How to Gain More Muscle (FIX THIS STRENGTH STEALER!!)

Overlook nothing in your training and build muscle fast!

who would have thought that all that strength and size that you’re trying to build is being held back by your wrist guys I’m going to show you today exactly what could be happening and more importantly how to fix [Music] it what’s up guys Jeff Cavalier aex. com you want to get bigger you want to get stronger sometimes we Overlook the little things and the little things in my world become very important as you guys know as a physical therapist and a strength coach I can’t just focus on lifting the weights and getting you guys to lift heavier weights without paying attention to the joints the muscles and all the things that make that happen and that’s where the physical therapist in me comes out and that’s one of the things I wanted to show you here today now we know that in order to lift the weight we have to be in the proper biomechanical uh form we have to be able to lift the weight as efficiently as possible the problem is a lot of guys and some of you have commented on our videos before have problems with your wrist and what I’m talking about guys is you don’t have enough wrist extension and when you’re trying to get bigger and stronger wrist extension is crucial because it’s needed on a lot of the exercises required to build muscle let’s take a look at some of those exercises exactly so I can show you what we’re dealing with here guys if we have a bar right we know that some of the bigger muscle building exercises are going to require that we can get into this catch position right the rack position up at our shoulders and just here I don’t care if if you’re doing a front squat if you’re doing a hand clean if you’re doing a Thruster guys look at the wrist position look at what’s needed here right you need a lot of wrist extension and what happens is if you don’t have that you’re basically fighting the battle of the bar falling away from you all right so what could we do well we have a mobilization at we do in PT that I can actually show you guys how to do and instantly improve your ability to uh to extend your wrist right before you’re about ready to do any of these exercises all right so here’s the details here basically guys what we need to do is we need to distract our wrist a little bit and then cause some kind of a mobilization you know glide into extension so what we want to do is basically just take our finger in our thumb right past the radius andna in our in our arms you can feel that there’s the bones right here and right here you can feel where they kind of drop off you take your fingers right around here you find that little Groove and all you have to do is squeeze okay if you squeeze you should feel a little distraction already in other words the part this hand coming away from there you squeeze that and then you’re going to push down through this thumb so again you’re really actually going to be doing this this way I just wanted to show you what the squeezing looks like you’re basically going to do it from here you squeeze and you push down through this thumb you’re pushing down the proximal row of your carpal joints inside your wrist when you do that then you need to work yourself into extension so here’s how I do it it I go up to a bar a bench a desk something that I can actually stand above I go exactly through that thing I squeeze through here squeeze through the wrist push down through this thumb down this way straight down okay that way and then as I’m squeezing and pushing I just lean into that and lean straight forward you can see I am getting more extension just by doing that because I’m I’m distracting I’m causing a little bit of space between the end of this forearm and the in the beginning of the wrist so again push down squeeze hold it and lean forward all right one more time push down squeeze Lean Forward just like that we do this about 10 times guys and then what you’ll notice is your extension is way better okay even just a few for me and my extension is pretty extreme I always have good extension anyway but there’s a lot of guys that are stuck here so what I want you to do is start using utilizing this technique if you have a problem doing some of your other lifts because guys if you can’t perform those lifts because you’re limited through extension and you can’t do push-ups because you’re limited through extension and you can’t do thrusters because you’re limited through extension you’re going to limit the amount of muscle that you can grow and how strong you can become so it’s much more important and very important to be looking at things not just from a strength perspective but combining the PT aspect as well I think that’s what we bring to this Channel and why this channel has grown to the point it has because you guys appreciate that so anyway guys if you found this helpful make sure you leave a thumbs up below whatever other issues you’re dealing with make sure you leave them Below in a comment so I can address them in future videos and in the meantime if you want to start putting the science back in strength and combining physical therapy and a safe effective approach to training with the actual aesthetic goals of becoming bigger stronger and faster then head over to aex. com right now and grab our 90day training program all right guys I’ll see I’ll see you soon be back here again remember three videos a week [Music]