April 29, 2025 • 23 mins
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Kevin Tejada:
About bodybuilding and why it's a problem. Very curious how many people are (00:29):
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Kevin Tejada: leaving me like, oh, whoa. (00:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Negative feedback, calling me a weakling without hearing my point out first. (00:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I'm an anime fan, right? I love Dragon Ball. I love Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. (00:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I love muscly men in the least gay way possible. All right, I've even done, (00:47):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, not competed, but I, (00:53):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm not saying it's an invalid way to exercise. I'm not saying it's bad and harmful. (00:58):
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Kevin Tejada: What I'm saying is for most people, it fucks them up and they don't need to (01:05):
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Kevin Tejada: even enter that realm of bodybuilding. (01:11):
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Speaker1: All right. Even though bodybuilding (01:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Is super cool, you look badass. Even if you don't compete, it's cool. (01:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Right. Average person shouldn't be touching that shit. (01:20):
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Speaker1: I'm going to be real. (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: And the reason why a lot of people aren't going to make it (01:25):
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Kevin Tejada: in their fitness journey is because they think bodybuilding is the (01:27):
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Kevin Tejada: only way to achieve fitness now true bodybuilding is building out your muscles (01:30):
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Kevin Tejada: and then leaning out so that you look symmetrical strong and fucking awesome (01:38):
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Kevin Tejada: so you can compete against other people who did the same thing so you're gonna (01:42):
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Kevin Tejada: have a pose battle in a very cool. (01:48):
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Speaker1: Very non-gay way. (01:50):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not being facetious. I know it seems like that, but I'm serious. It is cool. (01:53):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, with all that bronzer and stuff, it looks weird, but it is cool. (02:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Real strong doing cool poses is badass, right? (02:05):
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Kevin Tejada: That's what bodybuilding is, really. (02:08):
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Speaker1: If you don't compete, (02:11):
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Kevin Tejada: Whether you're a bodybuilder or not is pretty debatable, in my opinion. (02:12):
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Kevin Tejada: But just because you're not competing doesn't mean you can't train like a bodybuilder. (02:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Bodybuilders do is they have segmented their bodies up into different muscle groups. (02:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So they go to the gym, maybe three, four, five, six days a week, (02:34):
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Kevin Tejada: sometimes seven if they're neglecting rest. (02:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Some people have a respectable split, do push, pull, legs. (02:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I personally don't like splits, but that is the, if you're going to split, (02:47):
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Kevin Tejada: that is the way to do it, in my opinion. (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: But some people in the journey to become a bodybuilder, or to train like a bodybuilder, (02:54):
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Kevin Tejada: I should say, they split their exercise even more so. (03:01):
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Kevin Tejada: So they have a separate day for chest, separate day for shoulders, separate day for legs. (03:05):
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Speaker1: Separate day for back (03:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Separate day for arms separate (03:13):
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Kevin Tejada: day for fucking their fucking neck there's like it's (03:16):
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Kevin Tejada: just separate out so so much and now (03:19):
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Kevin Tejada: the reasoning for that is in actual bodybuilding is that that (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: day you're supposed to overload not overload but (03:25):
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Kevin Tejada: you're supposed to load those muscles to the fucking point (03:28):
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Kevin Tejada: where you have to rest for about a week that's (03:32):
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Kevin Tejada: the point of doing that but most people who train (03:35):
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Kevin Tejada: that way they're not doing that they're just splitting it (03:38):
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Kevin Tejada: up because they i don't know what they're just copying bodybuilders (03:41):
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Kevin Tejada: basically most people who train all the chest one day they can fucking do a (03:44):
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Kevin Tejada: bunch of push-ups the next day and they'll be totally fine but if you're actually (03:49):
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Kevin Tejada: for real bodybuilding and you train chests one day the next day you're not touching (03:51):
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Kevin Tejada: this shit you're fucked you're done because you've worked out to the point where you can't. (03:57):
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Kevin Tejada: You're building your body. You can't just keep destroying it every day. (04:02):
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Kevin Tejada: But the average person doesn't do that. They just split it up, (04:06):
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Kevin Tejada: split it up. Why? I don't fucking know. They're just copying what they see. (04:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, here's why I personally don't do splits or don't recommend splits to most people. (04:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if you're bodybuilding, do whatever the fuck you want. If you're doing (04:16):
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Kevin Tejada: all this shit purely for aesthetics, do whatever the fuck you want. (04:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Ignore everything, right? I'm not talking to you. (04:23):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're the average person, you're not competing. You're just trying to get (04:25):
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Kevin Tejada: more fit, get into the gym, get stronger, whatever, right? (04:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me explain why I personally don't do splits of any kind, (04:32):
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Kevin Tejada: even though I used to. I go to the gym three. (04:35):
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Speaker1: Times a week, (04:40):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm feeling really feisty, maybe four, usually three. I do full body every time. (04:42):
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Kevin Tejada: That means I'm doing the big compound movements. I'm doing the pushing, (04:47):
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Kevin Tejada: the pulling, the leg stuff, all this stuff the same day. (04:50):
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Kevin Tejada: And my reason for this is because I use my entire body every single day. (04:53):
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Kevin Tejada: So I like to train my entire body every single time. (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: For me, and I've done this in the past, it doesn't really make sense. (05:02):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're not competing, you're not working towards an insane goal, (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: like, you know, stepping on stage, it doesn't really make sense to train or less every single time. (05:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Because that means you constantly have a fraction of your body being sore while the rest of you is fine. (05:19):
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Kevin Tejada: That means you're always handicapped, basically. (05:25):
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Speaker1: Now, for the average person, (05:28):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not great. If you're competing, yeah, I mean, you know, (05:29):
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Kevin Tejada: you're probably pretty fucking big anyway. (05:31):
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Kevin Tejada: So, you know, it's probably not going to be a big deal. but the average person (05:33):
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Kevin Tejada: it's like a game of whack-a-mole with your (05:36):
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Kevin Tejada: muscles it's odd in my opinion you train your whole body every time your whole (05:39):
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Kevin Tejada: body gets used to working out every time which means that you can recover better (05:45):
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Kevin Tejada: you'll get your body will get used to it and that means that all your muscles (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: will be ready at the same rate pretty much and that just makes more sense to me as a person. (05:53):
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Speaker2: Uses their whole body every (06:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Day it doesn't make sense to have a whole separate day i'm doing i'm doing (06:01):
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Kevin Tejada: back today right i'm doing pulls (06:04):
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Kevin Tejada: only again competing go (06:07):
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Kevin Tejada: for it if not i think it's kind of it's kind of silly it's like it's like i'm (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: only working on my back today i'm pulling right that means i'm only opening (06:16):
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Kevin Tejada: doors today i'm not pushing i'm not closing any doors today i'm only opening (06:19):
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Kevin Tejada: doors today that's fucking weird for the average person doesn't make any sense (06:23):
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Kevin Tejada: well that's how i you splits. (06:27):
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Speaker1: I like to treat my body as a whole, so I train it as such. If you have different (06:30):
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Speaker1: goals, then you But if you're trying to raise up all your muscles, (06:34):
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Speaker1: you should work out all your muscles. (06:40):
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Kevin Tejada: And the cool thing too is that you hit all your muscles possibly more frequently (06:42):
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Kevin Tejada: than a bodybuilder would or a person who trains like a bodybuilder would. (06:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Which means your recovery might be pretty cool. (06:51):
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Speaker1: For the average person, (06:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Once you exercise in terms of resistance training it takes about 48 to 72 hours (06:56):
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Kevin Tejada: for your body to be in peak recovery which means if you exercise basically every (07:01):
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Kevin Tejada: other day or maybe have two days in between you keep doing that, (07:05):
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Kevin Tejada: it's pretty optimal so if you're if you're if you're thinking of just the (07:10):
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Kevin Tejada: math you're gonna have to if you're doing like a separate chest day (07:12):
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Kevin Tejada: leg day you're gonna have to keep that recovery (07:15):
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Kevin Tejada: in mind if you want if you want to do that and if you're bodybuilding it might take (07:18):
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Kevin Tejada: longer because you're really fucking up those body parts not fucking (07:21):
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Kevin Tejada: up in terms of damaging them but in terms of loading the (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: hell out of them so you're going to do all this extra math doing that i just (07:28):
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Kevin Tejada: do everything two days later exercise again it keeps it simple the average person (07:31):
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Kevin Tejada: needs simple but that's me splits are honestly the least of not the least of (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: my my concerns but that is it kind of in comparison to the the. (07:42):
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Speaker2: Next part of (07:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Bodybuilding that most people think they need but don't, (07:49):
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Kevin Tejada: kind of an extension of the splitting. It's kind of like a worse. (07:53):
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Speaker1: Version of it, right? (07:57):
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Kevin Tejada: So let me explain. For exercise, for resistance training, you only need a couple of get the work in. (07:59):
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Kevin Tejada: You need pushing, you need pulling, and I'll just be vague about this, (08:08):
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Kevin Tejada: you need leg stuff, right? (08:11):
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Kevin Tejada: You can break that down into horizontal pushing and pulling, (08:13):
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Kevin Tejada: vertical pushing and pulling knee dominant exercises like squatting and then (08:16):
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Kevin Tejada: hip dominant exercises like dead lifting and core movements can count such as (08:22):
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Kevin Tejada: anti-rotation stuff like that. (08:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Anti-extension anti-flexion and such right those the movements my point is the (08:32):
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Kevin Tejada: movements Are what's important, (08:38):
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Kevin Tejada: So the point is When people Do these isolationist exercises If it's not for (08:41):
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Kevin Tejada: aesthetic purposes They are wasting a lot of time I'm talking about the people (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: who do Lateral raises for their shoulders Do bicep curls for their biceps, (08:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Tricep pulldowns for their, (08:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Their triceps All the You can even extend this out to legs Hamstring stuff Quad (08:59):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff, calf stuff you know, upper back, rear delt, lower back. (09:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, listen, if you're doing an exercise of like three sets for all of those (09:12):
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Kevin Tejada: things, you're going to waste so much fucking time when you don't need to. (09:18):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to work out your core, quads and hamstrings at the same fucking time? Squat. (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to do the same thing, but add more of your butt in? Deadlift. (09:28):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to work out your chest, shoulders and triceps? Do some fucking pushups. (09:32):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to do a similar thing, but focus a bit more on the shoulders, (09:38):
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Kevin Tejada: do overhead press. You want to work your biceps and your back. (09:41):
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Kevin Tejada: This one's not too different from doing like a bodybuilder, but just, (09:47):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, do rows and pull-ups basically. (09:50):
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Kevin Tejada: The back is interesting. I mean, you basically just got to pull depending on, (09:53):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, what you have available. It's pretty much all you can do. Just pull. (09:57):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm saying is you don't necessarily have to, you know, oh, I'm pulling from (10:01):
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Kevin Tejada: this, this angle, then, then this angle in the middle and this angle from down. (10:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Like just calm the fuck down. Just pull, pull hard. Okay. (10:08):
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Kevin Tejada: This don't, don't overthink this shit. Okay. Just do those compound movements, (10:12):
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Kevin Tejada: which utilize a lot of muscles. (10:17):
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Kevin Tejada: And then you don't need to do fucking calf raises. Fuck that shit. (10:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Stop wasting 10 minutes doing calf shit because you're insecure about your tiny (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: legs and just squat more. (10:27):
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Speaker1: Do lunges. (10:30):
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Kevin Tejada: I'll get your calves plus more. Plus all this stuff to work side of your core, because guess what? (10:31):
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Kevin Tejada: When you're using more of your body, your core has to support you, (10:37):
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Kevin Tejada: has to stabilize everything. If you have no stability in your core, (10:39):
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Kevin Tejada: you have no stability in your extremities, your arms and legs. (10:42):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're doing this, these heavy or challenging compound movements, (10:45):
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Kevin Tejada: your core is working, all right? You don't need to do fucking crunches, fucking hanging. (10:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, again, unless you're doing it for aesthetic purposes. (10:54):
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Kevin Tejada: And I will say, if you're doing like fighting of some kind, doing bicep curls (10:58):
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Kevin Tejada: can actually be helpful because of, you know, locking in your opponent and, (11:02):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, doing setups or crunches or something can actually help you. you get up a little more. (11:07):
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Kevin Tejada: So that's like a sports specific kind of thing, but we're not talking about (11:11):
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Kevin Tejada: that. We're talking about the average person. (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to waste your time doing ultra specific shit. Just push, pull, do some leg shit. (11:16):
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Kevin Tejada: You'll be good. As long as it's challenging, your body will step it up and utilize a lot of muscle. (11:21):
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Kevin Tejada: They just want to do that. I want to do shoulders and fucking chest today. (11:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Like what the fuck is this shit, dude? (11:33):
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Kevin Tejada: How much time do you want to spend at the gym? If it's a social thing for you, (11:35):
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Kevin Tejada: have fun, But the average person is complaining about having no time. (11:38):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you want to minimize your time without really losing anything, do compound movements. (11:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Much easier to learn a few really good compound movements than it is to learn (11:48):
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Kevin Tejada: an exercise or two or three for your shoulders, your triceps, (11:53):
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Kevin Tejada: your biceps, your calves, your quads, your hamstrings, your abs, your chest. (11:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Okay? (12:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Cut that shit down by like four. (12:06):
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Kevin Tejada: It'd be much easier to retain all this knowledge. Much easier to start. (12:09):
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Kevin Tejada: And quite literally for you know the people who train like (12:14):
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Kevin Tejada: bodybuilders they might go to the gym like five days a week doing all (12:17):
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Kevin Tejada: all these types of very specific exercises when in (12:20):
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Kevin Tejada: reality as much as people want to disagree all you (12:24):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking need really is to (12:27):
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Kevin Tejada: do challenging resistance training at least (12:30):
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Kevin Tejada: twice a week each time three (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: to four sets of challenging pushing (12:37):
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Kevin Tejada: challenging pulling very challenging leg (12:40):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff ideally you know get a hip dominant and (12:43):
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Kevin Tejada: knee dominant for the leg stuff but you know whatever works (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: so you have four exercises there you superset them superset the pushing with (12:49):
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Kevin Tejada: the knee dominant thing and the pulling with the hip dominant or mix and match (12:54):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever you want whatever works so pair them up do them together wait get your (12:58):
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Kevin Tejada: rest in do them together make sure it's three times then. (13:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Times rest in between basically fucking good you know just account for a bit (13:09):
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Kevin Tejada: of the warm-up at the beginning any cool down you might have any kind of mobility (13:14):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff and you're fucking good honestly as long as you're challenging yourself (13:18):
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Kevin Tejada: in the in in these exercises you're choosing in these movements, (13:21):
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Kevin Tejada: you're fucking good you don't need to train like a bodybuilder but most people think that they do. (13:26):
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Speaker1: And this comes through in the nutrition too (13:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Like honestly i'll i'll be real though like laughing, (13:34):
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Kevin Tejada: bodybuilders eat normally it's actually pretty (13:39):
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Kevin Tejada: good i'm not gonna lie if we ate like that (13:42):
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Kevin Tejada: you'd be you'd be much better off probably statistically you'd (13:45):
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Kevin Tejada: be better off right now the issue is though if (13:48):
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Kevin Tejada: they're training like bodybuilders they're probably eating a bit more than (13:51):
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Kevin Tejada: you would need to because they're working with the shits in the muscle and they're (13:54):
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Kevin Tejada: probably trying to gain weight which means they're eating a bunch so i wouldn't (13:58):
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Kevin Tejada: really recommend the quantity of what they're eating but feel free to look at (14:01):
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Kevin Tejada: the quality though you know it's usually not bad unless they're one of those (14:05):
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Kevin Tejada: people who train like bodybuilders and eat a bunch of pop tarts beforehand because (14:08):
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Kevin Tejada: oh the carbs give me energy all right buddy like i. (14:11):
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Kevin Tejada: But getting a bunch of protein is very helpful (14:21):
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Kevin Tejada: not just for muscle and stuff like that but just for general bodily (14:23):
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Kevin Tejada: functions pretty good so honestly just (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: copy you know you wouldn't be too too too bad it wouldn't be very bad to kind (14:30):
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Kevin Tejada: of copy a bodybuilder's diet just reduce the portion size so i'm not gonna really (14:35):
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Kevin Tejada: shit on shit on them there but there's not really a need to bring a ready-to-go (14:39):
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Kevin Tejada: protein shake in your gym bag that's you know you'll need that just eat later, (14:44):
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Kevin Tejada: i'll tell you from experience in terms of time management i used to spend i (14:51):
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Kevin Tejada: want to say an hour and a half to two hours exercising when i was training like (14:54):
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Kevin Tejada: a bodybuilder with the splits and all that stuff i used to do three exercises like, (14:58):
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Kevin Tejada: is also a you know somewhat of a decent split but i used to do that sometimes (15:10):
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Kevin Tejada: the push and pull like thing too right on. (15:15):
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Speaker1: Some of those days i would do three (15:17):
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Kevin Tejada: Super fucking challenging exercises for each muscle group so we're talking the (15:19):
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Kevin Tejada: triceps very small footprint on your body, right? (15:26):
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Kevin Tejada: I would do three sets, very hard, very hard tricep pull downs, (15:29):
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Kevin Tejada: go to the bench, do three very hard sets of skull crushers, three very hard (15:33):
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Kevin Tejada: sets of tricep kickbacks. (15:39):
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Kevin Tejada: That's nine sets for a tiny part of my body. And then shoulders were next, (15:41):
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Kevin Tejada: same shit, chest, same shit, flies, press, like that took a lot of time. (15:45):
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Speaker1: And statistically there, (15:52):
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Kevin Tejada: There are some diminishing returns if you spend that much fucking time doing (15:53):
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Kevin Tejada: that nowadays depending on the warm-up or whatever extra silly shit i want to (15:56):
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Kevin Tejada: do like practicing handstands or doing animal flow any any stuff that comes afterwards it. (16:02):
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Speaker1: Bodybuilding shit. And I gotta tell you, I didn't really suffer for strength. (16:18):
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Speaker2: Took up the full body compound movement life. (16:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Honestly, you just get strong everywhere pretty decently. So it's cool. (16:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Of course, bodybuilding isn't entirely about strength. It's more about the muscle. (16:33):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're wondering what the hell the difference is, well, (16:37):
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Kevin Tejada: you really care about strength, you'd be going into more powerlifting where (16:41):
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Kevin Tejada: you're doing basically deadlifting, squatting, (16:44):
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Kevin Tejada: overhead pressing or chest pressing and barbell rows, (16:48):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff like that big big stuff where you need barbells to put on the extra weight (16:52):
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Kevin Tejada: if you're doing bodybuilding you're kind of building your body you're sculpting (16:57):
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Kevin Tejada: yourself so you're getting the muscles but you're also taking into account nutrition (17:01):
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Kevin Tejada: so you can lower the body fat as well so that you look cooler those doesn't (17:04):
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Kevin Tejada: always translate in being the strongest you can be, (17:08):
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Kevin Tejada: but it does translate to looking the strongest that. (17:11):
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Speaker1: You can be (17:14):
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Kevin Tejada: So i'll say if you stick to the full body stuff, compound movement stuff, (17:15):
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Kevin Tejada: you will retain a lot of strength. (17:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, the aesthetics are going to be up to you in terms of how you eat, honestly. (17:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Lower your body fat if you want to check those muscles out, but you won't lose (17:25):
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Kevin Tejada: much strength if you do a kind of holistic approach. (17:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Just for funsies, sometimes I just go and do an older exercise to see where I'm at. (17:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Like two weeks ago, I was doing overhead press and barbells and I was (17:39):
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Kevin Tejada: able to do just about my highest amount (17:41):
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Kevin Tejada: ever without having done it for like a year and a half because in general I (17:45):
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Kevin Tejada: work on my entire body to a challenging enough degree that I maintain just general (17:49):
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Kevin Tejada: strength so when I do happen to just try out anything specific I have a lot (17:54):
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Kevin Tejada: of strength because my whole body is pulling its weight quite literally talking about body weight stuff, (17:57):
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Kevin Tejada: compared to usual. So only about one fourth of Americans need recommended exercise (18:07):
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Kevin Tejada: guidelines or even physical activity guidelines. (18:14):
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Kevin Tejada: And the biggest barriers are complexity and time. (18:17):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're telling the average person who three, three fourths of which don't (18:22):
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Kevin Tejada: get enough exercise, if you're telling the average person, Hey, (18:27):
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Kevin Tejada: you got to do like a million exercises per body part and you got to split everything up. you. (18:29):
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Speaker1: Gotta keep it to account the recovery (18:33):
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Kevin Tejada: And you gotta spend about two hours in the gym they're not gonna fucking do (18:35):
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Kevin Tejada: it that's too much and completely unnecessary which is why i really focus on (18:38):
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Kevin Tejada: compound movements because not only can you get squats push-ups and pull-ups (18:43):
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Kevin Tejada: done basically anywhere you don't need to wait for them you want to make it harder fucking do more, (18:47):
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Kevin Tejada: do some variations regular squats are too easy do pistol squats those are single (18:52):
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Kevin Tejada: leg go for it push-ups are too hard, do single arm push-ups. (18:58):
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Speaker1: Pull-ups are way too, (19:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Or rather if push-ups are too hard, do single, you know, single arm push-ups. (19:04):
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Kevin Tejada: And for pull-ups, same thing. They're too easy. You can do 20 for some reason. (19:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Work on your single arm pull-up. (19:12):
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Kevin Tejada: You can augment these things very. (19:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Bit more challenging when you're on your own. You got to put the weight on your back or whatever. (19:24):
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Kevin Tejada: But anyway, those kinds of exercises, not only do you not need weight to make (19:27):
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Kevin Tejada: them effective and helpful for you, but they activate, as I said, (19:33):
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Kevin Tejada: because they're compound movements, multiple muscle groups simultaneously. (19:36):
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Kevin Tejada: So you save a lot of time doing that. You get a lot of bang for your buck doing that. (19:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Oversets, you know, you pair things up or even add three exercises back to back (19:46):
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Kevin Tejada: if you want to go crazy. You can effectively train your entire body, (19:50):
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Kevin Tejada: bodybuilding, you know, going for like an hour and a half is pretty normal. (19:58):
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Kevin Tejada: And there are studies that show as well that shorter workouts, (20:03):
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Kevin Tejada: depending on how efficient you are, they yield pretty similar health benefits (20:06):
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Kevin Tejada: as to ones that take much longer. And I can attest to this. (20:11):
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Kevin Tejada: The major issue with this, as I said before, is that most people think they (20:15):
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Kevin Tejada: need to train like a bodybuilder to exercise, period. (20:18):
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Kevin Tejada: So when they get into this, they're not only met with complexity, (20:20):
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Kevin Tejada: they're met with time, but they also think that is the only way because it's all they see. (20:23):
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Kevin Tejada: So when they start off trying to be a bodybuilder or training like one, (20:29):
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Kevin Tejada: about half the people drop out of exercise. (20:33):
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Speaker1: Period, at the gym within (20:36):
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Kevin Tejada: About six months. That's what happens. so if (20:38):
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Kevin Tejada: you want you know the average person to actually stick with their exercise stop (20:41):
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Kevin Tejada: showing them fucking three ways to do bicep curls like nobody cares it's not (20:45):
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Kevin Tejada: helpful to them and like i said some people think that's the only way but no (20:50):
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Kevin Tejada: you can also get activity and exercise in via just body weight stuff even calisthenic (20:53):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff if you find body weight stuff to be a bit boring, (20:58):
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Kevin Tejada: you know learn how to do handstands that's kind of a sustained push do back (21:01):
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Kevin Tejada: levers do dragon squats Let's do it. All that stuff is awesome. (21:06):
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Kevin Tejada: It can be more fun. Run. That's helpful for your legs. Swim. You're pulling. (21:11):
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Kevin Tejada: You're using your legs. There are a lot of ways to get pretty fit. (21:16):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you care about aesthetics, there are a lot of ways to get pretty fit (21:22):
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Kevin Tejada: looking as well. That don't require bodybuilding. (21:25):
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Speaker1: Hell, even Pilates (21:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Is pretty decent, I hear. So don't think you need to bodybuild to exercise. (21:30):
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Kevin Tejada: They're not the same thing. (21:35):
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Speaker2: Exercise, but exercise does not mean bodybuilding. (21:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Just remember doing like literally any kind of exercise is better than doing nothing. (21:42):
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Kevin Tejada: If you literally walk, that's cool. It's fine. I mean, at a certain point soon. (21:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Really do think bodybuilding is cool and badass i don't want to ever enter into (22:15):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit again because it wastes too much time and i don't i don't care to (22:19):
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Kevin Tejada: separate and segment my body that much but it is cool let's not kid ourselves okay, (22:23):
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Kevin Tejada: so if you want to compete if you want to look like that keeping in mind that (22:29):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of people use roids, that's fine. (22:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Go, go have fun with that. But the average person, you care about getting strong, (22:36):
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Kevin Tejada: care about being fit, get your squats in, get your lunges in, (22:39):
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Kevin Tejada: get your, get your, get your push-ups in, get your pull-ups in, get your roll. (22:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Like just do, just push, pull, like stuff. Just, just, that's it. (22:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Don't overcomplicate it. Just choose cool things within those movement patterns, (22:49):
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Kevin Tejada: have many options when it comes to fitness, strength training, all this shit. (23:10):
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Kevin Tejada: But now we're at the end and I know many people just didn't really listen to (23:15):
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Kevin Tejada: the whole thing because they got butt hurt. I made fun of their curls. (23:18):
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Kevin Tejada: So leave a comment. Tell me how much of a weak pussy I am, but only if you can (23:21):
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Kevin Tejada: do a single arm pushup. Otherwise. (23:26):
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Kevin Tejada: leaving me like, oh, whoa. (00:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Negative feedback, calling me a weakling without hearing my point out first. (00:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I'm an anime fan, right? I love Dragon Ball. I love Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. (00:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I love muscly men in the least gay way possible. All right, I've even done, (00:47):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, not competed, but I, (00:53):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm not saying it's an invalid way to exercise. I'm not saying it's bad and harmful. (00:58):
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Kevin Tejada: What I'm saying is for most people, it fucks them up and they don't need to (01:05):
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Kevin Tejada: even enter that realm of bodybuilding. (01:11):
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Speaker1: All right. Even though bodybuilding (01:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Is super cool, you look badass. Even if you don't compete, it's cool. (01:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Right. Average person shouldn't be touching that shit. (01:20):
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Speaker1: I'm going to be real. (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: And the reason why a lot of people aren't going to make it (01:25):
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Kevin Tejada: in their fitness journey is because they think bodybuilding is the (01:27):
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Kevin Tejada: only way to achieve fitness now true bodybuilding is building out your muscles (01:30):
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Kevin Tejada: and then leaning out so that you look symmetrical strong and fucking awesome (01:38):
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Kevin Tejada: so you can compete against other people who did the same thing so you're gonna (01:42):
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Kevin Tejada: have a pose battle in a very cool. (01:48):
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Speaker1: Very non-gay way. (01:50):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not being facetious. I know it seems like that, but I'm serious. It is cool. (01:53):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, with all that bronzer and stuff, it looks weird, but it is cool. (02:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Real strong doing cool poses is badass, right? (02:05):
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Kevin Tejada: That's what bodybuilding is, really. (02:08):
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Speaker1: If you don't compete, (02:11):
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Kevin Tejada: Whether you're a bodybuilder or not is pretty debatable, in my opinion. (02:12):
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Kevin Tejada: But just because you're not competing doesn't mean you can't train like a bodybuilder. (02:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Bodybuilders do is they have segmented their bodies up into different muscle groups. (02:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So they go to the gym, maybe three, four, five, six days a week, (02:34):
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Kevin Tejada: sometimes seven if they're neglecting rest. (02:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Some people have a respectable split, do push, pull, legs. (02:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I personally don't like splits, but that is the, if you're going to split, (02:47):
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Kevin Tejada: that is the way to do it, in my opinion. (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: But some people in the journey to become a bodybuilder, or to train like a bodybuilder, (02:54):
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Kevin Tejada: I should say, they split their exercise even more so. (03:01):
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Kevin Tejada: So they have a separate day for chest, separate day for shoulders, separate day for legs. (03:05):
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Speaker1: Separate day for back (03:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Separate day for arms separate (03:13):
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Kevin Tejada: day for fucking their fucking neck there's like it's (03:16):
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Kevin Tejada: just separate out so so much and now (03:19):
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Kevin Tejada: the reasoning for that is in actual bodybuilding is that that (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: day you're supposed to overload not overload but (03:25):
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Kevin Tejada: you're supposed to load those muscles to the fucking point (03:28):
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Kevin Tejada: where you have to rest for about a week that's (03:32):
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Kevin Tejada: the point of doing that but most people who train (03:35):
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Kevin Tejada: that way they're not doing that they're just splitting it (03:38):
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Kevin Tejada: up because they i don't know what they're just copying bodybuilders (03:41):
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Kevin Tejada: basically most people who train all the chest one day they can fucking do a (03:44):
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Kevin Tejada: bunch of push-ups the next day and they'll be totally fine but if you're actually (03:49):
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Kevin Tejada: for real bodybuilding and you train chests one day the next day you're not touching (03:51):
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Kevin Tejada: this shit you're fucked you're done because you've worked out to the point where you can't. (03:57):
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Kevin Tejada: You're building your body. You can't just keep destroying it every day. (04:02):
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Kevin Tejada: But the average person doesn't do that. They just split it up, (04:06):
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Kevin Tejada: split it up. Why? I don't fucking know. They're just copying what they see. (04:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, here's why I personally don't do splits or don't recommend splits to most people. (04:12):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if you're bodybuilding, do whatever the fuck you want. If you're doing (04:16):
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Kevin Tejada: all this shit purely for aesthetics, do whatever the fuck you want. (04:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Ignore everything, right? I'm not talking to you. (04:23):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're the average person, you're not competing. You're just trying to get (04:25):
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Kevin Tejada: more fit, get into the gym, get stronger, whatever, right? (04:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me explain why I personally don't do splits of any kind, (04:32):
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Kevin Tejada: even though I used to. I go to the gym three. (04:35):
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Speaker1: Times a week, (04:40):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm feeling really feisty, maybe four, usually three. I do full body every time. (04:42):
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Kevin Tejada: That means I'm doing the big compound movements. I'm doing the pushing, (04:47):
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Kevin Tejada: the pulling, the leg stuff, all this stuff the same day. (04:50):
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Kevin Tejada: And my reason for this is because I use my entire body every single day. (04:53):
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Kevin Tejada: So I like to train my entire body every single time. (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: For me, and I've done this in the past, it doesn't really make sense. (05:02):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're not competing, you're not working towards an insane goal, (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: like, you know, stepping on stage, it doesn't really make sense to train or less every single time. (05:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Because that means you constantly have a fraction of your body being sore while the rest of you is fine. (05:19):
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Kevin Tejada: That means you're always handicapped, basically. (05:25):
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Speaker1: Now, for the average person, (05:28):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not great. If you're competing, yeah, I mean, you know, (05:29):
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Kevin Tejada: you're probably pretty fucking big anyway. (05:31):
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Kevin Tejada: So, you know, it's probably not going to be a big deal. but the average person (05:33):
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Kevin Tejada: it's like a game of whack-a-mole with your (05:36):
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Kevin Tejada: muscles it's odd in my opinion you train your whole body every time your whole (05:39):
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Kevin Tejada: body gets used to working out every time which means that you can recover better (05:45):
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Kevin Tejada: you'll get your body will get used to it and that means that all your muscles (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: will be ready at the same rate pretty much and that just makes more sense to me as a person. (05:53):
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Speaker2: Uses their whole body every (06:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Day it doesn't make sense to have a whole separate day i'm doing i'm doing (06:01):
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Kevin Tejada: back today right i'm doing pulls (06:04):
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Kevin Tejada: only again competing go (06:07):
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Kevin Tejada: for it if not i think it's kind of it's kind of silly it's like it's like i'm (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: only working on my back today i'm pulling right that means i'm only opening (06:16):
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Kevin Tejada: doors today i'm not pushing i'm not closing any doors today i'm only opening (06:19):
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Kevin Tejada: doors today that's fucking weird for the average person doesn't make any sense (06:23):
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Kevin Tejada: well that's how i you splits. (06:27):
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Speaker1: I like to treat my body as a whole, so I train it as such. If you have different (06:30):
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Speaker1: goals, then you But if you're trying to raise up all your muscles, (06:34):
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Speaker1: you should work out all your muscles. (06:40):
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Kevin Tejada: And the cool thing too is that you hit all your muscles possibly more frequently (06:42):
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Kevin Tejada: than a bodybuilder would or a person who trains like a bodybuilder would. (06:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Which means your recovery might be pretty cool. (06:51):
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Speaker1: For the average person, (06:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Once you exercise in terms of resistance training it takes about 48 to 72 hours (06:56):
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Kevin Tejada: for your body to be in peak recovery which means if you exercise basically every (07:01):
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Kevin Tejada: other day or maybe have two days in between you keep doing that, (07:05):
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Kevin Tejada: it's pretty optimal so if you're if you're if you're thinking of just the (07:10):
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Kevin Tejada: math you're gonna have to if you're doing like a separate chest day (07:12):
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Kevin Tejada: leg day you're gonna have to keep that recovery (07:15):
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Kevin Tejada: in mind if you want if you want to do that and if you're bodybuilding it might take (07:18):
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Kevin Tejada: longer because you're really fucking up those body parts not fucking (07:21):
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Kevin Tejada: up in terms of damaging them but in terms of loading the (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: hell out of them so you're going to do all this extra math doing that i just (07:28):
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Kevin Tejada: do everything two days later exercise again it keeps it simple the average person (07:31):
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Kevin Tejada: needs simple but that's me splits are honestly the least of not the least of (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: my my concerns but that is it kind of in comparison to the the. (07:42):
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Speaker2: Next part of (07:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Bodybuilding that most people think they need but don't, (07:49):
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Kevin Tejada: kind of an extension of the splitting. It's kind of like a worse. (07:53):
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Speaker1: Version of it, right? (07:57):
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Kevin Tejada: So let me explain. For exercise, for resistance training, you only need a couple of get the work in. (07:59):
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Kevin Tejada: You need pushing, you need pulling, and I'll just be vague about this, (08:08):
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Kevin Tejada: you need leg stuff, right? (08:11):
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Kevin Tejada: You can break that down into horizontal pushing and pulling, (08:13):
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Kevin Tejada: vertical pushing and pulling knee dominant exercises like squatting and then (08:16):
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Kevin Tejada: hip dominant exercises like dead lifting and core movements can count such as (08:22):
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Kevin Tejada: anti-rotation stuff like that. (08:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Anti-extension anti-flexion and such right those the movements my point is the (08:32):
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Kevin Tejada: movements Are what's important, (08:38):
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Kevin Tejada: So the point is When people Do these isolationist exercises If it's not for (08:41):
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Kevin Tejada: aesthetic purposes They are wasting a lot of time I'm talking about the people (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: who do Lateral raises for their shoulders Do bicep curls for their biceps, (08:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Tricep pulldowns for their, (08:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Their triceps All the You can even extend this out to legs Hamstring stuff Quad (08:59):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff, calf stuff you know, upper back, rear delt, lower back. (09:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, listen, if you're doing an exercise of like three sets for all of those (09:12):
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Kevin Tejada: things, you're going to waste so much fucking time when you don't need to. (09:18):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to work out your core, quads and hamstrings at the same fucking time? Squat. (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to do the same thing, but add more of your butt in? Deadlift. (09:28):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to work out your chest, shoulders and triceps? Do some fucking pushups. (09:32):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to do a similar thing, but focus a bit more on the shoulders, (09:38):
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Kevin Tejada: do overhead press. You want to work your biceps and your back. (09:41):
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Kevin Tejada: This one's not too different from doing like a bodybuilder, but just, (09:47):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, do rows and pull-ups basically. (09:50):
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Kevin Tejada: The back is interesting. I mean, you basically just got to pull depending on, (09:53):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, what you have available. It's pretty much all you can do. Just pull. (09:57):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm saying is you don't necessarily have to, you know, oh, I'm pulling from (10:01):
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Kevin Tejada: this, this angle, then, then this angle in the middle and this angle from down. (10:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Like just calm the fuck down. Just pull, pull hard. Okay. (10:08):
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Kevin Tejada: This don't, don't overthink this shit. Okay. Just do those compound movements, (10:12):
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Kevin Tejada: which utilize a lot of muscles. (10:17):
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Kevin Tejada: And then you don't need to do fucking calf raises. Fuck that shit. (10:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Stop wasting 10 minutes doing calf shit because you're insecure about your tiny (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: legs and just squat more. (10:27):
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Speaker1: Do lunges. (10:30):
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Kevin Tejada: I'll get your calves plus more. Plus all this stuff to work side of your core, because guess what? (10:31):
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Kevin Tejada: When you're using more of your body, your core has to support you, (10:37):
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Kevin Tejada: has to stabilize everything. If you have no stability in your core, (10:39):
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Kevin Tejada: you have no stability in your extremities, your arms and legs. (10:42):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're doing this, these heavy or challenging compound movements, (10:45):
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Kevin Tejada: your core is working, all right? You don't need to do fucking crunches, fucking hanging. (10:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, again, unless you're doing it for aesthetic purposes. (10:54):
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Kevin Tejada: And I will say, if you're doing like fighting of some kind, doing bicep curls (10:58):
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Kevin Tejada: can actually be helpful because of, you know, locking in your opponent and, (11:02):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, doing setups or crunches or something can actually help you. you get up a little more. (11:07):
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Kevin Tejada: So that's like a sports specific kind of thing, but we're not talking about (11:11):
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Kevin Tejada: that. We're talking about the average person. (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to waste your time doing ultra specific shit. Just push, pull, do some leg shit. (11:16):
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Kevin Tejada: You'll be good. As long as it's challenging, your body will step it up and utilize a lot of muscle. (11:21):
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Kevin Tejada: They just want to do that. I want to do shoulders and fucking chest today. (11:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Like what the fuck is this shit, dude? (11:33):
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Kevin Tejada: How much time do you want to spend at the gym? If it's a social thing for you, (11:35):
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Kevin Tejada: have fun, But the average person is complaining about having no time. (11:38):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you want to minimize your time without really losing anything, do compound movements. (11:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Much easier to learn a few really good compound movements than it is to learn (11:48):
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Kevin Tejada: an exercise or two or three for your shoulders, your triceps, (11:53):
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Kevin Tejada: your biceps, your calves, your quads, your hamstrings, your abs, your chest. (11:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Okay? (12:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Cut that shit down by like four. (12:06):
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Kevin Tejada: It'd be much easier to retain all this knowledge. Much easier to start. (12:09):
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Kevin Tejada: And quite literally for you know the people who train like (12:14):
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Kevin Tejada: bodybuilders they might go to the gym like five days a week doing all (12:17):
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Kevin Tejada: all these types of very specific exercises when in (12:20):
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Kevin Tejada: reality as much as people want to disagree all you (12:24):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking need really is to (12:27):
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Kevin Tejada: do challenging resistance training at least (12:30):
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Kevin Tejada: twice a week each time three (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: to four sets of challenging pushing (12:37):
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Kevin Tejada: challenging pulling very challenging leg (12:40):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff ideally you know get a hip dominant and (12:43):
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Kevin Tejada: knee dominant for the leg stuff but you know whatever works (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: so you have four exercises there you superset them superset the pushing with (12:49):
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Kevin Tejada: the knee dominant thing and the pulling with the hip dominant or mix and match (12:54):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever you want whatever works so pair them up do them together wait get your (12:58):
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Kevin Tejada: rest in do them together make sure it's three times then. (13:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Times rest in between basically fucking good you know just account for a bit (13:09):
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Kevin Tejada: of the warm-up at the beginning any cool down you might have any kind of mobility (13:14):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff and you're fucking good honestly as long as you're challenging yourself (13:18):
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Kevin Tejada: in the in in these exercises you're choosing in these movements, (13:21):
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Kevin Tejada: you're fucking good you don't need to train like a bodybuilder but most people think that they do. (13:26):
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Speaker1: And this comes through in the nutrition too (13:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Like honestly i'll i'll be real though like laughing, (13:34):
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Kevin Tejada: bodybuilders eat normally it's actually pretty (13:39):
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Kevin Tejada: good i'm not gonna lie if we ate like that (13:42):
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Kevin Tejada: you'd be you'd be much better off probably statistically you'd (13:45):
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Kevin Tejada: be better off right now the issue is though if (13:48):
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Kevin Tejada: they're training like bodybuilders they're probably eating a bit more than (13:51):
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Kevin Tejada: you would need to because they're working with the shits in the muscle and they're (13:54):
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Kevin Tejada: probably trying to gain weight which means they're eating a bunch so i wouldn't (13:58):
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Kevin Tejada: really recommend the quantity of what they're eating but feel free to look at (14:01):
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Kevin Tejada: the quality though you know it's usually not bad unless they're one of those (14:05):
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Kevin Tejada: people who train like bodybuilders and eat a bunch of pop tarts beforehand because (14:08):
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Kevin Tejada: oh the carbs give me energy all right buddy like i. (14:11):
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Kevin Tejada: But getting a bunch of protein is very helpful (14:21):
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Kevin Tejada: not just for muscle and stuff like that but just for general bodily (14:23):
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Kevin Tejada: functions pretty good so honestly just (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: copy you know you wouldn't be too too too bad it wouldn't be very bad to kind (14:30):
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Kevin Tejada: of copy a bodybuilder's diet just reduce the portion size so i'm not gonna really (14:35):
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Kevin Tejada: shit on shit on them there but there's not really a need to bring a ready-to-go (14:39):
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Kevin Tejada: protein shake in your gym bag that's you know you'll need that just eat later, (14:44):
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Kevin Tejada: i'll tell you from experience in terms of time management i used to spend i (14:51):
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Kevin Tejada: want to say an hour and a half to two hours exercising when i was training like (14:54):
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Kevin Tejada: a bodybuilder with the splits and all that stuff i used to do three exercises like, (14:58):
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Kevin Tejada: is also a you know somewhat of a decent split but i used to do that sometimes (15:10):
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Kevin Tejada: the push and pull like thing too right on. (15:15):
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Speaker1: Some of those days i would do three (15:17):
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Kevin Tejada: Super fucking challenging exercises for each muscle group so we're talking the (15:19):
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Kevin Tejada: triceps very small footprint on your body, right? (15:26):
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Kevin Tejada: I would do three sets, very hard, very hard tricep pull downs, (15:29):
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Kevin Tejada: go to the bench, do three very hard sets of skull crushers, three very hard (15:33):
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Kevin Tejada: sets of tricep kickbacks. (15:39):
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Kevin Tejada: That's nine sets for a tiny part of my body. And then shoulders were next, (15:41):
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Kevin Tejada: same shit, chest, same shit, flies, press, like that took a lot of time. (15:45):
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Speaker1: And statistically there, (15:52):
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Kevin Tejada: There are some diminishing returns if you spend that much fucking time doing (15:53):
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Kevin Tejada: that nowadays depending on the warm-up or whatever extra silly shit i want to (15:56):
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Kevin Tejada: do like practicing handstands or doing animal flow any any stuff that comes afterwards it. (16:02):
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Speaker1: Bodybuilding shit. And I gotta tell you, I didn't really suffer for strength. (16:18):
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Speaker2: Took up the full body compound movement life. (16:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Honestly, you just get strong everywhere pretty decently. So it's cool. (16:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Of course, bodybuilding isn't entirely about strength. It's more about the muscle. (16:33):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're wondering what the hell the difference is, well, (16:37):
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Kevin Tejada: you really care about strength, you'd be going into more powerlifting where (16:41):
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Kevin Tejada: you're doing basically deadlifting, squatting, (16:44):
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Kevin Tejada: overhead pressing or chest pressing and barbell rows, (16:48):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff like that big big stuff where you need barbells to put on the extra weight (16:52):
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Kevin Tejada: if you're doing bodybuilding you're kind of building your body you're sculpting (16:57):
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Kevin Tejada: yourself so you're getting the muscles but you're also taking into account nutrition (17:01):
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Kevin Tejada: so you can lower the body fat as well so that you look cooler those doesn't (17:04):
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Kevin Tejada: always translate in being the strongest you can be, (17:08):
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Kevin Tejada: but it does translate to looking the strongest that. (17:11):
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Speaker1: You can be (17:14):
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Kevin Tejada: So i'll say if you stick to the full body stuff, compound movement stuff, (17:15):
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Kevin Tejada: you will retain a lot of strength. (17:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, the aesthetics are going to be up to you in terms of how you eat, honestly. (17:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Lower your body fat if you want to check those muscles out, but you won't lose (17:25):
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Kevin Tejada: much strength if you do a kind of holistic approach. (17:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Just for funsies, sometimes I just go and do an older exercise to see where I'm at. (17:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Like two weeks ago, I was doing overhead press and barbells and I was (17:39):
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Kevin Tejada: able to do just about my highest amount (17:41):
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Kevin Tejada: ever without having done it for like a year and a half because in general I (17:45):
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Kevin Tejada: work on my entire body to a challenging enough degree that I maintain just general (17:49):
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Kevin Tejada: strength so when I do happen to just try out anything specific I have a lot (17:54):
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Kevin Tejada: of strength because my whole body is pulling its weight quite literally talking about body weight stuff, (17:57):
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Kevin Tejada: compared to usual. So only about one fourth of Americans need recommended exercise (18:07):
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Kevin Tejada: guidelines or even physical activity guidelines. (18:14):
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Kevin Tejada: And the biggest barriers are complexity and time. (18:17):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're telling the average person who three, three fourths of which don't (18:22):
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Kevin Tejada: get enough exercise, if you're telling the average person, Hey, (18:27):
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Kevin Tejada: you got to do like a million exercises per body part and you got to split everything up. you. (18:29):
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Speaker1: Gotta keep it to account the recovery (18:33):
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Kevin Tejada: And you gotta spend about two hours in the gym they're not gonna fucking do (18:35):
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Kevin Tejada: it that's too much and completely unnecessary which is why i really focus on (18:38):
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Kevin Tejada: compound movements because not only can you get squats push-ups and pull-ups (18:43):
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Kevin Tejada: done basically anywhere you don't need to wait for them you want to make it harder fucking do more, (18:47):
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Kevin Tejada: do some variations regular squats are too easy do pistol squats those are single (18:52):
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Kevin Tejada: leg go for it push-ups are too hard, do single arm push-ups. (18:58):
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Speaker1: Pull-ups are way too, (19:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Or rather if push-ups are too hard, do single, you know, single arm push-ups. (19:04):
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Kevin Tejada: And for pull-ups, same thing. They're too easy. You can do 20 for some reason. (19:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Work on your single arm pull-up. (19:12):
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Kevin Tejada: You can augment these things very. (19:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Bit more challenging when you're on your own. You got to put the weight on your back or whatever. (19:24):
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Kevin Tejada: But anyway, those kinds of exercises, not only do you not need weight to make (19:27):
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Kevin Tejada: them effective and helpful for you, but they activate, as I said, (19:33):
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Kevin Tejada: because they're compound movements, multiple muscle groups simultaneously. (19:36):
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Kevin Tejada: So you save a lot of time doing that. You get a lot of bang for your buck doing that. (19:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Oversets, you know, you pair things up or even add three exercises back to back (19:46):
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Kevin Tejada: if you want to go crazy. You can effectively train your entire body, (19:50):
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Kevin Tejada: bodybuilding, you know, going for like an hour and a half is pretty normal. (19:58):
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Kevin Tejada: And there are studies that show as well that shorter workouts, (20:03):
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Kevin Tejada: depending on how efficient you are, they yield pretty similar health benefits (20:06):
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Kevin Tejada: as to ones that take much longer. And I can attest to this. (20:11):
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Kevin Tejada: The major issue with this, as I said before, is that most people think they (20:15):
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Kevin Tejada: need to train like a bodybuilder to exercise, period. (20:18):
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Kevin Tejada: So when they get into this, they're not only met with complexity, (20:20):
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Kevin Tejada: they're met with time, but they also think that is the only way because it's all they see. (20:23):
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Kevin Tejada: So when they start off trying to be a bodybuilder or training like one, (20:29):
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Kevin Tejada: about half the people drop out of exercise. (20:33):
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Speaker1: Period, at the gym within (20:36):
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Kevin Tejada: About six months. That's what happens. so if (20:38):
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Kevin Tejada: you want you know the average person to actually stick with their exercise stop (20:41):
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Kevin Tejada: showing them fucking three ways to do bicep curls like nobody cares it's not (20:45):
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Kevin Tejada: helpful to them and like i said some people think that's the only way but no (20:50):
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Kevin Tejada: you can also get activity and exercise in via just body weight stuff even calisthenic (20:53):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff if you find body weight stuff to be a bit boring, (20:58):
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Kevin Tejada: you know learn how to do handstands that's kind of a sustained push do back (21:01):
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Kevin Tejada: levers do dragon squats Let's do it. All that stuff is awesome. (21:06):
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Kevin Tejada: It can be more fun. Run. That's helpful for your legs. Swim. You're pulling. (21:11):
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Kevin Tejada: You're using your legs. There are a lot of ways to get pretty fit. (21:16):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you care about aesthetics, there are a lot of ways to get pretty fit (21:22):
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Kevin Tejada: looking as well. That don't require bodybuilding. (21:25):
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Speaker1: Hell, even Pilates (21:29):
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Kevin Tejada: Is pretty decent, I hear. So don't think you need to bodybuild to exercise. (21:30):
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Kevin Tejada: They're not the same thing. (21:35):
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Speaker2: Exercise, but exercise does not mean bodybuilding. (21:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Just remember doing like literally any kind of exercise is better than doing nothing. (21:42):
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Kevin Tejada: If you literally walk, that's cool. It's fine. I mean, at a certain point soon. (21:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Really do think bodybuilding is cool and badass i don't want to ever enter into (22:15):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit again because it wastes too much time and i don't i don't care to (22:19):
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Kevin Tejada: separate and segment my body that much but it is cool let's not kid ourselves okay, (22:23):
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Kevin Tejada: so if you want to compete if you want to look like that keeping in mind that (22:29):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of people use roids, that's fine. (22:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Go, go have fun with that. But the average person, you care about getting strong, (22:36):
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Kevin Tejada: care about being fit, get your squats in, get your lunges in, (22:39):
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Kevin Tejada: get your, get your, get your push-ups in, get your pull-ups in, get your roll. (22:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Like just do, just push, pull, like stuff. Just, just, that's it. (22:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Don't overcomplicate it. Just choose cool things within those movement patterns, (22:49):
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Kevin Tejada: have many options when it comes to fitness, strength training, all this shit. (23:10):
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Kevin Tejada: But now we're at the end and I know many people just didn't really listen to (23:15):
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Kevin Tejada: the whole thing because they got butt hurt. I made fun of their curls. (23:18):
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Kevin Tejada: So leave a comment. Tell me how much of a weak pussy I am, but only if you can (23:21):
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Kevin Tejada: do a single arm pushup. Otherwise. (23:26):
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