Jeff Cavaliere
Physical therapist and strength coach, founder of ATHLEAN-X; served as Head Physical Therapist and Assistant Strength Coach for the New York Mets.
Everything they publish, on ppll ↗
Jeff Cavaliere did not write this page.
We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.
-
Their wordsthe real power of corrective exercises, especially when you do them consistently, is that they plug those leaks, right? They fill in the gaps that allow the bigger muscles, the ones that get more of the attention, to actually do their job better.
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 1st of 9 in this recording
-
Our reading
Pulling the shoulders down before a bench press puts the chest first in line to do the work.
Their wordsif you take your shoulders and you forcefully bring them down before you initiate the exercise, it does something very important. It puts the shoulders back and it puts the chest at the first line of defense.
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 2nd of 9 in this recording
-
Their wordsYou should be seeking out a contraction discomfort, almost a cramping type feel because it helps to build my muscle connection.
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 3rd of 9 in this recording
-
Our reading
On pulling exercises nothing reminds you to slow the lowering phase, so it is easy to forget.
Their wordsthere is no threat of the weight and therefore there is no reminder for you to actually slow it down.
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 4th of 9 in this recording
-
Their wordsRather than continuing to just bang away at, let's say, 100 push-ups a day, how about doing maybe 40 or 50 of a more difficult, more overloading, challenging variation of the push-up?
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 5th of 9 in this recording
-
Our reading
The face pull is a muscle-building exercise for the upper back as well as a corrective one.
Their wordsit's not just a corrective exercise. It's a muscle building exercise and one that's incredibly important for building up the muscles of the upper back and mid scap area that we just don't often train enough.
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 6th of 9 in this recording
-
Their wordstrying to train through an injury rather than around an injury, and there's a big difference.
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 7th of 9 in this recording
-
Their wordsHaving a smarter approach and being willing to zig and zag, but still train, is a really important weapon to have in your arsenal, and the sooner you realize that you want to work with your body rather than against it, the more uninterrupted your gains can be.
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 8th of 9 in this recording
-
Their wordsif you decrease that rest to the perfect amount of time, you can get more out of your workouts because you keep that intensity high from set to set.
↗I'm 51 Now. Here's My Biggest Muscle Building Mistakes I've Made!youtube.com 9th of 9 in this recording
- 7 months earlier
-
Their wordsIf you're trying to get stronger here, then there's one thing that you should be looking for out of this exercise, and that is efficiency. In other words, when you're doing this exercise, you should not be caring about how to isolate the chest from the triceps, from the shoulders. You want them all to work in concert
↗How to Perform Reps for Most Muscle Growthyoutube.com 1st of 6 in this recording
-
Their wordswhen we're talking about building bigger muscles, which is the subject of this video here, you want to actually do the opposite. You want to try to find ways that you can be inefficient. In other words, find new ways to challenge your muscles so that they are forced to have to come back and grow bigger and stronger.
↗How to Perform Reps for Most Muscle Growthyoutube.com 2nd of 6 in this recording
-
Our reading
A lighter weight done with harder technique can challenge a muscle without always lifting heavier.
Their wordsThe benefit is that you don't always have to lift super heavy weights to get things to work.
↗How to Perform Reps for Most Muscle Growthyoutube.com 3rd of 6 in this recording
-
Our reading
A very heavy set done on momentum puts little effort into the muscle it is meant to build.
Their wordsThat was all momentum. That was not a muscle you were trying to build there. That was momentum. And momentum dictated that there really wasn't a lot of muscular effort going on
↗How to Perform Reps for Most Muscle Growthyoutube.com 4th of 6 in this recording
-
Their wordsdon't let people tell you that you can only build strength in, let's say, the three, four, five rep range. If you started out doing 10 of this weight that you had here, and then you could do 11, and then you can do 12, and you can do 13, you're increasing your strength.
↗How to Perform Reps for Most Muscle Growthyoutube.com 5th of 6 in this recording
-
Their wordsyou want to train for both strength and hypertrophy. And you do want to explore these higher and lower rep ranges because they're both going to matter as long as you know how to apply them.
↗How to Perform Reps for Most Muscle Growthyoutube.com 6th of 6 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
-
Their wordsI've been asking you for 15 years to perform your sets to failure, and I've been consistent with that for a reason because I know that you need an adequate level of stimulus for that muscle to even want to change.
↗How to Train LESS and Get Far Better Results (I'LL PROVE IT)youtube.com 1st of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordsFor every one of those sets that you perform below failure, you're going to need to perform more of them in order to reach an adequate level of volume or stimulus to change.
↗How to Train LESS and Get Far Better Results (I'LL PROVE IT)youtube.com 2nd of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordsThere's no magic to lengthen partials. That's nonsense. That's not what that's about. It's a matter of accumulating total tension.
↗How to Train LESS and Get Far Better Results (I'LL PROVE IT)youtube.com 3rd of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordsyou either train long or you train hard, but you cannot do both. So as you increase the difficulty level of the sets, then you decrease the time you need to spend doing them.
↗How to Train LESS and Get Far Better Results (I'LL PROVE IT)youtube.com 4th of 7 in this recording
-
Our reading
Resting 30 seconds or less between sets brings the hard, growth-driving reps back sooner.
Their wordsif I keep this rest time short, 30 seconds at most, when I get back into this set again, I am not going to need to go through the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth repetition to get to those more difficult repetitions.
↗How to Train LESS and Get Far Better Results (I'LL PROVE IT)youtube.com 5th of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordsslowing down or manipulating your time to an exaggerated amount where it actually starts to limit the amount of weight that you can actually use on the exercise is going to not really result in more muscle hypertrophy
↗How to Train LESS and Get Far Better Results (I'LL PROVE IT)youtube.com 6th of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordswhen you allow that to grade up, you're able to have the protection of the joint in the process and still have a high intensity set.
↗How to Train LESS and Get Far Better Results (I'LL PROVE IT)youtube.com 7th of 7 in this recording
- 8 weeks earlier
-
Their wordsAgain, number one concern, meeting your daily protein requirement, making sure that you're getting that one gram per pound of body weight. If you are, then trying to divide that up so that you're getting or crossing that threshold a little bit more regularly throughout the day
↗How To STOP Losing Muscle As You Age (IMPORTANT!)youtube.com 1st of 7 in this recording
-
Our reading
Lightening the load and going through the motions with age is exercising, not building muscle.
Their wordsThey figure as they get older, they need to step off the gas, lighten things up and kind of go through the motions just to make sure that they're getting their training in. But that's not training. That to me is just exercising.
↗How To STOP Losing Muscle As You Age (IMPORTANT!)youtube.com 2nd of 7 in this recording
-
Our reading
Staying active is different from building muscle; building it takes challenging yourself.
Their wordsstaying active is not actively building muscle. The way to actively build muscle is to challenge yourself.
↗How To STOP Losing Muscle As You Age (IMPORTANT!)youtube.com 3rd of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordsTraining with lighter weights and not having enough exposure to heavier weights is likely going to get you injured more quickly than it is to actually train with the heavier weights, but by doing them slowly.
↗How To STOP Losing Muscle As You Age (IMPORTANT!)youtube.com 4th of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordsSo, I always say, forget counting your reps and worry more about making your reps count as you get older.
↗How To STOP Losing Muscle As You Age (IMPORTANT!)youtube.com 5th of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordsyou have to be recovering in the gym. That means planning your days off and sticking to them and realizing they're just as important as the workout days themselves.
↗How To STOP Losing Muscle As You Age (IMPORTANT!)youtube.com 6th of 7 in this recording
-
Their wordsHowever, we don't have to age gracefully. And the most important thing that you can do is resist.
↗How To STOP Losing Muscle As You Age (IMPORTANT!)youtube.com 7th of 7 in this recording
- 3 years earlier
-
Their wordsI think it's like a 6040 split which would be leaning towards uh weight training you know strength and and and uh and then you know the conditioning aspect be about 40%
↗Optimize Your Exercise Program with Science-Based Tools | Jeff Cavaliereyoutube.com 1st of 11 in this recording