Pro Athlete Strength Coach Reacts to Chris Bumstead’s ONLY 10 Exercises Men Need to Build Muscle!

If you ever wondered how physical therapist Jeff Cavaliere would react to Chris Bumstead’s list of the only 10 exercises that men need to build muscle, you’ve come to the right place. In this video, I am giving my reaction to a list of exercises that 4x Mr. Olympia Chris Bumstead came up with featur

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 h