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Heated Rivalry Gym Videos! (Patreon)

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2026-08-18 17:20:54
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2026-08

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Hi all!

Hope youre week started off well!

Really appreciate you all giving me patience for last week. Being on set for Wed, Thur & Fri absolutely killed me and took me the weekend to recover haha

Please enjoy this little video as I edit more in the background!

Much love,

Sam

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Heated Rivalry Gym Videos!

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Thomas Pileggi

Nice to see you, Sam. Fun videos. My workouts are decidedly less intense. Once you reach 70 decades you kind of slow down a lot.

JohnB Patreon

That was fun! In my experience the best hypertrophic triggers are very slow negative/eccentric movements, really tearing the sarcomeres in the muscle cells, and sending the signal that they need to get bigger and stronger. Look on Youtube for Nick Walker and Irishman Mark Hodson for good examples. As I've gotten older and had to work around more injuries, I've found that pin-operated machines serve me best to reduce the chance of injury. It's less freedom of movement, but that also lessens the possibility of moving the wrong way, the source of injuries. Thanks, Sam! Train hard but well.

Siya Mafuya

not sure if anyone has recommended you any other interviews from the cast but the Shut up evan podcast interviews with Hudson and Connor (seperatly) are really good and informative on who they are outside of just their charaters but you also get an look into of who they are as filmakers, directers etc of their own stuff and you really see that these boys are really smart for 25,26 (not shocking). Just wanted to let you know there are more to watch and they may be a bit lengthy - 45min+ - but so good. i recommend them bc you really liked the jacob interview you recently watched

Sam Ham

Hey Thomas! Oh 100% I agree we gotta look after the body as first priority :)

Sam Ham

oh yep I agree John, defeintly do my best to control the eccentric movement as much as possible! and ya the machines are great for safety and allow you to push a little more as you have that safety behind you :)

Sam Ham

Thanks Siya! Ill defo check them out :)

Envy

Omg I loved that you also watched Connor dancing to 'like a prayer'! I'm obsessed with that video... Hopefully we'll get a video of Connor working out after s2 or something. Both of his parents are bodybuilders btw! I think he's said they competed until 2018 or something? A recommendation for another reaction: Connor on Owen Thiele's podcast https://youtu.be/fcmRc5_WmU0?si=BmGuwW6CNJrquwAg

Arranit Malushaj

I've been out of the gym for around 12 years after a bad bout of depression, and while I've lost most of the weight I need to lose, I noticed that my muscle is all but nonexistent. Would you happen to have an absolute beginner routine you'd recommend, Sam? I've got adjustable dumbbells and a pull-up/dip station at home, just need to actually get my ass in gear and do it consistently. Moderately tired of being a twig who is constantly in pain like a 38 year old in an 80 year old's body.

JohnB Patreon

If I may jump in here, my recommendation for an absolute beginner is to simply get into the habit of exercising - bodyweight only the first month or so, then a month or two with dumbells, then get into a real gym. Stick to large muscle groups at first (legs/squat, chest/press, back/row), as the smaller groups will get involved anyway. Do some google searches to find some options that don't look too dangerous, put together a program, then get into the habit for the long (lifetime) haul. Every one of us started the same way, believe me.

Courtney

If you want a good in depth interview with Connor and Hudson I recommend their Quinn interview!

SoloMio

13:19 holy mother of god Mr. Arnaud wasn't kidding about his legs. :)

SoloMio

Sam, I wondered what you thought of Hudson's Bulgarian split squat at 6:22. I do it with my back foot on a bench, but my balance is all over the place unless someone has a steadying hand on my shoulder. Only then do I feel like I get the benefit. Hudson's approach is that his back foot is raised just a bit, for easier balance. My question to you is do you think you get the intended benefit of the squat the way Hudson does it?

JohnB Patreon

As Sam implied, Hudson's BSS is a variation, not pure. As Hudson (and you) say, balancing is easier for that variation. In my case, I looked at the BSS and said "no way". It's complicated and difficult to master, and thus easy to do wrong and cause injury, which would be discouraging. Also in my case, I have lower back injuries that make it impossible. For my reasoning, if it's not a movement that I could see our caveman ancestors doing, then it's not an exercise made for our bodies. I think young folks do it because it looks cool, and they want to look cool. But we're not in the gym to look cool, or to move the weights around. We're there to exercise our muscles, and that should be our focus.

Sam Ham

Ive noticed that with a lot of actors, and its understandable as they have look a particular way and usually its only the top half thats shown. its why in part i was so impressed and surprised by Kips legs!

Sam Ham

Ooh ok noted Courtney thank you! :)

Sam Ham

Ya its soo funny! And thanks for the video suggesstion!

Sam Ham

Ya i pretty much echo John here. Theres an ocean of exercises out there and we gotta try a bunch and find out what works for us. If you feel unstable then if you were to do it id start with zero weight at home with your hand on a wall and then progress from there. Hows your core strength? and regarding your question, i would nearly say what hudson is doing here is the beginner version or easier version of the bulgarian split squat. Moving on to the BSS in part removes the back leg and puts more intensity on the front leg/glute and provide a better stimulus to that leg then, but of course then requires more stability.

Sam Ham

Hi Arranit! Thanks for asking this, I defiantly echo and understand the falling out of exercise due to depression or what not. And thanks John for contributing! I basically concur with John. Too often I see personal trainers get in a new person and then push them too hard and over complicate training and the majority of new people will quit after two weeks. Honestly I could go on a whole speel about this. Dicipline and work ethic needs to be built like anything else. Anything new we do will have emotional resistance which requires literal energy to overcome ( read daniel kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow). So you gotta bake those in to your system slowly. And ya when youre undertaking any new project your half to consider the whole system of it, ( when i choose apartment my selection criteria is how close it is to the gym and to work) and then build the system for your worst self, and then try to make it as easy as possible (atomic habits). Like when you start a new job, the role may have 6 tasks to do, but the first week you just show up to the office and meet people, week 2 then you might get intro to the first task and only that. by month 3 you might then actually be ready to do the job properly. So for the gym, like think about all that is there, you have to go to the gym ( which takes emotional energy), then you gotta learn new exercises then you gotta use physical energy all the while being self conscious and maybe slightly embarrassed. Then eat certain foods, dont eat other foods, weigh yourself etc etc etc Theres a lot there and people underestimate it imo. So I highly recommended taking each step slowly, and 1 by 1. so as John said first get home workouts checked off, then progress to the gym and have small goals, just do bench press 5 sets and youre done, I wanna remove the emotional anxiety of stepping foot into the gym and that only happens with frequency. Youre at an interesting point too because if you go and just do one exercise, say DB bench press, only do that and nothing else one day. The next day you will feel exactly what muscles that worked as you will feel very sore since youre body is not used to that. Arnold Schwarzenegger that this process when he was writing his book the modern encyclopedia of modern bodybuilding. Sorry for the spiel, but ya break it down into small manageable pieces and make it easy as possible. Regarding a specific program for beginners, depending on your physical health i would suggest Starting Strength. Its 3 times per week, only 4 exercises, and most importantly you start with 0 weight on the barbell. literally. in the program pdf they stress this, if you come back from the gym and are sore the next day its too much weight. And then next session you increase by 2.5kg on the bar. They want it to be easy as possible to get you frequently in the gym. Its what I used to get back to the gym after a summer of alcohol and partying in like 2019. Anyway, very sorry for the long passage, if you have any more questions feel free to dm me and id happily go over some training and or diet and or system questions with you :) P.S. theres also the concept of no zero days which i love and helps a lot when youre just beginning, at least helped me, and then visualization of success of a calendar in your place. ok thats enough from me

JohnB Patreon

Loved all that, Sam! Just chiming in to point out that "atomic habits" are not "radioactive", merely "indivisible". The word "atom" comes from ancient Greek for "cannot be cut" - "a-" as in "Asymmetric" and "-tom" as in "appendecTOMy". "Atomic habits" are all about breaking down tasks into manageable subtasks, good for many aspects of life. (And we've all had summers of 2019. :)

JohnB Patreon

If anyone else is looking for a motivation to start working out, how about this: Exercise helps keep you alive. Now, this is just a theory I came up with, but it makes sense to me. Consider the phrase "survival of the fittest", which is associated with evolution theory. Many people associate the "fittest" idea with individuals, but we didn't evolve as just individuals. We humans evolved to be members of a tribe, just like wolves are part of a pack, and just as packs evolved with the wolves, tribes also evolved with humans. "Survival of the fittest" also applies to the fittest pack or the fittest tribe. But what makes a tribe the "fittest" and the best to survive? I feel that the fittest tribe is the one where everyone is contributing to the tribe, and no-one is simply "leeching" off the tribe without contributing. The best way for a tribe to evolve and be "fittest", I feel, would be for the members working at keeping the tribe going to be the ones who survive and pass on genes, and for the "leeches" to die off and stop wasting tribal resources. But genes exist in individuals, not tribes, so how would tribal fitness evolve in individual genes? How would the genes know who is contributing and who is leeching? By knowing who is working hard, using their muscles, getting sore and recovering. Who is out there rolling boulders, lifting logs, and bending branches? That provides ample chemical signals that can feedback the tribal evolution, and feedback that "this person is not contributing, and so should die to improve the tribe". So if you don't workout, your body tries to kill you by clogging your arteries, weakening your lungs and heart, weakening your immune system so you're more susceptible to pathogens. A lot of modern medicine works at counteracting this evolution, but the best way to keep alive is to simply keep active to stop your body from trying to kill you in the first place. And that is how exercise keeps you alive, getting your body to think it's rolling boulders, contributing to the tribe, and you don't need to die for the good of the tribe. That's my theory, anyway.

SoloMio

Cool. Thanks. I workout with a buddy who kind of steadies me as I move up and down. Looking forward to getting on top of my balance/stability with that exercise. It's a good one.

SoloMio

My mom used to say she wasn't afraid of dying, she just didn't want to be a heap of a mess prior to dying. Legit physical fitness and decent eating, including into our older years, is a great defense against becoming that heap of a mess when death is still years away. Not a guarantee, but a damn good defense.