 Ladies and gentlemen, so I'm like back with another video today. We're at untamed strength the home of Alan Thrall How's he do it? Lower body day Trying to take this weightlifting thing a little bit more serious I actually was just upstairs not to get my guru wrong But we have a rooftop patio here, and I was up there with my coffee. I grabbed a little protein bar And I was thinking to myself Man like I try new things. I do new things. I Step outside my comfort zone I do all this stuff that you know the world your parents your business Mentor your lifting mentor all these you know successful people tell you to do to grow To thrive to get to know yourself. I've done that for the last whatever 15 years since I've become You know set myself aware as a young adult I've tried to push myself to do different things to start new businesses to fail Businesses to leave jobs to to go against the grain to not go to college to do my own path all these things But recently with the weightlifting and other things in life I've really contemplated more that it's it's more about actually like doing something and sticking with something that you suck at Luckily for me. I you know, I'm okay at business. I am okay at building content. I'm okay at powerlifting I'm okay at coaching. I've put in not only put in the years for those things But some of those I don't want to say came easy to me but came easier to me And in the current shape in state of my elderly body, you know I've played basketball 15 years competitive basically year-round power lifted now Pretty hard for about 10 years my body's pretty beat up And so to the demands of Olympic weightlifting at this point are very tough for me if I started earlier what I've been more Adapt to what I've been a little bit better at Progressing in it probably I would have been less stiff. I would have been less mental about You know the things that I've heard in the past etc etc point being Is that I absolutely suck at weightlifting? One it is arguably the hardest discipline of strength training and I think that's you know pretty tough Argument for anyone to go against you know the the speed the strength the positioning the timing plus the mobility it takes You know younger Mike I know it's not like the old guy. I'm only 30, but I just my body's been through it But younger Mike had definitely the speed the timing the rhythm Older Mike has like the strength Neither Mike's had the mobility and so it's it would have been difficult for me Anyways pointing it would I would have been a little bit better off if I would have started younger Obviously, I think everyone can say that with Olympic weightlifting But at this point I I truly suck at it like it's hard for anybody to get better at it But I really suck at it And that's been like that weighs on my head considering it's something I do and look forward to five times a week Something I want to you know share the journey with you guys is it's not always fun to suck But I think it really does teach you a lot about yourself if you're willing to put in the time Put in the sacrifice of a little bit of pain a little bit of humbleness or a big old piece of humble pie And truly chip away at something that May not go anywhere for me like Not going to the Olympics may never even compete in it Might never clean a Jericho or snatch something even semi impressive They literally could go the road could lead to nowhere And still I'm putting in some of this discipline and sacrifice and energy towards getting better at it Because one I do enjoy it two. I have a really good group of guys around me And three again I think it just is teaching me a lot about myself when I want to quit when I don't want to quit questioning walking that line So whatever that is take it with take with what you guys want, but sucking at this has been A blessing in disguise and am I getting better? Sure sure But you know when you first start powerlifting and you're deadlifting you're squatting you're benching multiple times a week And you're adding five pounds to the bar Six months from there you have some traps you didn't have A year from there you're deadlifting a hundred pounds more than you were I don't see that progress in the state that I'm in and so it's really difficult to be like super gung-ho about it Although I am learning lessons that are maybe less visible So untamed strength Basically started that rant because uh squatting again three four five times a week Trying to clean Two to four and snatch two to four depending on what ben has for me Cleans this day were from the hang. I think I ended up with 110 or so kilos Uh, and actually I was rewatching the video watching it right now in my secret cheat sheet here. We're like, uh NBC news I can see they're just feeding it to me, but uh, I actually moving kind of good You know, I'm not moving super snappy super fast, but I'm starting to find a rhythm on there I'm starting to be fun. I look a little tubby there I don't know What was happening, but if I had a big breakfast sometimes we've been going for donuts before squat sessions And so like my belly's sticking out like I'm a little fat baby And so we we're gonna get rid of that back on the lean machine ride. I promise you boys I'm gonna get a little bit leaner ben is always a smash in freaking weights And so it's really fun to see him kind of get life back into his competition legs again Super competitive guy. He's again similar state to me has been doing it for so long Sometimes it's hard to find that fire day in and day out You just get the work in day in day out and kind of save that fire But firstly see him a little bit more motivated has been a lot a lot of fun Squats hit up something pretty heavy pause. I think 485 or so Again, I'm squatting four times a week and the basics of squats when you start to handle higher frequencies Depending on the goal is you want to add some variation Multiple reasons one so you don't get stagnant in your progressions You can't just squat three sets of five at a late intermediate stage all day every day and expect to progress You need to throw in in a sense a curve ball or muscle confusion even though you're not confusing shit It's basically just different stimuluses and ways to overload. So I'm doing pause beltless once a week Beltless reps once a week pause pause with the belt so I can go a little bit heavier But still not get that rebound and then I've been doing heavy single doubles triples with a belt once a week And that's going to switch up here because I just been Jamming away on on on intensity and adding five five pounds 10 kilos a week So now we're going to start to get a little bit more volume in so look forward to that Hopefully you guys enjoyed some of the training. Hope you enjoyed some of that ranting It's just things that popped in my head as as my life goes on I share this journey and share kind of uh, you know unpeel the onion layer and try to share with you guys So I'm sure to give this thing a thumbs up comment below what you guys want to see in the next video Tons of raw training footage on the way silent mic. I appreciate you. I'm out