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The Jay Ferruggia Show

#391: Your Warm Up Sucks; Here's How to Fix It

The Jay Ferruggia Show

Jay Ferruggia

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we're comin' at ya with another hard hitting listener Q&A episode of the one and only #RenegadeRadioPodcast.

If you wanna know everything I personally do to prepare to dominate my workouts, you're in luck, because I'm gonna reveal some of my best strategies.

What red-blooded man with even an ounce of testosterone doesn't want bigger delts?  I'm gonna teach you how to do it.  

And all that muscle doesn't really mean sh*t if it's covered up by a bunch of fat, so I'll let you know how to boost your metabolism so you can finally get the jacked and ripped physique you want.  

We're covering all that and much more right here, right now.  

Ready?

Let's f*cking go!  

Topics Include:

  • What does a typical warm up look like for you for upper and lower session?
  • Best options for spinal erectors hypertrophy if deadlifts flare up a lower back injury?
  • What are your favorite overhead pressing variations?
  • If doing full body how would you order push, pull, squat, hinge, and carry? 
  • How to structure PPL if you want to build bigger shoulders? 
  • Have you ever found that heavy isolation of the hamstring over time, eg. Seated leg curl leads to issues?
  • What is the best exercise for lower lats? 
  • How can I build some tree trunk legs at home with just DB's up to 80's?
  • Have you tried Tonal or tempo mirror style home gym or similar, are they any good? 
  • Top 3 suggestions for someone coming back to the gym after more than 18 months? 
  • How would you design a 3 way chest/back, legs, shoulders/arms split?
  • I only press with dumbbells… am I missing out on any gains by not using a barbell whatsoever? 
  • What is your pre workout routine?
  • How many hours between meals, MAX? To build size. Can't eat every two hours due to work. 
  • What's the best life lesson you learned from Mountain Dog?
  • Suggestions for raising your body's core temperature? 
  • If you only have one kettlebell and 20 min a day to train on which exercises should I focus on?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up guys, Jay Frood, you're running a radio back in the house, got another powerful

0:15.6

Q&A episode here for you today to help you unleash your strongest self, live your best

0:20.2

life.

0:21.2

Before we get to anything today, I have to pay respect and condolences to the late great

0:26.9

mountain dog, John Meadows.

0:29.2

John was a legendary figure in bodybuilding, fitness, competed for just 30 years, I believe,

0:37.4

something like that.

0:38.4

A guy that you could not help but admire, respect, look up to, have a love for him from

0:44.2

far.

0:45.2

I only spoke to John via email, we were not close friends, we were not friends at all,

0:48.3

actually, I mean just, you know, again, contacted through email, but had the utmost respect

0:53.2

form.

0:54.2

I learned things from him, everyone who knew him, friends of mine, who were good friends

0:58.1

of his or colleagues of mine, had nothing but great things to say about him.

1:02.6

He never said a bad word about anyone, nobody ever said a bad word about John Meadows.

1:06.8

A true example of what a professional is, who really raised the standard, brought up

1:10.4

the industry, you know, and wasn't someone who wanted to take out his competition or bring

1:15.4

people down or talk shit, he would never go negative, just a stand up individual who

1:21.4

taught a lot of people a lot of things about training and a lot of things about life and

1:25.1

how to live and how to conduct yourself.

1:28.0

And so I am grateful for that, I truly, truly do regret not having the opportunity to

1:34.0

train with him and to have him on this podcast, you know, that's a bummer, that's a regret.

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