Dan John on “Easy Strength” For Quick, Efficient Workouts That Really Work
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- In this podcast, I interview Dan John, and we chat all about his concept of “easy strength.”
Easy strength is a style of training Dan writes about at length in his latest book, Attempts: Essays in Fitness, Health, Longevity and Easy Strength, which I highly recommend.
We’ll get more into the nitty gritty details in the podcast, but “easy strength” is all about effective workouts done with key exercises that you can get done quickly. This gets you in and out of the gym quickly, giving you more time to recover and train for your sport. The best part is you’ll get stronger without beating up your muscles and joints, which means less soreness and joint pain.
If you’re skeptical, I understand, but Dan isn’t exactly the new kid on the block. In fact, he has quite the resume-he has competed in the Highland Games, written more than 14 books, and coached athletes and weightlifters for over 40 years now. As you can imagine, he has seen and heard it all, and knows a thing or two about coaching athletes.
In this episode, Dan and I discuss . . .
-The benefits of not “destroying” yourself in the gym
-Exercise as practice
-The importance of not missing reps
-How to program your workouts and progressively overload with “easy strength”
-And more . . .
So, if you want to learn how to incorporate easy strength workouts to get stronger without beating yourself up or spending hours in the gym every day, listen to this episode and let me know your thoughts!
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Timestamps:
15:46 - What is easy strength?
28:57 - What does an easy strength program look like?
35:11 - How do you progressively overload?
39:44 - What is "easy" as a percentage of 1RM?
44:56 - How much weight do you add to the bar?
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Great episode. The comments arguing that Dan John's evidence is anecdotal miss that he trains athletes. If you are a beginner, listen to Matthews or Rip. If you want to be a powerlifter, read, Marty Gallagher. If you are an athlete though, Dan John is the man. I was always overtrained trying to keep up with powerlifting programs simultaneous to hard sport training. Easy Strength has changed everything for me.
This sums it up perfectly. Something I have been completely guilty of, mixing the goals they don’t mix well and wondering why I’m not seeing any results
I’m going to use this explanation later
Thanks
I remember this German weightlifter who had never clean and jerked more than 246 kg before the 2008 Olympics. He had to lift 258 kg to win the gold medal. Nobody believed he could do it. But he nailed the lift and won the gold medal. He was never close to 258 kg again. That was a max max.
Matthias Steiner 🙏
He is being ''vague'',because he is offering ideas and concepts...
Nice interview Mike,Dan John is such a brilliant mind!
8:50
Ding ding ding
So tough to separate sometimes on what works on gear vs not
I love how he talks athletes
Can this be applied to caliathenics? Or is all of this based on heavier, weighted loads?
You can increase reps and increase lever ( decreasing leverage)
Great episode but what's with all the commercials?
I have never seen so many on a CZcams video iam just about to turn it off just had quick check see if any one else had same issue
I don't agree with most of what Dan John says- using such light percentages, anecdotes, outliers... But on a different note, how great of an interviewer is Mike! Even when he doesn't agree with Dan John he asks the right questions and helps him explain his point(since he's vague most of the time). Looking forward to more content!
I don’t understand why he doesn’t break it down with a beginner/intermediate/advanced. Within those loose parameters he can give some more specific examples for a programming.
In the book he and Pavel lay out basically an HLM wave loading between 80-90 % with the 5 main lifts for athletes. He's not talking about normal people who just lift, nor bodybuilders. He's talking about pro athletes and young athletes in college. Training for your sport requires a lot of recovery resources. Easy strength is the answer for the natural athlete, i.e. who does not use peds. Read the chapter on The Clue.
Are you mikes second account? His questions were terrible lol
I think it was a fair criticism about the lack of clarity. Followed Dan for years, read all his books, and still never had a very clear idea of how to put Easy Strength into practice. It’s almost like he’s being intentionally vague.
Never heard of Dan, but this exact type of vagueness is exactly why I never made any progress until I found Mike.
@@ahrengroesch8774 Well, the way I think of it is that different coaches are useful for different things. Guys like Pavel and Dan John are great for broad perspective and insights based on experience, weak on programming that goes beyond the "40 days - 6 weeks" mark. If you want clear, specific, long-term planning, coaches like Rippetoe and Wendler are better.
I’d love to know how it’s hard… it’s pretty… we’ll easy.
If you read the book it says for 5 days a week do 10 reps in however many sets you want (he outlines ways to do this in the show) for the below movements:
1. Push
2. Pull
3. Hinge
4. Ab Wheel
5. Farmers walks
You can adapt the above rules based on how you feel for the day. Add walking if you want to lose weight.
You can also add in kettlebell swings if you don’t want to do farmers walks
Its hard for people becouse it force to think by yourself about weights and in my opinion this is the best approach. How one coach would know what percentage are best for you if he doesnt know you and dont know anything about you? Ppl want ultimate blueprints, „do 40% then 65 then 85 and you will be magically strong”. How could that even work? 😂
If you watch the old b&w jack lalane videos on here from the 60s everything has been said.... its just been getting repackaged for 60 years
Dan John is a very nice person,ask him a Simple question and he will ramble on forever and NOT answer the question.
Only thing i ever learned from him was the DeLorme method.
If your poundage on a squat goes up..you made gains.
true kinda full of shit in many a way
agreed
"I've got you beat there!".....hmmm
As a Dan's fan it made me cringe to listen to the ideas and questions you asked him.
100%
Yep
Mike Matthews sounds like a bored and overly hormonal brat. Meanwhile the great Dan John sounds like your drunk uncle annoying everyone at the table with tales of his glorious prime. But not without straying some pearls of wisdom here and there...
Ths dude in the wife-beater shirt needs to learn to listen AND learn to ask questions to his guest ...
This guy is using outliers as examples. Who using his program is squatting 600+ for reps and benching 300+ for 10?
Your average lifter isnt going to squat 600 for 10+...
Benching 300 for 10 isnt that unusual
@@signkutter9218
Yes.
Yes it is.
No he's not. He is trying to explain why he doesn't believe in percentages for lifting programs. He highlights this by going up in weights and showing that even though it maybe the same percentage the weights may be too taxing on the body.
Porn ruined me. I'm be surprised if I ever recover enough to have something resembling a normal sexual relationship.
Whose normal?
@@signkutter9218 I'm gonna go with men that can have sex and finish.
@@ahrengroesch8774 haha...ok man...but that leaves in a whole hell of alot of leeway...Dudes that hump sexdolls rejoice!
This dude contradicts himself while being vague as possible while still speaking