Exercise Scientist Critiques the Most Jacked 19-Year-Old : Natty or Enhanced?

Holy crap. What happened to that young man's arm? He is jacked. — I mean, having a hard time comprehending that this is real, natural, and 18 years old. — Is there a probability he's on drugs? Yes, that's true for everyone. I don't think that's the case. Hanik's cues here of rounding on purpose and then arching on purpose are absolutely awesome for Rose. It's how you should be rowing. one. — I was not ready for that. that at all. — No way. No fucking way. Hey folks, Dr. Mike here for RP Strength and I have all kinds of things about me that you've probably heard before. One is jet black is actually my favorite color. The color that they use to paint various military aircraft. — Okay. — Another person who's having a lot of fun is a Mr. Julian Fitzgerald. And at only 19 years of age, he is what I would call irresponsibly jacked. And many people have accused Julian of being obviously on drugs because, you know, he's more muscular. That makes us feel bad. So, I had to put on my investigator hat and my monle. And Scott, did do um oldtimey investigators have canes? No, that that's a trillionaire man. Same person. And I had to see is Mr. Julian really on drugs and thus a giant liar and I mean giant. Or are people just token up that old copium like they typically do and he's actually a swell young man telling the truth.

Holy crap. What happened to that young man's arms? He is jacked. Especially his arms are jacked. And uh Okay, that looks cool. Scott, how um how much does he weigh roughly? Do we know? — 511 195 to 200. 200 at 19 years old. Okay, we'll put that in our little uh algorithm in the head to see if he's natty or not. All right, let's continue. Whoa. Okay, so he has a super gifted round full popping muscle bellies. So even for a given size of a muscle, muscles can be shaped differently. And if your muscles are shaped in such a way that they really spoof out the sides, that makes them look way cooler, even if the cross-sectional area or the muscle size, the overall muscle volume is the same as somebody else's muscles who are kind of a little bit more uh less poppy and more rectangular looking. So he's definitely got the shape, which is awesome. Whoa, Scott. It looks like he has normal biceps and then a bicep on top of his normal bicep. — It's like a little peak on the peak — that golf ballishes. Now, that shape is almost entirely genetic, by the way. So, he has the ultimate killer app, which is gigantor sweeping triceps and mega redonkulous bicep peaks. His shoulders are great, but I would say like substantially less impressive than his arms. Not a dig at his shoulders, by the way. Just his arms are totally insane. big ass forearms, which never hurts. And his back looks pretty cool, too. But it's the arms doing the work. And Scott, doesn't that prove one of my long-standing hypotheses that big arms are the answer to everything? That if you have big arms, you're officially jacked. But if you don't have big arms, are you actually jacked? — Yes. — Did you whisper that? — My voice is horsearo. — You've been to the island again. — So, he's got about six more months left till he hits the big two. Still a teenager. — I like that. Uh Julian was kind of like, "Okay, okay, yes, it's cool. " Is it disparaging or not? I can't tell. All right, we're analyzing the physique. Let's get it. — Fuller, but actually you look a little more complete because your shoulders have grown. So when you're putting your arms down, they still overpower your shoulders, but not as much. — Yeah. — So you're definitely catching up. — There's no such thing as having delts that are too big. But if your arms are overpowering your shoulders, I have a recommendation for you. Do not deemphasize your arms. Keep growing them. Bigger arms are never the wrong answer. Just train your shoulders more and grow them. How do you grow your shoulders? Well, a lot of people think it's a bunch of shoulder pressing. Shoulder pressing does involve the front delts a ton and then the side delts to a smaller capacity. It's a huge tricep builder as well. To get the biggest shoulders you can visually, remember, almost all of your chest work involves the front delts. Almost all of your back work involves and really taxes the rear delts. And the pop look from the side is really just about side delts. So you can do a crapload of face pulls, upright rows of various kinds, and machine or cable or dumbbell laterals till you're blue in the face. Two to four sessions a week of shoulders. One to two exercises each time. It's not that many, but a boatload of sets and reps. An average of about 15 reps per set, but maybe five to seven sets per workout. And you can do my rep match to even to get even more of a boost. The RProphy app lets you do all that, by the way, and organize it super well and make sure you're not overreaching. There's a link in the description for that. That's really awesome. You can do this by yourself as well. It's just easier with the app. It's about volume and frequency with shoulders. And one of the videos that I was doing yesterday uh here with Nate, we were talking about with Phil. — Julian's like, "Who the are Nate and Phil? Am I supposed to know all these people? " — Was that for one of the Olympias? — That Phil, — the first one that he actually won, I made Phil not train arms all the way up until 3 weeks before the show. — Honey Ramad Mega Respect, best coach of all time. I diverge in that opinion. Phil Heath did have redonkulo arms, but I think systemic fatigue wise it wouldn't have been a problem for him to continue to train arms normally and really spam the crap out of his delts and that would have made a big difference. Um, I do not like the emphasizing arms. I think one of the hallmarks of Phil Heath's physique and why he won the Olympia as many times as did was because precisely had gigantic arms. And if you don't believe me, take a look at Phil Heath's uh most muscular. You tell me if those triceps aren't earning their weight. — So, we made his shoulders full and we flattened his arms out and then we only trained it at the very end of the prep. — Look how frustrated Julian looks. He's like, I feel like you're telling me to get smaller arms and I feel like the answer to that is going to be a big ass no. — Everything's grown, but we want to be able to really build up the back the most right now. To Han's credit, bigger backs win shows, and you can't really have a big enough back. — You want to get the lats wider, we back thicker. So, we're going to work on that today. Some people that I have worked with in the past had really big arms and when they were doing back, they would pull with their arms and therefore wouldn't stimulate their back enough to grow. — That definitely happens. That absolutely happens. Dominant muscles like to take over everything and they become the limiting factor on everything and then they absorb most of the growth for everything. How do you remediate this? There are at least two ways to do this. One is you try to make sure that when you are using, for example, let's say you have big ass arms and they take over on back stuff or big ass triceps and they take over on chest stuff. have a mind muscle connection that you continue to emphasize a kinesthetic awareness that you're pulling with your back and a mind muscle connection that checks in to make sure is the tension actually being felt by my back. That's a big one. It's tough to do especially for beginners. Another one is to make sure that movements you are doing in many cases are either very emphasizing of the back and not of the arms or exclusively back. For example, if you're doing lat prayers, really that's just like your back has to be the limiting factor on that. If you're doing pull-ups, well, your arms can help a ton. They can't really help on lat prayers a ton. For chest flies, your flies are going to jack up your chest one way or the other. So, if you do a crapload of flies anywhere in your program, then it's going to be a big benefit. If you do only compounds for back and chest, yeah, your arms can still continue to take over. Will your back still grow? Yeah, hell yeah it will. But is it going to grow more if you do more isolation work for it and have a stronger mind muscle connection? It sure shit will. And that stuff takes time. So don't rush into it, but just be aware of that sort of thing. If you happen to have arms that are too big, which you know what aing problem.

Okay, now two more. Now you see how fast you're moving upwards. That eccentric slow down. That's better. — Slow eccentric. God, Scott, where are his Versa Grips? — He should be wearing them. his Versa Grips in order to make sure that his grip isn't the limiting factor on these uh pulls. Now, if he's got really long fingers and really strong forearms and not so strong of a back, he could not have a limiting factor there, but I just wouldn't bet money on that. I mean, if he's going to get the Versa Grips, he might as well get the Hyper Belt as well, because you put on the belt, it cinches your waist, 360° of intraabdominal pressure, adjusts to every single person, and is the only belt I'm aware of that is specifically designed by myself and Jared Feather, IFBB Pro, to be a hypertrophy belt. The Hyper Belt is amazing. made by the same fine people that make VersaGrips in a factory on one of the moons of Neptune because the kind of production process that requires the belt to be manufactured isn't environmentally friendly enough for Earth. And technically, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, poses existential risk to planettoids sized objects. How do they make the belt that's classified? — That's what I want you to focus on. Good. Full good. Control the negative. That's better. Good. Again. [snorts] Good. Great technique. — Hold it. Hold it. Now stretch and let go. Good. Now I want you to arch like that. There you go. Now I want you to stretch. — Yeah. — And then I want you to arch and pull. — Yeah, honey. I love it. get that whole stretch and that big ass arch to get the dynamic movement of your spinal erectors to get the romboids to stretch and retract. That's the rowing stuff that gets you that back thickness. One of my absolute pet peeves, and I don't really mean this, but I don't love it, is when people analyze row technique and they're like, "Well, you can just isolate, stay completely straight, and just do this cuz it's for the lats. " Rows are not the best lat exercise. Why? because they don't even let the lat come anywhere close to its halfway point of stretching. And we know damn near for a fact at this point that the lengthened component of the exercise probably causes disproportionate amount of growth. Which means the really effective lat exercises are overhead work like pull downs, assisted pull-ups, pull-ups of every kind and all kinds of straight arm work like uh dumbbell stuff, cable stuff, lap pairs of every kind, pullovers, etc., etc. Rows are an excellent back thickening exercise. They absolutely do stimulate the lats as well, but they stimulate the spinal erectors a ton. They stimulate the rhomboids, the lower and middle traps, and all those muscles that actually make you thicker. So, Hanik's cues here of rounding on purpose, and then arching on purpose are absolutely awesome for rows. It's how you should be rowing. God damn it. He is standing here in the flesh. Hey, it's Larry Wheels. I'm having a hard time comprehending that this is real, natural, and 18 years old. Unbelievable. — Thank you. Thank you, — Scott. Now, it's time for this rant. Yes. — Yes, sir. Teed you up

— folks. I'm going to keep it real. And I have two things to say. There are many people on the internet will tell you that Julian is probably on drugs. Or less scientifically, definitely on drugs. Is there a probability he's on drugs? Yes, that's true for everyone. is the first thing you should think of when you see him that he's on drugs. I don't think that's the case. I would say him being on drugs knowing nothing about him, not to disparage his good name, is roughly even chance, 40 to 60%. Why? Typically, when you see 19year-olds with gigantic arms, you just assume they're on drug. But the assumption fails on two qualities here. Number one, human genetic variation is much wider than most people comprehend. There are people out there that will train for years in the most scientific way and their arms will never get bigger than 14 in. There are other people on the other side of the normal curve, three or four standard deviations out, which means they're one in every 10,000ish, that will within several years of training just have 20-in arms with no steroids at all, just raw genetics. And the second thing I have to say about that is there is one extra factor. It's called being of West African descent. And in America, we just call that black. I've given a lot of talks. I've traveled extensively through Europe. Europeans, you guys are great. I love your chocolate flavored cigarettes, especially. But Europeans don't deal with African-Americans much. They see them on the news. TV. They see them in entertainment. sports. But they can't really comprehend the one thing that matters a ton with African-Americans. is that to do it a very big disservice an understatement they are a very talented peoples and their ability to be gigantic for no good goddamn reason at all is out there and so a lot of Europeans are like uh well clearly this Julian man must be on every steroids because in high school I've never seen anybody like this in my local academy in Munich. Well guess what we ain't in Munich motherucker. We in the streets, and by that I mean the streets of the United States where African-Americans reign supreme and have gigantic arms on occasion because they can. It's just a real thing, you guys. It's a real thing in this world. Just because that makes you light up the copium doesn't mean that Julian is on steroids. And I would bet knowing both that he is a devout Christian, mad respect, and he seems like a really nice guy and he's only 19 years old and he pronounces to be lifetime drug-free on his socials. And also, I've been around and I know what skin quality looks like and various other textural features. Uh, I'm going to say that it's actually very likely in my opinion, not doesn't have shit to do with him cuz to him it's certain. To me, it's very likely he is actually not on drugs. Um, because Hey Scott, what does it look like when black dudes take drugs? Oh yeah, Larry Wheels right in this very picture who dwarfs Julian because that's being black and having uh steroid history and uh Julian's just got one of those things. Makes sense to me. Folks, there is still more video to come. But if you want an area where you can get with your buddies and talk about the Illuminati and get extra great science content and a fully extended version of this video and other awesome perks, we have a members area. Check it out and you can sign up for it. It costs a little bit of money, but it's crazy value and I've already said too much cuz they know. Back to the video.

Pull some big ass arms. Sheesh. — I mean, — you got the strength to match the size. — Those are the 70s, bro. God damn. — Nuts. — Got the strength to match the size. Generally, size is the biggest predictor of strength. Technical and neural characteristics and other genetic factors play a role as well. Some very jacked people can be pretty strong, but not as strong as you would think. Some uh pretty jacked people can be way, way stronger than they are jacked. Most people that are jacked are about as strong as you which you would expect. And uh no misalignment there. Um we got tricep extensions. — Holy moly. — Yes. — Great technique. Super deep stretch. I love it. — Yes. — Okay. — Oh yeah. All right. I'll let you do it the way you've been doing. — Now I tell you what, brother. You might have big ass arms, but how much can you bench press? God damn it. Scott, is there a reason? Is there is that bar covered in blood halfway through? — Blood. One. — I was not ready for that. that at all. Look at his face, bro. That's my face. — No way. No fucking way. Scott, would you not reassess the situation after that shit happened? Yeah, I'd definitely be reassessing my body after that happened. Like, are all my ribs not cracked? — You got to check the cock cuz like somehow it could have gotten hurt. Holy shit, that was scary. Butt ball or shit. Just going right back into it. I can't believe it's happening. — All right. Nice recovery. — Yes. — I'm with you. — Okay. Interestingly enough, pressing with a very close grip, it might be that he is strongest with that closer grip because his chest is good, but his arms are amazing. And this closer grip actually favors that arrangement. I knew a couple of Super Jack Black dudes with crazy big ass arms and like very good but not amazing chests that did their best bench pressing with a closer grip. Makes sense. I don't know why I threw in black, but it just happened to be black. — Got two more. Now go down a little

slower though. Slow, slow, slow, slow. Good. You got to go even a little slower than that on the way down. — Scott, watching someone else give these cues is painful because it looks like it sucks to listen to. He's like when you're when you're under that much load, you're just like, "Just let me finish this set. " And they're like, "Do every rep slower. " And you're like, "Okay, I'll do the concentric "No, the eccentric, the hard part. " And you're like, — "Slow, slow, slow, slow. " Good. Drive. Good. One more. Like that. — Great technique. Now go down and go halfway up and give me three like that. Go up. One last two. — Brutal and impartial. The ghost of Milo Wolf caught in the camera. — Let's go. You're strong. Let's go. Good [clears throat] job. Go down. There you go. — My ears feel weird. — Yeah. Hell yeah. That's a thing. because of blood pressure differences, you get really a ton of pressure and it uh increases the amount of blood pressure to your uh a lot of you actually. So, this results in you getting weird ear stuff, lightadedness, wanting to pass out, that whole thing. As soon as the pressure is off, then there's a crapload of blood flow that goes to your legs to actually reduce blood flow, reduce pressure, and temporarily your blood pressure to all of your brain can get substantially lower. Scott, you ever brown out before at the gym? — Yeah. You're just like every I did lunges yesterday and every step I took of lunges, my like visual field was like a little black, a little back to normal. It's a thing for sure. Um — the pendulum squat does that to me. The elevation change. — It's like why don't I step out of it? I'm like, — fuck, it's intense. If you don't know what you're getting into that the hearing thing especially can be a trip, — you know what I mean? You can see the process. I'm going to throw up. Where's the trash can? Nice. He just cut himself off. It's really polite. — I think I'm good. Actually, I'll just chill by here. But I'll finish right here just in case. — Dude, it's really smart. You going to keep talking that shit. Just put me next to a trash can and then I'm going to talk smack because I don't want to paint the floor.

What can I say that has already not been said? Julian Fitzgerald. She seems like a nice young man. Julian, don't you pay attention to any of the haters. Keep training them arms to make them big as shit. Train the delts to train your upper body, lower body, and everything. And stay drugfree for as long as you can, arguably the rest of your life. And uh eventually, if you want, you can just be super jacked and get loads of you know what, but uh you can also compete bodybuilding and then that doesn't really lead to getting loads of you know what, but you can win trophies and stuff. And then Eric Helms can know who you are, which is really important. For those of you who caught that reference, great. For those not, check out Eric Helms. He's the man. And I rate Julian A. It's just racial shit coming to mind at this point. Scott, to be completely honest, bro. We can't rate him that way. Blacktastic. Am I allowed to say that? — Sure. — Out of 10. See you guys next time. Uh, sure. It's a good thing. Woo, that was fun. I feel like my genetics got worse. Relatively speaking, watching that video, if you want your genetics to get probably even worse, relatively speaking, this video right here might be the jam. These hummusies.