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0:06[music]
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0:46>> What's up, guys? Welcome back to Large
0:48Lads, the most lethal lifting show on
0:50the internet with your host, Murder Max,
0:52Killer Clong, and Slaughter Sam.
0:54>> Very violent. What if you get us
0:55demonetized? Thank you to the fan who
0:56submitted that one except for how to
0:58come up with one.
0:58>> These videos that we can't monetize like
1:0090% of the time because of our use of
1:02copyrighted music in
1:03>> Yeah, this is the one that you can't
1:04actually monetize. They were wearing
1:05hats, so I had to make my own.
1:07>> Yeah, I didn't know Max didn't own hats
1:08until today.
1:09>> The return of the top hat.
1:11>> I will be going bald. So, I was thinking
1:12I might as well reintroduce the top hats
1:14now.
1:14>> You got to start exploring.
1:15>> Every bald guy in the world has to come
1:17up with what style of hat they are.
1:18>> Yeah, start exploring hats.
1:19>> I've never seen a bald bald guy commit
1:22to the top hat.
1:23>> I've not seen it. That's going to be my
1:25stick.
1:25>> I've seen a bunch of people wearing
1:26those like little like golf caps again.
1:28Those are coming back. Have you seen
1:30that?
1:30>> Oh, the ple peaky blinders ones. Yeah,
1:32those ones are coming back.
1:33>> Whack. [laughter]
1:36>> Listen, self-exression is sick. The old
1:39When I was younger, I would see people
1:40like wear goofy [ __ ] I'm like, WHAT A
1:42[ __ ] IDIOT. NOW THAT I'VE GOTTEN
1:44OLDER, I WAS LIKE, MAN, being boring is
1:46boring. I respect the people that are
1:49willing to eat everybody looking at them
1:51and thinking, "What an idiot." Because
1:53they like something.
1:54>> That's awesome.
1:54>> The Pey Blinders hats are even in my era
1:57of self-expression is cool.
1:59>> Yeah. No, man.
2:01>> There's there's a minimum age
2:02requirement on that one.
2:04>> Uh, you know, I I think the uh the
2:07British strong men hitting it all
2:08hitting it recently is kind of
2:09endearing. Like,
2:10>> well, if you're British and above a
2:11certain age, by all means, right?
2:13>> Yeah. If you're British and you're above
2:14like 30 or you look like you're above 30
2:17like Luke Richardson. Yeah. Right. Like
2:19okay. Him and Graham wearing them like
2:21all right this is pretty this is
2:22actually pretty endearing. I like it.
2:24>> But young American dude it's a hard
2:26cell.
2:27>> Cool.
2:29I'm really contradicting myself bad on
2:31this self-expressionist based and cool
2:33thing.
2:35These I'm going start knocking these
2:37[ __ ] cowboy hats off of people's
2:38heads. [laughter]
2:39>> I love that they started with Yeah. You
2:41know, I just, you know, like I really
2:43respect people who will go out there and
2:44wear what they want to. That's not going
2:45to stop me from thinking you're a
2:47[laughter] piece of [ __ ]
2:47>> Top hats. Awesome. Laring as a cowboy.
2:50You are a frat bro and a COWBOY HAT. GET
2:53THE [ __ ] OUT OF HERE. [laughter]
2:56>> There's a lot of those here.
2:57>> Every time every time we're in town in
2:59Bosezeman, they're just like walking
3:00around all over the place. I was like,
3:01"There has never been mud on your boots,
3:03you larer."
3:04>> Yeah.
3:04>> The way that people drive F-150s around
3:06here, you know, it really I I'll have
3:08some evil thoughts, by [laughter] the
3:10way. I I have to consciously catch
3:13myself sometimes like some guy will like
3:15blow by me when the weather conditions
3:16are terrible. I'm like I hope I see you
3:18in the ditch in a while. I I hope you
3:21don't die. I don't you know NOTHING BAD
3:23HAPPENS. I HOPE you're stuck in that
3:25ditch
3:25>> and also injured you know and lose your
3:27>> and lose [laughter] your job.
3:32>> Maybe maybe you hurt your shin hurts
3:34really bad actually.
3:35>> Yeah knee is never the same perhaps.
3:37>> Okay. away then they use one. [laughter]
3:41I can always count on every time we
3:43start going with a bit you immediately
3:46just take it too far where you're like
3:48we're like we don't like Mitcher and
3:50YOU'RE LIKE WE WISH DEATH ON HIM LIKE
3:52WAIT
3:54stop I don't know what the point of
3:56large lads is if I can't express my
3:57honest opinion
3:58>> godamn
4:00self expression [laughter]
4:03>> that's a form of self-expression
4:04actually your base there you go
4:07>> all right so I wrote down a bunch of
4:08stuff for the day Um,
4:12which one do I want to do first?
4:15Um, you and I were talking about the
4:17other day. I love when like someone
4:18stumbles upon our in one of our
4:19Instagrams. They're like, "Oh, man. This
4:21guy's pretty strong." And they don't
4:23know that there's a brother.
4:25>> Oh, that brings me so much joy.
4:27>> It is such a nuclear bomb. Cuz I've had
4:28a couple people be like, "Oh, yeah, you
4:29know, I'm coming up on your bench
4:30press." And I'm like, "Yeah, you're the
4:32second strongest sheet, bro. You got
4:34600."
4:35>> [laughter]
4:35>> I enjoy like I'll be at like we'll be
4:37like traveling or something and I'll go
4:38to a gym and like so we'll be like,
4:40"Holy [ __ ] that squad is crazy." I was
4:43like, "Yeah, you should see my little
4:45brother. He can do this for [ __ ]
4:46eight." [laughter]
4:48You you started adopting the same thing
4:50our dad does. We're like, "Yeah, you
4:52should see my my son. He's [ __ ]
4:53enormous."
4:54>> I do I do flagrantly lie about I'm like,
4:57"Dude, Max is [ __ ] 6'8", 400 lb.
4:59[laughter] I Kirsten actually does this
5:02where Kirsten keeps forgetting how Max
5:04is 6'2. Kirsten keeps forgetting how
5:07tall you are and will be like well he's
5:08pretty big so he must be about 6'4 6'5
5:11and he's like 400 I think he's like 400
5:13genuinely and then every time someone
5:15meets you in person they're
5:16disappointed.
5:17>> I keep like stealing Kirsten's jobs. I'm
5:19three for three right now of [laughter]
5:20stealing Kirsten.
5:22>> That's true. Kirsten worked at a pizza
5:23place. Followed her to the pizza place.
5:25>> I went and did that for a while. went to
5:27a lab. I went to that lab. It was me.
5:30I'm a coach. Now I'm a coach.
5:31>> Dude, you you you've shared the last
5:33same last three employers.
5:34>> I keep picking stupid just like I'm
5:37going to go throw tires up a hill and
5:39then I'm like, "Oh, well, this actually
5:40sucked ass. [laughter] Chris's job pays
5:42more money. It is way easier. I should
5:44go do that."
5:46>> I was going to say I was going to say he
5:47had the same last three employers, but
5:48then I was like, "Well, he did work at
5:49that lumber yard for one day."
5:51>> Hey, two days, right? Two.
5:52>> It was so funny. Max went to his m like
5:54it would be a good job. And then he was
5:55just immediately like, "Oh, this is
5:56going to [ __ ] my training. Never mind."
5:58>> Did we tell the story of how then you
6:00saw the guy who owns the lumber yard at
6:01our gym?
6:02>> He works at our He works at our gym.
6:04[laughter] He's always like side eyeing
6:05that.
6:05>> I I no call, no show. Quit that job.
6:08>> And then I was like, thank God. I do
6:11that.
6:12>> Wait, why did you do that?
6:13>> Uh, so it was not like an active choice.
6:16It was that like my shift started at
6:175:30 and I was like, I'm going to go to
6:19sleep
6:20>> and then I just slept like through it.
6:22>> Okay, but what about calling? Well, then
6:23they called me and then they were like,
6:25"Hey, what's going on?" I was like, "I'm
6:26not coming back."
6:27>> This is Okay. Well, this [laughter]
6:30this is actually morally not the right
6:31thing to do, brother. What the [ __ ]
6:33>> Yeah, I know. I was in the wrong
6:34[laughter] I like this is an awesome
6:36story that projects my best qualities. I
6:39was a teenager working a bad like a
6:41stupid job and I was like, I want to
6:43play War Zone and I just slipped right
6:45through my shift.
6:46>> H damn. Good times.
6:48>> Yeah, crazy stuff. I was living in
6:49someone else's parents' basement and I
6:51just I just slept right through a shift.
6:54>> It cracks me up how that is just like
6:55the general Zoomer methodology now is
6:59just ghosting jobs. I was like, I don't
7:02have to put this on my resume. So, it
7:04doesn't really matter. They're never
7:05going to contact you. [laughter] I'm not
7:07going to give you their information.
7:08>> Exactly. You work there for one day.
7:10There's no gap in your employment.
7:12>> Yeah. I'm going to go get a different
7:13job.
7:13>> That guy That guy is nice, too. [gasps]
7:16>> He's a nice guy.
7:17>> That's it. Well, it's a shame cuz he's
7:19real nice of me. She's like, "Dude,
7:20you're so strong. That's awesome." And
7:21I'm just like, [laughter]
7:23>> "I swear to God, you're the only job
7:24I've ever done that to," which is not
7:26true. [laughter]
7:32[laughter]
7:33All right. Well, so I I had another one
7:34that I thought was so so funny is like
7:36usually we'll talk about like lifters or
7:39athletes as being like genetically
7:42gifted, right? And sometimes we'll just
7:44say like, "Oh, they're really athletic,
7:46right?" Um, and like people come with
7:49this big athletic background. They tend
7:50to get really good at lifting really
7:52quickly. Even like bodybuilding, you can
7:53leverage your athletic history and
7:56knowing how to push all these things,
7:57right? It's not all the same though
8:00because you can get like the you can get
8:01the really gifted guy who's both
8:02coordinated and very like powerful. But
8:05there are people who are very
8:07coordinated and not particularly
8:08powerful. And then there's my favorite
8:11subdemographic which is naturally
8:14extremely powerful motor morons.
8:16>> It seems
8:17>> I love those guys.
8:18>> It's like one that's like kind of the
8:20most enviable position, right?
8:22>> No. No, it's not.
8:23>> But but just just for like rad points,
8:24right? Cuz they're always all jacked
8:26too. They they're
8:27>> there's some correlation with just being
8:29so explosive and just being like for
8:31some reason a lean 230 natty guy being
8:34powerful as [ __ ] and also moving things
8:37in an inefficient way makes you very
8:38much
8:39>> it must be so frustrating to be like I
8:40know I'm stronger than all of these
8:43dudes but you'll never be world class
8:45cuz you move in such a stupid way.
8:47>> It is.
8:47>> And they never get it either. They're
8:48just like I don't know what's happening.
8:49I can out dumbbell bench and curl and
8:51tricep extension all these guys and then
8:53I keep freaking out on the bench and
8:54it's not going well. [laughter]
8:57Um,
8:58yeah, dude. It's so funny like working
9:00with those guys. It's like you are just
9:02you touch a dumbbell, you get stronger.
9:04You move so power. You're just so just
9:07pure strength. Like if if you if we were
9:09to wrestle right now, I would be like
9:11immediately able to identify that this
9:13guy's strong as [ __ ] and is so
9:15>> Every time I get a new clan, I'm like,
9:16"What if we were to wrestle?" [laughter]
9:18>> That's how I appraise them.
9:20>> What if what if me and were you to
9:21wrestle
9:23[laughter]
9:24>> those? It's so funny like people don't
9:26know what to make of those guys. I also
9:28feel bad for the people on the other end
9:29of the spectrum who are like they are
9:31athletic in that they are unbelievably
9:34coordinated but they're not particularly
9:37naturally strong or fast. You you can
9:39learn a good sumo. You can carve a real
9:42niche for yourself in a lot of sports by
9:44being like the guy who is very propricep
9:46like not particularly explosive. He's
9:49not particularly strong but like your
9:52gift is bodily awareness.
9:54doesn't go quite as far in powerlifting.
9:56Like, yeah, you can learn a nice nice
9:57sumo, but uh at some point you're going
9:59to get cucked by the guy who does not
10:02know how to jump, but can somehow speed
10:04squat 500.
10:05>> It is funny that both ends of the
10:07spectrum you still kind of like you're
10:08going to lose to the person who has
10:10both, you know?
10:10>> Yeah, of course. Right. like you but but
10:12I that's kind of what I find endearing
10:14about like strength sports is I do think
10:18that like I I think you could put all
10:19sports on like a continuum of like skill
10:22to like physical qualities.
10:24>> Y
10:25>> right like there's a lot of sprinting
10:27skill but it's compared to other sports
10:30it's a very like all technique is
10:32involved in these things but it's very
10:34physical parameters dependent. Yeah. uh
10:36distance biking, there's a technique to
10:39it, there's like a pacing, there's a
10:40like but it's very physicality dependent
10:43and also those are the sports that are
10:44guaranteed to dope.
10:45>> Yeah.
10:45>> Where phys if physicality is always
10:47going to be the rate limiter and it's
10:48not skill that's where you get
10:50guaranteed doping.
10:52>> But um I like that strength sports most
10:55of them fall pretty far towards that
10:57physicality side where it's like even if
10:59you're a little underkilled if you're
11:01strong enough you're still quite good. I
11:03love how many guys are pissed about how
11:04much skill is required to be good at
11:06strength sports.
11:07>> IMAGINE LIKE THIS IS SUCH A LOW SKILLING
11:10SPORT. Like God, this shit's so [ __ ]
11:12stupid. [laughter]
11:14Dude, what? Like is is your dream sport
11:16just sitting on the leg extension and we
11:18all just [laughter] like go.
11:19>> I mean that's becoming like its own
11:21genre of training right now.
11:23>> It kind of is. Yeah.
11:25>> I listen I get the [ __ ] argument this
11:27is just what how good this is what good
11:28hypertrophy training is. Guys are just
11:31doing strength training on the leg
11:32extension.
11:34>> Guys don't want to learn how to squat.
11:36>> Yeah, that's that's become like its own
11:38genre of training is like strength
11:40training with the intent of showing off
11:42like a four or five RM on stable
11:45machines.
11:47I think there's a little bit of nuance.
11:48I don't think that's the exact same
11:50thing as really effective bodybuilding.
11:51you know, crucify me if you want, but
11:53like just being like training for a T-
11:55bar row 4RM is like now one of the most
11:57popular training styles in the world.
11:59[laughter]
12:02>> Oh, I was going to say the thing, but I
12:03just lost it.
12:04>> We should make a new strength sport
12:05where it's just going out and maxing on
12:06a machine so all these guys have
12:08something to do.
12:09>> Ah, yeah. The the prime machine 1RM
12:12contest. [laughter]
12:13>> Oh, I remember what I was going to say.
12:14>> Super super total. It's 25 events. Uh,
12:17in PT that happened all the time where
12:19someone's shoulder would hurt and they
12:20would come in and then the PT at the gym
12:22would teach them how to bench press
12:24properly. They'd be like, "Man, I had no
12:26idea benching was this technical." And I
12:28was like, "Well, yeah, they yeah, it's a
12:30there's some technique to benching
12:32without hurting yourself." But also,
12:34compared to like other sports, like you
12:36g like and it worked better. Like,
12:39>> but I think that's like foundational to
12:41how a lot of people view it is like the
12:43weight room is a thing with it's it's a
12:45lot of the same thing of like people who
12:47are not particularly savvy don't realize
12:50that there is running technique past
12:52just not looking like a idiot.
12:54>> Yeah, that's fair.
12:55>> They don't understand that there's like
12:56a high ceiling for efficient efficiences
13:02like you just [ __ ] run. It's the same
13:04people are like, "You just [ __ ] press
13:05the bar." And it's like, well, when
13:07technically true,
13:08>> when pressing the bar and running
13:09becomes the sport, there's very much
13:11technique involved. You know what I
13:12mean?
13:13>> I got a huge boost of confidence the
13:15other day.
13:16>> I had three old men at Costco ask me how
13:18much I bench press.
13:19>> Detailing and and thundering. Sorry,
13:22it's so distracting.
13:23>> So sunny.
13:24>> That's pretty cool. Uh, go ahead, old
13:25man.
13:26>> I had three old men ask me how much I
13:27bench press at Costco in one day.
13:29>> Dude, that's [laughter]
13:30awesome. Yeah, I was I was there to get
13:32new glasses and I I was like, dude, I
13:34was like [ __ ] spelt in this shirt.
13:36[laughter] What the [ __ ]
13:37>> I heard um I heard John Hack say it ages
13:39ago. I'm on the same boat where I'm
13:41like, I need to start I'm going to start
13:42lying downward in my benchmarks.
13:44>> Oh my god. I had a guy like you, yo, do
13:46you bench 300? I WAS LIKE, YEP.
13:48[laughter]
13:49I'M NOT GOING TO BE LIKE, "NO, I bench
13:50five. You won't piece."
13:53>> Every time. Every time.
13:54>> 405 is a good answer.
13:55>> I might start going and saying
13:57>> that's like realistic enough that they
13:58won't think you're lying. I they just
14:00>> 600 is a cartoonish number especially
14:02cuz like you are like a big guy but not
14:04like you look like a normal big guy.
14:07>> Yeah. Yeah.
14:08>> Like you say 600 sounds
14:09>> as hurtful as what you just said to me
14:11was
14:11>> cuz I damn
14:12>> I'm trying really hard to not look
14:14normal but
14:16>> Well, you're very good poundforpound.
14:18>> I know [laughter] that sucks.
14:20>> Your dots is crazy, bro.
14:21>> But people just like look like it's like
14:22if you say four or five like holy [ __ ]
14:24bro. That's crazy. I knew a guy did that
14:25once. Right. But if you say 600, they
14:27just look at you weird and move on. I'm
14:28like, "Okay, I guess I'm going to start
14:29saying a lower number." I feel even the
14:30worst for John.
14:31>> Oh my god. Just being like a normalsized
14:34dude and then being like, "Yeah, I bench
14:3766 lb."
14:38>> At this point, you can't say John is a
14:40normalsized dude.
14:41>> Yeah. He's 23.
14:42>> John Hack would be one of the most
14:44muscular human beings you've ever seen
14:46in person.
14:46>> Oh god. Cuz he went up. He's a 220 now,
14:48which means he's like actually like 235.
14:49Yeah. No. Okay. So, you know, look at
14:52look at regular jacket guy. [laughter]
14:53>> The internet. This is something
14:55>> dad bod,
14:57>> dude. John is just like a little victim
14:59weight dad bod, but he benches.
15:01[laughter]
15:01>> It's so strange. How's he going to do
15:02that?
15:03>> How does he do that? Um, [ __ ] What were
15:06we just saying? What were we just
15:07talking about?
15:09>> Uh, you looking like a normal big guy,
15:12not a giant. [laughter]
15:14>> It's funny because there's there's it
15:15goes two ways. It's very rarely
15:17accurate. like you you follow people who
15:19are like strong guys or big guys on the
15:21internet and you see them in person and
15:24they're never what they look like on the
15:26internet. They're either much much
15:28bigger for some reason.
15:30>> Y
15:30>> or they are much much smaller and are
15:34either very short or have been using
15:35like crazy angles
15:37>> and are nothing. Either way, I've been
15:39surprised every single time we've gone
15:41to like a big contest I saw someone that
15:44I like follow online. They're either I'm
15:45like, "Oh, wow. You are a much more
15:48muscular human being than I thought. Or
15:50you're not that [laughter] big. You're a
15:52little guy.
15:53>> You're a little guy.
15:54>> Especially powerlifterss I feel like
15:55more often fall into the little guy
15:57category.
15:57>> I really get the temptation of both
15:59multiply guys and bumfed guys. We're
16:02like to normal people. If you could just
16:04say a bigger number, that's your weird
16:06ego.
16:07>> You can say I bet A,000B [laughter]
16:10go 1,000b.
16:12You think 300? How about 1300?
16:14[laughter]
16:15Yeah, that that's I feel like that was
16:17like the driving force behind the
16:19multiply era.
16:20>> And that's also the driving force
16:21between behind all these teenagers doing
16:22it again.
16:23>> I saw his [ __ ] Yeah, I know the
16:24slingshot ass 900. Like, well, yeah, it
16:27was a quick, but like it's still 900.
16:29>> 900 lb.
16:30>> NO, IT'S NOT. [laughter]
16:32>> I almost broke my no commenting on
16:33random [ __ ] policy the other day cuz I
16:36saw it was this was ages ago. I know
16:38Dennis, I know you watch these. Dennis
16:40was freaking D was beefing with this guy
16:41who's like the second best multiply
16:45bencher basic. He's uh the guy who gets
16:47cucked by Jimmy Cole brutally.
16:49>> Sport is so small that you can just beat
16:51with a random [laughter]
16:52like I could probably get the attention
16:53of any world champion if I just made
16:55enough of a stink.
16:56>> He's just like I bench a thousand. I bet
16:57a thousand. It was like this guy's whole
16:58thing is just telling people that he
17:00benches a thousand without mentioning
17:01what multiply is. And he was talking
17:03down to Dennis. Dennis bench is more raw
17:05than you without your magical suit.
17:07Dennis is a better Dennis is natty. At
17:10least minimum talk to that man as an
17:12equal. Suck my dick.
17:14>> Well, he does double the weight. Sam,
17:15you [ __ ]
17:16>> I do twice. That was basically like,
17:17let's see you [ __ ] unrackck this.
17:20Let's see you go do Dennis's Max with
17:21our shirt on. You're going to tear your
17:23little weak equipped guy peck. [ __ ] you.
17:26Do not disrespect my goat. [laughter]
17:29I uh I those are the very very common
17:31thing of people like really wanting to
17:33like go to wherever they can say that
17:34they're a world champion. That's a
17:36really lame one.
17:37>> Yeah, that's that's something that's
17:38always been like if people act like it's
17:40getting worse. It's always been a thing.
17:42>> Also, why USA appeal national office has
17:44$3,000 people going to it?
17:46>> Oh, just to say you went to that's
17:48>> what the [ __ ] that's a [laughter]
17:50sickest market game was like pay us $300
17:53and we'll let you say that you're a
17:54national level competitor.
17:55>> Yeah, that's a that's a really
17:57interesting thing is not to let this
17:59I'll move on in a second. I don't want
18:00this to be like an overly negative
18:02podcast, but it's so in like I just not
18:04interesting. It's obvious. This is a
18:05normal thing. This is how everything is.
18:07But as like a purist of liking like
18:09strength training in the sport, it
18:11people are a lot less interested in like
18:13mastering the sport or like getting to a
18:15legitimately high level. They're a lot
18:17more consider like it doesn't matter
18:19what level they're at. As long as they
18:20can say something that holds value to
18:22people that don't know about it. Long as
18:24it doesn't matter if I'm actually
18:25competitive at nationals if I can tell
18:27people I'm a nationals competitor. It
18:28doesn't matter if I'm actually anywhere
18:30near the world record if I can say I'm a
18:32world record holder. like the title
18:34means more than the actual level because
18:37you know that it's only a niche group of
18:40people that are familiar with enough
18:42with the nuances to see what level
18:44you're actually at.
18:46>> My uh my my power peak accomplishment
18:48was my first my first meet
18:50>> cuz I won AA World Championship. That's
18:52my first competition.
18:53>> You should put that in your bio.
18:54>> Yeah. [laughter]
18:56>> And you put the year 2015 AAOU youth one
19:00world champion. Actually, you should put
19:01that in your bio. That's pretty funny.
19:03The stronger you get, the funnier that
19:04gets. That's good. That sounds really
19:06good. It is really weird to see people
19:08who like get stuck at a local level just
19:10because like the idea of being like the
19:12coolest guy at the local meet is like
19:14that's good enough for me. Uh versus the
19:16people who are like [ __ ] it, I'm going
19:17to go lose at Nats. That like way cooler
19:19decision in my mind, but also like I
19:20mean both are valid like
19:21>> Yeah.
19:22>> Yeah. The uh the next thing I had in my
19:24notes here was I was like exercises that
19:27like I view as like pretty foundational
19:29to complement the pretty base strength
19:32training, right? Like you and I have
19:33talked endlessly about how RDL's like
19:36just learn to do a good flatback RDL
19:38where you go like all the way down all
19:40the way back up with back flat uh is
19:42like just a such a foundational tool for
19:44long-term develop deadlift development
19:46and like learning a good high bar squat
19:48is like a very good foundational tool. I
19:51genuinely feel like ab wheel goes in
19:53that category where if you can learn
19:56like a good tech where you're not
19:57arching to get out of the bottom.
19:59Learning a good technique ab wheel will
20:01just kind of cover your bases from now
20:04till the end of time and just learning
20:05that like to get really good at it and
20:07like maybe you get really strong and you
20:09need to add weight, maybe you need to
20:10add tempos and pauses and maybe you need
20:11to do it in more of a cluster fashion to
20:13get to hard reps faster because you
20:15could do a bunch of reps. But it's just
20:16like that tool is a tool that never
20:18expires. I uh go in phases of like
20:22motions that I'm like super bought in
20:24on, right? Like we had my little
20:25dumbbell row arc where I was like, "This
20:27is the best motion in the world."
20:28>> Every one of Max's clients was doing
20:29>> every single one of the the rat pack was
20:31getting dumbbell rows that month. That
20:32was [ __ ] uh I am like I always like
20:35god I think a wheel is maybe the best
20:37appotion for like the number of times
20:39I've come like you were saying like
20:41things come in waves, right? Like and
20:42the same thing is like true in broader
20:44lifting. Um, the more times something
20:47comes back as a wave, the more you
20:49should probably take a hard look at it.
20:51>> Yeah. Like planks weighted are really
20:53like probably the best drill.
20:55>> Yep.
20:55>> I think ab wheel is the best thing to
20:57actually strengthen like the what like
20:58you need to like counter the force of
21:01your low back [ __ ] trying to pull an
21:02extension.
21:03>> Mhm. Yeah. Like because I think I think
21:04planks are great especially if you're
21:06like in a strongman gym with sandbags
21:07and you got someone strong to put a big
21:08sandbag like there's overload potential
21:10there
21:10>> or if you're not strong enough to do an
21:11ab wheel yet.
21:12>> Yes. That is the like a hollow hold or a
21:15plank or a dead bug. It's like isometric
21:18ab work is a something you could do to
21:20build towards ab wheel. Assisted ab
21:22wheels where you put like a band around
21:23your waist and like those are the
21:24regression.
21:26>> But then abhe variations just kind of
21:29expand indefinitely. You never get so
21:31strong that there is no more room on the
21:32RDL. You can outgrow a lot of machines
21:35that they're they're machines that
21:37complement your strength training really
21:38well.
21:39>> Yeah. If you put two plates on a
21:41standing ab wheel, it's like
21:43>> you're good. You've completed abs.
21:45[laughter]
21:45>> You have enough ab strength to do any
21:47accomplishment in the world.
21:49>> Any lift that you could set your mind
21:51to, you're good. You just maintain abs
21:53at this point, right? But like, you
21:54know, at some point like, okay, I don't
21:55want to [ __ ] put more than like two
21:56plates on a gym pin on a stack. I'm not
21:59like, what are we doing at that point,
22:00right? So, like things that have
22:02infinite scaling, I always like have a
22:03lot of appeal. And like the more times I
22:05come back to something, the more I'm
22:07like, "All right, I can kind of put the
22:09label on this. This is central at least
22:10to my methodology. It fits in with my
22:13system clearly well. I should probably
22:16show for it a little bit extra if
22:17anything." And like ab Wheel is like in
22:20that like hall of fame with the good
22:22good technique RDL's.
22:25>> Yeah, I like you said, I just keep
22:27coming back to it. Like I've probably
22:28had at least two dozen phases of being
22:29abs. And I've never done that for any
22:31other ab motion.
22:32>> Leg raises are a big one for me, too. I
22:34always come back to those
22:36>> dumbbell bench too.
22:38>> Yes.
22:38>> Mhm.
22:38>> I always when whenever I have
22:40>> I'm so mad I can't do [ __ ] dumbbell
22:41bench.
22:42>> We don't have heavy enough dumbbells for
22:43me and Max to run those right now. So,
22:45we're kind of like doing various things
22:47to try to make up for it.
22:50>> Discussion is do we drive like an hour
22:51over to a town over that has heavy
22:52enough dumbbells to do a session in a
22:54week? Yeah, we're debating driving over
22:55to but Montana to get our hands on some
22:57heavier dumbbells because I legitimately
22:59think that like if you rotate the
23:00dumbbells and you row them in so you're
23:02doing an extended range press, a bigger
23:04range of motion than your regular press.
23:06I find it's a it's amazing because it's
23:08extended range work and also um
23:13this is a random point. Maybe you guys
23:14will think it's interesting. People will
23:16always discredit like they're like oh
23:17you know the proof that instability work
23:19doesn't work right? uh they say
23:21instability work is silly because you're
23:24just going to limit your force output.
23:25It it's just nonsense. It's the same
23:27reason you wouldn't stand on a Bosu
23:29ball. And it's like, well, yeah, if we
23:31take any good training variable to the
23:33highest it can go, it becomes shitty
23:34training.
23:35>> If I say lifting heavy is good. You're
23:37like, if you put so much weight on there
23:38you can't move it. It's actually bad
23:40training. Great point, bro. Like, okay,
23:42you proved it. Going heavy is bad,
23:44right? Um,
23:46I find that going just one slight
23:49deviation less stable, right? So, we
23:51just disconnect our hands. So, we add
23:52one more plane of movement for the
23:54dumbbells. It makes my negatives feel
23:57way more locked in on my bench press.
23:58Like my ability to control the bar path
24:00and find the right bar path every time.
24:02That seems to be a training effect
24:04independent of what the dumbbells do for
24:06my pecs. Um, so it's like, sure, if you
24:09take anything and you take it too far,
24:11it's useless, right? Like people used to
24:13say, well, if you just do like omega
24:15bands and chains to where it's like
24:16weightless at the bottom, yes, it's
24:18going to give you horrible carryover. It
24:20becomes a different lift. But if we used
24:22a modest amount of accommodating
24:24resistance, it's a decent variation to
24:26progress, right? Like the same thing is
24:28true of a lot of things. And like one
24:29deviation less stable work in dumbbells,
24:32[ __ ] so helpful for me. And it checks
24:35that box of extended range pressing,
24:36which I think is good for keeping your
24:38pecs healthy.
24:38>> Well, we've talked about for like
24:40especially like beginners, right?
24:41Building up the pec is like you're just
24:43trying to speedrun that. Yeah, that's
24:44usually the limiting factor of an early
24:45bench. Speaking of [ __ ] waves, right?
24:48Oh my god. The thing I've learned is
24:50like just by coaching a rat pack, anyone
24:52who is benching 300 lb should just be
24:54constantly spamming dumbbell bench.
24:56>> Yeah. 300. Are you using 300 lb as an
24:59example of a weak bench presser?
25:00>> No, that's just the average strength of
25:02my lifters.
25:03>> Okay. I was going to say what what a
25:04[ __ ] Am I right, guys? [laughter]
25:06>> Says Sam, who benched 300 in like two
25:09months of bench pressing. That shook
25:11took me 4 years.
25:12>> Yeah. And I realized that I'm naturally
25:14gifted at it. So I wouldn't call someone
25:15weak for doing it. Like you
25:16>> I earned it cuz it took me four [ __ ]
25:18years to batch 300.
25:20>> He was a pre-teen.
25:21>> I was a teen.
25:22>> He was a full teen.
25:23>> You started as a pre-teen.
25:25>> I started early.
25:26>> You started as a pre back. I HAD TO
25:28[ __ ] PULL MYSELF UP. I YOU WERE A
25:30CHILD and a morbidly obese one trying
25:33[laughter] to bench 300. Um but uh my my
25:36conclusion was I was like, "Man double
25:38veg is good." And so I kept giving
25:39people more dumbbell bench and I was
25:40like this shit's just continuing to be
25:42like it's just like an endless [ __ ]
25:44uh bench loop. Just do more dumbbell
25:46bench.
25:48>> So [ __ ]
25:48>> You have to do it right though.
25:50>> Yeah. If if you're not pulling your
25:51chest up and if you're if you're if
25:53you're twisting them in to like to cheat
25:54the ROM, it just feel like
25:56>> the ego lifting dumbbells is one of the
25:58worst ego like a lot of things. This
26:00makes Kirsten.
26:01>> You can ego lift a lot of things and it
26:02would still be really productive. Ego
26:04lifting your dumbbell bench is I like
26:07sometimes fun Instagram video. You
26:09better not be [ __ ] doing that in your
26:11training. Especially if your bench is
26:13not going up.
26:14>> Yeah, that's something that you're like
26:15big on is
26:16>> it's one of my biggest pet peeves cuz I
26:18hate seeing people have their bench
26:20stall out and they're working really
26:22hard and the only thing they're missing
26:25for that would make their bench start
26:26going up again is literally doing the
26:28last inch of range of motion. And
26:30sometimes for some people it's the last
26:32three inches of range of motion. They
26:33get so attached to like this is when I
26:35dumb that people like I I'm a 60s guy.
26:37And it's like if you stopped being a 60s
26:40guy, you would suddenly become a 300s
26:41guy.
26:42>> Yeah. Yeah. Like I'm sure part of this
26:43is just the perspective of like now I'm
26:46the strongest bench presser in any gym I
26:48would go to around here, right? So I
26:49don't really care. But like who cares so
26:51much your dumbbell benching if your main
26:53bench is going up? Like that's the one
26:54we brag about. So, it's like if if 50s
26:56is going to do you more good with this
26:59better tech and then you get to be like
27:02I bench 275 that sounds like it's a
27:05great tradeoff like Kirst I consider
27:07Kirst like I think Kirsten's bench
27:08coaching is immaculate right because
27:10you're a very good bench presser you've
27:11done a lot of it you benched 200 lb
27:13natty soon to be 225 going it's going
27:16really well right it's going insanely
27:18well actually for only benching twice a
27:20week
27:20>> but I think Kirsten both like took the
27:22very technical like side of skating and
27:26has like a very good understanding of
27:27like what someone needs to do to get
27:28better at bench press. And she's like,
27:30"You just need to do good dumbbell
27:32bench." And some people just it's a
27:34coordination problem and some people
27:35just will not [ __ ] do it.
27:37>> I was really like novelty maxing and be
27:39like, "We should get all these different
27:40angles in." And I'm like, "No, double
27:42bench is just the best. Maybe it is just
27:43the best bench accessory for like if
27:45you're like a like intermediate,
27:47beginner, low level, advance, do [ __ ]
27:49done."
27:50>> And you might have to take the weight
27:51way lower than you would even think
27:52would be productive.
27:53>> Yeah. Like you might have to cut that
27:55[ __ ] Like you might have to do like 30%
27:57of what you're doing if you're skipping
27:58a lot of range at the bottom.
28:00>> I uh I I feel like I've lost it now
28:03because obviously like I would say like
28:04I'm in a lowlevel elite lifter, right?
28:07Like I'm very good. I feel like I've
28:08been doing this for long enough that I'm
28:09like very like confident and just like I
28:11know like I my my place in the gym has
28:15been earned. Um I did not feel that way
28:17when I was earlier to listen. Speaking
28:18of Max elitist [ __ ] uh opinions, Max
28:21is always like, "They need to give me
28:23that [ __ ] rack, right?" [laughter]
28:25>> Honestly though, they do need to give
28:27him that [ __ ] rack.
28:28>> If there's one good bench and I'm doing
28:30500 TODAY [laughter] AND YOU'RE DOING
28:31ONE, YOU SHOULD give me that rack. Call
28:33me an [ __ ] I don't know.
28:35>> You're hitting the old Kurt Carowski. I
28:37throw my bag at home. FIVE MINUTES. I
28:40>> YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? [laughter]
28:42>> NEXT WEEK'S INTRO has that clip in it.
28:44>> I'll put I'll put it in this next week
28:46is my intro. I'll put it like max at the
28:48bottom of the screen.
28:51>> It's about percentages, right? If it's
28:53your max, okay, I respect it.
28:55>> This guy's getting caught in 4K.
28:57[laughter]
28:57>> Give me the [ __ ] rack, you loser.
29:03>> Um, I was going to say I did not used to
29:06feel that way, right? Like when like I
29:07always I was very like insecure like I
29:09have to earn my place in the gym like
29:10like and whenever I was like at a new
29:12milestone I like constantly wanted to
29:15show off that like well no I'm this
29:16level of strength.
29:17>> Yes. You worked hard to get like I see
29:19that right like I want to show everyone
29:21that I'm a two-play adventure. I work my
29:23ass off to be in this like this uh
29:25level. So every session I need to show
29:27everybody that I am this level. And the
29:29idea of doing like embarrassing
29:30accessories was like admitting that I
29:32was like weak but like I could do way
29:33more or like not doing an insanely heavy
29:35leg press. It's like well I mean like
29:37there's an [ __ ] who's doing a
29:38thousand, right? Like if I do 600 it's
29:40going to look like he's stronger than
29:42me, right? And it's like you also could
29:43do a thousand.
29:45>> So and like and I get it cuz I did the
29:47exact same thing that I always wanted to
29:48do. Like I wanted to like display the
29:50fact that I was like but I'm better than
29:52you. [laughter]
29:53I think that there COULD BE LIKE I think
29:55I do think you know it's it's like the
29:59more appeal to the the people watching
30:01thing to say is like always just like
30:03we're all on the we're all just working
30:05on our own thing, right? And it's like
30:07that doesn't necess that mentality
30:08doesn't always mesh with competitive
30:10athletics and that's fine. Um but I
30:12always think I always thought that like
30:13back then that that mindset being more
30:15pervasive when we were young. It
30:17obviously it's got a lot of downsides to
30:19like when you and I didn't feel like we
30:21deserved the rack if there was someone
30:22stronger than us who needed the rack,
30:24right? Or we didn't like hadn't earned
30:26our place in the gym.
30:27>> I'm 60% joking about that by the way.
30:30>> 50
30:31He's like 50/50.
30:33>> That doesn't
30:34>> I have to I have to be I have to be at
30:36750 plus that session for me to really
30:38be like take your bar. I'm going to
30:39throw it over the [laughter] rack. I'm
30:40taking that [ __ ] I'm going to push you
30:42over.
30:43>> Ali, you are a nice guy. I am not a man
30:45you can talk to [laughter] this. Uh but
30:48like I don't know I I feel like there
30:49were positives, right? Like I'm very
30:52empathetic because uh I am empathetic
30:55that it was like significantly worse for
30:57women, but like dudes I was like well I
30:59am a little twink. I'm I need to [ __ ]
31:03work my ass off to be not little skinny
31:06twink guy.
31:06>> Can I have the rack please? [laughter]
31:09>> Right. But like I I don't know. I I felt
31:11like in some ways this is like this
31:13comes off as like [ __ ] every guy
31:15who's like retiring who's starting a
31:17podcast back in my era. [ __ ] I hate
31:19that [ __ ] I'm I hope it doesn't sound
31:21like that. A podcast of 20-year-olds
31:23talks about back in our era [laughter]
31:24what to be like. But yeah, I just think
31:28like 10 years ago that like it was just
31:30a little bit more of a pervasive
31:31culture. There were a bunch of downsides
31:34to like people were just kind of
31:35[ __ ] Uh people thought if they
31:37were strong you could just be an [ __ ]
31:39when no one cares about how strong I
31:41used to have aura is so funny.
31:42>> Oh being strong and just like [ __ ]
31:45dick.
31:46>> Who uh I don't know if I should say his
31:48name. Uh the guy who had
31:49>> don't I don't know who this is but just
31:50HOW ABOUT WE DON'T MITCH Hooper did
31:53this. [laughter]
31:55>> Stop. Stop.
31:57>> Every time Every time you do this if we
31:59do this too often our fans start getting
32:01really negative really quickly. This is
32:03a positivity podcast. Uh video guy doing
32:05a hack squats and he like yells at this
32:06dude like get the [ __ ] out of the way.
32:08[laughter]
32:09Um
32:10>> oh guy.
32:10>> Yeah, it was guy. Uh and I remember he
32:12was like baffled but I be like damn,
32:13bro. Why is everyone being so so like
32:15they don't like this? And I remember you
32:17were like dude it to makes 100% sense
32:19why he's so shocked cuz that kind of was
32:21like
32:21>> that was his persona. Like his whole
32:23career he was patted on the back for
32:24being Mr. Hardcore Intensity. Like that
32:27guy being that guy was something that
32:28got him praise.
32:29>> Yeah. Like 2016 was like oh I'm showing
32:31him the ropes of the gym. Like I was
32:33giving him [ __ ] but also like like
32:34that's what the that's what the alpha
32:36the gym does. He puts him in [laughter]
32:37his place. Like
32:38>> Yeah. And like he was like shocked that
32:40suddenly that's not considered cool.
32:42>> Yeah.
32:42>> Like it really like you could tell it
32:43was like a [ __ ] like what the world
32:45has changed kind of thing. But I don't
32:47know. I always thought there was like
32:48some like
32:49>> I'm going to try to learn. Obviously we
32:51met guys who were better lifters than us
32:53who were wrong about a bunch of things,
32:55but like I would always try to learn
32:56from them. And sometimes that was
32:58mistaken, but I would always try because
33:00I'm like, you are better than me at
33:01this. Like, you are I was very open to
33:04the idea that like I wasn't just like,
33:05well, I'm natty, so I'm not going to
33:07listen to this guy. I was like, well,
33:08he's clearly better at lifting weights
33:09than me past that. And so I'd always
33:11listen and like sometimes it was
33:12mistaken, but I always felt like there
33:13was some benefit to that.
33:17>> Yeah. I like something y pendulum,
33:19right? And like we're talking about like
33:21we're we're not in the might makes right
33:22era. the whole just like I I own Bench
33:24you so you don't have to listen to me
33:25and be like [ __ ] you you idiot. Did I
33:27tell the story about how uh uh Nathan
33:30Payton, the guy who's like the
33:32nutritionist for a bunch of the World's
33:33Guys, was like on like the only
33:34strongman forum at the time, telling
33:36people that like he was doing Travis
33:38Ormmy's nutrition. And he was like,
33:39"Yeah, guys, you should eat some just
33:41like chicken and rice and broccoli
33:42meals. It's like a good meal."
33:43Bodybuilders put on a lot of muscle by
33:45like trying to keep their digestion
33:46good, right? And everybody on the forum
33:48was like, "You little dumb [ __ ] You
33:51don't know what you're talking about.
33:52That doesn't even make any sense. You
33:53should eat pizza, you dumb fuck." And
33:55then one day Derek Poundstone hopped on
33:57the forum and was like, "Oh, I eat
33:59chicken and rice all the time." Like I
34:00eat like a bodybuilder. And then
34:01suddenly everybody was like, "Okay, well
34:03maybe maybe we should do this."
34:04>> Well, to be a big guy, you need to eat
34:06big guy food to be big. [laughter]
34:09>> That story was like cracking the other
34:11like that is like the epitome of the
34:12forum days is just like some guy who's
34:14right. He's a smart guy who's like just
34:16been observing and he's like, "I think
34:17this is good." And everybody's like,
34:18"Shut the [ __ ] up, you little bitch."
34:21And then big guy says this same thing.
34:22Like this guy's a smart guy. This is
34:24really insightful actually. You know,
34:26that's actually more hardcore is to like
34:27have a dialed diet and still eat that
34:28quantity.
34:29>> Now that you think about it, it is
34:30actually more hardcore than eating
34:31pizza.
34:32>> Makes sense to have better
34:32micronutrients going into [laughter]
34:35that is cracking me up. And then the
34:37last one I have in my notes is man boys.
34:39Uh also was that thing that me crashing
34:41out about that old multiply bench guy.
34:43That's fine to leave in, right?
34:45>> Yeah, probably.
34:45>> Yeah.
34:46>> I don't I just got so Dennis is a Dennis
34:48is my friend and is a nice guy and like
34:50it's just like oh a [ __ ] fantastic
34:53bench presser talking someone talking
34:55down to him about bench press [ __ ]
34:58crazy w really wound me up but uh we got
35:00to figure out like vlog format videos
35:02boys we've done some I thought they were
35:04decent they didn't do big views but we
35:06got to figure it out so that way uh we
35:08could be the next trend twins and be
35:09extremely rich
35:10>> I was thinking Fourth of July we go hit
35:12golf balls shoot guns and do deadlifts
35:14>> that's smart we just really directly
35:16Copy the trend twins.
35:17>> They should sponsor us.
35:19>> Feral subs.
35:20>> Listen, we might be fat and ugly, but we
35:22are stronger.
35:23>> Feral subs, please.
35:24>> The strong the strongest brothers.
35:26>> We're We're going to do a We're don't
35:28order the boys to harass them. We get a
35:30sponsorship. [laughter]
35:32>> Sick the [ __ ] dogs on them.
35:33>> Yo, large lads harassment until we get a
35:36contract.
35:38>> I'm just saying.
35:39>> Yeah, it's harder now that we all train
35:40together for me to film you guys vlog
35:43style.
35:44We went to it and it was immediately
35:46stressful.
35:46>> It was a very difficult session for me
35:48even though I think it was a it was a
35:49delo session for me and I still was like
35:51what's going on?
35:53>> Not exactly the uh the multitasking CEO
35:55>> but we'll figure it out.
35:57>> All right. So here I've got a new
35:58segment to introduce.
36:00>> It's awesome.
36:00>> It's the it's the my wonderful
36:03girlfriend Kirsten talks segment.
36:05>> Kirsten, five minutes on the clock. No
36:07one else is going to talk.
36:08>> Chris, do you got anything you've been
36:09thinking about?
36:10>> Well, that dumbbell bench thing I was
36:11thinking about, but I got to talk about
36:12it earlier. It segued really nicely. So,
36:14I didn't just have to be negative and be
36:15like, "Please guys, please do your
36:18dumbbell bench to depth for the love
36:19[laughter] of God."
36:21>> Yeah, cuz I Well, for a while I was
36:22saying like anything that lets you get
36:24like a big stretch on your pecs, like a
36:25greater range of motion than your
36:26regular bench, pause, drive out. Like I
36:30was kind of pitching that they were like
36:31very interchangeable, but man, every
36:33time I re- rotate dumbbells into that
36:34spot, deep dips work pretty well.
36:37>> Or if you're below a certain strength
36:38level, like push-ups will work really
36:39well. Uh the honestly deficit push-ups.
36:43>> A lot of things work really well. I
36:44think deficit push-ups are great if
36:45you're a lower level strength guy. Uh
36:47rat pack all have deficit push-ups.
36:48Everyone's getting deficit push-ups,
36:50too.
36:50>> Yeah, deficit push-ups.
36:50>> Especially if you're a home gym guy,
36:52you're getting [ __ ] deficit push-ups.
36:53>> Deficit push-ups and deep dips. If you
36:55don't have dumbbells, those work really
36:56well. But like dumb every time I come
36:58back, like it's the same thing. Every
36:59time I come back to dumbbells, I'm like,
37:01"Oh, these are not exactly equal for
37:03what they do for my bench press." And I
37:05see it enough with my clients as well.
37:07>> I think deep dips are just as good.
37:08They're just harder. They're also a
37:10little different. I think the deep dips
37:12are good for reinforcing not flattening
37:15out your arch as you press. Like if
37:16you're someone who presses into your
37:17shoulders and you're like straining at
37:19lockout and it doesn't feel like your
37:20triceps are what straining, it's your
37:21shoulders. You've kind of punched
37:23yourself out of your arch too much. And
37:25I think deep dips keep that get that
37:27deep stretch uh pec strength and also
37:29reinforce keeping the press.
37:30>> This didn't work at all for me.
37:31[laughter]
37:33>> It did help
37:35>> working the dips.
37:36>> I still flat out just as much.
37:37>> Not as bad. Okay, cool.
37:39>> You press into your shoulders.
37:40>> Trick him into complimenting. [laughter]
37:41You press into your shoulders, idiot.
37:44>> Go ahead and talk. OH, YEAH. YEAH. YEAH.
37:47YEAH. YEAH.
37:48>> WE'VE been talking uh a lot about the
37:50nuances of this can. If this is boring,
37:52we can skip it. Of where your wrist goes
37:54when you're benching because we've
37:55talked about how it's a valid strategy
37:57for some people who let their wrist come
37:59back as a way to reduce the range of
38:00motion.
38:01>> Well, so everybody has the wrist back at
38:03the end of the day.
38:03>> Coming back as you come down.
38:05>> Yeah. Some people have a dyn Have you
38:06seen more people have like a dynamic
38:08wristband now, Max?
38:10>> I don't like it at all.
38:12>> Well, cuz that's [laughter] something.
38:13>> It clearly works. It clearly I'm not
38:14disagreeing that it clearly works. God
38:16damn it. I don't like it at all.
38:17>> Yeah. I don't think I'll ever tell a
38:18client to do that and I might have them
38:20tell me. That's a very advanced
38:22technique that like if someone's telling
38:24me that's what they're doing, I'm going
38:25to be like, "No, it's not. Your wrists
38:27are clearly just [ __ ] buckling."
38:29>> Yeah. So, full clarity, your everybody's
38:31wrist is back, but some people put it
38:32really low in their palm so it's right
38:34above the joint. But some people put the
38:36wrist back that same way, but put it
38:37higher in the hand.
38:38>> That's what I'm doing.
38:40>> Yeah, it looks like [ __ ] when you do it.
38:42[laughter]
38:44>> I thought that was interesting because I
38:45never focused on that when I was
38:47benching until you guys started talking
38:49about it being a cue for you to not let
38:51it come back as you come down. And then
38:53I started queuing that in my bench and
38:54that's been helpful. Obviously, that's a
38:55super niche queue, but I've been really
38:57That's like also just kind of
38:59reinforcing your wrist position stuff.
39:00It's been good.
39:01>> Kirsten's bench is just a better version
39:03of mine.
39:05Yeah,
39:05>> because like I I like to think I like to
39:08think I'm maybe a little bit technically
39:10further down the line than Kirsten, but
39:12I've from bulking up to [ __ ] 270,
39:15I've lost so many like little areas of
39:17mobility.
39:17>> Your T-spine just does not [ __ ] want
39:19to open.
39:20>> My T-spine is not [ __ ] bending right
39:22now. I think the I think the road to 880
39:24deadlift, like all of the midback work I
39:26was doing that made me like really good
39:27at rounding my upper back has made it
39:29really hard to get really nice
39:31extension. like I'm not getting that
39:34upper thoracic extension that's like the
39:36most important part of arching for a
39:38bench press. Uh and it just will not I'm
39:40like [ __ ] cranking it in every
39:42stretch and it won't even start to bend.
39:44Like god [ __ ] damn. I really
39:45reinforce that. So I watch Kirsten's
39:47bench and I'm like it's everything that
39:49I taught her but then done without the
39:51mobility restrictions of being an
39:53[laughter] 88260 man. Yeah. Because I I
39:56feel like your bench looks like you're
39:58bleeding force less than Kurtson's. Like
39:59it's just like by proxy of doing 15
40:01years of bench pressing or whatever,
40:02right? Like you've just done so much
40:04that it looks like it looks like every
40:05ounce of effort is going into the bar,
40:07right? Like a very like looks so [ __ ]
40:09fluid and like it looks like
40:10everything's transferring into the bar.
40:11>> Yeah, cuz Kirsten's looks like mine used
40:13to where she very visibly bleeds forced
40:15at the wrist, but I don't bleed force at
40:17the wrist anymore. Ever.
40:19>> Um
40:20>> and like sometimes I think Kurt's leg
40:21drive is like maybe like not as
40:22>> well. I think that's but it's just I
40:24think the only difference right is like
40:25I think Kirstson's bench is really
40:26really like I think it's as good as mine
40:28technically to be honest as much as I
40:29hate to admit it.
40:29>> I was going to say if you take a
40:30screenshot of any position of Curts it's
40:32so fundamentally sound.
40:33>> Yeah the the the thoracic arch is higher
40:36in quality. Uh, I've got a hot day.
40:39[laughter]
40:40The uh the thoracic arch is higher in
40:42quality and also I she lacks enough pec
40:46development to be really confident off
40:48the chest because Kirsten's bench is
40:50actually slightly she can do a really
40:51nice soft touch but her grip is like
40:53very moderate width and usually moderate
40:54width people are a little bit better
40:56with a slight sink so they can transfer
40:58their leg drive into the bar but she's
41:00so scared to sink it because she's not
41:02that like not developed enough in the
41:04pecs.
41:04>> My pecs are like ever so slightly
41:06behind.
41:07>> Yep. The pecs are I would say even a
41:08little bit more than ever so slightly
41:09for your bench to be like to feel the
41:11way you'd want it to feel. It's like
41:12>> to sneak that one in there. [laughter]
41:14>> Bench is the most fun when my pecs are
41:16ahead.
41:17>> The pecs and the wrists are kind of like
41:18the only areas for improvement right
41:20now. I I think your bench is immaculate.
41:23>> What's been pissing you off?
41:24>> Oh, don't been pissing me off.
41:27[laughter] Let's see. That's a good
41:28question. We might have to come back
41:30around to that. I need to brainstorm cuz
41:31again the I've just been ruminating
41:33about the [ __ ] dumbbell bench thing
41:34for like the last three days. So, if you
41:36ask me another question, I'm just going
41:37to talk about dumbbell bench again.
41:38[laughter]
41:39>> I've been ruminating.
41:40>> What's uh what's what's your topic, big
41:43man?
41:43>> Uh big guy. We've we [laughter]
41:48bro one of the old men at Costco. What
41:49the [ __ ] That's what they all call me.
41:51>> Big guy.
41:51>> Yeah, they all come up and THEY GRAB MY
41:53SHOULDERS. [laughter]
41:54THIS IS NOT about that. Um I have had
41:56that happen before, but that was not
41:58this trip.
41:59>> Dude, now that you're looking less
42:00youthful, you're getting molested
42:02significantly less. Dude, I was having
42:04people grab me when I was a teenager.
42:07>> Max would just like
42:09full stop get sexually assaulted at the
42:12gym like once a month.
42:13>> It's crazy stuff. [laughter]
42:15>> It was crazy.
42:16>> IT'S THE DOWNSIDES OF THE CUTE FEATURES,
42:18you know?
42:19>> I It's the It is. It's the cute features
42:21that must have been what was attracting
42:22them to you cuz like you would just be
42:24like You'd come back over from a bench
42:26at the Reton YMCA, you'd be like, "Dude,
42:28that guy just like fully groped MY
42:30TITTIES. [laughter]
42:33THAT WAS CRAZY.
42:34>> AND I like come up and like grab my
42:36shoulders like like hold my neck and I
42:38was like [laughter]
42:39>> the guy that the guy that like grabbed
42:41your like he was inspecting your traps
42:43but like just like choked you was crazy.
42:45And he would Max would come back over to
42:46me. He's like the guy just like [ __ ]
42:48grabbed my neck. And I'd be like, I was
42:49talking TO YOU GUYS AND HE CAME
42:50[laughter] UP AND I was like I was like,
42:52"Oh, this is going to be like my dad or
42:54someone who judges me.
42:57[clears throat]
42:58It's not my dad." [laughter]
43:01And not exactly my finest big brother
43:04moment either. I didn't defend Max at
43:05all. I was like, "Damn, that's crazy,
43:06bro. Hurry up and do your [ __ ] sad."
43:08I think he went like, "Damn, bro.
43:09[laughter] You You let him mo you." And
43:11I was like, "That was not okay. Bad
43:14touch." [laughter]
43:18OH, I think he went like, "Do you know
43:20that guy?" I WAS LIKE, "NO, WHAT?"
43:22[laughter]
43:22>> OH, cuz he he like he knew me from
43:24Instagram
43:26>> and and was like, "Oh, yeah." You know,
43:28>> hey, rat packag sneak up behind him and
43:31grab. [laughter]
43:32>> Clearly, I don't have a good defense
43:34system. I'M NOT LIKE TURNING AROUND and
43:36getting violent. Go like [laughter] like
43:39>> uh Don't do that to me, by the way.
43:42>> Also, don't do that to anyone that don't
43:44do that to anyone actually. So that's
43:46good advice. [laughter] Don't trust me.
43:48>> I have a I don't know if it's a good or
43:51a bad reflex. Every time someone does
43:53that to me, like when my when I was when
43:55I was younger, dad did that to me, like
43:57hid behind a horn, like popped out and I
43:59uh chipped one of his teeth.
44:02>> That's what you got to do.
44:03>> I just was immediately throwing hands.
44:05>> He probably never did it again.
44:06>> That instinct has never gone away. And
44:08it leads to some bad optics. Like Kirst
44:10like peekab-oo. I'LL BE LIKE, "HI,
44:13>> I
44:14DON'T KNOW WHO THIS IS." [laughter]
44:19>> YEAH, but make sure you sneak up behind
44:21Max and Tickle. [laughter]
44:24>> Don't do it.
44:26>> Say we have to [ __ ] edit something.
44:28[ __ ] you.
44:28>> He won't do anything about it.
44:30>> THIS IS CRAZY. LIKE, YO, MY BROTHER'S A
44:32[ __ ] FRESH [laughter] TARGET.
44:34>> I'm just saying
44:35>> he FREEZES IN PRESSURE, BOYS. WHAT WAS
44:37your He does He does freeze under
44:39pressure. [laughter]
44:40That's why my car crash went so well cuz
44:42I WAS LIKE, "OH SHIT."
44:43>> It gives if you're a freezer to pressure
44:45guy, you do have like the the little
44:47potential for some aura because you
44:49could fully process what's going on
44:51while you're frozen. So then you never
44:52have like a embarrassing freak out.
44:54>> It's true.
44:55>> I freeze and then I embarrassing freak
44:57out.
44:58>> That's That's the worst of both
44:59[laughter] the worst of both worlds.
45:05>> That is true. You take so long to react
45:07to things and then you still [laughter]
45:09>> Yeah, you got the worst freeze mechanic
45:12I've ever seen.
45:12>> Yeah, but then you think that I don't
45:14think your jokes are funny, but I'm just
45:15thinking about them. [laughter]
45:17>> It's that they were so complicated.
45:18>> They were so I had to think about
45:19>> they were so five dimensional. I was
45:21going to say uh one of the things my
45:23training that I feel like has been
45:24really going very very well uh is we
45:27have been having more like concrete
45:29targets and Sam Sam uh has been trying
45:32to strike a balance of both having like
45:34uh things that are a little more
45:35autoregulated as I get better. Um but
45:38having things I'm like actively excited
45:39for more often is been really really
45:42productive for me. Like having sets or
45:43reps or like even just like having a
45:45single that I'm a little bit more scared
45:47of than usual has been like doing me so
45:49[ __ ] good.
45:50>> Yeah. Yeah, like I think on each SL
45:51right now I'm kind of working off of the
45:53paradigm that like at least once a month
45:56where because we're running four-week
45:57waves, so it's a month, but like at
45:58least once every wave, there should be
46:00something that worries you a little bit
46:02on each lift.
46:02>> And my recovery has been locked in
46:04because I've been like, "Fuck, dude.
46:05>> You got to get ready for 750 and then
46:07750 two days from now again." Like,
46:09>> yeah, that's I think that's the danger
46:10of like all submax work is it's all
46:12submax. So there's nothing to like
46:14there's nothing to g-check you for your
46:15bedtime. there's nothing that's gonna
46:16like big style like g-ch checkck you on
46:18your food and you can just keep coasting
46:20but you're not going to adapt to that
46:22submax work the way you're supposed to
46:24because you're being a bum with your
46:25accessories and so having something
46:26that's a little bit scary every month is
46:29lets you do all of your nice submax work
46:31but it also scares you into not being a
46:33bum because we've been so base building
46:36I don't have that many touches at 750 on
46:39squat like for someone who I like I you
46:40know like a I 820 is my best I think I'm
46:43a roughly an 830 squatter right now
46:45Right.
46:45>> 8:35 probably.
46:46>> Um, so it's like like that's a 85 lb
46:48difference, right? My number of lifetime
46:50reps at 750 is very low. And so I'm
46:52still like, oh [ __ ] this is so
46:53[laughter] scary. I've only done this a
46:55handful of times.
46:56>> It's probably seven.
46:58>> God,
46:58>> seven or eight.
46:59>> Yeah, something like something like
47:01that.
47:01>> I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good with
47:02these numbers. I shocked Kirst the other
47:04day because she was like trying to
47:04figure out how many times she had gone
47:06above like 185 and it's like 20 plus,
47:10right? So, a lot more like practice
47:11above that margin, whereas like like you
47:13said, there's a certain margin at which
47:14you have very limited practice above on
47:16the squat and the deadlift.
47:18>> Yeah. Yeah. Like 770 is really the
47:19number on deadlift. And I'm like I have
47:20like like eight lifetime reps. Um
47:23>> and so like I with us touching that uh
47:26twice a week for six of the eight weeks
47:29of prep, I I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] my
47:31recovery NEEDS TO BE LOCKED IN.
47:33[laughter] Every week I'm doing
47:34something scary." And like obviously I'm
47:35not saying do 95% every week on your
47:37training to motivate you. That's
47:39probably not the best piece of advice,
47:40but having something that you're
47:41actively excited of or like maybe a
47:43little bit scared of, as long as you
47:44don't have like the mentality of like,
47:45oh, if I fail, I'm demoralized. Like I
47:48missed my rep PR uh yesterday or two
47:49days ago on bench and I was like, ah,
47:51didn't really deserve that.
47:53>> Yeah.
47:54>> Um, but like having those like more
47:56concrete things cuz I feel like
47:57sometimes I'll be like, "Oh, long-term
47:59goals are awesome because they're going
48:00to keep me like [ __ ] focused." And
48:02that's true. It's like it's good. They
48:03do keep me like I don't get like
48:05postmeat blues and stuff cuz I always
48:06have like longer term goals. Uh, but
48:08short-term ones, they really keep you
48:10like I feel like they like keep me
48:11locked into like reminding myself of uh
48:14like stay my good variables, right? Like
48:16it's it's hard to be like, "Oh, in the
48:17six months I'm going to be going for
48:18something awesome."
48:19>> Yeah.
48:19>> My food doesn't really feel like it
48:20matters that much. But if in 3 days from
48:22now I'm like I'm going to kind of send
48:23it for a [ __ ] rep PR. Like even if
48:25it's a little bit stupid, like having
48:27that as a like a reinforcement like my
48:29variables need to be good otherwise my
48:31odds at getting this are even worse.
48:32>> Yeah. It's what's my boy Matt Venom
48:35mentioned was like a lot of the time
48:37programming specifics [laughter] are
48:38like
48:39>> programming spec same Sam he was like
48:41you know Matt Venet is like the man of
48:43the man in the world of power in the
48:44world like he's having his moment that's
48:47just you bro [laughter]
48:49listen why are you always hating on the
48:51>> I walked in here and you were on the
48:53couch in the dark and I looked over and
48:54you're just like watching Mad Than on
48:55your phone
48:56>> this is not even true [laughter]
49:00>> all right well moving on right he was
49:02just saying like programming specifics
49:03maybe a little bit overrated sometimes
49:05and like the mental side of the sport is
49:06really big. But the mental sport ties
49:08into the programming, right? So it's
49:10like having things that make you a
49:11little bit nervous. You have to know
49:12your own dispositions though because
49:14you'll like rules of thumb aren't
49:17universal for anybody, but you'll but
49:18they can be like the most important
49:20thing for your training. I have always
49:22aired on the side of being conservative
49:23when I'm estimating where I'm at because
49:25I think it's more dangerous to
49:27overestimate where you're at than under.
49:28So I always air on the I've got a range.
49:30I pick the bottom end of the range and
49:31that's always my estimate of where I'm
49:32at.
49:33>> It leads to me kind of chronically being
49:35slightly underestimating where I'm at.
49:36Yep.
49:37>> Uh and people kind of give me a hard
49:38time like you thought this would take. I
49:39was like I had the idea that I could get
49:41this done but I always go with the
49:43low-end estimate there.
49:44>> There's always like a realistic estimate
49:46and then a back of the mind like
49:48>> I could I maybe could and that's the top
49:50end, right? And like realistically,
49:51you're somewhere in the middle. And
49:52because I always go with this bottom
49:54end, my training, I should always have a
49:56set that I have some doubt about. Like
49:58almost on a weekly basis, I should have
50:00something that puts a little bit of
50:01doubt into my mind.
50:03>> Little bit of fear.
50:03>> Like a Yeah. Not even like fear, right?
50:05But like I should be like, I'm not sure
50:07I can do that and I should attempt it
50:09because that's my calibration. Versus
50:11guys who like will do like an RP10 rep
50:13like easy, right? You tell those guys
50:16their magical rule of thumb is like
50:18they're the you tell them save it for
50:20the platform, save it for the platform.
50:22They're gonna be wrong. They're gonna
50:23like it be like you tell them always
50:24leave one in the tank in training. That
50:25way you've got that extra gear on meat
50:27day. It's like they're hitting RP10 all
50:29the time in training anyway. It's
50:31stopping them from the failed reps. But
50:33that becomes their like golden rule is
50:36save it for the platform. Save it for
50:37that platform. Always leave a little in
50:39the tank in training. and that be that
50:41smooths out their training versus for
50:43you and I it's always like get something
50:45in there that gets you a little bit
50:47worried and make sure that's kind of
50:49universally present. But it depends on
50:51like where your bias is as a lifter. Uh
50:54as our final question for the day, we
50:55have a fan submitted question where they
50:57were saying like how much of lifting
51:00weights is mental?
51:03I'm a yapaholic. I have an answer, but I
51:06I'll throw that to you guys
51:09>> a lot.
51:11>> Great answer. Would you like to expand
51:13on that?
51:13>> Uh, yes. [laughter]
51:19>> It feels rude cuz the people love
51:21hearing you talk and then we put you on
51:22the spot and you're [laughter]
51:25>> if you doubt yourself,
51:26>> sometimes you don't get it just cuz you
51:28doubted yourself.
51:28>> You had an experience like this?
51:30>> I did. I did. This happened to me
51:31[ __ ] yesterday. I'm really I'm
51:33getting back into squatting and
51:35squatting scares me. So, I unracked a
51:39weight and I was like, I'm going to put
51:41this back in the rack for a [laughter]
51:42second. And then I ended up being able
51:44to get it. But that's one of the biggest
51:45things that's why I went to bodybuilding
51:48from powerlifting is because those 1RM I
51:50never really figured out how to approach
51:53them properly. It's a mind. It was a
51:54purely mental
51:55>> pure mental thing where I was like I was
51:57getting stronger in the even like three
52:00to 12 rep range every single block, but
52:03it would get to that singles and doubles
52:05part and I would just fall apart. So
52:07that's kind of my biggest challenge
52:08right now, especially on squat and
52:10deadlift because I've
52:12>> bench is pretty sorted for I mean
52:13obviously you can always get better, but
52:15bench I'm pretty good about kind of
52:17where I'm at right now is trying to
52:18figure out I need some adrenaline but
52:20how do I approach that mentally without
52:23crumbling under pressure?
52:24>> Yeah. Like I think people find find
52:26their way into like a a system that
52:28works but it's tough and eventually
52:31people start looking for a way out like
52:32oh when I train with this guy I always
52:34get better and they eventually start
52:36looking for a reason a way out and
52:38that's like a big boxing thing is like
52:40you need to not be looking for the
52:42second you're looking for a way out you
52:43lose.
52:44>> So [clears throat] you need to build a
52:45psychology that you can sustain doing
52:48this hard thing indefinitely without
52:50eventually looking for a way out. I'll
52:52give people a program and it's like I'm
52:54like realistically man this is the
52:56amount of work you need to do to be
52:58progress. Like your goal is to move to
52:59the next level as a lifter. This is the
53:01amount of work you need to do. You're
53:02going to be a little bit more tired than
53:03you're used to. You need to get used to
53:05it. But some people never get used to it
53:07and they like kind of use up all of
53:08their motivation and then they start
53:09looking for a way out. It's like if you
53:10want to get to the next level, you need
53:12to be someone who gets comfortable with
53:14that amount of work without inevitably
53:16being for like a way out thing. Right.
53:18>> Yeah. cuz that would be like an example
53:20of somebody who would be on the opposite
53:21end of the spectrum of me as someone who
53:22loves lifting heavy and they always want
53:24to be putting like the pedal to the
53:26metal and hitting those like all out
53:28sets for them. the the mentality
53:30difficulty would be figuring out how to
53:32enjoy
53:33>> the hypertrophy phases because they
53:34don't get to show off, right? Or they
53:36don't get like the adrenaline like
53:37another mental part.
53:38>> You've had lifters that like struggle
53:40with like that's kind of the the
53:41interesting part about like periodized
53:43training is you can really isolate which
53:44parts you're good at, which ones you're
53:45bad. Like I crush hypertrophy and it's
53:47sustainable and I can do this forever. I
53:49crush strength, it's great, and then I
53:50freak the [ __ ] out and peak. Well, guess
53:52what? If you really want to get better,
53:54that's the one you need to get better
53:55at. But some people, they they crush the
53:56peak. They're looking forward to
53:58training. They love they like they their
53:59psychology under things that feel heavy
54:01is great and they will not put in base
54:03building work and it's like if you
54:04really want to get better you need to
54:05get over your aversion to base building
54:07work, right? And so it's like sometimes
54:09that could be really useful to see. What
54:10was what was your answer going to be?
54:12>> Um I was just say like lifting obviously
54:15it's like a physiological response,
54:16right? We're growing our muscles and
54:18we're adapting our CNS, right? Um, I
54:21feel like as I've gotten better, I have
54:24noticed more and more that like there is
54:26no just like I'm just going to like get
54:27the work done, right? Like I if I'm like
54:30miserable, right? Or like even just
54:32periods of my life that have been like
54:33bad, right? My lifting doesn't go well.
54:35Yeah. Like it's it's so much more than I
54:37think cuz I'm like just like like I got
54:39so into like the A to B like it's input
54:42output machine, right? I put in four
54:44sets of bench press. I put in my
54:45dumbbell bench. I put in my good meals
54:47and I put in good sleep and I just get
54:48awesome results, right? Like that's what
54:50the machine is, right? And but I keep
54:52seeing the fact that like
54:54>> especially with like us training
54:56together right now. There are like the
54:58the garden metaphor makes a lot more
55:00sense of like just like conditions and
55:01stuff grows and doesn't, right? Like me
55:02and you like there are movements that
55:03like we are progressing very differently
55:05at, right? And like we are
55:07>> very similar like shaped athletes in
55:09terms of like our conditions and stuff,
55:10right? and like just stuff tends to
55:12evolve in like different ways and that
55:14it just like kind of occurs naturally,
55:16right? Um, and having a more p like
55:19positive outlook and being more excited
55:20for training. It feels like very like
55:22wishy-washy intangible, but it clearly
55:24is so connected to how
55:26>> it's part of the good gu I think that's
55:27part of like I think that's part of the
55:28good garden environment is like
55:30>> both of the best meat preps I've ever
55:32had. I was so excited to train. Yes. And
55:34I'm like objectively it wasn't like the
55:36block wasn't that different. I never
55:38skip [ __ ] anything. I my sleep is
55:40always awesome and I eat literally the
55:41exact same thing every day. So I feel
55:43like I have a very controlled thing for
55:44like we don't like I'm so resistant to
55:46change especially back when I was a
55:48teenager I was so [ __ ] like saying
55:49don't [ __ ] change anything, right? So
55:51it's not like we were running like these
55:52like true like really meaningful
55:53constant experiments with changing
55:55stuff, right? Um but sometimes I'd have
55:57block like drastically different results
55:58even though essentially all of like your
56:00standard training variables are the
56:01exact same. Sometimes I was just like
56:03going in and like [ __ ] so much more
56:05excited. And like obviously there are
56:08tangible things that change from that,
56:09right? Like I'm walking more. I'm
56:10stretching more. I'm more conscious
56:12about like getting moving throughout the
56:13day is one of those things that like
56:14whenever I'm really excited about
56:16training, I just do it so much more
56:17durotically because in the back of my
56:18mind I'm like, I got 750 this weekend. I
56:20really want to [ __ ] dunk on that
56:21[ __ ] I want to spike that. I want a
56:22cool Instagram video. I'm a [ __ ]
56:24beast. Deadlift Max is back, right? I've
56:25been thinking that all [ __ ] week,
56:26dude. I'm I'm fired up for [laughter]
56:28those on the 4th of July, bro. USA
56:30freedom. I'm [ __ ] putting the tea in
56:32the [ __ ] ocean, you retards.
56:33[laughter] Sorry.
56:35>> Okay.
56:39>> So, mentality is important. [laughter]
56:42>> ATTACK the British. Sorry.
56:43[clears throat]
56:44>> Um, but yeah, like like having that like
56:46positive connection to training is so
56:48independently helpful in a way that like
56:49I've I don't give it as much credit as
56:51it like clearly deserves. And like the
56:53guys who I've seen like really succeed
56:55just seem to be like having a blast
56:56training, right? And like I'm pretty
56:58sure if you just like didn't like the
56:59system, it wouldn't work as well. Even
57:00if you were doing all of the exact
57:02things,
57:02>> that's what I'm saying is the psychology
57:03is part of the environment, right? Like
57:05the eating the right food is part of
57:07what creates the environment to adapt to
57:08the demands. Well, sleeping enough is
57:11part of what creates the like ability to
57:14make the adaptations. Being in the right
57:16me mental space seems to have a
57:19meaningful impact.
57:21>> And that's where it end.
57:22>> Wait, I didn't answer. [laughter]
57:25>> I planned an answer the whole time.
57:26>> WHAT THE [ __ ] WAS THAT?
57:28>> WHAT? WHAT WAS THAT? What was what
57:29>> you talking? [laughter]
57:31>> What was me talking?
57:32>> Was that not your answer?
57:33>> No, I was I was replying to what you
57:35said.
57:35>> Okay. What's your answer?
57:36>> So, I think when you start it's like all
57:38mental cuz you can push yourself way
57:39[ __ ] harder than you think, right?
57:41Yes. And like you could just get more
57:42reps by willpower, but then you get
57:44pretty good at that and you're like
57:45actually failing. You're like physically
57:47failing, right? And then it's like,
57:49okay, well, mental still matters quite a
57:50bit, but it becomes no longer in the
57:52micro. In the micro, it's just like
57:54mentally you could just [ __ ] do more
57:56reps. and the guy that mentally does the
57:58more reps gets the better results. But
58:00then once once you can push yourself to
58:02your limit, it's not that like you can
58:03get so hyped up that you could deadlift
58:05a thousand. No, you're going to [ __ ]
58:06fail that like there's technique to it,
58:08right?
58:08>> Have you ever heard of the mom lifting
58:09the mom?
58:11>> What if you [laughter]
58:13think about the baby, right? Like you
58:15No, you're going to like sure you can
58:17you can you can get a little bit better
58:18by extracting a little bit of extra
58:20strength by mastering adrenaline and
58:21hype. You can express a little bit more.
58:24But the difference video about that
58:25>> do you The difference between you that
58:27benches 200 and the you that benches 300
58:29is not your psychological state, but
58:32your ability to change your physiology
58:34and not look for a way out and your
58:36ability to be picking up little uh like
58:38nickels and dimes of progress all day
58:40with like habits. Um it no longer
58:43becomes like this set is all mental,
58:45right? Like once you get to a certain
58:46level, you're pretty dialed on that and
58:48it's no longer the case. But the
58:50long-term progression is still mental.
58:52Like keeping yourself checked into
58:53training and pushing hard and interested
58:55and curious about what to do to get
58:57better. Keeping yourself in that state
58:59is not something that happens that you
59:01passively accept. It's something you
59:02actively stoke to be in that right
59:05mentality and you need to keep yourself
59:07there because if you fall out of it,
59:09you'll start looking for a way out or
59:10you'll start going through the motions
59:12and you will like the ability to stay in
59:14the right mindset is everything. Thank
59:16you guys so much for watching. If you
59:18want more awesome lifting philosophy
59:19talk, hop on the Patreon for what is
59:22perhaps even a larger show.

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