 on an intro. Welcome to the video. I'm Salah Mike. This is a training vlog. You wanna do a YouTube intro for a video? What's up, YouTube? Salah Mike, I'm gonna crush weights today. PRs are gonna rain. I hit a squat PR 170 front squat last week and I also hit a clean PR of 140 kilos. So I'm gonna beat both of those today. That's me being Nostradamus and telling the future. Connor's going to Tarantino this to show you what actually happens in about half an hour but only hint at it so you can watch the rest of the video. But there's a new thing on YouTube. The only way you can watch the rest of the video is if you give this thing a thumbs up. Quack! Is that YouTube enough for ya? Yeah. You guys like that? You guys like YouTube? You like what I've become? Now what do we do? I miss both PRs. Here's when you drop the excuses. You ready? Yep. So with the weightlifting programming, Ben's been handling me and everything's been going really, really well. But now we're handling loads that are fairly heavy in terms of like 130, 140 kilos on a clean which is 280 to 300 and whatever, eight pounds. So it's not like it's no stimulus. We're in the beginning. I was handling like 100 kilos, it was like 200 pounds. It's like no stimulus. It wouldn't fatigue me the same on my low back and my legs because relative to my general conditioning for squats and how strong endurance my legs are, it just wasn't affecting me. But now it's having it starting to affect me. So I've been programming and following my own squat protocols which is basically based on the Kaisen squat programs that we just dropped, except I switched some things around because I wanted to get better at front squats but otherwise very similar. Couple of beltless days, couple of heavy days, light, medium, heavy. And yesterday I was just feeling kind of good on a beltless day and so I went for a beltless PR. Yesterday is a light day for the weightlifting and today's supposed to be the heavy clean day and it was, I still cleaned like 130 pounds or 130 kilos, which isn't bad for me. That's still like 90%. So if you get in that range on a heavy day still fine but I did 210 kilo back squat beltless for three which I think is an all time PR regardless of body weight and I'm pretty small right now. I'm probably like 200 pounds and when I was smashing bigger weights in powerlifting I was probably 210 to 220. So that obviously fatigued me because then I missed that front squat which is 175 kilos. I squatted 170 front squat last week. I'm gonna try to give Conor the tech of the cell phone footage so you guys could just see it because I absolutely crush it. And then I saved because I wanted to do 175 this week but I missed program myself 100% to blame. Into my ego squatting too heavy too often but it's still fine. So cleans actually felt really good. My rhythm on everything up to about 130 felt really, really good. And then I think we jumped from 130 to 136 which is literally no jump for me. It should have been fine. And my upper back and my legs are just fatigued. Upper back is getting really, really tired now that I'm actually snatching something and I'm really getting the front rack position. My traps are just constantly sore, which is all good. I gotta build all that up to be able to handle these positions but it's just not there today and that's how it goes. So tomorrow we're back to the draw board. Got a belted back squat day. I'm gonna try to stay a little bit lighter maybe around 200 kilos for some triples. And then we'll do some technique work on the snatch and the cleaning jerk. Probably Friday off. And then right back into the mix of things typically Friday or Saturday is when you max out from the ground just kind of feel where you are. When I max out, you max out for that day. So you just kind of see how you're feeling and how things are progressing handling some heavier loads somewhere around 90% unless things are really clicking when you go for a PR. So overall satisfied. Obviously it's not fun to not hit a PR when I was feeling good and I kind of planned to hit one but tomorrow's another training day. Y'all do like 175 today and then like 165 for three next week and then maybe do 180 or something. It's a big 100 degrees here. You know what I'm talking about? Relax. Roll the bike here. Feeling warm. That feels good. I had my secret, top secret pre workout. She's actually kind of gross. It's just because I'm dieting. Non-fat, non-sugar, Greek yogurt. It's basically protein pudding. And riddle me this in the comments. Boys, you could riddle me this as well. Reese's Puffs was arguably my favorite cereal. Why does Captain Crunch Peanut Butter make a better Reese's Puffs than Reese's Puffs does? Captain Crunch Peanut Butter is literally just a better Reese's Puffs. It's better though. I need Butterfinger to throw their hat in the cereal ring and then we'll have a, or Jiffy? A Jiffy cereal? I think that makes it. Kick hats not peanut butter kid. Hope you guys like this training vlog. Be sure to subscribe. We drop new videos Monday, Wednesday and Saturdays. Some instructional, some weightlifting, some powerlifting, all that good stuff. I appreciate you guys. I'll catch you in the next one.