes a while to build that density i always said i built the width and then i built the density front to back so when you turned like how thick you were this way that's years of training where anyone can be wide standing but when you turn to the side everything disappears right and that's what time is so i learned a lot uh but it took me listen i was a i trained calves every day for trial and error i did arms every day when my arms weren't growing like i was one of these people that tried every routine and i found that you know training a body part once every five to seven days just worked best for me i couldn't do it i couldn't train twice a week body parts yeah yeah ronnie did it phil he did it i couldn't do it yeah yeah that was hard for me to pull off too man there's always like five six days ah two more let's go oh this got heavy a little too much oh yep a little bit 30 40 35's moving about right i still felt good that might be perfect for you actually that is textbook form right there he does he's one time his form is better than mine already nice so you guys watching that jay's never done this before he walks in his first time he does this with better part than i do that's one of the things i think that makes a great bodybuilder is someone that just intuitively understands just the right just the way to move your body like a lot of people really struggle with this and you just naturally like yeah it's all i feel like when i feel something like this i actually feel a lot it's kind of funny because we were talking about we're kind of bouncing the exercises off like okay what do you think's next and i think we're thinking the same thing and it's like i always think about doing something like this like a dip movement and then something over extension and we talked about the bar i'm not like to this day i don't do as much cambered bar overhead presses just because i'm still trying to protect my elbows even though i don't have elbow pain i'm still trying to protect it yeah so i this just feels better to me yeah it's less restrictive i mean it's just like barbell bench pressing i'll stick to dumbbells all day long yeah so so with when you were let me ask you this when you're a teenager i've seen pictures of you 18 19 years old when you were 18 19 years old was your life jay was it bodybuilding or was it just something you were just good at was it more of a hobby for you or were you no like like were you zoned in like you know you mentioned 13 you competed i picked up books at 12 and i studied and i bought bob harris's book beyond built at 16 from gmc and i knew i wanted to be a bodybuilder i just didn't know how to go about doing it so i knew that reading about the meal the meals you had to eat each day and i was eating donuts for breakfast every morning in high school and not eating the food i i knew that i had to be on a strict diet so that's why i zoned in and said i'm going to start training on august 3rd 1991. so i joined the local gold's gym and that's the day i started the journey on like i want to be a professional and then of course you know i competed defeated against branch warren won the team nationals nationals that's right yeah yeah and then i got to travel to california for the first time slightly after that show the year that chris cormier won the usa 93 it was a huge stack lineup and i walked in gold's venice for the first time and i looked around and i said this is i'm gonna be a pro bodybuilder for sure that was nice i knew that was 93 that was that was july of 93. okay all right and the second was mike francois on that show yeah it was was flexing no he had won the year prior he went to your car yeah so that's when michael's coming up and he came up fast yeah so mike was second third was i think paul de mayo fourth was craig titus fifth was this guy ken castignoli yeah dennis newman was seventh in that class yep he was so dennis was good friends with john pirillo and i was training with carlos back then i think he was contracted with the supplements i think at that point oh yeah so that was um man there were some great bodybuilders you know the status that i reached it's it's unimaginable when you when you first start because you're starting as a kid and you're looking at your idols and then eventually you know those idols maybe you compete against or you know even beat at certain points right yeah i i t sean rhoden i beat sean road in the 2002 nationals so on the right for mr olympia somebody beat me once and they're always talking about my youtube channel why do you john meadows i'm like well if i played that game i'd be sean road once that was the first year i won the arnold 02. yeah yeah all right um do you want to do more or do you want to do a fourth exercise or yeah let's do another one more exercise okay um what you think for a fourth exercise any preference the sequence that jay talked about like we've done a lot of videos and it's so funny because that's our sequence it's push down variations it's variations and it's yeah what i would probably prefer is to do like a kickback something like this like a cable okay like maybe like a handle um to that okay cool three sets there or something all right let's do it all right what year what year did you guys win nationals so 2001 i'm at the nationals first of all they used to call us you know heavyweights lined up might every waste line up they call heavy weights i line up i'm feeling pretty good about myself now look at about two people in front of me who do i see him so immediately my heart would drop and then well actually even before that they called the light heavyweights up and i see him i'm like that's a light heavyweight that's what a light heavyweight looks like i'm in trouble so anyways here's the story so we're backstage you win the show but you know what i remember the most you and i had the same pair of sweatpants on i was like i may not look like him but i got the same pair of sweatpants i had never ever forgot that i swear to god my cheek pants i got i was like that's the same pants branches wearing oh yeah i can't do anything what sweatpants were they do you remember they were from kohl's and they were blue with a white stripe do you remember and i'm sitting there looking at him i'm like i'm sure he doesn't try i can't remember what i wore yesterday actually it's a 2000 usa i got fourth i came back the next year feeling pretty good about myself same deal you're in front of me and troy alvarez is behind me and troy's in shape i was like well marty down the third so i can only go from fourth to third but anyways that's what you got third third troy got second and tavita one yeah yeah so i never knew i never forget that i never forget those days man in the usa or you won it almost was more fun less pressure you turn pro and everything gets involved everything you know it gets serious it's fun until it gets serious yeah you know until they're money thrown in there and it's like okay this is my livelihood i'm serious i know that was so cool though man you guys smoke the nationals out here what year did you win i man i didn't play until 2015. yeah and then i now i did place my first three pro shows i played and that's crazy i would have never thought that that was that's crazy serious over and over and then you know once i go through i've been there done that a couple times yeah you were doing a little bigger show than i was which way you're going this way this way or this way this way you know what it's playing tricep but it reminded me when you did that i remember seeing the video and i don't watch workout videos and i remember seeing the video that you're working out when you're doing triceps going uh the cooldown bar and you're like you know you your favorite tricep exercise would go down and then press out you know down and so i tell everybody i was like hey i've seen jay through this this is his favorite tricep workout you don't know if you lost any size right crazy like you guys normally did right did you document it you remember the triceps i just remember how you ate [Music] [Music] together all right so what you'll notice on this is when i come down i try to you know there's not a lot of movement in the elbow so if everything kind of stays in that position okay once i get locked in i love what you said all right that's triceps we appreciate it man always good man it's always good meeting up i'm glad we uh we come to town and do all this and um you know i always learn stuff doing doing these uh videos with you because i i hear a lot of rumblings out there about your training theories and we talked about this the first video and how it kind of was very similar to mine but i love what you're doing and i love that uh you know all these people are talking about it online and you know proper training is so important especially in today's bodybuilding and i say bodybuilding as a general term anyone that lifts weights i consider bodybuilding whether it's male female fitness competitor doesn't matter you have to learn proper form how the body adapts and of course rep schemes tempo we talked about rest periods there's just so much that goes into it's not about just going to the gym and pounding weights there's a lot of thought processes and a lot of thinking process that goes in every day so you know when i leave the gym today i'm already going to go through tomorrow's workout it's a lot of it's the the mind to muscle connection on all aspects so always appreciate it we'll look forward to uh hanging out tomorrow and uh shout out to all your people out there all right thank you very much always a pleasure champ um until next time the guy that handles himself like a true champion jay thank you very much and we appreciate you guys watching video we'll see you next time next time is legs

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Published: Fri Jul 23 2021