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I've been motivated, I've been feeling really good, as you guys know, my diet progress is pretty good, I got a couple more veins popping out, my face, look at that jawline, it's coming through, I don't know exactly how much weight I've lost but abs are starting to pop, veins coming in on the forearms and thighs, I am feeling really good, I'm feeling healthy, which was the goal, lost the weight, which is a goal, my cardio was up, another goal, everything is as planned but hanging out with these guys, doing some of these challenges, which hopefully you guys turn on notifications, subscribe, comment below what kind of challenges you guys want to see in the future, seeing these and how I did, now it's got me a little extra motivated to focus on the strength, I was slowly building back my squat day right here, I just did beltless 315 to 335 for some triples, I had been consistently squatting one to two times a week up to this point for a couple weeks, three to four weeks, I had been consistently benching one time a week on a crappy bench and then the other day was like dumbbells or overhead or a machine, something of that nature, currently no polling but also this workout, Asama Boys, Connor O'Neill, shout out to Connor who does all the really really really hard work in the trenches for this channel, he does all the filming, the editing, helps me on my Instagram, et cetera, et cetera, those who hang out on Twitch, know him as Augusta Films, who also plays a bunch of video games with me, we have a good time, I saw him and my boy Ryan doing some Olympic lifting and I was like man, I feel healthy, last time I hurt myself or my back really flared up, I was trying to power lift, get ready for a deadlift only meet and learning the Olympic weightlifts and snatches, really put a weird pressure on my hip because I couldn't get into a comfortable overhead position. I think I'm playing guitar, maybe I'm having a seizure, maybe help and here I am, a little clean action, my back felt good, my hips felt good, so I just ran over there and I did a little clean, so now I'm really motivated and the goal continues to be the same, we are back on track to hit big squats, big benches, lighter body weights, keep my little abs going, keep some veins going, it just helps me confidence wise, I know a lot of people, they commented on the barbell brigade channel, how I never take my shirt off and I'm not flexing in this and that, it's not who I am, it's not what I do, it's not why I lift weights, but I personally like to be leaner for myself, I feel more comfortable in my body, I like how I feel mentally and physically when my cardio is good and I don't have that extra jiggle going around, I don't do much of this for anybody and people say, well that's so weird, you've lifted on the internet for so long, it seems like you lift weights for other people, but it's just 100% not the true. Seven months went by and we didn't put up lifting footage on this channel, I was lifting every single day, I lift for me, I lift to feel good, I lift to be myself, I lift to meditate, I lift to collect my thoughts, I lift for many many reasons and same reason I want to be lean, same reason I want to be strong, I don't want to be strong to break a world record, to prove it on the internet, I just want to, a little horseshoe, I just want to feel good, I want to be a little bit stronger for me, I want to see what I can do at a lighter body weight and now that my back's healthy, so cleans, push presses, bench presses, I don't know how to pose, I apologize to the world, that's something I really don't know how to do, but there's a little vein popping there, you see a little thing coming, come on out little buddy, I want to bench press again, nice and heavy, which you guys, if you stay tuned, I just hit a nice medium to heavy bench coming up, hopefully you enjoyed all the challenges, I had a lot of fun hanging out with the boys, body weight, I think I'm at 200, 205 in this thing, trying to beat the boys, they're a little bit lighter than me, they're a little bit better than me at pull ups, we were doing chin ups I guess, rather than chest to bar or whatever you guys want to qualify these, but we made our own rules, just going chin to the bar, full extension to the bottom, elbows and a little bit of shoulders, people also say that I sandbag things, I may, I don't see a point to just go absolutely hammy go on these things until I'm in pain or struggle, so if I go to whatever you want to call it, RPE 8, you're probably right on all the challenges coming up, we have a squat challenge coming up, and a bench challenge coming up, I'll probably have a little bit of voiceover so I can give you guys my personal thoughts now looking back on it, these aren't that serious for me, even powerlifting itself, when I compete and step on the platform, I want to do well, I don't go there trying to failure or do poorly, but after basketball, after the flame that is basketball in my heart, things changed, things changed, I've never been so competitive and I've never been in love with a sport as much as I was basketball, so all of this is just fun for me, trying to do a little bit better, trying to get a little bit more out of myself and again lifting for me, and there's been a lot of comments and you know, I'm human, you guys know me, I'm human, I'm sensitive, I'm anxious, a lot of comments about my strength, PED use maybe that I used in the past, which is untrue and why I'm weak now, fact of the matter is I just have different goals, although your goals for me are to continue to hit PRs because that's where you first found me on the internet, that may not be my goals, there's other ways to be fit, other things in this world than just squat, bench and dead, one rep maxes, it's okay to change focus, it's okay to flow through life, it's okay to do cardio, it's okay to want to be leaner, and it's okay to take a couple months off using a barbell, and when you come back, if you want to come back, do it for you, come back stronger, focus on progress and whatever your goals are, but it's okay if your focus changes and that's just something with this internet, with YouTube, Instagram, etc, you get outside pressures, maybe you guys are getting outside pressures from your parents, your friends, your peers, your job, to have goals and to have focus, but number one most important is to choose your own focus, which gives you fulfillment, which gives you happiness, and then chase down those goals ferociously as hard as you can with your own personal fulfillment leading the way as a priority. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video, more stuff to come, leave questions and comments below, I appreciate you guys so so much, three videos a week drop in Monday, Thursday, Saturday, solid mic, I'm checking out of here.