 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. Silent Mike, we're bringing it back. YouTube Rewind. 5 years. 2015. Voiceovers were cool. Yeah. Why aren't they cool anymore? They weren't cool. We made them cool. Kana, here's what you need to do. You need to throw up on the screen from videos we did on my channel when we did the first ever voiceovers that mattered where Nadeem was sleeping while we were storing in the background. Basically, trying to make a YouTube career. And now we have Kai E bro over here gaming away instead of sleeping Nadeem. But it's a different time, similar situation. We're a little bit older, although we look younger and better. But not wiser. Older, less wise. Older, less wise. Omar Esauf in the house. He's been chilling here for a while. Mega bachelor pad Sacramento, California. Some work. Some play. It's a f***ing pad. Bachelor streamer recording house pad. We're lifting some weights. Some. What are the current goals? What are the Omar Esauf goals of lifting weights? To find myself. Oh, I would say actually I recently completed and I've only mentioned about 20, 30 times on my channel. But it's the first time here. But I should repeat it again. A successful body transformation while I lost some weight. From there, I want to rebuild my strength and so that's coming together along nicely. I'm honestly not sure what clip we're going to be showing. But if you don't look at it, you're like, I brought my vest back in and you look disgusting. So I was like, I'm like 180 pounds now. If you are wanting to get a strongman, I actually think I want to do a competition. And then I want to continue to build that strength base. And then finally really lean down. So I'm thoroughly enjoying lifting. The strongman base or the strongman competition. Are you at maintenance then? Are you going to go on a mini bulk then cut her back down? I think I'll just be a maintenance because right now being around 181, 182, the weight class I want is 175. So you basically just don't drink any water for a week and I'll be at it. A couple more orgasms and lose some liquid water cut. That's the water cut that they don't want to tell you about. That men have an advantage. Yeah, a supreme fapping ability that's actually a period. Mine is about 13 seconds. So if you guys want to see footage of that, you'll have to go to his Patreon. YouTube's really cracking down on this type of content, but it is there. It is available. And today we want to talk you through a couple of our sessions, I believe. Yeah. Omar trains every day like an absolute animal. I am an absolute sissy. He made me train two days in a row, which is against my written rules. I do like you said and called me an absolute animal. And here I am squatting 295 for a 5x5. Animals don't always come in big weights or big sizes. Right, right. The point is the work. The point is the work. So what's the current split looking like for you? I know you're sprinkling in the strong, man. What's the base of the barbell? Little dangle, dangle on the stangle. So what we got going on here, I lift six days a week. I was dealing with a little bit of knee issues. So you'll see me squatting a little lighter. Then I'll work up a little something, something. Again, I actually don't know what footage, Connor, film. I don't know. But this, I think it's a squat bench. I do basically full body. So squat bench, deadlift. And then I also do overhead press on this day. And like I said, I train actually five to six times a week because I like to really spread out that volume. So I'm only doing about 13 to 16 working sets. It's not a lot per session. Yeah, not everyone can be heavy. You can't squat heavy every single day if your frequency is that high, et cetera, et cetera. And I'm the exact opposite. My volume is low, my frequency is low, my intensity is low. My sexual drive is low. Even while I'm here? No, it's really turned up recently hanging out so much with you and Alan through all things are going wild. I think these are a mix of days. As you guys know, my splits kind of pretty set in stone, but the exercises aren't. So I started back low bar squatting again. I had a safety squat bar. Got a squat day that's tied in with all my push, deadlift day, tied in with all my pull. Super basic, super easy. Actually, my back's been a little angry lately. So I think two days at Omar were here. I was lifted in real light. And I saw someone say, like, Mike, it's so sad to see you how strong you were. And you went from a 700 pound pull and now in the footage you're pulling 315. What you work on, same with Omar right here, right? You're squatting 230 or whatever, it doesn't matter. The point is you're a 500 pound squatter. You could do that again in a six week cycle or training. You got to say training block too. You can't even say cycle around you freaking snowflakes because then we start getting daggers to us. Point is, is what we're training with or what you can do is always what you should do. So although I could probably go to the gym and rip up probably a 600 pounds conventional if I had to every week, what would be the point? Where am I getting the volume? Where, what's gonna last me a long time? What's gonna love me a long time? And similar to your squat, like again, you could squat probably over 400 multiple times. But if you're trying to get the volume in, you're trying to get the hypertrophic stimulus that you want, you're gonna have to have some days that's a little bit lighter. Yeah, refining the skill. Even as an example here, it's like, this is the lighter days. So I'm doing I think 385 for a five by five. Two days later, 48 hours later, I ripped up five plates, 495 for four. You know what I mean? It depends upon what you show. And I think some people don't understand. When it comes to Instagram, it's typically highlight reels. So people hitting PRs. And I think that's how they have to train. And so there's different classifications of lifters. That was good right there. That's what, like 525? Yeah, maybe. Yeah, this is my heavy day. Yeah, that's my heavy day. I think I did, 525. 505 and then 525. Yeah, that's real good. Yeah, and they're both clean. Yeah, you think you can't pull 600 on that day? Like that's no bell. Right, yeah. Or pull 495 every single day. But again, what's the point? What's the point for me is to build some muscle back, build some groove back. And like you said, yeah, the unrealistic goals of even people on YouTube, you know, like. It causes them not to understand programming, honestly. It does. And you're gonna set yourself up for failure long-term. Not that you can't lift heavy and it lift heavy often probably be fine. But there's no need to lift heavy every single day year round forever and ever. You know what I wanna say? You know how I know Connor's a true homie? Connor's the guy that edits Mike's videos of you. So here he is, making Mike just look great because Mike is great doing 525 on the deadlift. He's like, I'm gonna show almost lighter deadlift day. I'm not gonna show him do the 495. Maybe he's coming later. Maybe. No, I just know Connor's not coming later. I know it's not coming later. Getting a bonus this Christmas. What do we got? So this might be 185, it depends. Yeah, you were crushing overhead. I did 190 times three. That's one of the short-term goals. I want to overhead press 230. So that's the best ever. 226. Yeah, yeah, so we'll do this. This is maybe, I don't know. Yeah, I think you did. You were crushing like 185 for reps. I can't do that no more. Yeah, it's between 180 to 190, the different sets. So here's the another day. I think we have three days. This is another day. Throw in here, because this is your strongman day. Well, Mr. Alan Troll. Mm-hmm. Alan's small now, he's actually cold because he lost all that weight. I think it was in Alan Small. Oh, he didn't like that? No, no, I was saying that was his name instead of Troll. Well, I did call him Small one day. I said, I think someone was trying to get me to do a strongman competition. I said, oh, is that what Alan's going to be doing? I said, I don't want to go head-to-head with him, he's small now or something. He's like, and that means I was fat before? I was like, well, kind of. We've all been there. Large. I'm a little chunky right now. Yes, Alan, you were a little chunky in the past, but now you look absolutely stupendous. You're apocalyptic resistant, okay? If it happens, you'll survive longer than someone else. I want to give a shout out to our fake homie in the back, Ryan, because he's not going to be watching. Is that him right there? He is back there behind us. And Marcus. Philip, you know, Marcus is cool. So you do some front squats. How do you determine your exercise selection at this point now? So I don't. So I'm trying to do anywhere from three to six week blocks of, on my deadlift day, I'm going to do some kind of quad dominant movement and on my squat day, it's going to be some kind of, obviously, just squat dominant movement. It will depend by my progression and depend how I feel. I know my high end of my squats are limited by my mobility and basically my technique, just because I can't hold that rack well. So I'll probably keep that in a little bit longer than perhaps I kept my safety squat bar cycling where the strength just kind of puttered out. I hit maybe 400 or something with that beltless. So then that's why I switched that to low bar, but haven't changed that one yet. And same with deadlifts. I'll probably get up into the 600s, then I'll switch. God, damn, you're lean. He's just giving all sorts of tees, right? Is it, let me show? That's why I keep my hoodie on. That's why I'm in the opposite room of him keeping my hoodie on. But then yeah, and so then same with the deadlift, I probably have a higher upper end or more weeks that I could stretch out my gains from it. And then I'll switch that variation into some bands or maybe a block pull. But the front squat, the only strength goal I have right now, direct goal is to squat 405 front squat. I think it's easily done. I just haven't done it. And so it's kind of silly of me not to just do it. Yeah, I do like how you're essentially also trying to build momentum here. Where you're getting into your groove, you're finding your rhythm and people don't understand that intent and rhythm are so important to develop that momentum. Yeah, yeah, you have to set yourself up for success. And I think I'm lucky enough to have some really good mentors. Obviously my dad and my strength coach from high school and my basketball coach. Some people have to learn on their own or you learn from other lifters or lifting coaches, whatever. But yeah, you learn the process of kind of like, it's the same idea as an RPE eight or nine. Why not go to 10? It's probably not because you're gonna fry your CNS, although it may cause a little more fatigue. It's more so just so you have room to grow within the following four weeks. If you're just hitting an RPE 10s all the time, I'm just gonna bench 315 for singles all the time. Never make progress, which physically, you may be able to make some progress that way, but there's, human is quite complex. So we have to worry about kind of our emotional side. And look at this big devil. This is the highlight real right here. We got Filipino thunder. We got 700 pounds of twisted steel. I think it's about 650, seven, five is next. Marcus is the old training partner of mine. If you guys don't know, a really good friend of mine. And he started a physical labor job. So this dude's been really, really tired. One hasn't competed in a while. Just all of us, we've lifted for so long and we have things to worry about. But he's back in the gym a little bit, working a lot of construction and really focusing in on his squat. So he decided to call us all up. And that's why we went a little bit earlier to the gym to get some side spotters. And it is something about community. And that's why it's always fun when Omar's here and we can train with Allen and everybody. But you don't always have that. And me and Marcus had that for many years together. And we still do here and there schedules. We just get busy and old. But he wanted to squash 705. And I think he smashed it and I hope we have footage right here for that. Yeah. And I think it speaks volumes, the camaraderie, the fact that we're willing to leave the house at 9 a.m. to go there. 8.45 actually is what we left. On the weekend. Yeah. Just sleeping day, Marcus. You will never catch me do that when it's on my own. It's called the noon wake up at the minimum, train at 3 p.m. Why do you think I don't get a tan? Because you're only inside during the sun out. Oh yeah, I'm probably asleep when the sun's out. Don't blame me. Don't blame me. More footage coming. We've got a full day of eating coming soon. Yeah. Omar's strong man footage, maybe coming soon on your channel. Yes. Maybe we'll go to Toronto this year. We'll see. I'm pretty lazy. Maybe he'll come back down this year. He is also lazy. But we appreciate you. I'll be back. OK. Oh, I'll be back. I do want to go to Toronto. It's way too cold. And I got too many projects here. But it'll probably happen. Appreciate you guys. Omar Esau. Silent Mike. Catch you in the next one.