STRETCHING - Strength Builder OR Strength Buster (REVEALED!)

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today I’m going to show you how these three rubber bands and that sloppy drawing behind me are going to determine how much weight you’re going to lift or not in your next workout it’s cool young Reese [Music] what’s up everybody Jeff Cavalier athle x. com we’re going to talk today about how you can maximize your strength at every workout and not allow yourself to lose your potential strength because you’re doing the wrong things before you work out we’re going to show you how stretching before workout the wrong kind can actually make you lose strength how your overall flexibility can impact how much you lift and also the type of exercises you’re doing so let me start off right here kind of breaking out the eighth grade biology book but I want to show you inside of a muscle this is an actual contractile unit of a muscle fiber so this is what’s going on every time you Flex that bicep or any other muscle to make it go from an elongated position to a flexed position what we have are two protein components we won’t get tooo much into detail here but actin and mein this being mein this being actin and the way that a muscle contracts is that it’s a chemical reaction but these little links here these little lines these red lines are attached to the acting fiber right here now these will actually actually act like a ratchet so when we start to contract these things all kind of turn this way down this way okay and they pull this in so that what you’re left with is this a longer line in here longer line in here and then this is closer so basically when you contract these little pieces of the of the myosin are grabbing on and pulling the muscle in and sliding it in this way all right that’s as much as I want you to know because what happens is when we stretch too much before a workout this is remember this whole thing is relying on the ability for this black line to be able to connect to that red line and pull together if you stretch too much before you work out let me show you what happens all of a sudden the black line sits out here like this okay out here because we’ve stretched every further apart so now what happens is these red lines no longer can link onto this black line it’s too far away you can see even this last little piece here can’t reach on here so there’s nothing to grab on to and there’s nothing to pull or cause a contraction so what does all this mean for your ability to work out and work out with the the most strength you can have the fact is if you’re doing static stretching holding for a minute or so or two minutes before even even sometimes as little as 45 seconds or 50 seconds you know during before a set or before your workout of what of the muscle you’re going to work out you tend to cause this disturbance in the relationship between these the length relationship between these two elements here so when you go to try to work out you just don’t have the strength and it was nothing that happened anywhere else you could have eaten properly you could have slept properly but because you did your static stretching before you worked out you screwed this up and now you’re not going to have the strength there now will it bounce back yeah it will bounce back but it’s going to take a little while for that muscle to recuperate start to link up onto here this will start to sink back in here a little bit more so that these at least these first two can grab and then they’ll try to pull that further and further but again it takes a while for that to link up and it may not link up right away so your your your strength is not where it should be so that’s lesson number one now let’s break out the rubber bands to show you the next thing how your overall flexibility can hurt what you do do well it’s all about with athenex developing what we call elastic strength that’s powerful elastic functional strength I have three rubber bands here this one is one of those little short ones I don’t know if you can see it but it’s the kind that you would kind of I guess put in your hair if you had hair you know to tie it back or like a braces uh rubber band you can see that it’s very tight there’s not a lot of room to play with here this kind of represents the big bulky body Builder the guy that doesn’t even though it’s small it doesn’t have that flexibility the ability to generate enough tension so that when I try to shoot it it basically drops right down to the ground okay on the other end of the spectrum we have our sort of hard Gainer body type the guy that has a lot of flexibility but doesn’t really have a lot of muscle or strength behind it so that what you get when you try to develop tension here is it tends to just sort of again flop straight down because there’s not enough t to support all that length and flexibility of the muscles but when you have your athene rubber band okay when you have this perfect relationship of strength and tension and length right we have the ability to then take our muscle which is already kind of strong intense stretch it because we have that flexibility built in and then shoot it very quick very powerful very explosive very strong so that leads right into our last section here is what are the type of exercises that you’re doing you want to build into all of your exercises the ability to pre-stretch the muscle in a way that we’re going to get that rubber band stretch effect going on you want to have the strength built in already because you’re doing the right type of stretching you want to have your overall flexibility where it needs to be to be at that perfect balance of strong and still lean and and muscular right we we don’t want to ever be nonfunctional and when you combine all that together and you’re doing the right type of exercise that’s when you build athletic muscle that’s when you build the best body that you can all right so important little lesson here all put together on board the bottom line is you got to do the right stuff you got to do the right type of exercises and you have to have the right type of flexibility we build it all in into the exercises in athlean X so if you haven’t already guys I know there’s bit of a science lesson here but it’s all built in I like to say the science behind the strength into the athletex training system head over to athl x. com right now grab the program start seeing what it’s like to not only be strong to not only be flexible but to be both and then ultimately powerful be back here again next week with more videos if you like the Whiteboard stuff I know it can become a little bit nerdy at times but if you like it let me know I’ll put more of it up there I’ll see you guys here in seven days later young Ree [Music] it’s cool