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With 500 pounds on his back, he leaves the ground and jumps up onto a platform.

Guys, I ran out of shit to say.

Hey folks, Dr. Mike here for RP Strength.

And today we are witness to a God.

I'll just cut right to the chase.

Quint Stott, this gentleman that has a YouTube channel and an Instagram channel and probably a TikTok.

And he does lifts that boggle the mind.

There's strong, there's really strong, there's 10 categories above that.

And then there's Quint Stott.

Confused?

Allow me to show you the true limits of human power right now.

All right, my top five scariest lifts I've ever gotten.

Guys, if you haven't seen this before, this is insane.

By the way, as far as we know and for every reason to believe these are real weights, this isn't staged, this is not AI,

this is a real human being doing this.

We're going to do every lift, we're going to watch every lift together of this,

and I'm going to comment on exactly why it's impressive and exactly why it is absolutely scary as shit.

I would never be doing any of this ever in my entire life.

Will you give it some thought before you answer?

Let's take a look.

Okay, guys, I want you to understand what is happening here.

This is a 200 kilogram, 440 pound bench press that this young man is doing by placing the bar on top of his fists.

What is to prevent the bar from rolling forward and backward?

I guess just the grooves between his fingers?

This doesn't just take strength, it takes massive balls.

I don't, let's look, just, I don't, nuts.

What this also tells me, assuming this is a raw press, I think this was raw,

so no shirt, is that he's way stronger than having a 440 pound max bench

because the instability generated by pressing off of your knuckles

and the concomitant stability bandwidth that you have to put in to make sure

that you stabilize the weight means you can't push as hard as you want at any time

because the bar will just slip off.

So this is a testament to his unbelievable strength, unbelievable athleticism, and just sheer giant bull testicle.

Scott, you ever seen a bull on a farm and he's just walking around and you're like, God damn, fat.

Okay.

The Steinborn squat.

This is where before power acts, people would take a barbell, lift it up off the ground on one side,

get underneath it in a squat posture, and then put it on their back.

I can begin to describe to you how difficult this is, but why would I?

Look at it.

It's insane.

Huh.

Yeah, bullshit.

He uses hands.

Scott, I take back all the compliments.

He uses hands.

It doesn't count.

All right.

635 pound helicopter squat.

Whatever you think this is, you're not ready for it.

Okay.

So full depth, by the way.

This is insane.

I mean, the requisite strength

that you have to have in order to do a squat with 635 pounds on the way down is insane.

pausing there to wait for the thing to do the helicopter thing is insane.

The helicopter thing is really just a technique.

It doesn't require any strength by itself, but the supporting strength required to make it actually happen is nuts.

And then he squats it all the way back up.

Unfortunately, it ends up helicoptering off angle and falls off of him, but he was for sure strong enough to squat it back up.

So we're talking about, you know, his raw squat to depth is I would say at least comfortably in excess of, uh, you know, high sixes,

700 plus pounds, which is an unreal amount to be able to squat for any human being.

And he doesn't look like he's enormous.

He looks like he's in the sort of somewhere between, I would probably estimate, probably asking this, but 200 to 250 pounds somewhere.

I don't think he's like 250 plus, Scott.

I think he said he was 200.

Two, no way.

Weighs 210 to 215.

210 to 215 is wild.

Okay.

This is insane.

Why didn't it make number one?

I'm going to let you watch this, and then we'll talk about it.

With 500 pounds on his back, he leaves the ground and jumps up onto a platform.

Why is this impressive?

Leaving the ground with 500 pounds, it requires an amount of force and power

that makes most people look like they're immobile the probability of things going wrong and an ankle twisting.

or a knee twisting, or a hip twisting, or a spine twisting,

or a bar falling over the top of your head and your head cracking into that wood in front,

with trying to land a 500 -pound excess of bodyweight jump is high.

Balls.

Sheer balls and an unbelievable amount of strength and power.

And athleticism and balance.

God.

800 -pound bench press with a bench press shirt.

Again, I don't know what kind of shirt it is.

In any kind of shirt, this is really good.

Again, just handling that much weight is intense.

Just for the record, he can't bench this raw.

If he could, he'd be the greatest bench pressure of all time by miles and miles and miles.

Rough.

Guys.

He's standing on top of a dumbbell with his heels completely close together.

I have squatted almost this narrow with 405, 425 for sets of eight, sets of 10.

But if someone laid out a dumbbell vertically in front of me

and I had 405 on my back and they were like, step up onto this, I'd be like, no, are you nuts?

And then if I managed to step up onto it and they were like, now do a squat, I'd be like,

are you out of your mind?

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Because listen, like Quinn's got to have eaten shit a few times filming these things, right?

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One would think.

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One would think.

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And just to be able to get back on the horse, in this case, dumbbell shaped horse, and do the thing again is just insane.

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Again, the strength, the coordination, the athleticism, the patience.

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The balls to do this is out of this world.

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Oh, why not?

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Yeah.

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Huh?

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Ah, it just gets off.

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All right, back to the video.

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Oh, there's a world record for the plank.

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A 408 -pound plank.

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Nothing could go wrong there, right, Scott?

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okay more planks oh he broke his own record no

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that was someone else that was someone else okay so he's gonna try and breaking it

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this is actually even harder because you have to sit there while they put the plates on jesus christ

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scott do you think he has like an achilles heel where like some part of him's like oddly weak

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but the rest of him is bulletproof it doesn't seem that way

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Okay, guys, we're about to see some grip strength stuff.

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I don't understand how any of this works.

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I have an as -measured grip strength that's pretty good.

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For those of you very deep into the strength world, I have closed the Ironmind 2 .5 gripper,

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which is a pretty good one in a thousand grip strength or something like that for men.

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I can do negative of these, and I bet you think you can do some, but let's let Quinn show off what's going on.

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None of this is staged as far as we know, and we have no reason to believe it is.

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Roll camera.

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I didn't think that was physically possible for a person to do.

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Scott, you know when you see, like, a gorilla attacked a man and pulled his, like, leg off?

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You're like, oh, clearly you have to have gorilla strength to do that.

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This is exactly what that is.

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yeah yeah yeah a little shot at the title bitch all right

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where's he holding it that was fun all right on to the rest of the video

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he just broke a glass scott Jesus.

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What the f*?

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He just poked his finger through an apple.

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That's not even strength.

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It's a connective tissue integrity.

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I don't know what's going on anymore.

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First time deadlifting, am I doing this right?

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Oh, he's grabbing the loops on the plates.

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Brilliant.

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from a three -inch deficit.

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Scott, how much weight is that? That 455?

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555 pounds.

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off of a three or four inch deficit, holding the weights in a place you're not supposed to hold them.

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This is actually a really good exercise.

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This is a snatch grip deficit deadlift.

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Very, very snatch grip.

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I would say, Quinn Stott, you are doing it right.

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There are easier ways to deadlift.

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Why would you do easy?

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This is actually a phenomenal exercise.

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If you can get your grip to not be a limiting factor,

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to build the crap out of your spinal directors and your glutes and your core strength.

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If you can do this with a lot of weight for a lot of reps,

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man, you're probably not going to get a hurt back from almost anything.

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All right.

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So this is him holding a bunch of quarters, right?

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And he's got the quarters off on like a cinder block situation and he's doing a close grip pushup,

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but the close grip pushup is the super,

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super easy part because the only thing connecting the quarters together is his hands pushing them together.

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So he has to generate enough friction between all of the quarters

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that that frictional force is higher than the force of his body weight coming down, which is insane.

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To put it another way, he's basically isometrically flying at the top end of the fly, kind of his whole body weight in some sense.

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so this is other people doing it right that's not him this is a tiktoker okay

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oh so he put on a vest to weigh even more Oh.

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He has a saw in his neck?

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In his mouth.

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In his mouth.

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For what purpose?

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To make it more dangerous, I guess.

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Click, baby.

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Okay.

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Oh boy, Mr. The Liver King.

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Liver King getting to depth, I like it.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, he's 100 % natty.

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I wonder if that's really true.

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If that's true, that's crazy.

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That's even crazier.

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That's wild.

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4 .55 split squad.

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Nuts.

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I like the guy behind him eats shit.

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Every time there's something behind him that's wacky.

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Oh, my God.

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Lifting heavy doesn't make you athletic.

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Yeah.

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Athleticism can be very roughly defined as putting into action in a sporting context,

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the idea for movement that you had in your head.

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A person is more athletic when they think they're going to like step around, juke this way, go up that way, and then dunk the ball.

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The degree to which they succeed at that task is the degree by

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which on zero to a hundred percent their athleticism can be measured for that task.

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Now, there are multiple requirements for athleticism.

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There is speed, there is strength, and there is coordination.

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There are probably others, but at the very least you need all three.

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If you're really strong, but you're not quick, you won't be able to do cool shit.

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If you are quick, but you're very weak, Your own body weight will preclude you from doing super athletic stuff.

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And then the really, really, really, really big one is coordination.

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Coordination is what allows Michael Jordan to do that crazy shit that you're like, how does a human being arrange his body in such a

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particular sequence of movements to actually do this really crazy thing that like slide up under the rim,

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come up over back of it and do all that crazy shit.

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Because you have to have as many of these speed, strength, and coordination as possible to net result in athleticism.

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And this is a very rough caricature, but I'm going to get the point across.

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We can say a very two specific things.

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One, if strength is your limiting factor, you are going to massively increase your athleticism as your strength comes up.

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Because if you're not strong enough to generate the ground reaction forces to get up to the rim, it doesn't matter how athletic,

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how fast and how coordinated you are.

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Strength is limiting factor.

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And so this is why we weight train athletes.

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This is like 90 % of why we do weight training for athletes, because then their strength no longer becomes a limiting factor.

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There's another thing to say.

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If your strength gets really exotic, Quinn Stott, what?

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Who said that?

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And you have a good amount of speed and coordination ability, your athleticism will come up still higher,

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though at some point it will be limited by your speed and by your coordination.

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So when people see folks that are very big and strong, but have very poor athleticism,

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they're probably seeing folks with really shit speed genetically and or really shit coordination,

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also mostly genetically or the fact that just don't train that thing at all.

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And it's not proof that becoming stronger doesn't make you athletic.

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Because if you take that person who's very strong, but they're not athletic, I'd know nothing about any of that personally.

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Make them weaker and watch them become substantially less athletic still.

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Just to reiterate, if you max out your strength and you don't train your coordination and all your speed is shit,

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you're only going to get so far, but you would have gotten a lot less far without strength.

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yeah four three five 40 yard dash so this makes total sense the fact

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that quinn has trained himself to be super strong absolutely helps

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but the fact

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that he is unbelievably genetically gifted to begin with an ultra fast twitch in his musculature

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which allows him to do all those crazy lifts and get

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that strong to begin with is the dominant reason why he's

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so fast because you don't have to be as strong as Quinn to be as fast as Quinn.

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But if your body weight stays the same and you still practice speed, the stronger you get by a small margin,

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but meaningful one, the faster you will get.

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Big, big deal.

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Only one person can do this.

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Okay.

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So they're both legs are on a bench behind them.

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Yes.

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One is on a bench.

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One is in the air.

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One is in the air one is on a bench holding out a dumbbell with one hand

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and one hand is on the ground as a fist yes wow that's incredibly impressive

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oh scott we're young now we get to say bet bet is bet translated as that's what's up is

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that the new that's what's up i feel like i feel like it is right yeah sort of

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so as usual quinn is putting

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Putting on extra weight.

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Putting his hand on a nail.

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And what's that in his other hand?

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Oh, wait.

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Why not?

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I ran out of shit to say.

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Will doing any of these lifts make you better at sports?

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Yes, but really the core basics, squatting, deadlifting, overhead pressing, rowing,

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doing pull -ups with added weight over time and sets of three to six reps with a maximum intent to move,

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that is moving the weight and the concentric as fast as possible, will do most of the getting you strong.

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Learning technically how to pull all this stuff off and then doing it is more of like expressing your abilities.

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So should you be doing the stuff Quinstata is doing for vibes?

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Totally.

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Just sign the waiver at your gym and do it with massive assumption of risk on your part.

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But the training that probably got Quinn there is the basics that you can do by yourself.

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Now, if you want to just look strong and awesome and cool and have veins, RPipertrophy app can do that for you but

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if you want to be ultra super duper strong man train for strength

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and get you some genetics and willpower

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and giant testicles like quince dot irate quince dot is not

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human actually a machine an immortal god with massive balls out of 10 i'm dr mike

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and i'll see you next time don't put your hands on any nails you guys see ya

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All right, that was really fun.

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This video here probably has a person that doesn't do as crazy of shit as Mr. Quinn Stott, but never can tell.

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Give it a click.

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I'll see you next time.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Exercise Scientist Critiques The Real Anatoly”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: strength, weight, pound, strong. This video has 278 sentences and 2865 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:12. The speaker talks at a steady 149 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pound noun	/ˈpaʊ̯nd/	A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
bench noun	/ˈbɛnt͡ʃ/	A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
coordination noun	/kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/	The act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.
insane adjective	/ɪnˈseɪn/	Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
grip noun	/ˈɡɹɪp/	A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
athletic adjective	/æθˈlɛt.ɪk/	Having to do with athletes.
twist verb	/twɪst/	To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
helicopter noun	/ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/	An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and…
impressive adjective	/ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/	Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
folk noun	/foʊk/	People, persons.
generate verb	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/	To bring into being; give rise to.
unbelievable adjective	/ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/	Not to be believed.
deficit noun	/ˈdɛfəsɪt/	Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
genetically adverb	/d͡ʒəˈneɾɪkli/	In a manner relating to genes or genetics.
scary adjective	/ˈskɛə.ɹi/	Causing fear or anxiety

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
back up verb	To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
come up verb	To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
close together adjective	Near each other in time or space.
come down verb	To descend, fall down, collapse.
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
fall over verb	To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
get off verb	To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
get up to verb	To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'll just cut right to the chase.
Will you give it some thought before you answer?
I guess just the grooves between his fingers?
I don't, let's look, just, I don't, nuts.
Why would you do easy?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	If he could, he'd be
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've ever gotten · haven't seen · have squatted
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	isn't staged · is staged · can be measured
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	pounds, which is · down, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 62 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, bandwidth /ˈbændwɪdθ/, athleticism /æθˈlɛtɪsɪzəm/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: coordination /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/, patience /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/
Long words — get the stress right: coordination /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, genetically /d͡ʒəˈneɾɪkli/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pound, bench, coordination.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Key vocabulary in this video

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Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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